the sentinel june 2020 - centrallutheran.org

THE SENTINEL Central Lutheran Church | 1000 Easton Rd.| Dallas, TX 75218 | www.centrallutheran.org

214.327.2222 | [email protected]

God calls us to proclaim the Gospel and demonstrate Christ’s love for all.

June 2020

Pastor Truhan is currently recovering from surgery; her

monthly message will resume in the July 2020 issue of

The Sentinel.

Calling all artists!

We need a LOGO!

As we prepare for our 100-year anniversary, we need a new logo! ALL are invited to make a little doodle or two and put together an idea for our “Century at Central” anniversary logo! Our reunion committee will collect logo suggestions through the end of May and narrow it down to 2 or 3 for the congregation to vote on in June. If you have a general vision or idea but doubt your drawing skills, contact Colby Jones and he will help your vision become a reality!

Tips: This should be a simple design, black & white

Not too many small details: think something that is legible on a car bumper sticker or shrunken down to paper letterhead size; possible logo on a t-shirt

It should include somewhere Central Lutheran Church and Dallas, Tx

Samples/ideas can be mailed in to the church office: 1000 Easton Rd, 75218, or you can email them to Alesia Pearson ([email protected]) or Colby Jones ([email protected]). Good luck! We look forward to seeing your ideas!

mailto:[email protected]


Church Council

President - Phillip Cannatti

214/342-9097 [email protected]

Vice President—Mary Glenn


Secretary— Amy Kjorlien-Lewis


Treasurers— Janis Farrow and Amy Brown



Activities — Susan & Tim Wrobbel


Administration — Nancy & Larry Anglin


Education — Ashley Goins


Evangelism — Alesia Pearson


Mission & Outreach —

Stewardship — Paul Chambers


Worship & Service — Jenny Pickett


Youth — TJ Goins


Erin Evans 06/04 Gladys Gopinath 06/05

Phillip Cannatti 06/06 Timothy Farnsworth 06/06

Elaine Hetzer 06/06 Jenna Soose 06/06

Adeline Monaghan 06/07 Virginia Potcinske 06/07

Aven Stewart 06/07 Ken Hast 06/08

William Goldsbery 06/11 Ben Hyde 06/14

Sarah Blaser 06/15 Amy Penland 06/17

Janis Farrow 06/19 Nancy Nulisch 06/20

Ted Steinke 06/20 Traci Goldsberry 06/23

Kristy Hamlin 06/24 Jennifer Green 06/27

Bert Hart 06/28 Julie Fisk 06/30

Thomas & Elaine Hetzer 06/07 61 years

Cheryl & Andrew Lott 06/08 01 year

Bill & Carol Paschetag 06/14 62 years

Harold & Cathy Jones 06/19 49 years

Thaddeus & Gretchen Thigpen 06/20 19 Years

Central Lutheran Church

1000 Easton Road, Dallas, TX 75218

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Communion Every Sunday

Rev. Kristina Truhan, Pastor

Music Director: Harold Knight

Youth Director: Jennifer Nixon

Office Administrator: David LeVasseur

Mission Trip Update

Due to Covid-19 restrictions and obstacles regarding travel and housing, YouthWorks has canceled all traditional mission trips for this summer. We are looking into options for local mission and service opportunities, however, options are extremely limited at this time. We will continue to watch for signups and opportunities to help those within our community and let you know as opportunities arise.

Blessing Bags Available

Forty-eight blessing bags were assembled in April and are available outside of the youth room in the Education Building. If you go to the church, you can pick up one or a few to give to those in need. If you would like one or two delivered to your home, please let Jennifer Nixon know at [email protected].

ELCA National Youth Gathering News

At this time, plans continue to be in the works for the ELCA National Youth Gathering in Minneapolis, Minnesota for June 29-July 3, 2021.

Every three years, high school youth and adult leaders gather for a week of faith formation through worship, Bible study, service, and fellowship. The theme for the next Gathering is “boundless, God beyond measure,” based on Ephesians 3:19 – “I want you to know all about Christ’s love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.”

The Youth Gathering is open to all 8th-12th graders in the 2020-21 school year. More details will be available soon and we will have meetings as restrictions allow, but in the meantime talk amongst your families and friends to discuss the possibility of attending the Gathering.


Seniors 2020

We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what your futures hold!

We are celebrating our high school graduates:

Alden Barse, the daughter of Lisa and Clay Barse, is graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School. She will attend Louisiana State University (LSU) in the fall. Alden would like to study nursing.

Reed Buie is graduating from JJ Pearce High School. He will attend Texas Tech in the fall and plans to study Graphic Design. Reed is the son of Scott and Jolie Buie.

Peder Johnson, son of Mark and Tanya Johnson will be attending the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in the fall. Peder plans to study electrical engineering. He is graduating from Jesuit Dallas.

Ethan Krampitz is a graduate of Parish Episcopal School. He is the son of Dan and Marlyn Krampitz. He will attend San Diego State University in the fall, studying business and majoring in marketing.

Garrett Nagorzanski is graduating from Jesuit Dallas. He will attend Notre Dame in the fall, majoring in architecture. Garrett is the son of Maren and Alan Nagorzanski.

Jenna Nagorzanski, daughter of Alan and Maren Nagorzanski, will attend Baylor University in the fall majoring in Nutritional Sciences. She is graduating from Ursuline Academy.

And our College Graduates:

Isabelle Barse, daughter of Lisa and Clay Barse, is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. Isabelle earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies. When she is able to, Isabelle is planning to move to Portland, Oregon and work for a non-profit agency.

Lillian Townsley, is a graduate of Texas Tech University. She

earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and ADRS

(Addictive Disorders and Recovery Studies). She is currently

taking a course to be certified to be a Special Education/

Behavioral Students Teacher in the fall, hopefully at a DISD

high school. She is the daughter of Chrissy and Gary

Townsley.

Nicole Krampitz graduated Summa Cum Laude from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami, Florida. She plans to attend graduate school in marine science at University of Virgin Islands. Nicole is the daughter of Marlyn and Dan Krampitz.

Joseph Nixon, son of Jennifer and Greg Nixon, is a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Marketing. Joseph will be starting a management and sales training program with Sherwin Williams in the next few weeks.

Many have already joined us on Facebook for live Sunday morning worship. We invite and encourage you to join in worship together! We will include a link to a bulletin so you can follow the service. We also have extra LBW hymnals at the church that we can bring to you so you can better follow along and have the hymns. Please contact Pastor Truhan or the church office if you’d like a book!

One added bonus with the Facebook live worship – you will be able to see who else is worshiping with you! It really adds to the sense of congregation and community! Share the information with friends and neighbors and share the post announcing the service on facebook to help us share with others. If you miss the live service, the service remains on our facebook page as a video. Just click on the picture and you’ll see the lines/arrows at the bottom of the picture to play the video (click on the arrow).

CentalLutheran.org

Did you know we have a website? You can find current and upcoming information on our website. Right now, Pastor’s Voice, in the top bar of the page is where you can click and see the bulletin/program to follow for the live services. (There will also be a link on the Facebook page to be able to go there straight from Facebook. It will open in another tab and you will be able to go back & forth if you’d like. Once you start the live or recorded service, you’ll be able to hear everything happening even if you clicked over to the church site for the bulletin) Boxes at the bottom of the front page have information for upcoming events/activities and the “News” button on the right end of that top bar has the most current updates for various information for you, too. Some of it could use a little updating but the current events/activities are there!

Are you new to Facebook?

For those of you who may not have used facebook before, here are a few pointers:

Go to www.facebook.com. When it opens on the site, it will have the form right there to create a new account. Just follow the instructions – you’ll need to enter either your email or cell phone number and create a password. It asks for your birthday, they do want to make sure you’re over 18, and if you want, you’ll have the opportunity to indicate if you want to hide the year from others… 49 again?? When you have set up your account, you can search for other people you know and you can search for the church’s page. There are other “Central Lutherans” out there so search for “Central Lutheran Dallas”. You’ll get a page with options that match your search. Just click on our name/picture and it will take you there.

When you are on our church page, there’s a list of words in the left column like: about, reviews, photos, etc. Go down that column and click on “posts”. That takes you to our page and the most recent pictures and information we’ve been sharing. That is where you will be able to watch when we have the facebook live videos for worship times.

At the top of our page, under the picture that shows our Sunday School and Worship times, is a rectangle that says “Like”. If you click on that to “like” our page, when we post new things they will show up on your main page, too, and you won’t have to go looking for information.

http://www.facebook.com/

Operation Salvage, our church-wide garage sale, will be rescheduled for a later date. Usually held the first weekend of June, we will plan to have it later in the summer or early fall when it will be a little more safe for those setting up, working & shopping. Items are still being collected in the shed by the parking lot or larger items/furniture (or things that can’t take the heat!) in the last classroom to the right before entering the parish hall.

YARD SIGNS ARE COMING SOON!

As we strive to stay connected and continue our worship together on-line, we want to let the community know that, too! The church is still open and Central Lutheran is going strong! Signs will be available soon! Contact Alesia Pearson if you’d like one (or two?). We’d love for every family to have one in your yard to share our presence with the community. We’ve had such great response to our online services, we plan to continue them when we resume meeting together in person! The

signs are free!

Care Team being formed!

It is important now more than ever to stay in touch! We know many of our members are not able to participate with our online services. Many don’t have e-mail to receive regular updates! Council members and many individuals have already been busy making phone calls and keeping in touch but we want to ensure that continues, and grows, as we start meeting in-person again. Please contact Alesia Pearson ([email protected] or 214-215-7670) if you’d like to be a member of the Care Team to help make phone calls, send notes, maybe take occasional meals to our members, visitors, and friends.


FOOD DRIVE

FOR

WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE

Help us to help those in need in our community!

Now through June 15, put a box on your porch and invite neighbors & friends to donate canned & non-perishable items for us to donate.

Donations will be collected every Monday for us to deliver to WRCOH.

Requested items: peanut butter & jelly, canned meats (chicken, chili, Chef Boyardee); canned veggies & fruit

(they requested a lot of peanut butter!)

Contact Alesia Pearson if you plan to put out a box for your neighborhood so we can schedule a pick-up! ([email protected] or 214-215-7670)

Contact Alesia Pearson if you’d like to be one of our drivers to collect food items to take over to WRCOH!


With the help from some scouts, our garden is growing!

We’re pleased to benefit from a couple of Eagle Scout projects for our garden and community! Max Neace, from our own Troop 861, recently completed his project to put in additional raised beds and clean up the garden area a bit. These beds are a little lower and ready and waiting to be planted! As with other community gardens, these will be available to essentially lease to reserve a bed and cover watering costs. Please contact Ted Steinke if you are interested in planting one of these beds! We’ve got first shot at them and will open them up to the community. Any not claimed will be used by the IRC (International Refugee Committee) for additional use by refugee families.

Future plans include a flower bed to fill the inner part of the current half-circle both for the beauty of it and to attract pollinators for the garden.

We have additional possible projects for the garden in the works in various stages of the approval process for Eagle projects. We’ll let you know as those come through.

Mario’s Quote of the Month:

We weird people have to stick together! Remember that.

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