The Trumpeter

In This Issue Advent-pg. 3 All Saints Sunday-pg. 2 ALYO Events-pg. 4 Birthdays, Baptism Birth-

days, Anniversaries-pg. 4 Calendar-pg. 7 Christ the King-pg. 1 Confirmands of 2016-pg. 6 Food Drive-pg. 3 From the Pastor-pg. 1 Gift of Life-pg. 2 Important Notice-pg. 2 Martin Luther Party-pg. 4 Mission Plan Request-pg.4 Mission Team Highlights-/

Eucharistic Ministry-pg. 3 New Members-pg. 3 Opportunity to Serve-pg. 3 Our Confirmands-pg. 6 Poinsettias-pg. 6 Remember in Prayer-pg. 2 Social Concerns-pg. 1 Stewardship Corner-pg. 5 Thanksgiving Eve-pg. 4 Tour of Churches-pg. 1 Worship Assistants and

Other Servers-pg. 5

From the Pastor November’s calendars are full—church and personal. Major things are taking place in the religious world as well as the secular world. Confirmation “retreat” classes will begin No-vember 2. Augustana will be hosting the Worship Planning and Leadership class I am teaching for the Western Iowa

Synod Discipleship Academy on November 5. Augustana will also be hosting the second part of a tour of churches that begins at Riverside Lutheran/Hope Community Church on November 6. We do our civic duty on November 8 by voting (unless you’ve already voted early). No-vember 13 is the annual birthday party for Martin Luther and fundraiser at Buffalo Alice. We will pack “backpacks” at the Food Bank of Siouxland on November 16 as we engage in mission work for our com-munity. We gather with friends from First, Immanuel, St. John, and St. Luke Lutheran churches and St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Novem-ber 23 for our annual Thanksgiving Eve worship.

Our new church year also begins in November. The First Sunday in Advent is November 27. Once again we are invited to worship with the members of St. Luke Lutheran Church at their midweek Advent ser-vices. They will take place on the Wednesdays during Advent and begin each week at 7:00. We will again be utilizing the Holden Evening Prayer liturgy.

As the busyness increases, continue to make time to breathe, pray, and relax!

Augustana Lutheran Church, Sioux City, Iowa November 2016—Volume 24, Issue 11

The Social Concerns Event for November... is the ingathering of needed clothing for Irving School. They have quite a supply of gloves and caps, so this year they have requested sweat pants (especially small sizes 6-8 for boys and girls). Underwear, especially small sizes, is also appreciated. Thanks for your generosity.

Don’t Forget... to fall back one hour on November 6, 2016 as we gain an hour!!!

Christ the King Sunday Who Is Jesus? Jesus’ true identity seems to remain a mystery for most of the disciples. Jesus can teach, preach, heal, cast out de-mons, challenge authority and more, but still they do not comprehend. You might say it is a case of mistaken identity as the disciples and other followers seem to be hoping to dis-cover something very different from the real Jesus. It is the criminal executed with Jesus who in his dying desperation says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Clearly, the criminal has no other hope, still in this moment he acknowledges Jesus’ true identity.

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Remember in prayer. . . Robert Barger (Kris Whitsel’s grandfather), Connie and Phillip (son) Bean (friends of Jean Huff), Emrich Bell (Seatons’ grandson), Todd Boland (Linda Nygard’s nephew), Oriah Boling-Ellens (Schossows’ niece), Ron Brinck (Macfarlanes’ friend ), Jean Clem (Jean Huff’s friend), Clara C. Davis (Ja’Net’s mother), Mari Ellsworth and family (Amy Swenson’s friend), Darrell Elvik (Ollie Ny-gard’s cousin), Charlene Epis (Elaine Kreutzian’s sister), Jeff Emerson, Dave Farley (Nygards’ cousin), Ken File (Sheila Schossow’s father), Barb (Becklund) Filer (former member), Pastor Lorene Glant, Doug Gough, Kris Grunig (Strohbeens’ friend), Jon Hanson (Judy Swanson’s friend), John Hart, Paula Hebron, Ron Houske (Jack Ward’s friend), Judy Howard (Wards’ friend), Keith Howard (Libertos’ friend), the family of Katy Krznarich (Shelley Hex-om;s great aunt), Betty Larson (Jean Huff’s friend), Ken Lawson (former member), Donnie Leedom (Sue Levay’s friend), Ron Leninger (Strohbeen’s friend), Don Madsen (Dave’s father), Kenneth McAlexander (former member Jon’s grandfather), Sara McAlexander (former member), Peter Macfarlane (Steve’s father), Trevor & Nicholle Mam-men and family (Deb Fegenbush’s family), Eleanor Moline, Marion Moline, Judy Moore (Mary Hettinger’s friend), Roy Muecke (Jean Huff’s friend), Dick Null (Linda Nygard’s brother-in-law), Denise Nurse (Robinsons’ cousin), Ouida Olson, Deloris Peterson (Julie McGlothlen’s and Dave Nel-son’s mother), Wendy Pohl (Paige Gray’s sister), Rosalie Richardson, Stella Rixner, Sam Sales, Adrian Schubauer (Ja’Net’s grandson), Alice Sea, Cynthia Seymour (Judy Swanson’s friend), Adam Smith (Gloria Smith’s grandson), Kristie Smith (Gloria Smith’s daughter), Clayton Swenson (Carla Glass’ grandfather), Chad Wolf (Dick Lindblom’s friend), Leslie Walker (Schossows’ friend), the family of Jack & Jane Ward, Cindy Washinowski, Gary Winters (Nancy Van Meter’s brother), Carol Yaneff (Strohbeen’s friend), Tami Zerr (Lori Padmore’s sister), and those affect-ed by disasters throughout the world.

Each week we pray for some of the families in the congre-gation. Following is the list of those for whom we pray in November.

November 6—Janet Maxwell; Terry & Debbie, Trisha, Sean and Devin McAllister; William & Tanya McFall; Marty & Julie, Nic and Nicole McGlothlen; Harriette McGuire.

November 13—John & Kelly Meis; Jean and Josh Midland; David Midland; Joe & Joan Mitchell; William & Mollie Mize.

November 20—Janice Mohan; David Mohan; Eleanor Mo-line; Marion Moline; Mike & Martha and Andrew Moreland.

November 27—Louise Moreland; Dave & Julie and Tori Nelson; Allison Ness; Ollie & Linda Nygard; Steven & Bren-da Oehlerking.

December 4—Pastor Del & Jane Olivier; Eric & Jana Olivi-er; Ouida Olson; Bob & Lori and Jack Padmore; Jan Page; Nicole Page.

Important Notice If you or a loved one is hospitalized and you want Pastor Del to come visit, please call the office or Pastor Del’s cell (712-490-6510). Neither hospital is calling the church with names of those admitted, sometimes even when you ask them to! Ja’Net calls both hos-pitals on Mondays and Thursdays, but the best way to let us know is if you or your family calls.

Gift of Life Please consider a donation of blood during the month of December. During the holiday season the LIFE-SERVE BLOOD CENTER will see a decrease in blood donations. Please call the Blood Bank (712-258-0100) to make an appointment to give the Gift of Life. Your donation may save a life. Thanks for your generosity.

All Saints Sunday The custom of commemorating on a sin-

gle day all the saints of the church, especially the many unknown martyrs, originated in the fourth century. In current Christian use, the day is dedicated to thanksgiving for all who died in the Lord.

For several years, we at Augustana have recognized those who, since the last All Saints Sunday, became saints through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, those who af-firmed with sainthood through the Rite of Af-firmation of Baptism: Confirmation, and those who began their eternal sainthood in the Church Triumphant through death.

Augustana’s saints we lift up on Novem-ber 6 are:

Those who entered sainthood through the waters of Holy Baptism: Aiden Robert Garbe, Sofie Louise Rixner, and Stella Cath-erine Rixner.

Those who affirmed their sainthood through the Rite of Affirmation of Baptism: Alexys RubyAnne Baier, Noah Lee Dickman, Trevor James Welp, Abigail Elaine Whitsel, and Jackson Donavon Wynn.

She whose baptism is now complete whom God welcomed into the Church Trium-phant and eternal sainthood: Pauline Jean-ette (Benson) Beales.

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Augustana members assist in prepar-ing food and serving meals at the Soup Kitchen 8 times per year - in September, December, April and June. This involves 2 hours in the afternoon (2-4 pm), for preparation and 2-3 hours (4:45-6:30 to serve and clean-up. If this is a service you would like to be involved with please call Linda Nygard, 258-5220 for details. Youth volunteers must be at least 13-14 years of age, no more than 3-4 youth on any given shift, and must always be supervised by an adult and are ex-pected to work until cleanup is completed, (dishes are done, tables are cleaned and washed and floor is swept.

Eucharistic Ministry Twice a month, members take communion to our shut-ins, a service truly appreciat-ed by those we serve. Is this a ministry you would be will-ing to provide? If you have questions or would like to serve, please call Linda Ny-gard at 258 -5220.

Welcome New Members We welcome these new members who have be-come part of Augustana Lutheran Church’s family, and they are:

David & Linda Lindgren. David likes to camp, fish, and being with family. Linda enjoys those same things as well as spending time with her three children and five grandchildren. She also en-joys sewing, quilting, and bike rides.

Jason Lind-gren enjoys boat-ing, camping, fishing, and spending time with his kids.

Blake Lindgren enjoys playing video games, camping, and boating. Michael Moos loves working with old cars, going bowling, spending time with grandkids, working around the house, and going to the grand-kids’ ballgames on the weekend.

Food Drive Canned goods and non-perishable food brought to the Thanksgiving Eve service on

November 23rd. These will be donated to the food pantries at St. Thomas Episcopal and First Lutheran churches.

Tour of Churches We begin at Riverside Lutheran/New Hope Com-

munity Church, 1817 Riverside Blvd at 4:00 PM. Then we go to Augustana. Swedish rye bread hors d'oeuvres will be served and bread order forms will be available. Following the time at Augustana you are invited to make meal plans with new friends. This event is open to the public. Invite friends to share in this special after-noon of “getting acquainted”.

(L-R: Ben, Blake, Ellie, Jason)

Advent The holiday season can stir deep emo-tions within each of us. Many children greet the advent of Christmas with joy and excitement, whereas those who have lost loved ones during the past year may find great sadness in the very same event.

Thankfully, our God meets us wherever we are, both physically and emotionally. This Advent series gives voice to the complex situations and emotions with which we greet the coming Messiah and uses the re-actions of those who first received the news of Jesus’ birth (Zechariah, Joseph, Mary, and the shepherds) to do so. These services acknowledge responses of fear, confusion, doubt, and curiosity, while the coming of Jesus promises comfort and joy for all of us.

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Birthdays

1 Alex Baker Maria Terrones 5 Craig Dickman Carolyn Johnson 7 Ingrid Larson 8 Curt Sales 9 Nic McGlothlen Mickie Saltzgiver 10 Pete Iversen 13 Tim Laros 16 Joan Mitchell 19 Jane Olivier 20 Brian Mickelson Mollie Mize Luke Stowater 22 Josh Harry Ollie Nygard 24 Doug Sea 27 Kaitlin Nguyen 28 Lane Koons 29 Dawn Painter

November Celebrations

Wedding Anniversaries 2 Tom & Kella Manning 8 Joe & Carla Glass 12 Matt & Lindsey Rixner 16 Clyde & Beverly Robinson 21 Pastor Del & Jane Olivier

Baptism Birthdays 1 Evelyn Christopherson Tom Manning Maria Terrones Yovana Terrones 3 Ian Gray William McFall 5 Jordan Amick Josie Amick Mykenzie Amick James Hall 7 Gwen Hart 8 Charlie Stewart 9 Fran Jackson 10 Christi Bullock Christine Madsen 11 Marlene Levine Harriette McGuire Mickie Saltzgiver Jack Ward 17 Sydney Jennings Nicole Page 19 Max Jennings 20 Hunter Liberto 21 Ben Schwaderer 22 Arynn Baker 25 Breckan Anderson Holly Lines 26 Alyson Heck 27 Daphne Coles 28 Joe Mitchell 29 Mike Moreland 30 Kaylyn Winter

If you see a missing name or incorrect date, please advise the office.

Martin Luther Birthday Party Join us at Buffalo

Alice on Sunday, No-vember 13 between 4:30 and 7:00 pm for a fundraiser for Camp High Hopes. Bring friends and neighbors and have a great time! Also bring canned goods for the food pantries of St. Thomas Episcopal and First Lutheran churches.

ALYO Events November: Augustana Luther-

an Youth Organization and adults from the church will be filling “backpacks” at the Food Bank of Siouxland on Wednesday, Novem-ber 16 beginning at 6:00 PM. A sig-nup sheet will be passed in church on the 13th. You may also call or email the church to volunteer.

Kids will be baking and decorat-ing cookies on November 26 begin-ning at 9:00 AM.

December: Kids will be mak-ing dough and baking Swedish rye bread on Saturday, December 10 beginning at 9:00 AM. Kids will also be packing cookies that morning.

Baking Swedish rye bread will continue into the afternoon of Saturday, De-cember 10 and we will be selling the bread between

1:00 PM and 4:00 PM that afternoon and after services on Sunday. Thanksgiving Eve Worship

Our annual Thanksgiving Eve service will be at 7:00 on Wednesday, November 23. Members from First, Immanuel, St. John, and St. Luke Lutheran and St. Thomas Episcopal churches have been invited to join us. The handbell choir from St. John will be playing a volun-tary during the Offering. Mem-bers from our guest churches will be joining the Celebration Choir for a couple of anthems.

Mission Plan Requests Mission Team leaders should begin the process of determining what amount they would like to see in their line items for next year’s mission plan (budget).

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Ushers for November Darold Sea, Captain; Chris Liberto; Tom Peterson; Martin Sea. Altar Guild TBD

Funeral Helpers The following are asked to bake a cake or help in the kitchen for funerals during the month. The Funeral Coordinator will contact you if needed. Jean Midland; Janice Mohan; Linda Ny-gard; Dawn Painter; Lila Plambeck; Bever-ly Robinson; Beth Schwaderer.

Worship assistants, you are responsible for serving on the day they are scheduled. If you are unable to

serve on a date scheduled, please arrange for a substitute and notify the office so the correct names may be entered in the bulletin.

Sunday, November 6 2016 Acolyte—Lexy Baier, Noah Dickman, Abby Whitsel, Trevor Welp and Jackson Wynn Greeters—Skip & Sheila Schossow Assisting Minister—Dick Lindblom Communion Assistants—Dominic Trobaugh and Judy Swanson (bread) Technical Assistant—Marlene Levine

Sunday, November 13, 2016 Acolytes—Lexy Baier and Isaac Plambeck Greeters—Bob & Marge Swanson Assisting Minister—Marlene Levine Communion Assistants—Josh Midland and Debbie McAllister (bread) Eucharistic Ministers—Judy Swanson and Nancy Van Meter Technical Assistant—Emily Hall

Sunday November 20, 2016 Christ the King Acolytes—Noah Dickman, Dominic Trobaugh, and Sydnee Wynn Greeters—Dan Graben and Judy Swanson Assisting Minister—Matt Rixner Communion Assistants—Cyd Fleckenstein and Marian Erickson (bread) Technical Assistant—Josh Midland

Wednesday, November 23, Thanksgiving Eve 7:00 pm Acolytes—Mia Hall and Trevor Welp

Sunday, November 27, 2016 Acolytes—Abby Whitsel and Madalyn Wynn Greeters—Ollie & Linda Nygard Assisting Minister—Donna Walsh Communion Assistants—Darrel Bullock & Christi Bullock (bread) Technical Assistant—Matt Rixner

Sunday, December 4, 2016 Acolytes—Isaac Plambeck and Jackson Wynn Greeters—Pat Bergstrom and Dick & Alice Sea Assisting Minister—Dave Madsen Communion Assistants— Ginny Ericson and Jane Olivier (bread) Eucharistic Ministers—Deb Fegenbush and Marian Erickson Technical Assistant—Marlene Levine

Stewardship Corner It is a common phenomenon that at-tendance decreases during the summer months, and it certainly did this summer at Augustana! Usually, financial giving corre-lates with attendance; therefore, fewer people equals lower offerings. That was also true this summer at Augustana. That is not Christian stewardship! We still have ministry to do and bills to pay. We don’t pay dues to belong to the Church, but we do have the opportunity to give thanks to God for all God’s blessings as we give back to God a portion of what God has first given us. Going to miss a Sunday? Bring two week’s of offerings the week before. We also have service from the United States Postal Service, so you could mail your of-fering to us. Having your offerings sent to the church through an electronic funds trans-fer (EFT) is probably the easiest and most convenient way to ensure that your offer-ing gets to the church on the schedule you choose. One option is called Simply Giv-ing. Check out this link to get more details or call Ruth for more information. https://www.simplygivingbytfb.com/ Your personal banker should be able to help you set up and EFT if you would like to do it that way. Again, you control the frequency of giving as well as the amount. Thank you.

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Our 2016 Confirmands

Alexys RubyAnne Baier Born: September 9. 2002 Baptized: March 2, 2003

Parents: Drew & Kim Baier Baptismal Sponsors: Randy & Mary Murkins

Confirmation Mentor: Jane Olivier

Noah Lee Dickman Born: January 16, 2002 Baptized: April 28, 2002

Parents: Craig & Kari Dickman Baptismal Sponsors: Steve & Cindy Welp and Steve & Elizabeth Eason

Confirmation Mentor: JoAnne Dickman

Trevor James Welp Born: September 7, 2001 Baptized: January 1, 2002

Parents: Cindy and the late Steve Welp Baptismal Sponsors: Craig & Kari Dickman

Confirmation Mentor: Mary Madsen

Abigail Elaine Whitsel Born: October 11, 2002 Baptized: May 18, 2003

Parents: Rollie & Kris Whitsel Baptismal Sponsors: Sandra Molstad and Randy Cormay

Confirmation Mentor: Diana Wooley

Jackson Donavon Wynn Born: February 26, 2002 Baptized: March 3, 2002

Parents: Donavon & Kirsten Wynn Baptismal Sponsors: Dawn Wynn-Skeries and Benton Quade

Confirmation Mentor: Marlene Levine

Poinsettias for Christmas You have the opportunity to purchase a poinsettia plant for our Christmas services. The

price this year is again $9. Please fill out and return this form if you would like to place an order.

Thank you.

Orders must be placed by December 16, 2016. (Use extra paper if necessary)

Name:________________________________________________

I would like to give _________ plant(s) at $9 each. I have enclosed $ ________

My plant(s) is/are given to the Glory of God.___

My plant(s) is/are given in memory

of_________________________________________________________

My plant(s) is/are given in honor

of___________________________________________________________

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 5-9pm JfK

2 10am Rhoda Circle 6-8pm Confir-mation Class

3 5-9pm JfK

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5 9am-2pm Dis-cipleship Academy

10am-noon Volleyball in Gym

6 All Saints Sun-day Quarter Sunday

4pm-Tour of Churches at RLC

6pm-9pm JfK

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9:15am Music Staff Mtg. 5pm-9pm

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7am-9pm Vot-ing

10am Text Study

10:30am Piece Corps 6:45 pm

Council Mtg.

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5pm-9pm JfK

7 pm Lydia Circle

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5pm-8pm Soccer

12 10am AWE Rehearsal

10am-noon Volleyball in Gym

10am-2pm Con-firmation Class

13 26th Sunday after Pentecost

2pm Magic Club 4:30-7PM Fundraiser at Buffalo Alice

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9:15am Music Staff Mtg. Noon Evange-lism Team Meeting

5pm-9pm JfK

15 5pm-9pm JfK

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9:45am Bick-ford Cottage 6pm Back packs at Food-bank

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11am-1pm Siouxland Mental Health 5pm-9pm JfK

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5pm-8pm Soccer

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10am-noon Volleyball in Gym

10am-2pm Confirmation Class

20 Christ the King Sunday

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9:15am Music Staff Mtg.

10am-2pm Friendship House

5pm-9pm JfK

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10:30 am Piece Corps 5pm-9pm JfK

23 7:00 pm Thanksgiving Worship

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Office closed Thanksgiving holiday!

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10am-noon Volleyball in Gym

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1st Sunday in Advent

28 9:15am Music Staff Mtg. 5pm-9pm JfK

29 5pm-9pm JfK

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6pm-8pm Confirmation Class

Sunday mornings: 8:00—Holy Communion, 9:00—Adult Education, Music with Mrs. Wooley,

9:15—Celebration Choir Rehearsal, Sunday School, 10:15—Holy Communion.

November 2016

Augustana Lutheran Church

600 Court St.

Sioux City, IA 51101

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Office hours Mon-Fri 8:00 am-1:00 pm The Rev. Del Olivier—Pastor

Phone: 712-255-7694 Diana Wooley—Director of Music

Email: augustana1875@augustanasc.org Bob Barry and Shannon Peterson—Organists

Web site: www.augustanasc.org Bob Barry, Heidi Graben, Angela Iversen, Shannon Peterson, and

Donny Short—Pianists

Facebook: Augustana Lutheran, Sioux City Mark Kochen—Sexton

November 2016 Ja’Net Sides—Office Administrator

Sunday Schedule:

8:00 Holy Communion Worship

9:00 Adult Education, Music with

Mrs. Wooley

9:15 Celebration Choir Rehearsal,

Sunday School

10:15 Holy Communion Worship

—unstaffed nursery available

—handicap accessible

—free taxi to worship—277-0000

Mission Statements:

Church: A welcoming, caring congre-

gation offering opportunities for wor-

ship, spiritual growth, and fellowship.

We express our faith and love to oth-

ers in the name of Jesus Christ.

Staff: We are called to work together

to enhance the community of Au-

gustana Lutheran Church as we

share our ministry of witnessing to the

living God in Jesus Christ, facilitating

the gifts and talents of people.

Congregation Council:

Caleb Christopherson (2018); Ad-

am Frisch (2016); Shelley Hexom,

President (2016); Jean Huff (2018);

Jeff Levine. Vice President (2017);

Marlene Levine, Secretary; Dick

Lindblom (2017); David Midland

(2018); The Rev. Del Olivier, Pastor;

Lila Plambeck (2017); Martin Sea,

(2016); Bob Swanson, Treasurer.