Today is Beckie Evans-Zaebst's 80th birthday!
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5th Sunday after Pentecost
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Now is the acceptable time; now is the day of salvation! Now we are in the storm, the boat almost swamped; but Jesus is here now, and when we call him he will calm the storm. Even the wind and waves listen to him as they would to their creator. We also listen to him and are called to believe in the power of God’s word in him, a power greater than all that we fear.
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READINGS for this SUNDAY:
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What a week we had at Lutheran Memorial Camp!
Eighteen students and Pastor Layne joined up with churches from all over Ohio for a week of faith, friends, and fun!
Our theme for the week was "This Changes Everything" the same theme of the ELCA's Youth Gathering some of our students are going to next week.
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Church Council Elections & Team Assignments
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On Tuesday night our Church Council met at their normal time with once a year business -- to welcome in new council members, thank those going off for their service, elect executive board members, and discern team liaison assignments. The results are:
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President: Holly Cronau
Vice President: Craig Dame
Secretary: Stacy Bolzenius
Temporary Acting Treasurer: Bob Goldie
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Administration Team: Rick Boyle, Larry Carpenter, Craig Dame, Bob Goldie
Parish Life: Jen Deeter, Christy Habermehl, Katrina Väänänen
Social Concerns: Nancy Neiner, Stacy Bolzenius
Worship & Witness: Holly Cronau
*note: Pastor Layne attends all meetings on a rotation and on an as needed basis.
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Everything has been counted and the Grand Total for the 2018 Tag Sale at Advent Lutheran Church is...
$8480.71
The Bake Sale brought in $440.80
Antiques/Jewelry sale total was $881.79
Thanks to everyone who donated items and worked before, during, and after the event! Special thanks to Carl Lahman for heading up this year's effort!
There will be a Tag Sale Team follow meeting. Stay tuned for the announcement of that meeting's date and time.
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June is a great month to hear some top notch preaching here at Advent!
This Sunday,
June 24, we will hear from
Pastor Will Saunders, who retired as the pastor of Advent a few years ago but hasn't dropped a beat when it comes to preaching the good news of Christ! His style of preaching is infectious and his love of Christ is contagious! At 9:45 a.m. Pastor Saunders will be explaining how the new Lutheran Social Service Food Pantry works during the Sunday School hour.
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Pastor Layne out of the Office
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Please note that Pastor Layne will be doing ministry while by participating in the ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas with our youth and will not be back into the office until Friday, July 6. If you are in need of Pastoral Assistance, please contact the Church Office at 614-451-3639. There is a pastor on call.
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Stay Up to Date
with Videos and Pictures from the
ELCA Youth Gathering & MYLE
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The 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering is finally here and our youth and chaperones are very excited!
Every three years, 30,000+ high school youth and their adult leaders from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gather for a week of faith formation. Through days spent in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service and fellowship, young people grow in faith and are challenged and inspired to live their faith in their daily lives.
Every day our youth and adults who are attending the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering and MYLE pre event will update you on the happenings of the day through a video blog. It will air live each night, but if you do not see it live, you can simply replay it!
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Watch live video from the ELCA Youth Gathering
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The ELCA Youth Gathering starts next week! If you’re interested in seeing what our youth are experiencing, you can watch live video from the event. Throughout the week, all video will be available on the Youth Gathering homepage at
ELCA.org/gathering.
The ELCA Youth Gathering will be livestreaming (all times CDT):
MYLE worship: June 26 at 6:45 p.m.
The tAble worship: June 27 at 10 a.m.
Daily Bible studies: June 27-30 at 3:30 p.m.
Mass Gatherings: June 27-30 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday morning worship: July 1 at 10 a.m.
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ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston
Begins This Week
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While you may have heard about
the youth and chaperones going to the
2018 ELCA Youth Gathering
, you may not have heard about two of Advent's members who are volunteers in the
Gathering's Volunteer Corp:
Karrie Clark and Alessia Bernon
. Karrie and Alessia are part of the Community Life team.
Community Life volunteers
work as a team within their assigned hotel to help create a welcoming atmosphere for Gathering participants. This is especially important in the hotels that we are staying in, since everyone begins and ends their day in a hotel at the Gathering. The Community Life team staffs each hotel and is responsible for providing hospitality, being a conduit for communication with Gathering planners as well as hotel staff, and troubleshooting situations that may arise. Community Life teams also assist with Gathering registration, checking each congregation in and distributing Gathering wristbands and other materials.
Basically Karrie and Alessia greet the youth groups as they arrive and provide the leaders with necessary information and materials. They work with both the youth groups and the hotel staff to ensure everything runs smoothly. This year because everything is at NRG Arena, Community Life teams will be taking shifts to help with the day time programming there.
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New Response to an Old Calling
by Jonathan Stufft, past member of AdventELC
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Hello Advent Family!
Pastor Aaron thought that some of you may remember my family and I, as we were members of Advent up until we moved away a couple of years ago. He also thought that some of you might be interested in an update on the way God is working in my life.
As far back as elementary school I have felt the nudges toward ministry. Even back then, I found myself stuck in the notion that somehow, I thought I was not “good” enough for ordained ministry. When I graduated from college, and was working in youth ministry, I took the plunge into seminary. I thought I would pursue youth ministry, but that was not the scope of my call. I was being led to be a pastor, but I still thought I was not “good” enough. I instead went into education. A decade and a half later, I still felt the pull, but now René had nearly two decades invested in her call as a teacher, my kids had settled into a community they call home, and the nudges I felt seemed disruptive to our life and finances. And to top it all off, I still thought I wasn’t “good” enough.
Two things changed over the last year:
First, our Bishop, Abraham Allende, brought up the TEEM (Theological Education for Emerging Ministries) program in a service at church. René’s elbow became a battering ram as the Bishop described it as tailored to people over 40, with established lives, with a multi-year element of on the job training (so to speak), and as an accommodating way to ordained ministry outside the standard seminary path.
Second, after a life of hearing, and preaching to others, the foundation of grace, I had a profound realization (really not profound, but sometimes things become profound in context!) – I know I am not “good” enough! Realizing that the “good” was never going to come helped me to realize that my service to God counts right now. It became a true experience of the grace I had known all along.
So, the journey has begun. Where it leads, I do not know. I only know that I am called to follow. I have begun coursework and will be assigned a local church sometime in the next month or so. My courses will wrap up in June of 2020, and ordination will follow. I keep Advent and our friends there in my prayers, and I ask that you add this journey to yours.
Thanks and blessings!
~
Jonathan
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Old Time Gospel Sunday is back! July 29 with one service only, 10:30 a.m.
Join us for an outside worship service where we'll be praising the lord, hearing the word,
and singing about that old time religion that has something to share with the world to this very day!
All are welcome! All are invited! Bring your lawn chair, your tent, your umbrella, and your tappin' toes, 'cause after this worship, you'll know you've been to church!
Stay afterwards for our Church Picnic and Ice Cream Social!
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The Wired Word is an easy way to keep your faith going even while on summer vacation!
Whether you are on a vacation or stay-cation, we want to help make staying close to God easy! The Wired Word takes current events from the week and relates them to Scripture. It's an easy way to stay connected to God, and a great study to do by yourself or with others, whether you are at home or away!
Sign up to have a weekly lesson emailed right to your inbox every Thursday.
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Going Out to Invite Others In
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On Thursday members and friends of the Advent Youth Group, under the direction of Matt Pittman, gathered and went out to invite others to know Jesus better through our upcoming VBS! Thanks to Mary Garland, our Church Administrative Assistant, for designing and producing the door hangers.
As the group started out with a few rain drops falling, Pastor Aaron said, "You are going out to invite others in, walking wet in your baptism!"
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VBS REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!
July 23-27, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Potty Trained 3 year olds - 5th grade
Get ready for an action-packed VBS adventure!
Rolling River Rampage invites children on a white-water rafting adventure to experience the ride of a lifetime with God! Along the river, children discover that life with God is an adventure full of wonder and surprise, and that they can trust God to be with them through anything. Relevant music, exciting science, creative crafts, fun recreation, and memorable Bible stories will help kids know that God is always with them as they ride the rapids of amazing grace!
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VBS Work Nights
Calling all volunteers! Please join us on Tuesday nights from 6:30-7:30 p.m. for VBS work nights. We need all the help we can get to transform the church into an outdoor wilderness for our 2018 VBS Rolling River Rampage. Come paint, trace, cut-out and prep decorations for the week full of summer fun.
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VBS Craft Supplies
It's time to get ready for VBS and we need supplies for our crafts! We will need 1 paper grocery bag per child as well as toilet paper rolls. Please bring in whatever you have an drop them off in the narthex.
We also have a sign up sheet for the supplies we need. Please consider signing up to bring in one or more of the items to help us make our crafts a great success. Sign up sheet is in the Narthex. All items need to be brought in by July 15th.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions-
Karrie Clark, 614-353-6025.
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A Note from Bishop Dillahunt
of the Southern Ohio Synod
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Grace and peace be with you in the name of the Risen Jesus Christ.
My dear family of faith in Southern Ohio,
Over this weekend the words to a hymn kept coming to mind, "God of Grace and God of Glory” (ELW 705) specifically, verses 2 and 3 and the pointed words of the refrain: “Grant us wisdom, grant us courage for the living of these days, lest we miss your kingdom’s goal.”
Just over two weeks ago we gathered in assembly under the theme, ‘Being Church Together…Building up the Body of Christ: What does the Lord Require of You?’ We did the business of the Synod and Church, we were in worship together, we heard a powerful keynote from Pastor Jerome Taylor that moved some to action, we heard about the mission and vision of this territory and we passed a resolution speaking against the separation of children from their families. It is increasingly important that the Church’s voice be heard.
Earlier this month, I shared with you that I joined Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton and ecumenical and inter-religious partners in a
statement addressing concerns over immigration policies
and the separation of children from their families. At the assembly, over 200 people voted for and passed a resolution calling the Synod to action…“Therefore be it resolved that this Assembly urge the congregations of the Southern Ohio Synod to appeal to their congressional representatives expressing concern regarding the injustice of separating children from their families seeking refugee status in the United States of America.”
There are many who are hurting in the world from, hunger, abuse, invisibility, racial injustices, poverty, killings, mental health issues, anxiety, and the pain and suffering goes on. As Church, we are Jesus’ presence now. We share and invite others into God’s love and grace. We trust that God is in the middle of the messes and we believe, as the Gospel for this Sunday assures us, even in the storms of life Jesus is there, calming the storms that rage.
Please continue to pray.
Please continue to be the voice of the Church.
Please continue to be part of sharing, inviting and claiming Jesus’ love.
In Christ,
Bishop Suzanne Darcy Dillahunt
PS. If you or your congregation would like resources regarding the issue of immigration and the separation of families, please visit the links below:
How to contact your Federal representatives:
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We have a network of people at Advent who are committed to praying to God on behalf of others in need by lifting up specific requests, concerns, and emergency situations.
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