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Pentecost
On the fiftieth day of Easter we celebrate the Spirit, through whom and in whom the people of God are created and re-created. Pentecost is sometimes called the church’s birthday, but might more appropriately be called its baptism day, since the gift of the Spirit is the fullness of baptism. Romans makes it clear that God is in the process of re-creating the entire cosmos; yet the Spirit is also at work in the most intimate and personal way, praying in us “with sighs too deep for words” when we do not know how to pray.
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Readings for this Sunday
(click on the passage to read)
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Sunday School Teacher Recognition
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This Sunday, May 20, we will be recognizing our Sunday School teachers. We would like to give a special thanks to all of our teachers for the past year. Your dedication and willingness to serve has not gone unnoticed. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Please help us thank:
Emily Baran, Stacy Bolzenius, Courtney Crum, Andrea Lusk, Amy Lytle, Anne Pforsich, Jean Pontious and Erin Welch.
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The following students will be recognized on Sunday, May 20 at the 11:00 a.m. Worship Service.
Grace Wilson
- Hilliard Davidson High School -
will attend: University of Cincinnati
Morgan Harrison
- Upper Arlington High School -
will attend: Catawba College
Elizabeth Sanow
- Dublin Scioto High School -
will attend: Austin Peay State University
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Our 3rd annual Prayer Buddy Banquet is on Wednesday, May 23 at 6:00 p.m. The OWL (Older, Wiser, Learners) will be the honored guests that evening.
After a delicious meal, the Prayer Buddies will introduce their prayer buddy and share some things that they have learned about them throughout the year. We will also share some of the activities that the prayer buddies participate in each month.
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What kind of ministry do you like to do? (you can click more than one)
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Talking to People about Jesus
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Administrative kind of roles / Behind the Scenes
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Neighborhood/Community kind of things
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Help in worship/for worship
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WHERE DO MY OFFERINGS GO?
DOES ADVENT LUTHERAN CHURCH TITHE?
Advent Lutheran Church’s Mission Statement is to “Worship God, Follow Jesus, Serve Others, & Make Disciples”. When members of our Community of Faith make a contribution to Advent they give because they believe in the mission of our church. As a member congregation of the Southern Ohio Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Advent shares a portion of its offerings to support the larger mission of the Church in Southern Ohio, the United States & globally.
While parishioners give in support of a mission – not a budget – they may wonder where those offerings go – what are they used for. Monthly summaries of Advent’s finances are available on the Church Council’s bulletin board located across the hall from the Church Office as well as on our website:
www.adventelc.org. Broadly, Advent’s stewardship of your contributions may be broken down as follows (in thousands based upon the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018 operating budget):
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- Pastoral & Staff Salaries & Benefits
- Church Building (Mortgage, Insurance, Utilities, Maintenance)
- Benevolences (Southern Ohio Synod, Jacob’s Porch, LSS, LOMO)
- All Other Ministries (Christian Ed, Music Ministries, Outreach)
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In addition to the benevolences provided for in our operating budget Advent’s Church Council also consistently shares a portion of any undesignated extraordinary gifts by tithing – taking ten percent of these gifts – and offering them to affiliated Lutheran organizations as designated by Church Council. As an example, each year the Church Council tithes ten percent of our Annual Tag Sale earnings to a deserving cause. The past several years this has been used to support Advent’s Thanksgiving In-Gathering on behalf of Lutheran Social Service’s Food Pantries.
Last month, Church Council sponsored a Ministry Fair for four organizations: Lutheran Social Services (“LSS”), Lutheran Outdoor Ministries (“LOMO”), Jacob’s Porch (OSU’s Campus Ministry) and St. John Lutheran’s Bed Brigade in order to distribute $ 25,000 – more than a ten percent tithe – from the Joan Hinton estate. Our church has been very blessed and it is a privilege to share these gifts with the larger Church and its affiliated ministries.
Advent’s Stewardship Chairman (Bob Goldie), Council President (Holly Cronau), Treasurer (Sylvia Wallace) & Pastor are available to answer any questions you may have. We strive to be good stewards of your generous contributions in support of our mission: Worship God, Follow Jesus, Serve Others, & Make Disciples.
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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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Music Appreciation Sunday
Please join us on June 3 after both worship services as we honor all of our talented musicians at Advent. Help us give praise and thanksgiving to all who have given of their time and talents to help our music department to thrive this year. During the summer, there will be special music including ensembles and small groups. Let
Jean
know if you are interested in providing special music for a service or two. Choir will begin again in late August.
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Tag Sale Collection
Collections will soon begin at church. You can bring in items to be donated to the Tag Sale starting noon this Sunday, May 20. Please DO NOT bring them before noon because this is the last day of Sunday School. After May 20, you can bring in your items on Sundays, after services, and during the week. If you bring items during the week, please call the office first to make sure the building is open.
For information on suggested donations,
click here
. Items we no longer accept,
click here
. June 10, Sunday, is the last day donations are accepted. Tag Sale this year is June 15-16. If you need a pickup or have questions, please contact
Carl Lahman at (614) 329-8639.
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July 23-27, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
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 Worknights
Calling all volunteers! Please join us on Tuesday nights from 6:30-7:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday, May 29, 2018 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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How Many Lutherans does it take to change a lightbulb?
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"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven."
Matthew 5:16
There are many people who do so much for our congregation who go unnoticed. Today are shedding some light on Council Member Larry Carpenter who changes the lightbulbs in the sanctuary. It's not a glamorous job or one that you would notice... unless it wasn't done. Thank you Larry for your help and for keeping us... enlightened ;)
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The Wired Word
An easy way to keep your faith going even while on summer vacation
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Summertime brings a blessed time of renewal, rest, relaxation, recreation and revitalization.
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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Happenings in the Larger Church
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God Loves | By Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
LivingLutheran.com
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During a recent chapel service at the Lutheran Center, Rafael Malpica Padilla, executive director for Global Mission, shared his favorite Bible verse with us: “Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1).
Jesus was in Jerusalem in the upper room praying with his disciples, modeling selfless service as he washed their feet, and preparing them for his glorification that would take place on the cross.
“He loved them to the end.” To his bitter end on the cross, but to the end of so much more—to the end of the deadly grip of sin, to the end of everything that would try to mar the image of God borne by every human being, to the end of death.
And Jesus loved them, 12 flesh and blood human beings who carried all the “stuff” people carry—passion and humor and courage, fear and doubt, the need to be seen and affirmed, great faith and quaking uncertainty. Jesus did not love the concept of disciples or the theory of people— Jesus loved them, Jesus loves us.
Jesus loved. How does one describe that? At my cousin’s wedding, the priest noted in his sermon that human language is too small for God. All the poetry in the world can’t express the love for one’s beloved or for a new baby or for family. All of the hymns ever written or sung can’t convey the love we have for God. Neither can words convey how much God loves us. It’s almost incomprehensible how much we are loved by God. It is too much to take in. But it is true.
This is the message that the Lutheran movement still has to speak to the rest of the world. God loves us. God means well for us and for the world. God’s love is deep and constant. And God’s love is not sentimental. The Incarnation was not a whim. Emmanuel, God with us, was a deliberate immersion into human brokenness in order to bring about healing and wholeness. “For while we were still weak … while we still were sinners … while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son …” (Romans 5:6-10).
God loves us. God means well for us and for the world. God’s love is deep and constant. And God’s love is not sentimental.
The Lutheran movement presents an alternative face of Christianity to the world. Too often the image of Christianity seen in popular culture is of a judgmental transactional God demanding perfection from an imperfect people, a people who, in desperation, work harder and harder to save themselves. Rules for purity are erected—pure theology and pure morality. Stark lines are drawn defining who is in and who is out. Faith becomes work. Righteousness is our righteousness achieved by ourselves.
Grace—God’s love freely given—is God’s work. It is not our doing. It is a gift. It is freedom. This is not for a minute to deny the truth of our sinfulness or that God does judge us and finds us falling seriously short. Grace doesn’t give us a free pass, nor does grace gloss over the reality of suffering and evil in the world. This grace, this freedom, makes it possible for us to realize the love of God in Christ in the world and in our own lives. And no human can set bounds on God’s grace.
Jesus loves his own and loves us to the end. Jesus doesn’t expect us to do the same—Jesus makes it possible for us to do the same. Therefore, we have nothing to fear and nothing to lose when we reject the notion of racial supremacy, when we welcome the stranger, when we confess that God alone is first. We can tell that story.
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SUMMER MINISTRY GUIDE
- May 20 Pentecost Sunday– wear red
- May 23 Y2 Prayer Buddy Banquet 6:00 p.m.
- May 28 Office Closed Memorial Day
- June 1 and 2 Southern Ohio Synod Assembly
- June 3 Music Appreciation Sunday
- 1st Sunday Fellowship Between Services
- June 6 Youth – Cedar Point Trip 7:30 a.m.
- June 10 – 15 Confirmation Camp / Pathfinders
- June 10 Congregational Meeting 9:45 a.m.
- June 15 and 16 Tag Sale 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
- June 24 – July 3 ELCA Youth Gathering
- July 1 - 1st Sunday Fellowship Between Services
- July 4 Office Closed 4th of July
- July 23 - 27 Vacation Bible School 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
- July 29 Old Time Gospel Service – ONE SERVICE 10:30 a.m. with an ALL Church Picnic/ Ice Cream Social – Advent 12:00 p.m.
- July 30 – Aug 9 Carpet Installation
- August 5 1st Sunday Fellowship Between Services
- August 12 Blessing of the Backpacks Both Services
- August 26 Youth/Parent Meeting 5:30 p.m.
- August 30 Adult Choir Kickoff 7:00 p.m.
- September 2 - 1st Sunday Fellowship Between Services
- September 3 Office Closed Labor Day
- September 8 “God’s Work, Our Hands” Community Service Project 10:00 a.m.
- September 9 RALLY DAY – Beginning of Sunday School Year 9:45 a.m.
Youth Summer Ministry Schedule
- DreamTeam (our VBS song and dance troupe for 1st-6th graders) will be rehearsing throughout May, June, and July in preparation for the week of Vacation Bible School.
- Wednesday June 6th – Cedar Point Trip
- Sunday June 10- Friday June 15th – Advent Goes to Camp! - Confirmation and Pathfinders Camp – Lutheran Memorial Camp
- Saturday June 23rd – Gathering Cookout – Time and location TBA
- Sunday June 24 – Wednesday June 27th – MYLE (Multicultural Youth Leadership Event) – Houston, TX
- Tuesday June 26th – Tuesday July 3rd – With travel days – The ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston, TX
- Monday July 23rd – July 27th – Vacation Bible School! 9:00-11:30am; Ages – 3 (potty trained) – 6th Grade
- Sunday July 29th – Gospel Service with VBS participation
- Sunday August 26th – Parent/ Youth Meeting for Confirmation and Sr. High
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Pastoral Emergency
Should you have an emergency and need pastoral care
contact the church office at 614-451-3639.
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