Living Faith Weekly News (Week of August 20)

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What a Sunday at Living Faith! The story of Sunday and all its happenings are in this week's news!

Last Week

We celebrated Pastor Denne and his final Sunday with us at Living Faith and we packed as much as we could into this day!

Thank you to:

Rich and Dave put the special in the special music they provided!

• Dave Grosenheider & Rich Ziettlow for providing prelude and Communion special music!

• Gail Kass for accompanying us on the piano!

• Tim Kass for ushering!

• Judd Kopperud for reading Scripture and Kari Kopperud for assisting with Communion!

• Kay Michaelson for live streaming the service!

• AND Pastor Jay Denne for presiding at worship!

We gifted our final young family with a basket of support from Living Faith! Caleb, Jenelle, Kinley and Anniston Van Otterloo were surprised with Living Faith gifts!

Blessing of the Backpacks

We blessed and prayed for our teachers, school personnel and students as they return to the classroom this week. Charms were handed out to all and there are some left over, so please stop by the sign up table outside the Chapel and pick one up for family members this coming week!

You're invited to use the chart above to pray for all involved in our school system and other school systems over the next 31 days. As you can see, so many are working to educate and care for our young people!

We Celebrated Pastor Denne!

Mealtime

One last "Johnny Appleseed" mealtime prayer with Pastor Denne!

Living Faith Roasts and Gifts Pastor Denne!

Pastor Denne introduces his family.

Pastor Denne thinks, "A roast? Of me? You shouldn't have! No, really, you shouldn't have! :)

Mark Juhl tells a lawyer joke!

Tim Kass talks about how Pastor Denne pranked the Leadership Team!

Living Faith learns of Pastor Denne's love of heavy metal bands and music. He can name that tune in 3 notes!

Kay Allen closes the roast with another lawyer joke!

Living Faith gifts Pastor Denne with scholarship money to attend retreats and a picture of Charter Signing Day for Living Faith!

Pastor Denne gives final remarks.

From Pastor Denne: "It was a great day! The program was a lot of fun and I was honored that so many people came to both fellowship time and lunch. Thanks for everything!

This Week

Deacon Eric Haitz will be with us on Sunday, August 27th! We will worship at 11:00 and Pastor Jean will preside over Communion at this service so Communion will be offered!

Following the worship service, the Leadership Team will hold a luncheon meeting with Deacon Haitz to visit with him about future pastoral needs for Living Faith.

Debbie Gibson will read scripture and Sue Stream will assist with Communion.

Thank you to Pastor Denne for leading us on Sunday in a thought-provoking session on deepening your prayer life! Kay Michaelson has the handouts Pastor Denne provided us so let her know if you would like to know more about this session and have copies of what Pastor Denne gave attendees.

Thank you to Sharon Utesch for providing treats on Sunday! Gail Kass will bring treats this coming Sunday. Join us in Room 103 at 10:00 for a session which will allow us to find out how our week went and then we will look ahead to the day's Gospel lesson to prepare us for what we will experience during worship at 11:00!

In our discussion with Pastor Denne last week, we talked about using scripture to pray and listen to God and Mark Juhl mentioned that "Christ in Our Home" gives scripture suggestions that go along with the upcoming Sunday's scripture as well as other companion type verses to read and how these could be used to help a person pray and listen to God. The pictures above show the cover of the October - December "Christ in Our Home" and a sample page of what you will find for each day. "Christ in Our Home" is a daily devotional published by Augsburg Fortress. The $11 yearly subscription fee gives you four devotionals for the year. If you would like to subscribe to this, Kay Michaelson will have an envelope and sign up sheet on the table outside the Chapel and she will get you subscribed to this devotional. Cash or checks (made out to Kay) will be fine. Use the sticky note on the table to label your cash with your name and place your check or cash in the provided envelope.

Thank you to Hope Lutheran Church of Sioux Center for gifting Living Faith with a baptismal font, paschal candle holder and a lectern. This set was gifted to Hope Lutheran years ago when they were starting up by a church in Rockwell City! These pieces will be used when Living Faith returns to worship in the Youth Room.

Living Faith also received a donation from Nazareth Lutheran Church in Armstrong, Iowa as their Synod Assembly offering.

Blessings continue to abound at Living Faith!

An Invitation to Living Faith!

Country Roads Ministries (St. John, Akron and St. John's, Craig) invites Living Faith to join in a 30th Anniversary Party for Pastor Trish and this day of celebration! Country Roads Ministry will be celebrating Pastor Trish's 30th Anniversary of Ordination on September 10th beginning with worship at 2:00 in the afternoon at St. John's Craig followed by lunch in the park at Craig. Come celebrate Pastor Trish!

Mark your calendars!

Living Faith will have four young people participating in Confirmation classes conducted by Pastor Trish in conjunction with five area churches: Living Faith, St. John, Akron, St. John's Craig, Christ Lutheran and St. Peter's Lutheran. Classes begin on September 6 and will be held at Christ Lutheran. The new vicar there will be assisting Pastor Trish as well.

Conor Rathke, Marley Stream, Jordan Kopperud and Nathan Rathke will be a part of this group! The Bible they will be using is the Lutheran Study Bible. The Leadership Team has ordered the Bibles for these students and will be gifting the Bibles to them for use in their studies.

Please keep the following in your prayers:

Baby Morgan - She is still in the hospital as her lungs need to develop but she has been moved to a regular crib!

Karen Schroeder as she recovers from hip surgery.

The Living Faith member you're praying for!

Residents of Maui, California and other locations who are recovering from natural disasters.

Le Mars Community Schools and Gehlen Catholic Schools and all other educational institutions as they begin their school years.