Christian Education News

Trinity Lutheran Church

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2012

5758 M36 West

Pinckney, MI 48169-9716

Phone 734-878-5977

Fax 734-878-6261

www.trinitypinckney.org

Glad Tidings

Other opportunities to be in

God’s Word

Tuesday Morning Bible Study at 10:00 a.m.

This group has been using the magazine “Good News”, which is published by Concordia Mission

Society. The editor is the former LHM speaker Wallace Schultz.

There are several editions available in the pastor’s study/office for

anyone who would like to review a topic or use one for a personal

Bible study.

Wednesday morning Ladies Bible Study at 10:30 a.m.

started a 6 week study titled, “Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the

Midst of Raw Emotions.” This study began on Sept 19.

If evenings are better, join us at the Cottage Meetings the last

Friday of the month at 7 p.m. hosted at a members home.

September is being hosted by

Joe and Carolyn Benkovsky

In the

Sunday Morning Bible study, has completed Ecclesiastes and is moving to look into the Song of

Solomon. Join us for this portion of

the Old Testament.

We hope to see all of you at one or

more of these Bible Studies.

Thank you to everyone who helped make our 1st Ice-Cream Social a success. Thanks to those who came, invited friends, helped with adver-tising, donated supplies, helped with set up and clean up. The Board of Education was very grateful for you all! I think every-one that came enjoyed the “social” AND the ice-cream!

Save the Date for our Children’s Christmas program this year. It will be Sunday, December 16th. Would you be willing to direct our program this year? If you like kids and are a little dramatic, now is

your chance! (Even if you are not dramatic and don’t like kids we’ll be willing to give you a try!!) Directing just means helping with choosing our program and working with the kids during Sunday school starting in Mid-November so it’s just a month long commitment and you will be totally done before Christ-mas! If you are a short term commitment type, this is the job for you! Please prayerfully consider this need for our Church.

The next Christian Ed. Meeting is 7pm October 15th

A LTAR GUILD :

O CTOBER - -Kristin Myher and

Gretchen Wick

A COLYTE :

10/7 Matthew

10/14 Kyle

10/21 Cassy

10/28 Craig

Altar Guild and Acolyte Schedule

Trinity Lutheran Church 2009

Know What Our Children Are Studying

The topics for October include:

Deborah Judges 4-5

Gideon Judges 6:11-7:25

Samson Judges 16

Ruth Ruth

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Pastor’s Page descriptions this one has a num-ber of loopholes. It is not a law based definition but instead it is based on the principles of the Gospel, God’s love and blessings given to us.

By virtue of creation and then recreation through Holy Baptism we each belong to the Lord and He makes us His stew-ards for the many blessings He gives to us. The Lord is the source of all stewardship and this includes all areas of our life as a Christian.

We have each been en-trusted with life and life’s re-sources and we have been given the responsibility to manage them for Him. Notice that each of us has been blessed in specifi-cally different ways. It begins with different parents and in-cludes different siblings. You are unique because you are the oldest, the youngest or some-where in the middle but you are a single child or the brother or sister of one certain group of people.

There are other unique opportunities that come to us in the form of congregational min-istry, music programs, and financial goals. For each congre-gation regardless of denomina-tion these challenges may be similar but never the same. This is one of the reasons that on occasion people will transfer their membership from one congregation to another with less debt or less aggressive out-reach or a less active steward-ship ministry.

The most common adjust-ment to stewardship seems to be not to keep up with the giving of blessings from God but to use the blessings to take up the slack where other management decisions have caused a deficit in resources. Life style is

STEWARDSHIP

Pastor Snider

The first point I would like to make for anyone who has dared to read past my name is that STEWARDSHIP is not a four-letter word. It has nearly a dozen letters, which if you think more is better you might con-sider this to be a very important word. You would be correct but it has nothing to do with the number of letters it contains.

STEWARDSHIP does have a bad reputation as a word but it’s not its fault. In many congrega-tions the month of October has been designated a time of Chris-tian STEWARDSHIP renewal, edu-cation and often commitment. This tradition has been difficult to maintain, in part because of the high pressure some congre-gations have applied to its mem-bers. There are I’m sure other reasons why STEWARDSHIP brings bad memories for some and that may include members of Trinity.

Being a good steward is not an easy job. It is one of those hard to define tasks that takes into consideration some very pri-vate and personal situations in a steward’s life. Our first defen-sive action against STEWARDSHIP is to take advantage of that pri-vacy in our life and justify ignor-ing the topic completely.

A stewardship definition commonly used throughout The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is this: “Christian stew-ardship is the free and joyous activity of the child of God and God’s family, the church, in managing all of life and life’s resources for God’s purposes. Like so many definitions or

something that consumes many of the blessings we receive from God and as it does either the ad-justment is made in the time and resources to the church or they are simply held at the level that has been used in the past. Static stewardship in a dynami-cally charging world leaves the church and the congregation wondering just how long it might survive.

The impact comes in light of a changing world and how the Christian family teaches stew-ardship to the children and the youth. That however is the sec-ond step because the attitude of service done for the benefit of the church and community comes from knowing that our stewardship flows out of God’s act of love for each of us. It then empowers us to show our love to God, His church and his people.

What stewards decide to do or leave undone has eternal con-sequences. When we consider it our responsibility we pursue good planning for the present and the future and we rejoice in knowing that what we do has lasting benefits. Christian stew-ards extend God’s kingdom to other people and to their own spiritual growth here and now as well as making the church available for people in the fu-ture.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow abundantly into your life.

SEE I T DO I T SATURDAY , OCTOBER 6TH

8 A .M . UNTIL WHAT WE SEE NEEDS DONE IS DONE

Please p lan on jo ining us for fe l lowship and beautif i -cat ion/repairs o f the bui ld -ing and ground with which we have been blessed.

LWML A NN ARBOR Z ONE

R ALLY

SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 ,2012

9 A .M . - NOON St. Luke Lutheran Church

Ann Arbor, Mi.

LWML SUNDAY

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Celebrated here at Trinity

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Upcoming Events

LWML Ann Arbor Zone Rally

Saturday, October 27,2012

9 a.m. - Noon

St. Luke Lutheran Church

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Guest Speaker: Cyinthia Mehdi

Khan, Director of Cross Cultural

Ministries will share with us

about "women in Islam" and her

personal testimony

Cost is $6.00 to cover lunch

Let Barb Yek or Faith Kukuk or

Cathie Snider know if you are

planning on going.

Everyone is Invited to join us in the

fellowship hall for refreshments & a

short video to learn more about

Thrivent right after church on

Sunday, October 28th.

Thrivent members--you will also be

able to vote that day right here at

Trinity for officiers for our

Livingston Chaper Board.

Please plan on joining us.

If you have any questions, see Barb

Yek or Krisitn Myher

Posse Posts

HARVEST DINNER SATURDAY, NOV 3, 2012

5 P.M.

Free Will offering will be used for the Ladies Posse LOVE INC ministries. Our Livingston County Thrivent Chapter will match funds $1 for every $3 we raise. LOVE INC will also do matching funds. This is a great way to help those in need in our community, have a wonderful meal & an evening of fellowship to-gether!

Thrivent News Kids Against Hunger

Barb Yek and Kristin Myher sends out a

big thank you to all who participated in this event. It was a

great time, well organized and a good feeling of accomplish-

ment as we watched the packed boxes of 10,000 food

packets, ready to be shipped to hungry children where

needed.

The group included: Mike, Kristin, and Ruthie Myher,

Elizabeth and Luke Eppler, Gretchen Wick, Mitch, Lynda,

and Kenny Minger, Sammie Minger

and Michael Hession, Scott, Olivia,

and Andrea Oaks, Marilyn and

Kathryn Brumm, Joanna and Dan

Krueger, Allison, Rachel, and Elisa-

beth Corcoran.

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Praise and thanksgiving

Gracious God and Father, we humbly magnify the wisdom of your ways and in childlike trust commit ourselves to Your fatherly guidance. Uphold us, we pray You by Your right hand, guide us with Your counsel, and receive us at last into glory. We pray for those among us who are in special need of your guidance and healing:

For John and Diane Menning give them comfort, peace and strength.

Continued healing for Carolyn Benkovsky, Doris Young , and Cathie Snider, Betty Jean Sigro.

Thanksgiving for Aubree Salazar (Minger) for the successful removal of her breathing tube and continued healing.

Kenny Minger’s thanksgiving for no complications --pray for speedy healing.

For Carol Slupek: healing from heart surgery

For Sharon Huetteman for cancer treat-ments.

Georgia Rydzewski (very ill), Terry Kaczmarek (cancer), Richard Parks (cancer)

Eva Brumbal--fighting depression

Safe travels for all members of our congregation and all others who are traveling

For the soldiers overseas who are still protecting freedoms, our own and others in the world: Brandon Snider in Korea, Melissa Van Gorden, Tyler Martin, and Anthony Chapman who are serving in Afghanistan and Joshua Wilkins in Iraq.

Guidance, wisdom and strength of faith for the Congregation of Trinity as they nurture and grow the seed sown in this place.

Pray for our Missionaries in other countries that they remain safe in Your care as they spread Your Word

Prayer List Happy Birthday!!

Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (NIV)

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

1 John 4:18

A very Happy Birthday from

the members of Trinity

Lutheran Church:

Elisabeth Corcoran 10/7

Amy Bickel 10/13

Christie Frazzini 10/17

Alice Finazzo 10/20

Ruth Myher 10/27

Anniversary wishes go out to:

Bob and Lois Brumm 10/7

Mitch and Lynda Minger 10/7

Merelyn and Cathie Snider 10/16

Tim and Sue Friebe 10/17

Harold and Aletha Hollister 10/20

Jim and Penny Myers 10/21

Donn Bodhe,

the architect that the congregation has hired

drawn the master plan for improving the facilities here will be here on the

13th and 14 to meet everyone regarding the

Masterplan. Please plan to stay talk to him as your input is necessary to draw

up a plan.

HARVEST DINNER SATURDAY, NOV 3,

2012 5 P.M.

Free Will offering will be used for the Ladies Posse LOVE INC ministries. Our Livingston County Thrivent Chapter will match funds $1 for every $3 we raise. LOVE INC will also do matching funds. This is a great way to help those in need in our commu-nity, have a wonderful meal & an evening of fellowship together!

God Answers Prayer Seminar October 27. Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church in Howell invites you to G.A.P. (God Answers Prayer) seminar. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and the G.A.P. seminar runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The cost is $10 per person, which includes lunch and a light continental breakfast. Visit www.hotshepherd.org for more information or contact Pat Schuknecht at (517) 552-7218 or info@hotshepherd.org.

The Council has paid for this registration but it is first come first serve so please sign up on the sheet in the narthex.

TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

5758 M36 West

Pinckney, MI 48169-9716

POSTAGE

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When:

Sunday, October 7th

from 2:00—3:30 pm

Where:

Pinckney Town Square along M-36

Please contact: Trinity Lutheran Church c/o Deb Dugan for more information or to answer questions regarding this event. ddugan48137@yahoo.com 734-255-7264

Life Chain is a peaceful, prayerful, legal, family friendly, nationwide PRO-LIFE demonstration! Members of communities throughout the nation will be forming a virtual life chain across the country on this day in support of life.

Take a stand for life with hundreds of others in this visual statement against abortion. We will line the sidewalks of Main Street Pinckney. Friendly signs will be available at the Gazebo in the town square. Feel free to bring folding chairs. Come rain or shine and bring a friend.

Donations to cover the cost of signs are

welcome.

“Do not be afraid” MT 14:27