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Welcome Guests! We are glad you are here! Here are a few things we thought you would like to know to help you feel at home with us today:

Please accept one of the green bags that you will find on your way out of the front entrance of the sanctuary as our gift to you.

Restrooms are located in the large room adja-cent to the sanctuary. Our ushers will be glad to point you in the proper direction.

Children are always welcome to worship with us and sincerely, that is what we prefer. However, for your convenience, a nursery is available for parents with children 3 years old and younger who might wish to use it. The nursery is staffed during the 9:15 Bible Study Hour & 10:45am service. Parents may use this room during the 8:00am service as well, but the room

will not be staffed by volunteers. An usher will be happy to help you find the nursery room.

The offering is an opportunity for our members to support the Lord’s work at Trinity. As our guest, we ask only that you sign our Friendship Pad as it is passed down the pew.

When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we do so convinced that Jesus gives us His true body and blood for the forgiveness of our sins. Re-ceiving the Lord’s Supper here expresses not only fellowship with the Lord, but also agreement with the teachings of this congregation. There-fore communicant members of LC-MS congrega-tions are always welcome to commune with us, and other guests wishing to commune are kindly asked to speak with the pastor before the ser-vice. We cherish the opportunity to worship with all followers of Jesus, and we regret the sad divisions within Christianity. Whether you are

communing with us today or not, please join us (and Jesus!) in praying for truth and unity within His Church.

This facility is equipped with a hearing assis-tance system. Please ask an usher for a receiv-er.

We would love to have your family join us for our Summer Bible Study series: “Places of the Bible” that takes place Sunday mornings at 9:15am. Ask any of our members or the pastor and we will be happy to help you find your way and get settled in.

In Christ, Pastor Carl Lehenbauer

June 2, 2019

Trinity Lutheran of Freistadt Church—School—Child Care

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Daniel Reh and the Karenni Ministry

Ten years ago, with the encouragement of Pastor Kelm, members of our congregation decided to help sponsor a refugee family from… where? Karenni? Coming from a camp in Thailand? The original goal was to help that one family get settled with housing, school, and jobs, and help them assimilate into the local culture. Little did we know where the Lord would lead us! “Our” family was one of the first Karenni families to arrive in Milwaukee, but over the next several years, many families followed. Now over 200 Karenni live in Milwaukee.

Gradually, we learned that some new-arrivals had learned about Christianity while in the refugee camps, and wished to have a Christian worship service in Milwaukee. Pastor Kelm offered a service in the living room of an overheated apartment one February evening – and 70 people crowded in. It quickly became apparent that a larger space was needed for worship, and local pastors worked with Pastor Zeuschner from Lutheran Chapel of the Cross Church on the south side of Milwaukee to establish a more permanent church home. The pastors cre-ated a rotating schedule to offer church each week using a translator from their community.

After church, members of local congregations began Sunday School, English as a Second Language, and Citizenship classes. Bob Heiden offered special support to high school students. It was during this time that fifteen-year-old Su Reh came to Bob with a question from one of his assignments in his “Religions of the World” class at South Divi-sion High School. He had trouble understanding one of the reli-gions.... Christianity! Bob explained, but when they ran out of time, Bob offered to tell him more the following week. Su Reh said, “That’s okay – I’m Buddhist.”

With the support of Bob, the pastors, and others, Su Reh did come to know Jesus. In fact, he soon transferred to Milwau-kee Lutheran High School and encouraged several of his friends to do the same. He also began helping to translate during church services.

After graduating from MLHS, he enrolled at Concordia Uni-versity with the goal of becoming a pastor. During this time, he increased his role during the church services, eventually even leading some of them with sermons, prayer and guitar. He became a citizen as well and changed his name to Daniel Reh. Although it probably doesn’t seem short to Daniel, his time at Concordia seemed to pass quickly, and he is now headed to the Semi-

nary with the goal of serving in the full-time ministry among the Karenni.

A younger Daniel joins friends to share Karenni dancing at Trinity in 2012.

Daniel on a return visit to his homeland last summer.

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YOU’RE INVITED TO A

Breakfast Catered by:

PRIME MINISTER Reservation forms in Gathering Room

Due: JUNE 5th (Free-Will Offering will be taken at the door)

Retiring after faithfully & joyfully serving Trini-

ty’s Hot Lunch Program for 40 YEARS

Also recognizing Dan Szpiszar, who upon retir-

ing after serving for more than 25 years as

Trinity’s Business Manager, joyfully joined

Eunice in the Hot Lunch Program.

CELEBRATION OF SERVICE

for

Eunice Szpiszar

Sunday, June 9th

9:30– 11:00 AM

(Gymnasium)

Trinity's Nehemiah Project for the month of May honors the legacy of Tara Kuhl with an

investment into exterior signage.

Donation envelopes can be found in the Gathering Room. Checks payable to Trinity (Note: May Nehemiah Pro-ject). Drop in the offering basket or bring to the church office. Thank you for your support!

MAY NEHEMIAH PROJECT GOAL: $11,500

Sign on Freistadt Rd. Sign on Granville Rd.

LifeWalk 2019

Benefiting A Place of Refuge Ministries

Fun Family Activities & 1.5 mile walk Hosted by Shepherd of the Hills,

Pewaukee, WI

Date: Saturday, June 8, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m. Registration

Coffee, snacks and Children’s Activities 10:30 a.m. Walk Begins

Lunch to follow for Participants Place: Shepherd of the Hills N36W24130 Pewaukee Rd.

Pewaukee, WI

Visit: http://www.aplaceofrefuge.org/Resources/Life-Walk-Registration.htm or call 414-438-2767 to Reg-ister for event or obtain a Sponsor Sheet

All sponsor funds benefit pregnant women and their children served by A Place of Refuge Ministries of South Wisconsin. A Place of Refuge provides Advoca-cy Services & Refuge House, a shelter for pregnant women and children in need.

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This Week at Trinity

SATURDAY (6/1) 7:00 AM– Men’s Bible Study 5:00 PM– NO Service

SUNDAY (6/2) 9:30 AM– Together Service Lunch/Volunteer/Daniel Reh Recognition to follow Together service

MONDAY (6/3)

TUESDAY (6/4) 7:30 AM– Men’s Bible Study 7:00 PM– BLL Meeting

WEDNESDAY (6/5)

THURSDAY (6/6) 1:00 PM– Seniors End of Year Lunch @ Prime Minister

FRIDAY (6/7)

SATURDAY (6/8) 7:00 AM– Men’s Bible Study 5:00 PM– Traditional Worship/C

SUNDAY (6/9) 8:00 AM– Traditional Worship 9:30 AM– Celebration for Eunice Szpiszar 10:45 AM– Praise Worship/C

JUNE Food Barrel: Pasta & meals in a box, canned soup

Trinity’s Board of Lay Leaders will meet on June 4th @ 7:00 PM.

Monthly June calendar is now available near the

WORSHIP ASSISTANT/ USHER/ACOLYTE/NURSERY SCHEDULE

June 1 & 2 5:00 PM– NO SATURDAY EVENING WORSHIP 9:30 AM– Phil Mireles, Lou Giza, Jim Yahr/Teams 2,4,7 Pianist: Marlene Forshee Nursery– Not available this week

June 8 & 9 5:00 PM– Ryan Campbell/Team #2 8:00 AM– Tim Schoessow/Team #7/Henry Ziebell 10:45 AM– John Bultman, Duane Balsiger/Team #4/Nick Wollin Organist: Marlene Forshee (5:00 & 8:00) Nursery– Carol Tschudy (10:45)

Weekly Church Bulletin

FROM THE DESK OF CINDY MOLLWITZ

“If you build it, he will come” is a well-known quote from the 1989 film Field of Dreams. In the movie, Ray Kinsella [played by Kevin Costner], a struggling Iowa corn farmer, repeatedly heard a mysteri-ous voice whispering, “If you build it, he will come.” Ray listened to this voice. Facing the threat of financial ruin, he plowed up his corn-field to construct a baseball diamond. After the field was built, ghosts of legendary baseball players emerged from the surrounding fields to play ball. My husband Fred can attest to the frequent use of my own version of that famous quote, “Just because you build it, doesn’t mean that they will come.” After all, it’s more than just building “it”, you also need to invite people to “the field”. There’s a lot of building and re-building of ministries at Trinity right now and there’s also a lot of inviting. Unlike the voice that Ray heard, God’s voice is clear and calls us to action. In our largest minis-try, our school, His voice is prompting us to dream, build, develop, proclaim, and invite. And it’s no ordinary invitation - God’s finger-prints are all over it. He is at work in amazing ways and people are responding! After reflecting on what God is doing in this place, at this time, I’m going to change my version of that famous quote from Field of Dreams. My new version – “He will build it, He will come”. Please continue to pray for His guidance and presence in all that we

do. What a privilege it is to be invited by Him, to join in His mission –

TOGETHER!

The Seniors of Trinity will be holding their end of the season

picnic at the Prime Minister on June 6th at 1:00 PM.

Let Jerry Michels (262-623-6449) know by June 3rd

if you are planning on attending.

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TRINITY SUMMER PROJECTS TO BEGIN: Over the next couple of weeks work will begin on many of the summer projects specified in last week’s bulletin. Dur-ing this time (especially June 10-14), access to the building, will be limited and answering the phones promptly on our part may not be possible. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH US & THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION!

Parish/School Staff Senior Pastor Rev. Carl W. Lehenbauer Principal Dr. Sam Seefeld Asst. Principal of Academics Mrs. Stefanie Herbert Director of Discipleship Mr. Richard Adams Director of Music Mrs. Marlene Forshee Ministry Coordinator Mrs. Cindy Mollwitz Director of Athletics Ms. Rebecca Jahr Administrative Assistant Ms. Nancy Dittloff Office Manager Mrs. Lori Scheck Business Manager Mr. Brian Axtman Maintenance Mr. Erick Granke I.T.—Mr. Aaron Kagerbauer Early Childhood Director Mrs. Catrina Kagerbauer Pre-school Ms. Melissa Appleby Kindergarten Mrs. Stacy Gehrke 1st Grade Mrs. Sarah Knuth 2nd Grade Mrs. Kathy Adams 3rd Grade Mrs. Samantha Prinsen 4th Grade Ms. Emily Woelfel 5th-8th Grade Ms. Rebecca Jahr 5th - 8th Grade Mr. Robert Anderson 5th-8th Science Mrs. Vicki Mokros 5th-8th Literature Ms. Heather Wenthold Art Teacher Mr. Joshua Janetzke Support Teachers Mrs. Pat Dobberfuhl Mrs. Susan Ernst Mrs. Terry Schoessow Mrs. Holly Schulz Lunch Program Mrs. Eunice Szpiszar Mr. Daniel Szpiszar Library/ Creation Corner Mr. Greg Black

Attendance Last Week May 25-26

(5/25) 5:00pm 72 (5/26) 8:00am 108 10:45am 74 254

O give thanks unto the Lord for He is good: for his mercy endureth forever. Psalm 107:1 Heavenly Father, I thank You for my life and everything You have bestowed upon me and upon all people, this day and every day. I thank You for the good and bad, the understanding of for-giveness, and Your holy power, without which we would have nothing. I thank You this day for all Your blessings, Your gifts, Your never ending love for us. You and only You know us Father and You know if our hearts are true. So once again, I thank You with all my heart and soul. In the name of Christ I pray, Amen.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18-19 We thank you, dear Father in heaven, for the many times you let us experience that we do not need to despair because of darkness, weakness, or sickness. You hear the desires of our hearts. You love us for all that we love when we love the Savior and when we praise his name. Let us re-main in this spirit. Come to us with many proofs of your power, to the glory of your name. Come in the inner quiet of heart through which we are able to grasp what it means for us that you are our Father in Jesus Christ. Amen. David & Rachel Baker, Rev. Stephen & Maggie Oliver serving in Taiwan, Tom & Emily Forke serv-

ing in Indonesia in the Peace Corps Our military, serving our country: Sarah Geidel (Reserves), Mark Liedtke (serving in Afghanistan),

Eric Liedtke (serving in Iraq), Rebecca Guild (serving in the Middle East), Akan Udoeyop (serving in Germany), James Hauser (serving in North Carolina), Madison Kessel Lyon (serving in South Korea), Nicholas Zanow (Charleston, South Carolina), Kurt Degner (serving in the Middle East)

Ann Gabor, Aaron Kagerbauer, and all others who need the power of Your physical and spiritual healing.

Child of our congregation (caught in the center of a custody battle/divorce) Family of Harold Schoessow (called home to his heavenly Father last week)

JUNE PRAYER TOPIC: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem Dear God, I beg You to help me see my worth...I know I cannot look to others for my validation, but yet I do and the I feel broken and hurt when they let me down. Your Word tells me I am made beautiful in Your image and when I use the amazing gifts You put in my heart, then I have so much to share with the world. Lord, help me to believe it. Amen.

Email: prayers@trinityfreistadt.com Telephone Prayer Chain: 262-242-2045 Prayer Request Form: www.trinityfreistadt.com

PLACES OF THE BIBLE (Summer Bible Study)— You’re invited to join Pastor Lehenbauer on Sunday mornings June 16-August 18 to take a look at some of the different places in the Bible, accompanied by pictures from Pastor’s trip to Israel. This study will be held in the Music Room beginning at 9:15 am.

UPDATE ON ITEMS FOR THE LWR KITS: Thank you for your response for our baby kits. We have looked over the items we have collected and we now are in need of these items for baby kits, and health kits: sweater set with cap or hooded sweatshirt, cotton t-shirts (sizes 6-24 mos.), dark, light-weight bath towel, bath size bars of soap in original wrapping, adult toothbrush in original packag-ing, metal nail clippers. You may place your items in the bin below the mailboxes. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!

KARENNI FAMILIES IN NEED: Some of our Karenni friends are in need of a stove, refrigerator, and basic household furniture. Also, another family has a need to do some basic household repairs in preparation to sell a house: fixing a slow drain, damaged wood, furnace cleaning, etc. If you are able to help with any of these, please email Terry at tschoessow@trinityfreistadt.com or call 262-242-0724.

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Sign-up online or in the Gathering Room to help.

We’re looking for crew leaders, kitchen helpers, decorators, bakers and more! Check out the display in the Gathering Room and pick out the role made for you!

Each congregation in our VBS network is asked to equally share in the preparation of the VBS sets and decorations that will be shared this summer. Your help of painting, cutting, and

assembling decorations impacts thousands of children over the summer. No special skills required.

Saturday, June 8: 9am-2pm at Covenant Lutheran Church

Contact Cindy or Fred Mollwitz to help with VBS Network build days. Cindy (cmollwitz@trinityfreistadt.com 262-238-5380) -

Fred (fredm@starpromo.net 262-305-7888)

June 24-28 5:30pm: Dinner

6:00pm – 7:45pm: Activities

3K – Grade 5 (grade completed)

JOIN US FOR A WOMEN’S SUMMER BIBLE STUDY

Shattering the Lies We Believe The enemy wants us to believe lies because he wants to ruin our relationship with God. The good news is that lies have no power over us. During our time together we’ll unpack what scripture tells us about believing lies. By looking to scripture, we can define lies, discover where they come from, and learn how to break free from their grips. Women of high school age and older are welcome to join us.

PRE-REGISTRATION HELPFUL: Materials need to be ordered so we would appreciate knowing who will be

joining us. Please fill out this form and return to Lori in the church office by Friday, June 21st. THANK YOU! Names of those attending:

Name____________________________ Phone # ___________________ Email: ____________________

Name___________________________ Phone # ___________________ Email: ____________________

Name___________________________ Phone # ___________________ Email: ____________________

HELD DURING VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL— 6:00-7:30 PM— The Gathering Room

Register your children for VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL online at www.trinityfreistadt.com

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Trinity Lutheran Church, School and Child Care of Freistadt 10729 W. Freistadt Road, Mequon, WI 53097 Church & School: 262-242-2045

Website: trinityfreistadt.com Email: trinity@trinityfreistadt.com