Positive Happenings at First Lutheran

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The first is from the community dinner held on Monday, February 22nd. There is a real liveliness in the air, with a great mix of people from our church, the neighborhood, and the UAlbany college community.

The second is from Sunday school on February 21st. It is a "full house," certainly compared to the last 15 years or so (and we were missing at least three regulars). Good signs!

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Bowling For Beds

The Bowling For Beds Bowl-A-Thon, sponsored by U-Albany's Cornerstone Ministry, was held at Sunset Bowling Lanes on Saturday, January 30th. A total of $9,573.88 was collected to benefit the Emergency Overflow Shelter, housed in our building.

Four of our members bowled in this event. Our crack bowling team included Cliff Danielson, Carol Engelhardt, Joe Markowski and Sandy O'Connor. Thanks to the bowlers who gave their time and all those who donated to this worthy cause. First Lutheran raised $595!

Damien Center Dinner Janice Logan - Social Ministry Chair

The Lutheran Cluster churches once again sponsored

the February Damien Center dinner. This year the dinner was held on Saturday, February 27th at our site.

I want to thank Kim Ryan, Kim Paonessa, Carol Engelhardt, JoAnne Evans, Beverly Hazzard and Sandy O'Connor for making lasagna for the dinner. Thank you to the Sunday School students and parents for making the favors for the dinner.

A special thanks is given to Liz Peters and Clara DeMarco for helping to organize and work at the dinner and to Alex Nagy for taking care of anything we needed (as always).

Mark your calendar with these upcoming Music Specials

Sunday morning worship, April 3 Guest Violinist, Joy Yang, age 9,

accompanied by her mother, Kathy Yu, playing Vivaldi’s “Spring”

Sunday morning worship, April 10 Guest Soprano, Yolanda Sharpe, Chair

of SUNY Oneonta’s Art Department and well-known vocalist in Oneonta/Cooperstown area as well as with Glimmerglass Opera.

March 2016

Dear First Family, I have just been working ahead. To get everything ready for a worship service, coordinating with organist, choir, and secretary, I plan for an entire season ahead of time. That is why today during the first week of Lent, I have been working on worship planning for Easter. And I am excited about my plans. In fact, I am so excited that racing through my head came the thought, “Oh, I wish we could just skip Lent.”

But we can’t skip Lent. We dare not skip Lent. There can be no resurrection without the tomb. There can be no

tomb without the cross. There can be no cross without the arrest. There can be no arrest without going to Jerusalem for the Passover. There can be no Jerusalem without Jesus’ step by step Journey to get there. Jesus began that Journey in the wilderness, facing down Satan, with the steadfastness of God’s holy purpose. Each step in the Journey is necessary. We dare not skip any.

That’s why this next month is so important. We will continue that Journey together in worship. We will live

through the events that lead to Jesus’ death and, through Jesus’ death, to the resurrection. It is a rich journey, a life-enriching journey. I hope you will take notice of this Journey as you go about your busy days. And I pray that this Journey will lead you into deeper relationship with the one who was both crucified and raised.

I offer you two thought-provoking prayers excerpted from a collection of Walter Brueggemann’s prayers, Awed

to Heaven Rooted in Earth (153-4). May these prayers enrich your Lenten journey.

In Peace & Joy! Pastor Allie

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Loss is indeed our gain The pushing and the shoving of the world is endless. We are pushed and shoved. And we do our fair of pushing and shoving in our great anxiety. And in the middle of that you have set down your beloved suffering son who was like a sheep led to slaughter who opened not his mouth. We seem not able, so we ask you to create spaces in our life where we may ponder his suffering and your summons for us to suffer with him, suspecting that suffering is the only way to come to newness So we pray for your church in these Lenten days, when we are driven to denial — not to notice the suffering, not to engage it, not to acknowledge it. So be that way of truth among us that we should not deceive ourselves. That we shall see that loss is indeed our gain. We give you thanks for that mystery from which we live. Amen

Revise our taking You, you giver! You have given light and life to the world; You have given freedom from Pharaoh to your people Israel; You have given your only Son for the sake of the world; You have given yourself to us; You have given and forgiven, and you remember our sins no more. And we, in response, are takers: We take eagerly what you give us; we take from our neighbors near at hand as is acceptable; we take from our unseen neighbors greedily and acquisitively; we take from our weak neighbors thoughtlessly; we take all that we can lay our hands on. It dawns on us that our taking does not match your giving. In this Lenten season revise our taking, that it may be grateful and disciplined, even as you give in ways generous and overwhelming. Amen

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Souper Bowl 2016 was super!

The FLC Souper Bowl began at 11 am on February 7th with our Sunday School families heading up the event.

Using large soup pots the Sunday School children received

$218.90 in donations from worshippers at First Lutheran. Added to this was $185.80 from previous Sunday School offerings. Checks of $202.35 were sent to the Sister Maureen Joyce Soup Kitchen and to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Thank you to all who contributed.

As well, our thanks goes to those who brought in crocks of

soup - 10 altogether! Delicious soups, bread, and yummy desserts made for satisfied bellies. Added to the meal was the nice community shared around the tables while we ate.

The hungry were well fed in numerous ways at the FLC

Souper Bowl.

FLC Community Dinners

The First Lutheran Church continues to provide a monthly dinner for members of our church, as well as friends and local community members. When we first began this outreach venture, our number of guests ranged from 31 to 108, averaging about 60 people in the first year. In the last 9 months our average has increased to 109 people per meal. From community member feedback, these dinners, the free produce and clothes given out at the end of the meals are much appreciated.

As wonderful as these dinners have been for our

community, they require a significant amount of work, all provided by volunteers. At this time, we especially need people to plan and prepare the dinners for April and May. (Please sign up for this on the sheet on the bulletin board across from Pastor's office.) People are needed to distribute information flyers in the neighborhood, plan and prepare the meal, help set up, serve and clean up the dinner, and aid with the dispensing of produce and clothing. If you are able to help with any of these tasks, please contact Janice Logan (437-1121). Many hands make light work. We also invite you to simply attend any of our dinners and partake of the good food and conversation with our neighbors. Our next dinner is Tuesday, March 29th, at 6:00 (note the changed day)

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Homeless Shelter Needs

The Overflow Homeless shelter has an ongoing need for these items:

powdered creamer / sugar (urgent need)

Laundry detergent (urgent need)

Cleaning products (urgent need)

snack items (granola bars, crackers)

beverages (fruit juices, lemonade & Kool-Aid mixes)

COFFEE

low-sugar cereal (Cheerios, Frosted Flakes); instant oatmeal

LARGE trash bags

Men’s winter coats, gloves, hats

socks, underwear

big plastic containers (to store leftovers)

duffle bags, TV tables

Band-aids, gauze, tape & peroxide

There is a bin in the hallway of Friendship House as well as in the Church Office. See Janice Logan or Julie Lind with questions.

2016 Synod Assembly Project - Aluminum Can Tab Collection

For the past three years, the aluminum can tab collection project has proved to be a successful endeavor that all of our Synod congregations can participate in.

The Synod Assembly Planning Team has again decided that we would conduct this project for the 2016 Synod Assembly.

Start your collection project now and bring the collected tabs to the 2016 Synod Assembly.

Homeless Shelter Dinners The Lutheran Cluster churches provide the Tuesday dinners for the homeless shelter housed in our building. Thank you very much Lisa Rittberger for making dinner in February.

The Lutheran Cluster Outreach Project for March/April 2016 is for the

Mohawk & Hudson Humane Society Suggested donations:

Canned/wet cat and dog food

Paper towels

Redeemable bottles and cans

Kitten milk replacement (KMR)

Cat litter

Rabbit water bottles

Postage stamps

Copy paper

Peanut butter

Flea and tick preventative (Frontline, Advantage, Advantix)

Puppy training pads

Dog toys

Plastic cat toys (no catnip, please)

Pipe cleaners

Toilet paper

Bleach

Hand sanitizer

Cardboard shoeboxes

Kongs (large or extra-large)

Kuranda dog beds

Cat beds

Towels

Blankets - smaller/thinner (such as receiving

blankets)

Liquid hand soap

Pooper scoopers for dogs (long-handled

metal)

Large spray bottles

Small animal bedding (shavings, straw or paper - no cedar)

Portable nebulizers Bins for your donations are in the hall in Friendship House and also in the Church Office. Many thanks for your assistance and generosity towards this collection.

Most Urgent Needs

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BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!

Sunday, March 6

1:00-3:00 PM at St. John’s

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ALBANY CLUSTER MIDWEEK LENTEN WORSHIP 2016

March 2 at First Lutheran

Pr Pamela Hoh on Facing Fears

March 9 at Holy Spirit

Pr Jo Page on Facing Danger

March 16 at St John’s

Pr Dave Preisinger on Facing Loneliness

HOLDEN EVENING PRAYER at 7pm

Every evening begins with

a Soup Supper at 6 pm

Midweek Wednesday Lenten worship will be offered at St. John's Chapel, 303 Sand Creek Road, Colonie at 12:15

p.m. and continue each Wednesday of Lent through March 16. Topics and preachers will be the same as the

evening schedule.

First Lutheran Council Meeting February 9, 2016 Highlights

Consolidation Committee members from First are:

Governance: Sandy O’Connor, Peter Christoph, Barb McGuinness

Building: Sandy O’Connor, Janice Logan, Colin McKnight, Lisa Rittberger (as needed).

Staff/Finance: Tim Eskeli, Judy Carlson, Doug Siegenthaler, Kim Paonessa

First is in need of volunteers/leaders for the many of activities and duties needed for our Church mission: council members, coffee hour, altar guild, Community dinner, choir, counters, ushers… Sheets to sign up are outside Hartwick Lounge (where coffee hour is held). Please sign up.

Internal Audit: a committee is being set up to do our internal audit.

Alex was hurt on the job. His injury was treated and seems to have been resolved.

Treasurer’s Report: The end of the year report is not finished at this time, but we expect it will be in the next couple of weeks. Year-end expenses were higher than expected so we authorized Morgan Stanley to sell stock to cover them. Cash flow continues to be a problem as weekly giving is down (as indicated in the 2016 budget) but expenses remain the same. We will continue to monitor the situation and plan to meet with Morgan Stanley in the spring (if necessary) to come up with a plan to generate more cash.

Finance: Once the year-end report is finished, this will be made available to the congregation. Then financial reports, with the year-to-date expenses, will be available quarterly to the congregation.

Personnel: There will be a change in the building use policy. Building usage on Friday and Saturday will be limited to First, Damien Center, and the Council of Churches

Sandy O’Connor Council Secretary

BROOKS BBQ

Save the date and your appetite!! On Friday, March 4th, Good Shepherd is having another Brooks Barbecue dinner. Dinners ready @ 3:30 PM and will be available until sold out. Only take-out will be available. The menu includes: Chicken Dinners @ $10.00, Rib Dinners @ $12.00, Chicken (meat only) @ $7.00 and Ribs (meat only) @ $9.00. Complete dinners include a baked potato, coleslaw, roll, butter and dessert.

Contact their church office for tickets (518) 458-1562

Tools for Caregivers Day Resources You Can Use When a Senior Relies on You

Saturday, April 16th 2016 8:00am - 12:00pm

St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Church 440 Whitehall Road—Albany, NY

The event is FREE but you must register prior to the day of the event.

To Register: Call Angela at (518) 248-3807 -or- send an email to crccreg@gmail.com

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TIE DYE and PEACE SYMBOLS are back! Your Upstate NY Synod World Hunger Team invites you to participate in the 17th annual appeal June 5-7 at the Synod Assembly in Rochester. The theme of this year’s campaign is GOD’S PEACE, YOUR PIECE.

We long for world peace, yet we are bombarded daily

with news of escalating conflict and violence. What can we do? Some say a world without hunger would be a world at peace. True or not, a world without hunger is a goal worth pursuing. ELCA World Hunger provides help and hope for millions of people in the U.S. and worldwide. You are part of that effort.

Still, many of our neighbors around the world and in

our local communities lack the basic necessities of life―nutritious food, clean water, adequate shelter, access to health care, and opportunities for quality education and employment.

We hope you will participate in this special synod-

wide appeal to raise a total of $45,000 to address these needs. In order to accomplish the goal, each congregation is challenged to contribute at least $450.

Your piece (prayers, gifts, and action) will increase

awareness and provide much needed funding for:

Domestic Hunger Grants for congregations/organizations working to alleviate hunger in the Upstate New York Synod and across the U.S.

Development projects around the world helping

people help themselves through training and assistance

Emergency relief in times of disaster Education and advocacy to address systemic

causes of hunger and poverty. SO . . . dig out your 60’s fashions and join us at the assembly. We’ll be waiting for YOU at the hunger table!

Hunger Fact Sheet

1. Nearly 11 percent of the world’s population is undernourished. 1 in 8 people in the world are hungry.

2. Close to one-fifth of all children under five remain undernourished.

3. Close to 156 million children have stunted growth, a result of undernutrition and infection,

4. Undernutrition contributes to 35 percent of deaths due to measles, malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea.

5. 19% of U.S. households with children reported being food insecure in 2014.

6. In 2014, food insecurity in the U.S. increased healthcare expenditures by $160.7 billion.

7. One third of chronically ill people in the U.S. can not afford to buy food and medication.

8. A severe drought in Ethiopia has left more than 10 million men, women and children without sufficient food. And Now the Good News

1. About two billion people have been freed from a state of hunger over the past 25 years.

2. The number of undernourished people in Latin America has fallen from 58 million to fewer than 27 million.

3. In 2014, your support reached 4,763,599 people in 35 countries.

4. 388 food pantries in the U.S. are supported by ELCA Hunger Appeal.

Easter Memorial Plants

This year we will have a selection of MUMS, AZALEAS and LILIES donning the chancel on Easter Sunday. These beautiful plants may be taken home after the Easter Morning worship service, or you may choose to share them with our homebound and nursing home resident members who are unable to come to church to enjoy them. We also share our remaining plants with hospitalized veterans at the VA Hospital here in Albany. Please fill out the form below and return it to the church office via mail or by giving it to an usher on Sunday morning.

Please print clearly

Name(s) of Giver(s): _______________________________________________________________________ Number of plants ordered: ________ I will keep _______ plants. I will share _______ plants.

Wording: _______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ The donation for each plant is $10.00 Please make checks payable to: First Lutheran Church Mark “Easter Plants 2016” in memo section.

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Wednesday Lenten Soup Supper

Every Wednesday during Lent, one of the Albany Cluster churches is hosting the midweek service. Prior to each 7:00 service, a soup supper will be offered. We have been asked to provide 2 crocks of soup for the March 9th soup supper at Holy Spirit, since they have offered their church for two Wednesday services during Lent.

If you are able to provide soup, please contact Janice

Logan at jlogan6@nycap.rr.com or 437-1121 ASAP. You may also sign the sheet on the bulletin board! Thank you for your generosity.

Next in Series of Healthy Congregation Workshops

Healthy Congregations Develop Generous People

April 2nd 9-3 pm Our Redeemer, Scotia

Stewardship in this workshop is expanded as

recognition of the Creator’s interdependent design of life. The workshop focuses on developing gratitude and generosity through the ability of the community to make decisions. Registration details coming soon.

If interested contact, Pr Allie or the First Lutheran Church Office.

Special Music for March

If you have wanted to sing in FLC’s Chancel Choir, the opportunity to join us for Palm Sunday and Easter is still open; however, we do ask that you start rehearsing with us on Thursday, March 3rd, at 7:00 p.m., and continue with us through Easter Sunday. We have beautiful music planned right through the Lent and Easter season.

Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. and/or Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. in the library, other than Maundy Thursday, when there is a pre-service rehearsal at 6:30 p.m. with our service starting at 7:00 p.m.

FLC’s Youth Choir will be part of our Palm Sunday and Easter services. Be sure you let them know how much you enjoy their voices!

Lois Coon Evergreen Commons 1070 Luther Road—Rm. 125B East Greenbush, NY 12061 Marcia Coon Evergreen Commons 1070 Luther Road—Rm. 245B East Greenbush, NY 12061 Jane Culver c/o Susan Harper 39 Clermont St Albany, NY 12203 Beverly Ann Kurtessis Hudson Park Nursing & Rehab. 325 Northern Blvd.—4th Floor Albany, NY 12204 James Leonard Brookdale Commons 626 Watervliet Shaker Road Latham, NY 12110 Jeff Lind 124 Hudson Ave. Apt. 2 Green Island, NY 12183 Mildred Logan 140 Washington Ave. Ext.—Apt. E74 Albany, NY 12203

Virginia (Ginny) MacVittie Teresian House 200 Washington Ave. Ext.—Rm. 205 Albany, NY 12203 Stanley Polonski 138 Pershing Avenue Wynantskill, NY 12198 Marc Salzer and Marilyn Salzer 49 Phillips Road Rensselaer, NY 12144 Dorothy Seim 5000 Queen Philomena Blvd.—Apt. 151 Schenectady, NY 12304 Bill and Laura Shufelt 177 Mansion Street Coxsackie, NY 12051 Elaine Smith Teresian House 200 Washington Ave. Ext—Rm. 538 Albany, NY 12203 Lois Van Buren Teresian House 200 Washington Ave. Ext.—Rm. 128 Albany, NY 12203 Jeanette and Stephanie Wiltse 186 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203

Members of our congregation who may not be able to be with us in church on Easter Sunday (March 27) would be

cheered by an Easter greeting from you…

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Dear Members of First Lutheran,

Thank you so much for your kindness shown to our family at Christmas time. Your gifts of Price Chopper gift cards were greatly appreciated. Thank you for your generosity.

The Salzer Family

News from Vicar Blatt ... I have been assigned to region 7 of

the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which includes New England, Upstate NY, Metro NY, New Jersey, Northeast, and Southeast Pennsylvania. In about a month I will be given my synodical assignment AND from there I'll be seeing the paperwork for individual churches. I am feeling incredibly thankful but to be honest, I'm mostly relieved! Soli Deo gloria!!!

Festival of Easter Breads

The tradition continues this year following worship on Easter Sunday. Join the crowd in Wittenberg Hall for all kinds of Easter breads, sweets coffee, tea & juices. Visit with your FLC friends and family!

Want to help? There is a sign-up sheet across from Pastor’s office. Let us know what you will bring to this annual event. If you have questions, please contact Lisa Rittberger or call the church office. No goodies ever refused :)

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Graciously hosted by: The First Lutheran Church Council

Sunday, March 20th 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

Please sign up on the bulletin board across from

Pastor’s office

Maundy Thursday

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Friday, March 25 Good Friday

Tenabrae Service of deepening darkness

Worship—7:00 p.m.

Moments of Music has been planned for those with a love of music and a love for Scripture as a special opportunity during Holy Week. This time of quiet meditation will bring music and the message of Lent to life for us! Starting with a setting of “The King of Love My Shepherd Is,” this musical journey leads us through a setting of Psalm 23 by Howells, an arrangement of “It Is Well With My Soul,” chorales of Bach and Brahms, and concluding with Lutheran composer, David Cherwien’s “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty.” Won’t you join us for this beautiful noon-time ‘moment of music?’

March 6 In loving memory of her husband Albert, Willard and Caroline Lipes Hoyt and Dr. Harry and Lulu Sagendorf Lipes by Marcia Hoyt; and in loving memory of Frederick D. Norton and Samuel Maytan by the Norton family

March 13 To the Glory of God and in honor of their 66th wedding anniversary by Mr. and Mrs. Christian Fedden;

and in loving memory of Bob’s father, Adolph J. Harden, and in honor of his mother, Anna Reinhart Harden, by Robert C. and Carolyn (Stowell) Harden and family

March 20 In loving memory of loved ones by Faith Beebe; and in loving memory of Carol Haberman by the Hackney

Family March 24 In loving memory of her father, the Reverend Luther S. Straley by Laura and Bill Shufelt; and in loving

memory of her sister Diane and Diane's grandson Logan given by Linda Clemmer and family. March 27 EASTER

Any new requests, questions or changes call Liz Peters, 869-0387 or email mommy5853@aol.com Altar vase - $25.00 Sanctuary vase - $27.50

Moments of Music for a HOLY WEEK…

with readings from Psalm 23

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

12:00 noon

First Lutheran Church

181 Western Avenue, Albany, NY

Organ: Roberta Rowland-Raybold, c.a.g.o.

Reader: Pastor Allie Leitzel

Thursday, March 24 Maundy Thursday

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