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St. Paul’s Lutheran Family 1201 N. Saliman Rd. — Carson City, NV 89701

Phone 775-882-3020 and Fax 775-882-3533

Church E-mail: stppsecy@att.net

Church Website: www.stpaulsluthfamily.com

Those who are either new to the Lutheran church or seeking to learn more will find intriguing entry points, and lifelong Luther-ans will discover new dimensions. A sign-up sheet for those interested in the book study will be available starting Sunday, May 28 and will be available during the annual barbeque and annual congrega-tional meeting on Sunday, June 4.

3) Youth Group ‘Day Trips’ – Thanks to

Kristine Sandmeier, Traci Angel, and Ash-le Overlock, the teen youth group has been very active this past winter and spring. They are looking forward to contin-ue meeting over the summer for a ‘Day Trip’ or two—possibly even an overnight trip. No doubt these ‘Day Trips’ will be fun, but they will also be an opportunity to get to know each other better, in a new con-text, and thereby grow in faith together.

Please consider joining us—as you are able—for any of these events (yes, even VBS! Adult mentors and helpers are AL-WAYS welcome & appreciated!) Don’t forget to invite others to join us, as well!

And have a blessed summer, as we seek re-creation in body, spirit, and mind!

God’s peace be with you all!

Pastor Chad Adamik

Learning Opportunities Abound This Summer!

Summer is a time to recreate; there is so much of God’s creation to enjoy so close to Carson City. I know many of you will take time away from Carson City this summer to be with family and friends, Or maybe you plan to only travel with your significant other (I know I look forward to taking some time off later in the summer, as well!). Because of this, congregational life at St. Paul’s—indeed, at most churches—tends to slow down, with fewer meetings, commitments, and events to attend.

This summer, for those who will be around Car-son City for a least a part of summer, there will be opportunities to ‘re-create’ through learning and fellowship.

1) ‘Deep Sea Discovery’ Vacation Bible School (VBS): June 26-30. St. Paul’s annual VBS invites children Pre-School through 5

th Grade to experience God,

who is “With me wherever I go” (VBS theme). The VBS experience concludes on Sunday, July 2, where stories, songs, and crafts (as well as the decorations!) will be shared with all of you during the worship services. More information about Vacation Bible School will appear in this newsletter.

2) Sunday Book Study – beginning Sun-day, June 18

th: For those interested in

learning more about our Lutheran roots and heritage, I will lead a book study on the book Together by Grace: Introducing the Lutherans, edited by Kathryn A. Klein-haus ($12.00 thru Augsburg Fortress. The book available on Kindle and Ama-zon, too). If you are interested in gather-ing between the 8:00 am and 10:30 am Sunday morning worship services, let me know and I can either order a copy of the book for you, or you can order it on your own and have a chance to look it over.

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President’s Comments:

At the special meeting on April 2nd, Charlotte LaCombe, Pat and I were elected to serve as delegates to the Sierra Pacific Synod Assembly in Fresno, May 4-6. Pastor Chad was also a delegate by virtue of his office. The assembly was highlighted by many impressive, moving, and diverse presentations and workshops. The Synod has a wide variety of cultures and movements. A central part of the Assembly focused on getting ready to observe the 500th Anniversary of the start of the Lutheran Reformation, which occurred with Martin Luther nailing the 95 the-ses on the door of the Castle church in Wittenberg, Germany. October 31, 1517. We will have opportunities to participate in some of the activities, while we here at St. Paul’s are observing our 50th anniversary in Carson City. Below is one of the official logos for the reformation ob-servance.

The event at the assembly you may have heard about is my accident, when I tripped on a rubber mat causing me to crash into a door jamb and somehow causing the fire door to start closing grasping my arm. Fortunately, no bones were broken and no joints dislocated. The fel-low assembly goers were great in coming to my help. An RN was immediately behind me and saw it happen. Soon I was freed from the door, and a doctor—also there for the assembly—came to my aid and did an initial exam, determining that my range of motion was good even though I could not move my arm myself and that there was probably no damage to the bones or rotator cuff. The hotel security quickly came and got a wheel chair and with a considerable amount of help I was raised to my feet and then sat down in the wheel chair. Of course, there was paper work to be filled out. The security officer wheeled me into the assembly. And for the rest of the day I was wheeled around by Pat, including a couple of trips across the street to where break-out sessions were being held. Pastor Chad willingly accepted the assignment I had of presenting St. Paul’s response to the $5,000 grant we received at last year’s assembly. Every-one was extremely caring and helpful—the RN, the doctor, the security officer, Pastor Chad, Charlotte, and, of course, Pat. The sessions of the Assembly are available on You Tube. You can Google “2017 sierra pacific assembly site:youtube.com”. You will then see the seven sessions listed. If you go to “Friday Afternoon” and fast forward to 2:30 you will see Pastor Chad’s presentation. As we move into the summer months, we look forward to times of relaxation and refresh-ment. I encourage everyone to remember that the financial needs and commitments continue throughout the year. Please remain faithful in your support and giving. If you plan to be away for several weeks, consider using your bank’s check paying services to maintain your regular con-tributions. We will soon know who will be on the church council for the next year. We pray for the council as they work to promote the vision and mission of St. Paul’s throughout the coming months. Many blessings to you and your family!

--Doug Thunder, President

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DID YOU KNOW continuing…………Another installment regarding the History of St. Paul’s…….. After retirement of Pastor Stan Pesis, we had variety of supply pastors fill in until we hired, Pastor Jim Goldsmith as an interim pastor started at St. Paul’s October 2014. Besides being our pastor for regular sermons, he also did many visitations to members homes, and he did a history forum of our church where our members were grouped in Friendship hall to discuss what they remembered during they're early years at St. Paul’s. People were put in ten year groups. One group was members who had 50 years with St. Paul’s, one group had 40 years with St. Paul’s, 30 years, 20 years , etc. People wrote down what they remembered during their time and this was then formulated by Pastor Jim into a computer program so people present and in the future have some reference of what happened in the past. This was a fun project and has helped this writer to do these articles. Thanks Pastor Jim. In addition to the above, Pastor Jim also held Cottage meetings which were mostly held in private homes of our members. This allowed members of St. Paul’s to voice their opinion of what they liked or didn’t like of what was happening at St. Paul’s. After this, a TRANSITION TEAM was formed to follow up by additional interviewing of members of our church so they could put together things that the CALL COMMITTEE might need in the process of calling a permanent pastor for St. Paul’s. This process was very lengthly but was very important to find out what the church might need to change in the future. Almost forgot, in the summer of 2015 Pastor Jim Goldsmith initiated a program where the kids and the congrega-tion donated to the Food for the Poor program and we were able to send them (Food for the Poor) around $1,000.00 to buy various animals and products for the poor. This was very successful. Our council president and Pastor Jim also revised job descriptions for staff members along with salary guidelines during this time. Then in the middle of the above, our Structural Property Committee found out our church flooring around the in-side perimeter of the sanctuary had dry rot. We started by finding a contractor that could manage fixing this problem. We hired Shaheen Beauchamp construction out of five bidders to do the job. Dick Lowther and Bob Larson were put in charge of overseeing the work both with the contractor and the financial process along with (Renee Woslum and Linda Wilson) for the funding of the project. I remember one thing that really was of concern during this process, and that was the stain glass window in the sanctuary. It had to be propped up by scissor lifts in the crawl space to prevent it from falling down, The dry rot was so bad that the wood would crumble in you hands if touched. Along with all this, we decided to do some other work within the church. Like having air conditioning installed in Friendship hall, installing an exhaust system to draw the moisture out of the crawl space and run it up through exhaust pipes through the roof of the sanctuary. Better lighting within the offices and the parking lot, new carpeting/flooring (flooring etc was overseen by the Design Committee headed by Jean Russell), painting and many other things. Monthly updates were given to the church council on the progress. The construction process was closed in early 2016. During this construction, Pastor Jim Goldsmith moved the sanctuary into Friendship Hall for many months, this went very well.

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WELCA WOMEN OF THE ELCA

St. Paul’s Lutheran Family

Mother’s Day Tea - Traci, Ashle and the Youth Group hosted a terrific event to honor mothers and daughters and friends on May 13th. There were about 50 guests. The Alice in Wonderland theme included youth dressed in costume as they ran around the tables, pouring tea. Even Pastor Chad had a role as a mouse! The food was delicious—fancy cakes, finger sandwiches, strawberries, green grapes, veggie cups and all sorts of finger desserts. The youth provided a skit, sang songs, read po-etry and created a Bingo-like game called AL-ICE. Serena played Greensleeves on her flute. Fun for all! Thanks to the St. Paul’s Youth and their leaders Traci Angel and Ashle Overlock. Thanks also to Carol Arneson for successfully getting a grant from Thrivent to support the event.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR

MONDAY, JUNE 5TH AT 5:30!! This is the final

meeting of WELCA until September. It is an im-

portant meeting as not only will there be a pizza

party but it is the time that we decide on the vari-

ous places that we should support with the $$ we

have raised over the course of the year. If you

have charities that you would like St. Paul’s to

support, plan to attend to make the group aware

of that. Then, in addition to that, there is the ex-

citing time of electing new officers! You won’t

want to miss this meeting!! Check on the bulletin

board to sign up. In the meantime, keep an

open mind (and pray)about your willingness

to be involved in WELCA as an officer. It is

something that takes very little time and ef-

fort but is important to the life of St. Paul’s.

WELCA was honored to serve the reception fol-lowing the funeral for Don Kovisto. Don was a very special member of St. Paul’s and will be greatly missed. In his memory, his family donat-ed many of Don’s things to this year’s rummage sale.

WELCA met March 23 for a baked potato bar dinner, followed by a short business meeting. Good food and great company! Following the meeting, the congregation joined us for a terrific presentation by Ken and Kay Elverum where they told about the life of a volunteer National Park Ranger. It was a fascinating tale of how they have spent their past two summers. Thanks to the Elverums for sharing! Thanks to Traci An-

gel for providing the necessary technology!!

The members of WELCA would like to thank Peggy Truttman for her dedicated service in mak-ing arrangements for so many events at St. Paul’s. She faithfully plans and makes phone calls to gather the needed food and also supervises the setup and serving of these events. We appreciate your service, Peggy, and want you to know how important all that you do is to the success of the many things that take place at St. Pauls

PEGGY TRUTTMAN AN UNSUNG HERO

The members of WELCA would like to thank Peggy Truttman for her dedi-cated service in making arrangements for so many events at St, Paul’s. She faithfully plans and makes phone calls to gather the needed food and also supervises the set-up and serving of these events. We appreciate your service., Peggy. And want you to know how important all that you do is to the success of the many things that take place at St. Paul’s.

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THE LEE GROUP

THE LEE GROUP’s next meeting will be Thursday, June 1st, 2017, 11:30 a.m. in St. Paul’s Friendship Hall. This will be our final meeting until September 7th.

“LEE” is the nickname for “Life Enrichment for Every-one,” or more commonly, “Lutheran Eager Eaters.” All retired and/or grandparents’ generation people are invited.

The menu will be a general potluck. Please bring passing dish of your own choosing: meat, chicken, casseroles, vegetables, salads, breads, desserts, etc. We will be electing leaders to serve the next year. If you have questions, please call Bev Steinert (883-6096) or Doug Thunder (883-1548).

SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES: Jerry, Brandon (Luterick), Ike Moellen-dorf), Heather Joyner (Johnson), Samuel (Weirton and Osterhold), Peter (Elverum), Tim (Gridley), Sarah (McGee), Olivia (Lesperance), Jason (Coleman), Tom, Michael, Justin, Carlos Armando (Cortes)

FIREFIGHTERS/PEACE OFFICERS: Andy (Steyn), Brian (Hillenbrand), Tina (Sherman), Mark (Dickens), John (Gould)

CONTINUING PRAYERS FOR: John, Roy T., Michael, Julie, Eileen, James, Harold, Jane, Betty Ray, Frank, Caroll M., Nellie.., D. Howell

THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: Stan Bernette (Joan Yeskie’s brother-in-law, with leukemia); Angelo DeFelice ; Alice Bloyd & her son (recovering from sur-gery); Greta O’Kelley’s sister Gaylene (early diagnosis cancer); & Greta O’Kelley’s grandson Micheal (early diag-nosis blood disease); Prayers for the fami-lies of Carr Sandell and Helen Rutter who passed away recently; Evelyn Luter-ick (recovering from surgery)

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Sunday School has completed our classes now until September so we hope you all have a safe & terrific summer. For a portion of that summer, won’t you please join us for Vacation Bible School-2017. Our theme this year,

DEEP SEA DISCOVERY

Is going to be a fun-filled week of Bible stories, crafts, singing, games and good snacks.

We have assembled a terrific team of people who are working hard to make sure we know that God is with us wherever we go. There will be some exotic underwater scenes inside the church and great Bible stories as well as fun and games. Please pass the information along to any kids in your families or neighborhoods that might want to be involved in a great activity from June 26-30 from 6 pm—9 pm.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

WELLNESS COMMITTEE NOTES—By

Betty Razor

The next meeting of the committee will be held on June 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm.

Do any of you know any other members who might be interested in our group? If so, please invite them for the June meeting . We can use any interested folks to help with the goals we have made. Here are some of our goals:

• Collect donated items for the food pantry and school advocate.

• Support the school advocate with dona-tions of school supplies.

• Search for volunteer opportunities in our community.

• Provide Healthcare information and pre-vention and education programs.

• Provide health screening/lifeline pro-grams plus links to other sources

• Donations for a gift “Animal” to World Relief.

• Obtain contribution items for the Transi-tional Housing Program.

If you have ideas that you would like to contribute to this worthwhile committee please consider joining us for our next meet-ing on June 22..

Betty Razor, Chairperson

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JUNE BIRTHDAYS

June 4-Marilyn Brandvold

June 4-John Gould

June 4-Jennifer Fitzpatrick

June 7-Virginia Williams

June 8-Loretta Williams

June 10-Mackade Chambers

June 10-Karin Randle

June 11-Tom Maruca

June 14-Syrena Chowanski

June 15-Gerald Nrandvold

June 15-Jay Olshen

June 17-June Bennett-Hansen

June 17-Michael Goetz

June 21-Sue Van Koningsveld

June 23-Louise Griffith

June 24-Isabella Anderson

June 24-Wayne Kinder

June 25-Alexander Anderson

June 26-Michael Gould

June 26-Ron Johns

June 26-Bll Sandell

June 27-Tom Gesick

June 27-Charlotte Lacombe

June 28-Vicki Hamilton

28-Shirley O’Neil

June 29-

Ann Kauf

June 30-Sharon Olshen

The 50th Anniversary committee will be meeting on June 12 at 11:00 am at the church. We will be able to tabulate the results from our BBQ on Sunday, June 4 and determine the price of the tick-ets for the Big celebration dinner in October.

We have a very busy team of people who are working hard to help us all have a great time and celebrate this milestone

Be a part of our upcoming Lifetime photo event!

We are still scheduling photo ap-pointments for our new directory that will be published this summer. So you can make this a very special picture or Share your story in the picture if you wish by adding a favorite pet or flower bouquet. A Classic picture will work just fine as you get 1 8 x 10 picture free just for participat-ing. Then of course your directory is com-plimentary too. We are hoping to have maximum participation as we will be hav-ing a smaller size directory this time.

The photo dates are June 8, 9 & 10 and will be taken in Friendship Hall. Please mark your calendars! The committee can still use some extra hands if you wish to help, please let Renee know at the office or Linda Wil-son.

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WORSHIP LEADERS

COMMUNION ASSISTANT

June 4 (one service at 9 am)- Judy McPhail, Nikki Jones June 11- 8 am –Joan Schultz 10:30 am– Linda Wilson June 18- 8 am-Hannelore Hanke 10:30 am-Holly McPhail June 25 8 am-Karin Randle 10:30 am-Renee Woslum Linda Wilson

GREETERS– 10:30 am

June 4-Judy McPhail

June 11-Mary Neumann

June 18-Judy Lowther

June 25-Mary Neumann

READERS 10:30A.M.

Jume 4-@9 am Judy McPhail

June 11-Betty Razor

June 18-Heidi Jones

June 25-Linda Wilson

READERS-8:00 A.M.

June 4-9:00 am Judy McPhail

June 11-Vera Logie

June 18-Louise Griffith

June 25-Caroll Massie

USHERS-10:30 service

June 4-Dave Harrell, Roy Eisentrager. Mary Neumann. Greta O’Kelley

June 11-Dave Harrell, Mary Neumann. Greta O’Kelley

June 18-Dave Harrell, Mary Neumann. Greta O’Kelley

June 25-Dave Harrell, Roy Eisentrager. Mary Neumann. Greta O’Kelley

COUNTERS

June 4-9:00 am (only)

Roy E/ Judy Mcphail

June 11- 8:00 am -

. 10:30 am -Roy E.

June 18 -8:00 am .Judy McPhail

10:30 am_

June 25- -8:00 am

10:30 am –Roy E.

ACOLYTES-10:30 service

June 4-Hailey Jones

June 11-

June 18-

June 25-Caroll Massie- ( 8:00 am )

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Water Usage

Call to Action

ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN FAMILY – SEWER CHARGES AND NEED FOR A SEPARATE IRRIGATION WATER METER

Additional information in response to April 2 meeting comments:

SPLF high water/sewer bills for the last several summers have been due to the sewer charges side, not excess water use.

As a “Low-Strength Commercial User” with only one meter, SPLF is charged for sewage treatment on every gallon of water that passes through the meter, whether used in the building, or for landscape irrigation, or for the Kindness Garden, or for car wash fundraisers .......

Under the 5-year rate plan approved by the Carson City Board of Supervisors in 2013, the applicable sewer charge per thousand gallons has gone from $3.92 in fiscal year 2014 to $5.82 currently and will increase to $6.78 July 1, 2017.

If a typical household with modest landscaping were charged using this formula, its summer sewer bills would be almost twice its water bills.

Water conservation should always be a part of SPLF cost control, but it will not significantly reduce these sewer charges and they will likely continue to increase into the future.

The current situation limits the use of SPLF property and facilities.

The proposed separate irrigation meter will eliminate sewer charges on water used outside of the building. It has been estimated that, within four years, the reduction in sewer charges will exceed the costs of permitting and installing the proposed irrigation water meter.

The reduction in outside water costs will continue into the future, and lower water costs associated with the irrigation meter will provide SPLF with flexibility in the use of its property.

Your vote in support of the proposal to have an irrigation meter installed is requested.

Respectfully

Tom Gesick

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A GIANT THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

We all want to thank WELCA for their generosity in the purchase of the new BBQ! We love it and it works so nice….thanks WELCA!

Wednesday night, the Bell choir and Vocal choir had their End-of-the-year BBQ and it was used for the first time. It ran like a champion. We can just ask the cook, Pastor Chad. Yes, he has many talents and it was deli-cious.!

Thanks to Clay Woslum and Dick Lowther for doing the shopping and set-up. This is a treat we can all enjoy for a long time.