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1 MT. CALVARY EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH 908 W. HANSSLER PL. PEORIA, ILLIONIS 61604 PHONE: (309/688-4321) FAX: (309/688-3062) E-MAIL: MTCALVARY@MTCALVARYPEORIA.ORG WEB SITE: WWW.MTCALVARYPEORIA.ORG Mt. Calvary is a congregation of the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod February 2014 Volume 18, Issue 2 PASTOR’S COLUMN So, it turns out that I don’t have this reservoir of ideas for a pastor’s column constantly brimming to the full. There are times when the newsletter deadline comes, I’m staring at a blank sheet of paper (or blank computer screen), and I haven’t the faintest notion of what to write about, or what you all might like to reflect on. This is one of those times. I don’t have a topic I’m on fire about, and I don’t have a feel for anything in particular that you all need to be reminded of. So, I turned to my acquaintances as asked what they thought I might write. Jesus. Grace. Love. And that got me to reflecting: okay, it’s February, maybe it’s time to reflect on love. Love. Love. Love. It’ll lift you up where you be- long. It makes the world go around. All you need is love. Of course, that’s not quite how we’re given to speak of love in the Church. It turns out that much of the culture’s talk of love is wistfully ab- stract it floats over our heads in a kind of cloud that never seems to be grounded in concrete life. It’s a mood. It’s feeling. It attaches itself to things for shorter or longer bits of time. It can inspire moving words. It can overwhelm all common sense. But like a wave of the sea, it can withdraw at a moment’s notice leaving one wondering where it went. But the Church’s love is different. The love we are given and share is very concrete this agape is not first a matter of high emotion and stirring hearts. It is first about Christ. About His incarna- tion, His cross, His resurrection. Consider these verses: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10) For God so loved the world that He gave His only be- gotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) God’s love always initiates the action – He does- n’t abstractly feel things or get overwhelmed by a mood: He takes action. In a sense, His work is His love. And the love here, agape, is a love that always has purpose it has an end it seeks to re- alize, a goal toward which it is working. It is in- telligent in the sense that it is not a reflex or automatic passion (it is not like the “awwwwww” reaction we have in seeing a picture of a puppy), it is deliberate. It is aimed at the good of the other but the true, long-term, final good as opposed to some short term or temporary pleasure. And it is self-sacrificing, it takes hurt and suffering, loss and pain to itself for the sake of the other. This is the love with which God loves us in Christ. This is why God’s love works. This is why He acts (Pastor’s Column continued on page 2)

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    MT. CALVARY EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH 908 W. HANSSLER PL.

    PEORIA, ILLIONIS 61604 PHONE: (309/688-4321) FAX: (309/688-3062)

    E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB SITE: WWW.MTCALVARYPEORIA.ORG

    Mt. Calvary is a congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

    February 2014 Volume 18, Issue 2

    PASTOR’S COLUMN

    So, it turns out that I don’t have this reservoir of ideas for a pastor’s column constantly brimming to the full. There are times when the newsletter deadline comes, I’m staring at a blank sheet of paper (or blank computer screen), and I haven’t the faintest notion of what to write about, or what you all might like to reflect on. This is one of those times. I don’t have a topic I’m on fire about, and I don’t have a feel for anything in particular that you all need to be reminded of. So, I turned to my acquaintances as asked what they thought I might write. Jesus. Grace. Love. And that got me to reflecting: okay, it’s February, maybe it’s time to reflect on love. Love. Love. Love. It’ll lift you up where you be-long. It makes the world go around. All you need is love. Of course, that’s not quite how we’re given to speak of love in the Church. It turns out that much of the culture’s talk of love is wistfully ab-stract – it floats over our heads in a kind of cloud that never seems to be grounded in concrete life. It’s a mood. It’s feeling. It attaches itself to things for shorter or longer bits of time. It can inspire moving words. It can overwhelm all common sense. But like a wave of the sea, it can withdraw at a moment’s notice leaving one wondering where it went.

    But the Church’s love is different. The love we are given and share is very concrete – this agape is not first a matter of high emotion and stirring hearts. It is first about Christ. About His incarna-tion, His cross, His resurrection. Consider these verses: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10) For God so loved the world that He gave His only be-gotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) God’s love always initiates the action – He does-n’t abstractly feel things or get overwhelmed by a mood: He takes action. In a sense, His work is His love. And the love here, agape, is a love that always has purpose – it has an end it seeks to re-alize, a goal toward which it is working. It is in-telligent – in the sense that it is not a reflex or automatic passion (it is not like the “awwwwww” reaction we have in seeing a picture of a puppy), it is deliberate. It is aimed at the good of the other – but the true, long-term, final good as opposed to some short term or temporary pleasure. And it is self-sacrificing, it takes hurt and suffering, loss and pain to itself for the sake of the other. This is the love with which God loves us in Christ. This is why God’s love works. This is why He acts

    (Pastor’s Column continued on page 2)

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    first rather than waiting for us to come around. This is why He sends the Son. And why He sends the Son to us rather unprom-ising sinners. One of my acquaintances suggested that I drive home how unworthy we are of God’s love. We normally take that for granted – after all, consider what you really confess when you say you are a “poor, miserable, sinner.” You are confessing to being a despiser of, and rebel to, God. In terms of our loves and this life, if you came to a person who had nothing but hatred for you and constantly treated you with disrespect, wouldn’t you be right to cut off contact with that person? We would say, in our wisdom, that it would be positively unhealthy to continue to keep company with such a one. Yet God sets aside our wisdom, takes on the cross of loving us for our sake, and redeems us in Christ. This is everything. If we cannot be clear on this, then nothing else really matters. This is where forgiveness lives – in love. This is where our justification is found – God’s love for us dem-onstrated in Christ. This is where our life comes from – God’s love. But then, that love shapes us – it remains con-crete, it leads us to a love that also works. Be-cause God loves us in Christ, we love – we love God, we love one another. And that agape that comes to us filters into all of our varied loves – for family, for friends, for husbands or wives. It makes itself known not so much in the endearing (those things we do to bring pleasure to another with an eye to drawing that person closer to us in affection), but in the unheralded, unappreciated, yet necessary works of this life (changing the dia-per, scrubbing the floor, rebuking error, tolerating a bad mood, forgiving a wrong, giving up recrea-tion to help with chores, and so on…..). And, I should add, the same goes for us here in the congregation. As we are loved, so we seek to

    (Pastor’s Column continued from page 1) love: with purpose, intelligence, for the good of others, sacrificing of ourselves. There is much to apply here – to stewardship of time and talents, to how we interact with and care for each other, to how we greet visitors…. I’ll leave you to fill-in the blanks here. For now, let me leave you with Paul’s words to the Corin-thians concerning how love is lived out in the congregation: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. (1 Corin-thians 13:4-8) Or perhaps John again: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7) Peace to you all in Christ!

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    FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS 1.

    2. Matt Morrow

    3. Harm Klokkenga

    4.

    5. Delcie Lane

    Jenna Moore

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    7. Jason Benne

    8. Tess Ruskusky

    9.

    10. Jarrett Khattar

    Andrea Shanks

    11. Alexander Kroenke

    12. Larry Traub

    Harriet Caughey

    13.

    14. Susan Vogt

    15. Maggie Cornelius

    Brianna Laredo

    16.

    17. James Henderson

    Trevor McMillin

    18. Gordon Hoffman

    Carey Moore

    19. Kent Watkins

    Scott Grinslade,

    Kelley Norman

    20. Emery Halverson

    21.

    22. Destinee Miller

    23. Brandon Bell-Lampton

    Darian Wilson

    24. Michael Leon

    Ryder Norman

    25.

    26.

    27. Tyler Crosiar

    28.

    29.

    FEBRUARY ANNIVERSARIES 1 Gordon & Esther Hoffman

    USHERS 8:00 Paul Kroenke

    10:45 Dale Brinkmann

    ELDERS February 2

    8:00 Paul Kroenke

    10:45 Tom Brosowske

    February 9

    8:00 Jim Henderson

    10:45 Tom Brosowske

    February 16

    8:00 Paul Kroenke

    10:45 Tom Brosowske

    February 23

    8:00 Jim Henderson

    10:45

    NURSERY STAFF February 2

    February 9

    February 16

    February 23

    ALTAR FLOWERS February 2

    Eileen Benne

    February 9

    The Ruskusky Family

    February 16

    Open

    February 23

    LaVelle Borders

    COUNTERS Jill Adcock & Donna Stutz

    GREETERS 8:00 LaVelle Borders

    10:45 Bill & Pam Barr

    Worship Notes

    LESSONS FOR THE SUNDAYS IN JANUARY February 2nd — Presentation of Our Lord — 4th Sunday after Epiphany Psalm 84; 1 Samuel 1:21-28; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 February 9th — 5th Sunday after Epiphany Psalm 112:1-9; Isaiah 58:3-9a; 1 Corinthians 2:1-16; Matthew 5:13-20 February 16th — 6th Sunday after Epiphany Psalm 119:1-8; Deuteronomy 30:15-20; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew 5:21-37 February 23rd — 7th Sunday after Epiphany Psalm 119:33-40; Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18; 1 Corinthians 3:10-23; Matthew 5:38-48

    PRIVATE CONFESSION Pastor Long will be available by appointment and between 1 and 2 pm on the 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month for private confession. Come in through the front door and find him in his office or the sanctuary. Confessions are sealed by a vow of absolute confi-dence, and all ministers of the Gospel in the Lu-theran Church are sworn to suffer harm rather than ever reveal anything brought to them in private confession. Questions? Please speak with Pastor Long.

    Where Is It? Page

    Birthdays, Anniversaries, Worship Assistants 3

    Calendar 10

    Christian Education at Mt. Calvary 9

    Concordia News 6

    Just for Kids 8

    Mt. Calvary News and Announcements 4-7

    Pastor’s Message 1-2

    Prayer List 4-6

    Worship Notes 3

    Worship & Stewardship/Personnel 5

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    T Prayer List T

    Prayer Notes: Folks have asked from time to time “who all are we praying for?” Here’s a partial list with reference to their relation to the congregation. If you know of

    anyone who needs to be added, or who can be removed, please let Pr. Long or Judy know. Richard Johnson Jacob Achterberg – grandson to Ron & Lil-

    liann, nephew to Linda Khattar Elwin & Phyllis Basquin – parents to Luann

    Claudin Mary Bonesteel – friend to Long family Ethan Saunders Stephanie Hampton Gail and Jonathan von Holten – friends of Jar-

    rod & Jessica Harmon Sharon Wenger – daughter to Sally Taylor Kathy Hafley – daughter to Sally Taylor Tom Boulter Sandy Kissner – relative to Connie Kissner &

    family Joel Hoffmann – son to Cheris Hoffmann Gerald Hull – brother to Sally Taylor Pr. Hoech & family (Ivy, Noah and Kayla) –

    our “TIM” missionaries Wilma Kost Brandt Klawitter – grandson to Gwen Klawit-

    ter, deployed military chaplain Jason Rusco – family to the Beenders, de-

    ployed military Steve Pierik – family to the Beenders, de-

    ployed military Derek Foote – husband to Wendy (Crook)

    Foote, deployed military Gary Smith – brother-in-law to Rick Laredo Shirley Poole – mother to Luann Cooper Grace Burdett – mother to Rick Laredo Lloyd Burdett – step-father to Rick Laredo Gordon Adams – Lynn Laredo’s father Dave Maxwell – husband to Tina Connie Johnson – sister-in-law to Pam Barr Elizabeth Rein – member Larry Bentz – member Joan Waldron – member

    Pr. Glenn Niemann – St. John’s, Pekin James Gibler – uncle to Leann Sturtevant & DJ

    Gibler Harold Pauli – member Rick Laredo – member Michele Sawicki – friend to Tagge Family Karen Maddox – Sister to Keith Moore Laura Davis – sister to Joe Leon Rudolfo Nytrey – son-in-law to Alice Manthey Shelby Davis – nephew to Joe Leon Jonathan Stutz – grandson to Conley & Donna Faw Lane – husband to Delcie Lane Dolores Hoffmann – sister-in-law to Cheris

    Hoffmann Steve Vicary – Carey Moore’s father Emily Heflin – Lil Mulvaney – friend to the Paulis Maureen Leuba – Concordia parent Ken Couri – brother-in-law to Linda Khattar “Babe” Culp – member David Connelly – member Steve Vogt – member Katie Fox – former teacher to Kaylin Leon Amanda Dorsey – relative of the Dorseys Robert Beenders – cousin to Gary Beenders Tim Junk – friend to Knebel & Hoffmann

    families Wes Braken – friend to the Joseph family Rev. Don Garvue – friend of Pr. Goetz Aletha Adams - member Bruce Tagge – member Sarah Joos – daughter of Food Pantry user Steve Watkins – son to Beverly Watkins Megan Primmer – cousin to Ginger Abel Debby Lawrence – mother-in-law to Andy

    Matson Pr. Chuck Weber – friend to Theresa Johnston Pr. Mark Harris – friend to Josh Joseph Sherry Emberton – sister to Vonnie Brink-

    mann James Maughn – child at Redeemer Dorothy Hartnack – Member Cheris Hoffmann – member Edward and Delores Bohne – parents of Katie

    Tagge (Prayer List continued on page 6)

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    Our Worship and Stewardship

    Church Attend.

    Comm.

    Attend.

    Bible

    Youth

    Classes

    Adult

    Sunday

    School

    Tithes

    Offerings*

    Sunday, December 29 106 89 — — — $6,984.44

    Tuesday, December 31 21 19 — — — *

    Thursday, January 2 17 13 — — — *

    Sunday, January 5 46 27 ** ** ** $3,421.00

    Thursday, January 9 5 4 — — — *

    Sunday, January 12 211 — n/a 38 14 $8,830.50

    Thursday, January 16 16 13 — — — *

    Sunday, January 19 103 73 n/a 38 10 $4,540.52

    *Offerings from mid-week services are counted with the following Sunday’s Offerings. **Snow Day — no attendance available.

    Total: $23,776.46

    As of December 31, we were running a deficit of $21,940.00 for the year.

    MEMORIALS

    AND SPECIAL GIFTS

    Marcia Riddle & Joan Ross

    WOMEN OF MT. CALVARY

    Co-Chairpersons: Nancy Meyer

    Tina Maxwell

    Vice Pres: Virginia Williams

    Secretary: Marcia Riddle

    Treasurer: Dawn Henderson

    ALTAR GUILD

    Co-Presidents: Abbie Matson

    & Linda Khattar

    Treasurer: Marcia Riddle

    SUNDAY SCHOOL

    Superintendent:

    Pre-K, Kindergarten: Linda Crook,

    Linda Khattar, & Brooke Barr

    1st & 2nd Grades Jan Heien

    & Paula Horst

    3rd — 5th Grades: Kim Beenders

    6th — 8th Grades: David Heien

    & Jerry Horst

    9th-12th Grades Tom Brosowske

    In His Service

    PASTOR:

    Rev. Barry Long 243-2042

    MINISTER OF MUSIC

    Mr. Bruce Tagge 361-9821

    SECRETARY

    Mrs. Judy Honig 688-4321

    CONCORDIA SCHOOL

    Mr. Paul Thompson, 691-8921

    Principal

    Dr. Scott Russell,

    Administrative Consultant

    CONGREGATIONAL OFFICERS

    Chairman………………...……….Gerald Horst

    ViceChairman………..………….David Heien

    Secretary ………………………….Judy Honig

    Treasurer………………………Carol Wessler

    Finan. Secretary…………….…Susan Fink.

    CONCORDIA SCHOOL BOARD

    Carrie Kroenke & Peter Wessler

    CONCORDIA FOUNDATION

    Conley Stutz & Virginia Williams

    CONCORDIA PROPERTIES

    BOARD

    Bill Barr & Daryl Claudin

    Boards of Mt. Calvary

    BOARD OF EDUCATION

    Jan Heien , Debbie Hoffman,

    & Paula Horst

    BOARD OF EVANGELISM

    Christiane Ramahi

    BOARD OF YOUTH

    Brooke Barr, Eileen Benne,

    BOARD OF

    LONG RANGE PLANNING

    Conley Stutz

    BOARD OF PROPERTY

    Daryl Claudin, Lisa Cornelius,

    Larry Frank, Jarrod Horman,

    Josh Joseph, Lee Mauschbaugh,

    & Bob Wegner

    BOARD OF STEWARDSHIP

    Theresa Johnston,

    BOARD OF ELDERS

    (families under each Elder’s care)

    Abel—Connelly:…….………Tom Brosowske

    Cooper—Henderson:…….…Jerry Jungck

    Hoffman—Loughridge:.Jim Henderson

    Manthey—Riddle:………..Gary Beenders

    Riebel—Zook:…………………..Paul Kroenke

    FOOD PANTRY

    LaVelle Borders & Bob Wegner

    Mt. Calvary Personnel

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    Roy Lewis – grandfather to Jen Hamilton Pat Kerr Loretta Horst – Gerry Horst’s mother Conley Stutz – member Marie Christine & Imre Pinter – friends of

    Christiane Ramahi Michala Schauble – friend of Maxwell family Anne Heien – member, teaching in Surinam Ginger Abel - member Debra Rada – friend of Christine Ramahi David Johnson – son of former member Sandy Jolliff – daughter of Phyllis Knebel Ron Abel – husband to Ginger Lloyd Carter – friend of visitor June Saunder – friend of visitor Ina Hoover – friend of Benne family Rachel King – Concordia student Matthew Johnson – friend of Beenders family Virginia Williams – member Phyllis Knebel – member Judy Honig – member Jennifer Johnson & Family – member, lost

    home in tornado Kroenke Family – home damaged heavily in

    tornado Christiane Ramahi – member All Those affected by the November 17th

    storms Elizabeth Whitfield – daughter to Judy Honig Ann Jungck – member Jerry Jungck – member Phyllis Davis – aunt to Bob Cornelius Charlie Flemming – infant member at Re-

    deemer

    Mt. Calvary News and Announcements

    News from Concordia CONCORDIA’S RED ROSE EVENT Shanghai Moon is scheduled for Satur-day, February 8th, at 6:00 pm at the Em-bassy Suites, 100 Conference Center Dr., East Peoria. Cost is $50 per person. For more information call René Hayashi at 309-369-9535.

    CONCORDIA STRING ENSEMBLE On Thursday, February 20th, the Concordia Strings will be playing during the 6:00 pm Di-vine Service. Please join us for worship that eve-ning — it is a spoken communion service which lasts about 45 minutes — as the children share their talents with us.

    For More Information About Concordia – For more information, or to register your student at Concordia Lutheran School, call 309-691-8921 or visit www.concordiaPeoria.com.

    LUTHERANS FOR LIFE ESSAY CONTEST Peoria Area Lutherans for Life is announcing it’s annual essay contest for 5th grade through high school students. Sample topics for the essays are: abor-tion, euthanasia, stem cell re-search, sanctity of human life, the unborn, etc. Any child grades 5th through high school is eligible to submit an entry. Essays are due in the office at Mt. Calvary by March 24th, and will be graded during April. Monetary awards rang-ing from $100 for 1st place for high school and $50 through $30 for grade school children will be made in May. We look forward to seeing what our children think and feel about the “sanctity of human life.”

    http://www.concordiaPeoria.com

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    WEATHER CANCELLATIONS When the weather is bad enough to cause cancellation of activities, this information is put on the news me-dia web-sites and scrolled across the screen of the three major Peoria TV stations. WEEK/WHOI web site is cinewsnow.com, WMBD is centralilli-noisproud.com, and the Journal Star is pjstar.com. Look under the heading of “closings.”

    FROM WOMEN OF MT. CALVARY Valentine Packages for Our College Youth and Military During their February meeting on Tuesday, February 4th, Women of Mt. Calvary will be packing boxes for our young people who are in college or serving in the military. In this en-deavor we need your help: 1) Please get the names of your college youth to

    Dawn Henderson (691-5547); and 2) Consider contributing candy, microwave pop-

    corn, individually wrapped snacks, tissue packages, pencils, pens, hotel samples (no bar soap, please), or anything a young person away from home might need.

    Your items can be placed on the kitchen counter, but please mark them for Women of Mt. Calvary College Student Project.

    DOWNSTAIRS NURSERY STAFF Women of Mt. Calvary are staffing the down-stairs nursery during the 10:45 am service. Any-one who would like to help staff the nursery (we need two people per Sunday) please sign up on the sheet on the bulletin board across from Pas-tor’s office, or call Luann Claudin (685-4684) for more information. Sign-Up sheets are up through March.

    DEACONESS GILLIAN WILL BE BACK Deaconess Gillian will join us on Sunday, Febru-ary 9th to give her travelogue on the Holy Land during the Bible Study hour and to finish cleaning out her office. We look forward to seeing her again and hearing about her trip to the Holy Land.

    CONGRATULATIONS TO: David and Fina Riddle on the birth of their son, Matthew David Riddle, on Saturday, January 18, 2014. Mat-thew weighed 7 lbs. 14 oz and was 20½ inches long. His big sister is Abigail, and his proud grandmother is Marcia Riddle.

    OUR CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY Please keep in your prayers the family and friends of: Mary Jo Teel, mother of

    Vicky Brosowske, who was called to her eternal home on Monday, Janu-ary 6, 2014, and given Christian burial on Thursday, January 9, 2014.

    May her family find comfort, peace, and hope in the Word made Flesh.

    FOOD PANTRY NEEDS For February our pantry is in need of 1 lb bags of

    rice, Mac & Cheese, Peanut But-ter, Mac & Cheese, and Cereal. If you can help out by bringing some, your donation can be placed

    in the baskets in either the Narthex or the Parish Hall or on the table in the Pantry room and will be greatly appreciated.

    SAVE THE DATE!!!! Food Pantry Can-A-Thon has been scheduled for Sunday, March 9th. There are many ways one can help with can-a-thon — bring a donation of food, canvas a neighborhood for donations, help weigh and sort food as it is brought in, etc. etc. etc. All food collected by Mt. Calvary stays at Mt. Calvary for use in our pantry. Watch weekly News and Announcements for more information.

    Mt. Calvary News and Announcements

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    Kids Page

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    Christian Education at Mt. Calvary

    Sunday:

    YOUTH: Sunday School: Age 3 through Grade 8 meet downstairs. High School Students meet upstairs in room above the kitchen.

    ADULTS: Pastor’s Class – Deaconess Gillian will be tak-ing us on a tour of the Holy Land on February 9th. Bible Study topics for the rest of February have not yet been announced. Join us at 9:30 am in the Parish Hall following our time of fellow-ship.

    Women’s Class — Inspired by the words of Gala-tians 5:22-23, Golden Fruit sees the fruit of the Spirit in action in the lives of nine women in the Bible, and points us to how God is at work in our lives also. They meet in the nursery room dur-ing the Bible Study Hour.

    Wednesday

    Men’s Bible Study: The Gospel according to St. John: Join us as we read through the Gospel according to St. John. The “Fourth Gospel” focuses on Jesus’ ministry in and around Jerusalem, and is filled with deep in-sights concerning Jesus’ work, identity, and the nature of the life we share with Him. We meet 6:30 am at Bob Evans on Big Hollow Road.

    Wednesday Evening Bible Study: Acts of the Apostles: Join us as we continue to read through the Acts of the Apostles. This won-derful history of the church’s early days shows how we continue to do Christ’s work and show His presence in the world. Class meets in the Parish Hall at 7:00 pm.

    Thursday:

    Afternoon Bible Study:

    Genesis: How did it all begin? Genesis is liter-ally a book of beginnings – creation, life, salva-tion, God’s people. Join us as we start reading through the Book of Genesis to see how God’s love and promise of redemption shaped human history from the beginning. We meet at 1:00 pm in the Parish Hall.

    Saturday

    Lutheranism 101 – Interested in the basics of the Christian faith? Know of someone who is curious about what Lutherans teach about the Bible? Have questions that you want to ask? Pr. Long is going through the Small Catechism with Explana-tion on Saturdays at 10:00 am. The more, the merrier – so feel free to join us. This can also lead to membership for those not familiar with Lu-theran teachings, but who would like to join Mt. Calvary.

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