TODAY
10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship - Outdoors if weather permits.
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We will rebroadcast our 9am service.
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Today will be the last of our outdoor worship services (next week we'll move indoors to stay warm!!!) - please join us!
12noon - Focus Group (In-person): We've begun an intentional process to develop a plan to guide Immanuel over the next 3 - 5 years. Learn more...
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FOCUS GROUPS
We need your input!
We've begun an intentional process to develop a plan to guide Immanuel over the next 3 - 5 years, and we invite your input at one of two Focus Groups:
1) In-person session - TODAY: Sunday, October 10, 12 - 1 p.m. (Light lunch provided)
2) Virtual session: Tuesday, October 19, 7 - 8 p.m. (Zoom info)
Details, links to supporting documents and to sign up please go to: Focus Groups.
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20 (MEA WEEKEND)
Please note that on the Wednesday of MEA some groups are meeting but some are not:
What IS happening: Adult Faith Formation, Reformation Choir, Servant Song, Bells.
What IS NOT happening: Confirmation, Holy Commotion, Cornerstone, God Squad.
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WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE CHANGE
BEGINNING OCT. 27
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These changes, while minor, will make a big difference in the lives of our Confirmation students and families. With significantly later school start times this fall, we will push back the beginning of Confirmation and make the following changes:
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RECITAL
Friday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Holly Janz, mezzo-soprano, and Michael Keller, piano, collaborate in a program that features Edvard Grieg’s masterpiece Haugtussa Op. 67, based on Arne Garborg’s epic poem cycle. It details the trials of shepherdess, Veslemøy, and her struggle between this world and that of the spirits.
Also presented is a rarely-heard song set from Spanish composer María Rodrigo, as well as songs from Irving Berlin and William Bolcom.
Free and open to the public. More...
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DRIVE-IN MOVIES
Saturday, October 16
6:30pm - Parking lot opens
6:45pm - Wish Dragon (Child and family friendly)
8:20pm - Parking lot opens
8:30pm - Black Panther (Teen and adults)
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$20/vehicle donation is suggested | Sign up online.
- Watch the movie on a 40' inflatable screen.
- Tune your car radio in to the audio to listen (or use 1 of 100 wireless headphones and sit outside).
- BYO snacks.
- Open to the community.
- In the event of rain or high wind we'll postpone the event.
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Share this link: www.immanuel.us/youth/drive-in-movie
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Theology Over Coffee with Pastor Paul
Thursday, October 14, 1 p.m.
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between: How are ideas about these concepts and the devil influenced, not by the Bible, but by medieval Catholicism?
Concert/Recital
Friday, October 15, 7 p.m.
Join us for Holly Janz, a mezzo-soprano, and Michael Keller on piano. Come enjoy this fine event here at Immanuel, which is open to the public, so tell your friends about the event. More information...
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TRUNK OR TREAT
Saturday, October 30, 3 - 4:30 p.m.
Trunk or Treat is a fun and safe way to celebrate Halloween, where Immanuel members, their friends, and community members park their cars together and open their trunks to reveal Halloween-themed decorations.
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WHITE PRIVILEGE
Uncomfortable real stories surrounding the Black experience
Sunday, November 7, 3 - 5:30 p.m. at Immanuel (Luther Hall)
Performed in a series of vignettes by both White and Black actors, the show engages and informs with genuine passion and compassion, and helps the audience to understand how and why white privilege exists. The show, which is performed in two acts with one intermission, engages and informs the audience with genuine passion and compassion. It helps the audience to understand that white privilege exists: this is not a commentary that is ‘anti-white,’ but rather a commentary on how people perceive each other.”
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Saturday, November 13 and Monday, November 15
Volunteers needed on the construction team, to bring lunch or take photos.
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Minneapolis (Saturday, Nov. 13): please contact Laura Crosby at laura.h.crosby@icloud.com
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Chaska (Monday, Nov. 15): please contact Ruth Lunde at lundeworld@yahoo.com or Lynn Swanson at 952.974.1689
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MATCHING CHALLENGE
Immanuel has been challenged by a member for the 5th year in a row to match a $5000 gift to LWR during the month of October 2021!
You can support this work of loving our neighbors through:
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MARY NYRIAK MAKER DENG MALOU
November 17, 6:35 p.m.
Mary Nyriak Maker Deng Malou, who goes by Mary Maker, is a student at St. Olaf College, a recent summer intern at Redeemer Center for Life, and a former teacher at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya (At the age of four she fled south to asylum in Kenya, following the civil war in South Sudan). Coming from a male chauvinistic society, she strives to disrupt patriarchy through theater, a great tool for transforming refugee wounds into scars – ‘a sign of survival'.
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FALL CLEANUP
Saturday, November 6, 8 - Noon (come when you can)
Our church grounds need some cleanup before winter - clean-up of leaves and trimming back plants and shrubs. If you can bring gloves, leaf blowers, trimmers, etc. There will have treats! We need your help! Come for as long as you can! Sign up HERE.
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DIAPER SQUAD
Support our partner Redeemer Lutheran as they help with a food shelf in their neighborhood. Donations of diapers, baby wipes and sanitary pads are needed - these items are in high demand for families accessing food shelves.
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AFGHAN REFUGEE SUPPORT
The Lutheran Social Service Refugee Resettlement Team is working hard to meet Afghan refugee families’ basic needs when they arrive in Minnesota. The biggest need currently is financial support. You can help at: Help Refugees in Crisis
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP:
Current service opportunities are posted on the "Serve" page of our website. |
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OCTOBER BOOK DISCUSSION
Dear White Peacemakers, by Osheta Moore, is a breakup letter to division and a love letter to God’s beloved community. Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Spirituals, and personal stories from author, Osheta Moore’s work as a pastor in St. Paul, you are invited to enter into this story of shalom and join in the urgent work of peacemaking.
- Limited copies of the book are available in the church office for $16 or order a copy online.
- Book discussion dates will be scheduled in October.
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Sign up online.
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Contact kim@immanuel.us with your questions.
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ONLINE GIVING IS NOW EASIER
Give+ has a new name, Vanco, and they have made online giving easier through our website! Thank you for your faithful and generous giving!
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FAITH AT HOME
September Oct. 10 - 16
Faith Resources for Adults & Families:
Faith Resources for Children & Families:
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Pastor Paul: 952.240.4275 | Pastor Angela: 715.209.6895
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