June 2017

Rev. Kathleen Shuck

601 North Sandusky Avenue Upper Sandusky Ohio 43351 419-294-3544 Sunday Worship Time: 10 a.m.

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NA- Narcotics Anonymous

AA – Alcoholics Anonymous

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TWL – 5 p.m.

*WyCares Bd Mtg 6 p.m.

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8 Installation

Of Pr. Kathy

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TWL – 5 p.m.

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*4H Camp Training 7-9 p.m.

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Lower Level

Reserved

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Father’s Day

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Ladies Night Out

6 p.m.

*AA-6-9

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TWL – 5pm

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SAVE THE DATE!

Pastor Kathy will be officially with us on June 8th at 6:30 p.m.

Bishop Daniel Beaudoin will be present for the

Installation Service!

All are welcome to this joyous event!

Council has made decision to switch Worship Time to 10 a.m.

Further discussion on this being a permanent change or just for

summer will be had and congregation will be notified if or when it

changes!

2017 Council

Brenda Zeigler, President Lisa Rife, Vice-President

Lynn Burks, Joyce Kuenzli, Robby Lee, Amanda Rowlinson,

Chad Stoneburner, Linda Welker, Mary Wright

June Special Days

Remington Newell – 3rd Jason Zimmerman – 5th

Patti Glover – 9th Chuck Gottfried – 10th

Paul Burks – 11th Phil Nieset – 13th Eli Kidwell – 18th

Dalton Shock – 19th Nancy Stalter – 19th

Nathaniel Stansbery – 20th Makala Burks – 21st

Chandler King – 23rd Missy Zimmerman – 24th

Pam Hight – 26th Maggie Bower – 29th

9th – James & Terry Walter

12th – Paul & Lynn Burks

19th – Chuck & Jean Gottfried

26th – Walker & April Gottfried

If you or someone you know were inadvertently left off the special days list, please notify the office!

SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

Sunday School will resume in August! Thank you to the Sunday School staff for ALWAYS being great

leaders for our children!

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

Usher: Kuenzli and Rowlinson Families

Council Person of the Month: Joyce Kuenzli

OLD MISSION CHURCH All services begin at 8 a.m.

June 4 – Rev. Bob Greene, team pastor with Forest, John Stewart, and Wharton UM

June 11 – Rev. Jim Stauffer, lead pastor Trinity Evangelical UM Church, Upper Sandusky

June 18 – Steve Sturgeon, Pastoral Assistant Trinity Evangelical UM Church, Upper

June 25 – The Right Reverend James B. Finley, assigned as assistant to John Stewart in 1821 (portrayed by Rev. Brian Arnold, lead pastor Forest, John Stewart, and Wharton UM

Services will run in July and August as well.

Will update with list when it becomes available!

June 4th

Flowers: Dorothy Blackburn

Acolyte: Ross Swinehart

Reader: ________________

June 18th

Flowers: Paul Burks

Acolyte: MacKenzie Kidwell

Reader: _____________________

June 11th

Flowers: Dick Newell

Acolyte: Nate McMillan

Reader: __________________

June 25th

Flowers: Pat & Marty Denney

Acolyte: Nicholas Wines

Reader: _________________

June 4th – Pr. Kathy here and meal following service in her honor! All Are Welcome!

June 8th – Installation service for Rev. Kathleen Shuck, led by

our Synod Bishop Daniel Beaudoin! 6:30 p.m.

June 18th – Children’s Sunday and FATHER’s Day! All Youth are encouraged to attend and take part in the

service! All Men will receive a token of appreciation in honor of Father’s Day!

July 17-21 – Vacation Bible School

Tuesdays With LIFE June 6th – Desserts

June 13th – Burks/Magers June 20th – Desserts

June 27th – Walton/Bennett

We will need 3 workers every time we have desserts (every other week) and we will not be supplying a side dish as it will be part of the

entrée. For information or how you can help, please contact Betty Martin!

I’d like to help, but I don’t know how to do that...

We hear that a lot with the Opportunities to Serve. If you or

your family desire to help with Communion Prep, Ushering, or

Paraments and Banners, please contact the office TODAY! It

only takes minutes out of your day to perform one of these

amazing duties!

If NOT KNOWING HOW TO DO IT is what is holding you

back……then let Kristin know! We have people ready to help show you!

In Memory submitted by Madelon O’Neil Two connected to First Lutheran Church were ordained in May 1958. First being the Rev. Ronald Will, a son of our congregation, he was the first young man to enter the ministry from this congregation. Sponsor: The Rev. J. Henry Weissrock, Pastor of First Lutheran. Rev. Weissrock was pastor of First Lutheran Church for 18 and a half years. At that time he was the longest pastorate of any in the history of local churches. Rev. Charles Steward was in the same class of 1958, he accepted a call from First Lutheran, Upper Sandusky and served 40 years. Ronald had accepted a call that placed him in the Virgin Island, St Croix area. Also serving other places like the Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Gainesville, Florida. He also served as a chaplain at the Veterans Hospital and another hospital for 20 years. Everett and Bernice Will were his parents. Rev. Ronald Will dies December 11, 1916. Ronald’s wife Yvonne and children Elaine, Jean, David and Carol and grandchildren Gisela, Alex and Natalie will be at Worship on Sunday June 11th. Ronald and Yvonne also raised a foster son, Tony. Madelon mentions the family will also be remembering her brother Mervin Will and her sister Miriam Wood, both were members here at First Lutheran before they passed, also in December 2016. Family will gather at a sale at Miriam’s home June 10th. Madelon would like to pass these words on: May others feel the Spirit and hear the call to serve the Lord!

Congratulations to al recent grads!!

From Upper Sandusky High School:

Nathaniel Stansbery and Kayci Snow

We will be recognizing graduates in June, notifications

will go out. If you are a graduate or know of one we have

missed, please let then office know as soon as possible!

From Jan Stoneburner:

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up

before me,” said the Lord. But, Jonah refused to fulfill God’s request. Stoney and I recently attended an amazing production of the musical Jonah at Sight & Sound Theatre in Lancaster,

Pennsylvania, and realized for the first time that we all have our own “Ninevehs.”

As we sat in the unbelievable 2,000-seat, state-of-the-art theatre with its 300- foot panoramic stage watching the fearful, selfish, stubborn Jonah trying to flee God, we could actually relate

to the epic story of mercy.

The mammoth four-story sets featuring a fifteen-ton, GPS moveable ship, the colorful costumes, the entertaining animals, and the breathtaking underwater scene with the forty-

foot whale took our breaths away.

Although the technical extravaganza was exhilarating, the final scene outside Nineveh when Jesus revealed himself to the unforgiving Jonah was powerful. The audience could actually feel God’s grace when Jesus shared His message -- the love of God is always seeking to give

someone another chance.

Stoney and I would like to share this wonderful production so we put the DVD of Jonah produced by Sight & Sound Theatre in the church library for you to borrow. Here is the

website for those interested in actually going to see the show: https://sight-sound.com/location/lancaster

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