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100 Lochmere Drive West Cary, North Carolina 27518 Rev. Dr. Jonathan Blanke, Senior Pastor Worship (No In-Person Worship At This Time) Saturday at 6:00 pm Sunday at 8:00 am, 10:30 am 10:45 am (praise) Chrisan Educaon (No In-Person Sunday School At This Time) Sunday at 9:15 am rlcary.org offi[email protected] 919-851-7248 Resurrecon Lutheran School (RLS) rlscary.org 919-851-7271 Resurrecon Lutheran Preschool (RLP) rlpcary.org 919-851-7270 2 Ways Church Office: (919) 851-7248 Go to www.rlcary.org. Select Prayer Ministry under Ministries tab. Enter request. Click submit. Requests go to the Prayer Chain and Prayer Communities. Let us pray for you. Prayers received throughout the week are offered to the Lord during weekly worship.

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100 Lochmere Drive West Cary, North Carolina 27518

Rev. Dr. Jonathan Blanke, Senior Pastor

Worship

(No In-Person Worship At This Time)

Saturday at 6:00 pm Sunday at 8:00 am, 10:30 am

10:45 am (praise)

Christian Education

(No In-Person Sunday School At This Time)

Sunday at 9:15 am

rlcary.org [email protected] 919-851-7248

Resurrection Lutheran School (RLS) rlscary.org 919-851-7271

Resurrection Lutheran Preschool (RLP) rlpcary.org 919-851-7270

2 Ways Church Office: (919) 851-7248

Go to www.rlcary.org.

Select Prayer Ministry under Ministries tab.

Enter request. Click submit.

Requests go to the Prayer Chain and Prayer Communities.

Let us pray for

you.

Prayers received throughout the week are offered to the Lord during weekly worship.

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Monthly Newsletter of Resurrection Lutheran Church

Hearts Aflame (Luke 24:13-35)

Imagine you’re walking along a frequently travelled path you use for exercise or dog walking near your home. You’re crestfallen, and it shows on your face and in your posture. A kind stranger walks alongside you. “Excuse me,” the stranger says. “I couldn’t help noticing you look a little down. Are you OK?” You’re surprised at this person’s concern—and by their upbeat mood—and you say so. But as the conversation gets underway you notice that this person seems genuinely interested in your circumstances. Little by little, you share your story. You surprise yourself by how much you say about a loss you’ve recently experienced. Then, once you’ve said all there is to say, your new friend responds, connecting the sadness in your life with a story of faith you gradually begin to realize you share with them. They give you insights into Bible promises you vaguely know but never connected with your loss. Gradually, as you listen, things start to make sense! You’re not “over” the loss you’ve faced—not by any means—but you realize how meaningful your new friend’s words truly are. Eventually you part company. But as you reflect on the conversation and all that was spoken between you, you feel your heart burning, you feel the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Isn’t it amazing that God had your own sadness and future loss in mind when He sent His own Son Jesus to be crucified and raised to new life? Isn’t it amazing that God’s promised re-creation and gift of Easter were for you…all along?

Circumstances were quite different (we read of two disciples intercepted by none other than the risen Christ!), but the picture above illustrates what happened when God’s Easter promises first washed over crestfallen disciples of Jesus. s these disciples shared their grief, their Friend listened. Then He responded: “Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things?” He told these disciples what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself. Then, after He left, these two reflected a bit. “Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” they say. Even (especially!) amid sadness, the Word of the risen Christ will deliver Easter people with hearts aflame. It was true 2000 years ago and still holds true today.

As I write this article, we are one month and a half into our Covid-19 crisis. I don’t have to remind you of the death toll or the economic toll or the day-to-day challenge placed on schools, businesses, churches and families who are social distancing. But here’s the thing: God saw all this long before it ever happened! God sent His one-and-only Son Jesus Christ into our world to suffer, die, and rise again that we might know what abundant life and forgiven sins amid the Covid-19 crisis would mean! And as the story of God’s plan from the beginning erupts into our own personal stories our hearts are set aflame. Maybe not all at once. But the Word of God will have its way with us. With hearts set aflame how can we be silent or inactive?

I’ve seen so much evidence of hearts set aflame this Eastertide: volunteers at work so that weekly pre-produced services might allow our worship life to continue; masks for public safety made by Resurrection quilters (and others); local “acts of kindness” in your own neighborhoods; people who spontaneously check up on and encourage one another. This is what it means to serve! This is what it means to share Easter joy! This is what it means to lay the groundwork for conversations where the Holy Spirit uses our words to connect others to God’s promises in Christ and to set other hearts aflame as well!

These are not easy times, but I’m excited by what God has begun among us this Eastertide. Together, with hearts aflame, let’s keep at it so that many others will say as we share God’s promises with them: “Were not our hearts burning within us…?” Pastor Jonathan

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“Our Light” – What’s Behind the Recorded Services

We normally look to share several things that are happening at RLC, many of which are done in a quiet manner with little recognition. We thought that for this article we would share the “Story” of what happens behind-the-scenes to put together the worship services we get to watch at home.

With the onset of the Covid-19 virus and initial limitations being placed on gathering size, John Viehe, who has extensive video production experience and equipment, outlined for the Staff what was needed to be able to record a service. John was gracious to lend us his video camera and associated equipment. Garret Nigg worked to help organize our initial, and continues with our ongoing, sound recordings.

The “Story” begins with our first live streaming on March 15th and 18th. We had mixed success and noted that there were several things that needed to be done to enhance the presentation. We invited two RLC members, Jill Hammergren and Pam Allen, who both have extensive video production experience to help us determine how we could improve. Their recommendation was that we needed to pre-produce our service, much like it is done for TV spots. This change involved shooting each worship service and then editing all the footage together to make a final video for placement on the Resurrection Lutheran Church website and YouTube channel, and to provide the worship folder/bulletin available for downloading. This recommendation certainly improves the quality of our worship service recordings, but it also requires a significant amount of behind-the-scenes effort by a team of RLC Staff and Member Volunteers.

There are a number of challenges with pre-recording worship services. First and foremost, there are many more steps in the process and a great deal of time and effort goes into making it look and sound good. Because we are maintaining the rule of not having more than 10 people gathering at the same time, we have limited the number of people who are actually in the sanctuary while we are producing each service.

The services are "staged" as they are normally planned for experiencing in person, but sections of the service are recorded. Sometimes large chunks of the service can be recorded at once and sometimes, specific sections have to be recorded by themselves for particular audio and camera position changes. Again, due to the fact we cannot have large groups gathering together, Bob Unger has provided some audio files of previously recorded musical selections from past RLC services that feature some of our talented musical groups like our Sanctuary Choir, Brass Ensemble, Harmonia Deum, and Heavenly Handbells. A one-hour service can take between 1.5-3 hours to record. The audio set-up for a sanctuary service is very different than the audio set-up for a video recording. Garett Nigg has been working tirelessly on making the necessary audio and sound modifications to make sure that the sound that we enjoy in-person also sounds good on camera and in the final video product.

After the service sections are recorded, it then goes to an editor to pull all elements of video, audio, music, graphics, animations, titles, and effects. Due to the exceptionally large data files we're dealing with, the number of components that go into a service, the various complexities of each service, sound mixing – which involves bringing in the right levels of spoken words, vocals, piano, organ, and other musical elements – you can expect the work capacity involved in the editing and mixing process is about 9:1 – that is roughly it takes at least nine hours of an editor's work to complete a one-hour service. But then there are also an additional 3-5 hours of rendering or computer processing time and 2-3 hours of uploading to cloud servers for review and posting to the RLC website and YouTube channel.

For example, using pre-recorded musical selections adds to the production value of our services and makes them feel and sound more like what we are used to experiencing in person, but it also adds another layer of complexity to the editing process. Because video is both visual and audio, a musical file by itself is just one part of that. We have to put some type of visual image over the music or we would be watching a black screen during those musical selections. So, we have added some graphics packages to our services, like the Cross and Tomb scenes you saw in the Easter service. These are highly produced and visually appealing themed components that are available – for purchase – to help churches share messages and help the editor have more options to use to make those musical selections resonate with the audiences viewing the worship services.

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With the number of services that we did leading up to Easter and Holy Week, the production team was very busy. They recorded on Mondays for the Wednesday evening services and the files and components went immediately to the editor. We had to enlist another editor to help, too. We recorded on Wednesdays for the Sunday services and the files and components went to the editor. Also for Holy Week, we added the Maundy Thursday service into the mix and then the Good Friday service we had to record that service at night on the Monday prior to Good Friday so that the church would be dark enough to convey the symbolism and darkness leading up to Jesus' dying on the cross.

Because the production team never wants the congregation to see any errors, a lot of effort goes into keeping things behind-the-scenes. But we want the congregation to appreciate the efforts that went into getting the EASTER service up at 6:00 am on Easter Sunday. One of our younger members of our congregation, Enzo Moscatello, a middle school student, is one of our editors! Enzo has been doing a great job editing some of the services for us. Jill Hammergren has been the producer of the services and overseeing the finished product for each service. Enzo completed the editing on Saturday of Easter weekend. There were some quick changes to make, which Enzo did. But then we had to wait several hours for the computer to process the large files, so the file could be exported for Susan Moore to post on the RLC YouTube channel and website. In order to speed up the process a bit, at just after 10:00 pm on the Saturday night, Jill drove to the Moscatello house to pick up the file. But unfortunately, in the export process, there were some additional glitches. Enzo and his father, Luigi had to go back and fix it. We agreed that the file would be uploaded for Susan to check on overnight. At 2:30 am Easter Sunday, Luigi called Jill and said there was a problem with the upload. Jill jumped in the car again and picked up the file to take to Susan's house to upload it for the service. Because of the variables in internet speeds, it takes a couple of hours for each service to upload and process for viewing on YouTube. Susan had to make the preparations for the distribution, including adding the service bulletin online, and wait for the upload to process. As you would imagine, Enzo, Luigi, Jill, and Susan never slept until the EASTER SERVICE was finally ready for viewing just after 5:00 am on EASTER morning! Praise be to God!

Here is a list of RLC Staff and Members who have recently supported this ongoing process:

John Viehe – camera set up and initial equipment

Garett Nigg – sound production

Jill Hammergren – producer, video production and camera operator

Bob Unger – creation of the worship folder, organ and vocal

Chris Reed – piano and vocal

Pastor Jonathan Blanke – preacher/liturgist

Vicar Alan Shaw – liturgist/preacher

Deb Oesterling and Rebecca Kuo – vocals and lectionary readings

Emma Unger and Angela Ferguson – vocals and lectionary readings

Ilea Kuo, Marta Striplin, Sonja Striplin – vocals

Emily Piontek and Ross Bowen – lectionary reading

Enzo Moscatello – video editing

Ben Bipes – video editing

Margaret Hyatt – formatting worship folder/bulletin

Susan Moore – YouTube publisher, website and social media coordinator

A heart-felt thanks to all of these folks for their commitment to continuing to serve RLC members!

Moving forward we have made several enhancements in our process. To help us to do more of the editing in-house, we have purchased a new computer system for Susan Moore. As editing is a very complex skill that takes several hours to learn and master, it will likely take additional volunteer editors from our congregation to help us with various aspects of future editing projects for the church. Additionally, we have purchased a video camera and some additional equipment for ongoing use at Resurrection.

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As our equipment and capabilities have improved, the current plan is to go back to live streaming the service and publishing it at a designated time, starting May 31st. The advantage of live streaming the service is that it will allow us to…

• Significantly reduce the amount of mixing and editing time required to produce content for remote viewing (see paragraphs 5 and 6, above).

• Produce worship content once we are gathering again “in-person” (pre-producing worship content, in addition to leading in-person worship is not possible/sustainable).

• Produce worship content that can be viewed remotely at the same time and/or viewed later. Live stream videos can be recorded and retained on our YouTube channel for viewing at any time, as is currently the case for all of our pre-produced worship content.

• Produce some worship content for remote viewing in “real time” only, which allows us to celebrate Holy Communion together and staying spiritually close, while in our present emergency context of social distancing.

• Encourage worshipers who must remain at home, in the hospital, or in another facility to view the ongoing worship life of our congregation.

• Engage our wider community and the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ— so far, our pre-produced services are reaching an average of 577 views per Sunday, which exceeds an average Sunday attendance of 500 individual worshipers per weekend. Our Easter service had 739 views! In the past 28 days, our worship services and online devotions have had 4,640 views. We currently have 199 subscribers to our YouTube channel, and we started with just 10!

There will be added costs to this process, but it is difficult to imagine a scenario where we go back to the old, familiar world of “in-person” only worship. The mission of Jesus Christ compels us to think creatively and to try new things! If this vision for our future life seems compelling to you, we invite you to support the effort with your financial support to our congregation. We also would love to invite anyone with experience or interest in media technology to consider a contribution of time and talent to the effort. The Body of Christ works best as the Body of Christ works together.

May our loving Savior continue to lead and bless our efforts on behalf of His kingdom work. Soli Deo Gloria! Pastor Jonathan Church Council

Editor—Enzo Moscatello

Editor—Ben Bipes

Garett Nigg and

Jill Hammergren

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Love Has Lifted Us

He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the muck and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. Psalm 40:2

As a young child growing up in a remote rural town in northwestern Pennsylvania, I spent many a summer Sunday afternoon at the Mount Lebanon Lutheran cemetery.

Let me explain.

Every Memorial Day, my Mom would choose the most beautiful geraniums from the town’s greenhouse to plant on the graves of our family’s relatives, many of whom Swedish and German ancestors, immigrants to America dating back to the late 1800s. Here they worshiped in the small country church by the roadside, and here they rested from their labors.

As Mom planted, moving from grave to grave, she’d tell me stories of each great aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent buried there. Her stories overflowed with adventures, joys, deep losses, and evidence of lives lived in faith. For the rest of the summer, she and I would return to this “small” church on Sunday afternoons after worshiping at the “big” Lutheran church in town, to water the flowers, and pick blackberries from the bushes that surrounded the perimeter of the grounds. My Dad would fashion picking buckets for us made from Folger’s coffee cans with rope tied to the sides that we’d slip over our heads, freeing both hands for the task.

I have a distinct memory of my Uncle Bob, my Dad’s brother and a burly lumber jack, coming with us one afternoon. After placing the picking can over my head so it hung chest-high, he patted me on the head and pointing to the bushes, sent me on my way with a warning, “Now don’t go in too deep. Stay near the edge.”

Too excited about the promise of berry abundance ahead, I hummed and ate my way through the bushes in child-like abandon. Not too long after, I discovered that sure enough, I had maneuvered my way in too deeply. Everywhere I turned I was pricked and scratched by the briars, bees zooming around my head. The more I swatted, the more the briars scratched my skin and the greater the threat of bee stings. Unable to find my way out, frustrated, scared and bleeding, I threw my head back and cried out for help. From atop the bushes appeared my Uncle’s hands, big as dinner plates against the sky’s expanse. He reached down, pulled me straight up, carried me over the tops of the bushes, and planted me safely on the ground.

This memory leads me straight to Psalm 40:2: He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the muck and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.

I might not have been in a slimy pit that day, but for a young Deb it was a pit nonetheless, one I had wandered into despite my Uncle’s warning, and one I couldn’t get out of myself. I was hurt and scared and cried out for help. Isn’t that just like us? In sin we wander into dark places, despite our Heavenly Father’s warnings, and frightened and in despair, we cry out for Him to save us. Praise be to God who hears our cries! In loving response, He sent His one and only Son, Jesus, to free us from the muck and mire of our sin by taking it upon Himself. By His death and resurrection, He picks us up, carries us through the struggles, and sets us safely on the Rock of eternal life and freedom.

Dear friends, we are never alone in the muck. In God’s goodness, He also sends earthly reinforcements to help us when, in fear, doubt, frustration or woundedness, we cry out to Him in prayer. He sends us – His Church – to be the hands, feet, eyes, ears and heart of Jesus to each other and to our neighbors, lifting their needs before Him and speaking words of life and light into the darkness. What a gift God has given us to reach out and intercede for one another in prayer, trusting our Father hears and treasures each tender word we pray.

I find this “stuck in the bushes” childhood memory even more meaningful in that it occurred in a cemetery. On that first Easter Sunday, Jesus overcame the grave and won for us the eternal victory over sin, death and the devil. One day the graves will open, the saints will rise, and together with the heavenly host we will proclaim: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come” (Revelation 4:8).

Thank You, Jesus. Your love has lifted us!

Deb Oesterling, RLC Connections and Resurrection Prayer Community

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Vicar Alan’s Coaching Corner

I’m still a little awestruck about COVID-19 and the new reality we find ourselves in. But then I wonder, “will this truly be a new reality?” I was walking with my wife the other night and recalled the surge of patriotism and the words “Never forget” after 9/11. I started thinking that this would be THE life-changing moment for my generation. I was stationed in Germany at the time and deployed to Iraq in 2003. In 2004, we moved back to the States. In a matter of 3 weeks, I went from Baghdad to Kuwait to Germany to Milwaukee. I was standing on the 9th floor of the federal building in Milwaukee looking down on the street and thinking about

how just three weeks earlier, I was praying to avoid rocket attacks and roadside bombs to rejoin a country united in our fight against terrorism. I found myself looking down on a city that didn’t seem to know there was a war going on. I found myself just 3 years after 9/11 questioning, “Never forget? I think we already did.”

My daughter was born a year after 9/11 and so COVID-19 will likely be one of the life changing moments her generation looks back on. Just 2 months ago we were meeting regularly at church. I was trying to balance work-life-school-family-church and always feeling like I was a step behind the curve. Teresa and I started a workgroup to discuss potential adjustments to church service schedules. We were able to meet once prior to COVID. I’m pretty sure not one person in that meeting was thinking, “why don’t we try online services?” I’m pretty sure not one person thought, “I bet churches around the world are going to shut down weekly gatherings and have to look at some other way of reaching their members.” But here we are. And that brings me to my question for you: what is going to be different in your life when this is over? Hopefully, you’re NOT thinking “nothing will be different…we’ll finally be able to go back to soccer practices and the symphony and watching pro sports and listening to our favorite singer in concert. We’ll have date nights with our significant other at our favorite restaurant and we’ll be attending church with fellow believers again.” Don’t get me wrong. I pray we will all be doing that again very soon. But we cannot let it be a “Never forget” moment and go back to business as usual.

I read an article recently that said this pandemic may actually be saving the church. Few churches had an online presence outside of a simple website prior to COVID. Just a couple of months later, I’m listening to the Southeastern District president say 95% of our district churches are conducting some form of online service and looking at ways to go beyond worship services in some form of online manner. So, let me expand my earlier question: what is going to be different about Resurrection Lutheran Church when this is all over? I pray you’re NOT thinking, “nothing will be different…we’ll come back to church and worship at our preferred service and finally be able to take communion together.” We have an awesome opportunity to build on ideas that we never would have even considered just a couple of months ago. We have an opportunity to expand how we worship, come together in small groups, fellowship, and witness to our neighbors. But just like in coaching, it may require us to stretch a little bit outside of our comfort zone…but I’m pretty sure God gave us that first push so let’s look with excitement and anticipation as we ask, “Lord, what are You up to?”

If you’re interested in exploring what coaching can do for you, reach out to me at [email protected].

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Diary of a Muzungu

“You will be My Witnesses … to the ends of the earth” – Acts 1:8

The Same

We often say that ours is a ministry of presence, so it’s a mighty curious thing to prepare a Uganda mission team while we’re also “social distancing” from each other. These days, rather than meet in person to taste rolex or posho, we join via Skype and teach new team members through pictures and show & tell.

Life For Uganda is scheduled to take a group to Uganda at the end of May. But we prepare without really knowing what lies ahead. As I write, most of us in the United States are on “stay at home” orders with varying degrees of restricted movement. In Uganda, the airport and land borders are closed. In the cities there are curfews in place, no private vehicles or public transportation allowed on the roads, and much like the US, most shops, business, and even some government services are shuttered.

We’re all living with uncertainty and wonder what the future will be. What does AC (after coronavirus) look like? Can I return to my job? Pay the bills? When will school be re-opened? Will my family stay healthy? As we ponder these things, I’m reminded yet again, of our sameness. No matter where in the world we happen to be right now, at this moment all of us in the world are thinking about the same things. Yes, my friends, we’re all so much more the same than we are different.

And I love that about us.

I’m grateful that even in moments of anxiety, God will also reveal these beautiful things to me. We know that plans for our team’s travel to Uganda, our partnership with the LCU, and all things “AC” will be made clear in God’s perfect timing. Until then, we pray only that everyone be well.

- Cheryl Fike

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Student Ministry

In the midst of disappointments and sacrifices, it has been a gift to connect with Breakaway and not only check in with each other but be able to laugh together, play games, and remind each other that God is good! Recently we decided to play a story game. Every person on the Zoom call added one word at a time and we created an epic story.

The Covid Life by Breakaway

The story begins with a tiny virus called Covid-19. This pandemic is crazy! We’re all trapped in our homes. We can’t go anywhere. The stores are only open to one person at a time. Social distancing is annoying. We are all going to explode! Over the course of this quarantine, everyone has gotten masks and toilet paper. Hopefully we will be together again very soon! Until then we have to Zoom!

Calling All RLC Graduating HS Seniors!

Please email/text me with the following information, so that we can celebrate this milestone together. Please provide the high school you are graduating from, plans for after graduation (if college, what do you plan to study). We will celebrate with blessings over all of our graduates! Please respond by May 15.

Leadership Applications are Open NOW! If you are currently a 9th-11th grader and active with Breakaway, you are eligible to apply for our Breakaway Leadership Team. Please use this link to fill out the Google Form by May 15. If you are a returning Leadership Team Member, you still need to fill out the form by May 15 as well! Here is the link: https://forms.gle/gEYaVsTppa3XXNgT8

Stay safe and well! Joyfully His, Ms. Jenny, High School Youth Director - [email protected]

Bibles and Christian books, DVDs and CDs are always appreciated by prison inmates and especially helpful at a time like this when they are more isolated and fearful. CLI Prison Alliance, formerly Christian Library International, the local ministry that sends these resources to more than 1,600 prisons in all 50 states, welcomes your donations. While you are isolated at home, take time to sort and set aside appropriate materials until you are again in church and can put them in the blue container by the mailboxes.

Contact Ann Johnson through RCB with questions about book or monetary donations and about ways to volunteer at CLI Prison Alliance. Consider becoming a Bible Minister who reviews and communicates with inmates using their excellent Bible Study. You can do this from your own home.

From Inmate Charlie in Aiken, SC: "Thank you so much for everything your ministry does for those of us behind bars. I was lost to gangs and drugs when I was 12, but because of your time and love, I have found my Savior, Jesus Christ!"

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Gifts and Memorials

The following gifts have been received by RLC: For Resurrection Lutheran School:

In Memory of Don Baker, Lisa Snyder’s Father Mary Persson

For the Love Fund:

Thank you to The Piecemakers for the masks! Robert and Marie Bruce

In Memory of Don Baker, Lisa Snyder’s Father Mary Persson

In Memory of Colonel John C. Lindsey, Leslie's Father Tim and Leslie Hiteshew

In Memory of Sarah Peterson Grant and Brenda Peterson

Help Us Grow the Love Fund

As a result of COVID-19, many in our area have lost jobs, including church members. In anticipation of an increased need for assistance, please consider donating to the RLC Love Fund as we support one another in this time of crisis.

Make your check payable to RLC, note Love Fund in memo, or through online giving, enter amount in Love Fund line.

Thank you!

1 Mike and Pam Allen Jason and Jan Cecco Brad and Lindsey Verburgt

3 Chuck and Anne Heard

6 John and Jodi Kopala

8 Leo and Char Magiera – 55 years

9 Gary and Wilma Brown – 50 years Ron and Cori Elmer

10 Lewis and Sandy Wuori

11 Clinton and Patricia Peterson – 52 years

12 John and Carole Shaeffer

15 Wesley and Carol Creel Tony and Melissa Miranda – 10 years Mike and Mackenzie Sottini

16 Douglas and Kari Hayden – 5 years

17 Jonathan and Becky Berger – 40 years Mike and Sharon Hahne – 45 years Michael and Lynda Whitcher

18 Don and Bernice Sonstroem – 57 years

19 Ron and Marie Taylor – 20 years

20 Robin and Susan Harrell

22 Jeff and Laura Fischer – 10 years

24 John and Terri Nance Eric and Jennifer Peacock

26 Robert and Diane Hoffmeister – 30 years Mark and Megan Mantey

27 Ian and Derica Justice Tom and Norma Pedersen

28 Greg and Lisa Card Tom and Deb Gebbia Devin and Heather Hilldale Barry and Laura Needle Stuart and Linda Shaw Machiel and Magda Van Dyk

29 Roger and Glenda Bushee Don and Sara Kirkendall Mark and Barb Storum Matt and Sarah Williams

31 Dave and Jenny Beyer Dave and Genny Upton

*Names and dates are taken from our computer software, “Shepherd’s Staff”. Please notify the church office of omissions and changes. Thank you!

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1 Barbara Niffenegger

2 Rick Moore

3 Diane Hoffmeister Rick McClain

4 Jason Cecco Amanda Hagedorn Gaye Ingram Ron Taylor Else Travers

5 Glenn Key

6 Kim Ashmore Suzy Kolb John Shoemaker

7 Bill Boyer Michael Heffner

8 Kim Leach Ken McDonald

9 Keith Braswell Paavo Gresham Cyndi Moore

10 Mike Danilowicz Evan Gallagher Sara Kirkendall Jessica Spears

11 Clinton Peterson 12 Ellen Richter Gus York

13 Amelia Baldisserotto Cecilia Brown Holly Canupp Scott Smith

14 Savannah Grimes

15 Cori Elmer Karissa Evans Scott Ferguson Karen Ferro Andrew Jannings Ilea Kuo Christa Newcomb

16 Alison Adams Sydney Holfelder Chris Thiede

17 Ian Justice Dean Peters Petra Weishaupt-Smith

18 Jon Huddle Katey Petz Karin Sedivy

19 Edward Altieri Brady Collins Claudia Guthrie Jane Quetel Bonnie Wade

20 Robert Padden Jim Zieglmeier

21 Kevin Blackburn Noelle Frisbie Andie McBride Fiona Measmer Ethel Sherry Kelsey Storum

22 Katherine Mitchell

23 David Brooks Connor Chiaramonte Trudy Haertling John Heilman Ayer Justice Kristin Leahy

24 David Beyer Aven Williams

25 Jack Gallagher Roger Tesch

27 Abby Kolb Kathy Rasmussen Kyle Sottini Sarah Williams

28 Megan Cassimatis Nicole Shaltanis

29 Matt Bowling Sam Burgiss Jr. Adelyn Holfelder

30 Eric Bostick Claire Patterson Misty Rayfield Linda Shaw Mike Sottini Erin Wyatt

31 Nathan Adams Wayne Conners Lena Licciardi

*Names and dates are taken from our computer software, “Shepherd’s Staff”. Please notify the church office of omissions and changes. Thank you!

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