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Trinity Lutheran Church

An Update from the Transition Team/Call Committee

The call team is excited to have received names of candidates for Trinity’s call for a

pastor.

We have established interviews for three candidates. The first set of interviews will

be via Skype to help define what the candidates stated in their Rostered Leader Profile.

Following these interviews we will set up mutual face to face interviews to present the

many questions that have been developed from all your input as a congregation over the

past year. These questions are about their ministry and the mission and ministry of this

congregation. After that process a decision may be made by the call team to recommend

one candidate to the Church Council. The Church Council will then inform you of its

decision and call a special congrega-

tional meeting. There will be an oppor-

tunity to meet the recommended

candidate. You will be able to vote for

the chosen candidate and the financial

considerations. The chosen candidate

will hopefully accept the call if and

when the Council approves the recom-

mendation.

We are excited at meeting these

candidates and hope that something

wonderful will begin.

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Health Ministries

Worship in Pink Weekend at Trinity!! Our annual celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness will be the

weekend of October 8th and 9th. The Health Ministry Committee will host a luncheon on Saturday,

October 8th at 11:30. We will have special activities and the recogni-tion of breast cancer survivors. Our guest speaker is Dr. Jennifer Gar-reau, a surgical oncologist specializing in breast and skin cancer with Legacy Medical Group-Surgical Oncology in Portland. The topic is “The Environment and Breast Cancer”.

This is a free event and open to all members of the congregation and community. Invite your daughters, mothers, sisters, sons, spouses, friends and neighbors. Reservations are necessary so we can be pre-pared. Sign up on the Health Ministries board, leave a care gram, or call the church office.

At our worship services on October 8th and 9th, we would again like to recognize all who are survivors of breast cancer. This is a won-derful opportunity to embrace those who have been through this, both women and men, and encourage the importance of early detection.

The “Tree of Life” will be posted on the sanctuary wall with leaves to add the names of people you wish to remember who have passed away from any form of cancer. Put this special weekend on your calendars, and stay tuned for more information. Save the Date: The annual Celebration of Health 2016 “Together in Healing” is scheduled for Sunday, November 6th from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Red Lion Hotel on the River in Portland. This is sponsored by our local Faith Community Nursing/Health Ministries Northwest organization. There is a Reception, Silent auction, and Heavy Refreshments/Lunch, and a program. The featured speaker is Donna Oiland, storyteller and motivational speaker and founder of Radiant Joy Ministries. The cost is $60.00 per person and is tax deductible. If you are interested in joining me at this event, please let me know. The invitation is posted on the Health Ministries board. Linde Eidenberg, RN Parish Nurse

New Wednesday Evening Gathering

Midweek Connections

Every Wednesday at 6 pm!

Join us for food, enrichment

opportunities and evening

prayer! This will be an event

for ALL ages!

Meal at 6 pm

Enrichment Activities

at 6:30 pm

Evening Prayer at 7:45 pm

Going home at 8 pm

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Church Campout Wrap-Up: Paradise Found..........or Heaven on Earth

Thirteen people from Trinity, five pets, and surrounded by nature! What could be better?!!

The annual church camp-out at Ft. Stevens State Park, near Astoria, gave us our choice of tents, yurts,

cabins, or RVs. We found fresh huckleberries right at our camp sites...bring on the pancakes! The sun-

shine, campfires, delicious potluck (but, alas, no jello salad!), long walks and bike rides, and warm conver-

sations truly was the Holy Spirit present in our lives. Be attentive to the 2017 announcement about our

next annual camp-out; it will be here before you know it.

October Is Breast Cancer Awareness

Month: What to Know

October marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness month, an annual campaign that aims to increase knowledge and awareness of the disease.

A closer look at the staggering stats about breast cancer reveal why this is an important cause to so many people.

According to the American Cancer Society, every 2 minutes a woman in the United States is diag-nosed with breast cancer -- that’s everything from “stage zero” cancer (which some doctors believe shouldn’t even be called cancer) to the deadliest form: invasive breast cancer.

The cancer organization also estimates that 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be di-agnosed in women in the United States this year. And an estimated 2,350 new cases will be diag-nosed in men.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of the World Health Organization, estimat-ed that in 2012, around 1.7 million new cases of breast cancer in women occurred worldwide.

These numbers have influenced the need for early detection and screenings. According to the Food and Drug Administration, more than 39 million mammograms are performed each year in the United States.

And those mammograms may have had an impact. The American Cancer Society reports that the breast cancer death rate is down 34% since 1990. As of Jan. 1, 2014, there were more than 3.1 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.

The World Cancer Research Fund International reports that there are more than 6 million breast cancer survivors worldwide, giving many survivors a reason to celebrate this month.

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Many people have wondered when Lutherans

started playing co-ed softball. History shows it began

some 500 years ago when Martin Luther and a team

of monks and former nuns took on some Catholic

Cardinals and nuns coached by Johann Tetzel in a

“friendly” game of co-ed softball. Unfortunately, the

game got out of hand a bit and there were arguments

ranging from what the “halo” rule was (hit ball up the

middle at the pitcher) to whether you were saved by

Grace or Indulgences. The game was never complet-

ed as both sides left the field angry. Martin was so

upset he sat down and wrote the 95 rules of co-ed

softball as well as 95 Thesis concerning his views on

indulgences and other items of theology. Unfortu-

nately the wind took Martin’s 95 rules of co-ed soft-

ball rules off of the door and left his 95 Thesis, so

Martin was never actually credited with the rules. Be-

cause of that game, Lutherans and Catholics have

never played co-ed softball again, or taken commun-

ion together.

Trinity softball doesn’t quite go back 500 years,

but it can be traced to starting sometime in the 80’s

(1980, not 1580s). Over the years a team has played

representing Trinity in Sunday afternoon co-ed slow

pitch softball. Many of those team photos were in the

display case this past summer. Some seasons have

been successful by their record and others by the

team’s ability for fellowship. The team over the past

few years has been leaning a bit on the “fellowship”

side. This year we finished a respectable 6-8.

As I have pointed out on several occasions the

one thing that this team has that very few other

groups at Trinity has is the diversity in ages of those

participating. Our most “senior” player is over 65.

Our youngest is 14. And we actually have families

that play together. Yes that is right, children actually

playing a game in public with their parents. Our fel-

lowship attitude with each other is a reason that over

the last few years we have won three times the Fel-

lowship Award by a vote from the other teams. I

think fellowship is not only how we act with our op-

ponents, but also just importantly how we act within

our own team. We enjoy playing and being around

each other and I think that shows. (OK, we didn’t

win it this year, but doesn’t mean we weren’t good at

our fellowship!)

This year we had 23 players who played for Trini-

ty (25 on our roster). Not all our members of Trinity,

but all wore the Trinity jersey. At times we were just

getting enough players, but we constantly put out a

“Trinity” team every week. As coach I can’t thank the

team enough for always supporting me. This year we

continued to try and get everyone to play more than

one position and most everyone did. We even had

three players who made the “10 position club” (all 10

defensive positions). I think it made the season more

interesting and fun and I hope everyone enjoyed it.

So here is your 2016 Trinity softball team: Jim Bechtel, Nolan Bechtel, Lilia Bechtel, Doug

Bernabo, Kristie Bernabo, Tony Bernabo, Zac

Bernabo, CW Bullock, Tandi Johnson, Leesa

Klepper, Larry Kramer, Mike Palmer, Melanie

Palmer, Kevin Palmer, Jim Peters, Dave Ruppert,

Kenneth Salvitelli, Samantha Salvitelli, Kim

Salvitelli, Cameron Salvitelli, Brooklyn Svela, Holly

Udd, Dorian Willmschen, Chris Willmschen, Cason

Xerxes

Score Keepers Extraordinaire:

Lisa Alibabaie, Eva Kramer, Kristie Bernabo

Also to our fans that came and rooted us on (you

know who you are… I hope you do…) a great big

THANK-YOU! We did have some exciting games

this year and maybe more of you can come out to

watch YOUR team next season. Plan on buying your

season tickets early for next year! Watch for sales

information next spring.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank

a few people. I want to thank my assistant-coach/stats

guy/sounding-board/e-mail guy Ken Salvitelli for

helping me out once again this year. And I once

again want to thank my wife Kristie for well, let’s

face it; anyone married to me deserves to be thanked

(and for being dragged out of “retirement” yet again

to play some games.)

See you all next year! Just listen for the sound of

“Play Ball!”

Coach Doug Bernabo

Trinity Softball Wrap Up 2016

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Treasurer’s Report August ‘16 YTD ‘16

Revenues $24,185.37 $224,574.68

Expenses $31,195.13 $221,660.16

Net gain/loss ($7,009.76) $2,914.52

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2 Jim Gearheart

3 Debby Kemp Fred Riedel

5 Brennen Shelley

6 Madison Davis

7 Jean Black

Debbie Peters Margaret Roughton

8 Dennis Dickson Jameson Fargo

Jacob Park 9

Kaitlyn Caldwell

10 Julie Busch Judy Buzan Gary Larsen Jamie Mayes Lisa Mullins Denice Spain

11 Matthew Shull

12 Pastor Jerry Furgurson

Debbie Griffith Kathy La Vine

Kristina Steinblums 13

Evalyn Bieberdorf 14

Joe Calcagno

15 Sally Johnson Mardy Stevens Randy Walczak

16 Sandra Deeke Carol Erickson Donna Taylor Dana Volkert Larry White

17 Karl Cardin David Miller

Fendall Winston 18

Catherine Berry Betty Nelson

19 Jackie Hamburg

Billee Leveton 21

Gloria Wilson 22

Tamara Palmer 23

Tahni Fagerberg Julianne Heater

24 Pastor Berry Scruggs

25 Anna Brandt

Nicholas Stockfleth 26

Laura Bush Alec Yoshizumi

30 Alexander Frank

Prayer List

Leslie Joan Allen -- Barbara Armstrong -- Pam B --

Walter Behn -- Geoff Bernhardt -- Larry Brandt --

Marian Caldwell -- Shelley Campbell -- Maxine Case --

The Family of Morris Clegg -- Dakota Clem --

Chuck Currier -- Pat Cutsforth -- Dwight Dauber --

Gary Deeke -- Gail Egner -- Rich Egner --

Pennie Evenson -- Gordon Fitzsimmons --

Janette & Bo Gail -- Bill George -- Jackie Germundson -

- David Hall -- The Hamm Family -- Cheri Holgerson --

Joan -- Bob Kennedy -- Frances Kenney & Family --

Ken & Vickie -- Janice Kilness -- Loretta Kriens --

Ginny Lepp -- Juliette Lundquist -- Lorna & Rich

MacPherson -- Cindy Mastrandrea -- Leon Merriman

and Family -- Adriane Miller -- Mike Moore --

Bob Pokorny & Family -- Joe & Helene Posluszny --

Beverly Post -- Justin Rosenblad -- Alice Schenck --

Greg Shea -- Yvette Strebin -- Juergen Voellm --

Bill Volkert -- Brayden Watts -- David Webb & Family

-- Jane Whiting -- Ellie Whitworth -- Lukas Wiesner --

Greg Wood -- John and Clarissa Zuver and Family

Deaths:

Glodean Marquardt (Scott Marquardt's Mom),

Sigrid Baker, Maxine Halvorson, Bill Irgens,

Roger Halverson

Additional Concerns and Pressures:

Marriage Problems -- Mentally Ill Persons --

Parents of Children with Special Needs --

Recovering Addicts -- Student Debt --

Unemployed/Homeless

We keep in prayer the families of:

Ellen Fischer -- Vivette Green -- June Kramer --

Don Olson

We keep in prayer all service men & women and

their families, including:

Alex Amen -- Brent Bacon and Bravo Team --

Joshua Boyd -- Alex (Alf) Frank

For those not able to worship with us:

Gordon Fitzsimmons, Harriet Halverson, Helen

Hanson, Pat Johnson, Peggie Larson, John

Liepold, Marge Olson, Roz Pariseau, Marjorie

Pine, Joan Rittel, Donna Sather, Alice Schenck,

Darlene Strutz, Bill Thompson

Trinity Lutheran Church

507 W Powell Blvd,

Gresham, OR 97030

e-mail: office@tlcgresham.com

October 2016

Ministries is published monthly by Trinity Lutheran Church

507 W. Powell Blvd, Gresham, OR 97080

e-mail: office@tlcgresham.com

web address: www.tlcgresham.com

503-665-3197; fax 503-661-6100

Lead Pastor: Curtis Zieske ext. #311 Christian Formation: Stephanie Kistler ext. #312 Parish Nurse: Linde Eidenberg ext. #304 Worship Coordinator: Monika Deitchman ext. #306 Office Manager and Bookkeeper: Rachel Kramer ext. #301 Office hours: Monday-Thursday 9 am—Noon 1 pm— 4 pm

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