Weekly Word | July 29, 2022 | Issue 51 | | |
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Single Service at 10am this Sunday, July 31st
Our Fifth Sunday of the Month combined service happens 4 times a year.
Join us and help piece our two worship services together!
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July Outreach: Project Aware
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ELC Mission Outreach Partner for the month of July is Project Aware. Their Mission:
- Provide an opportunity for the homeless to improve their lives and progress to self-sufficiency and independent living
- Provide temporary shelter, affordable housing and services to help the homeless achieve and maintain residential stability
- Increase public awareness and understanding of the problem of homelessness
- Advocate for the homeless, many of whom have little or no voice in the decisions that affect their lives
Click here to visit the Project Aware Facebook page
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We know that many of you are looking forward to travelling during the summer. Don’t forget to drop off or mail in your offering or pledge before you go! Summer is often a time of decreased giving but we still need to keep the lights and the AC on!
The six-month giving statements are out, check your church mailbox!
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The Outreach Ministry Team and the special event team of Nancy Smith and Lora Lee Nye are meeting during the Outreach team regular meeting time next Monday, August 8, at 9am. At their last meeting, they started planning the 30th Anniversary celebration of the chartering of Emmanuel Lutheran as a congregation of the ELCA (September 23, 2022). See Nancy Smith if you have ideas!
Some things in the works include:
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Celebration Sunday, September 18: There will be a 10am worship service followed by a catered luncheon. The service and lunch will be in the sanctuary with rented round tables and tablecloths. Everyone is invited to bring their favorite dessert for a dessert potluck!
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God’s Work. Our Hands.: Celebrated for a month from Sunday, September 11, through October 9, with many activities suggested. Here are just a few:
- singing at nursing homes
- giving goodie baskets to nurse’s stations in hospitals
- cleaning our Adopted Road, Civic Drive
- sprucing up the church including washing the windows
- providing lunches for Habitat for Humanity builds
- working on a project at our adopted school, Liberty Tradition
More details will be shared as they become available.
We are collecting a list of all the ways that Emmanuelites serve our neighbors. Do you volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, the Prescott Valley Food Bank, People Who Care, Meals on Wheels, at one of our hospitals or at our local library or some other volunteer opportunity? Send an email to the church office or let Pr. Tricia know as you are leaving worship, so we can create a list of some of the ways that the members of Emmanuel are showing love for our neighbors in our community!
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Bible Study and Groups Summer Schedules | |
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The Caregiver Support Group is on hiatus. They will gather again in September.
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The Grief Group meets on the second and fourth Friday of the month in the nursery at 1:00pm. Chaplains from Good Samaritan Hospice are facilitating.
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The Tuesday Morning 10am Women’s Bible Study is on hiatus until mid-August. The group will start up again on August 16, reading Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey.
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The last Tuesday of the month Bible study at the Prescott home of Karen and Bruce Lamb is on hiatus and will start up again at 9:30am on September 27th.
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The Wednesday 10am Lectionary Study group led by Hal Vogelaar and Larry Gordon meets in the Fellowship Hall and is on hiatus until September 7.
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The Thursday evening Bible Study meets at the Rebholz’ home. The group meets at 6:30pm on Thursdays for dessert (always amazing by Carole), and the study starts at 7:00pm. This group will meet through Thursday, August 11, and then take the rest of August off, beginning again September 7.
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The Inclusivity Team still needs a couple more volunteers to help us implement our church statement of welcome in intentional ways. Please consider joining us on second and fourth Monday of the month on Zoom. Call Gene at 928-713-0591.
Do you struggle with the acronym LGBTQIA+ like me? I know it is hard to remember the order of those important letters. The “Inc. Team” has helped me since we use them often. Look for a Gay 101 class soon to help with all that and more. Many people have adopted the word QUEER as an easier option, though many aren’t onboard with that yet. Maybe we can get rid of all these labels one day and simply be “on the spectrum” of sexuality, no discussion needed.
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But until more people are inclusive and open their minds to the old “melting pot” ideas that once was a positive way to describe America, with all its diverse nationalities enriching our country, we have work to do. Maybe we will also be able to talk about people in terms other than black, white, brown, yellow, red, etc. After all, every one of us is a person of color with many variations. Stuart is a pink Swede, and I am a tan Norwegian. That’s it! Put everything on a spectrum! Could it bring more peace and understanding? For now, we MUST include our labels to be inclusive because our culture has named everyone and assigned prejudices already. To break that evil chain, we must call out the unjust labels to expose them and then throw them away. Sounds a bit like what Jesus came to do…replace law with love. By the way, our dog insisted on participating in gay pride this year. Aww!
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We are recommending the current CDC guidelines that suggests everyone now wear masks inside during the summer spike of Covid-19. Our mask wearing criteria has been a positivity rate above 5%, and this past week the rate was 35.4%. Please continue to wear a mask if you are at high risk or are protecting a loved one who is and stay home if you are feeling unwell.
We will continue with our other pandemic protocols, like checking in at the welcome table before worship.
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Please remember to wear your nametag in worship for a while, and keep an eye out for our new members: Deborah Delmastro, Connie Gromada, Michael and Cheryl Leigh, Doris and Roger MacGregor, and Lorna Paulus. Take a moment and introduce yourself!
If you have lost your name tag and need a new one, let Mary in the church office know and she will make you another. And you can always grab a paper nametag at the check-in desk if you left yours at home.
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The next Interfaith meal is Friday, August 12 with a sit-down meal in the Fellowship Hall as well as curbside pick-up. Extra help is needed to make this possible. Set up, serving, bussing and washing dishes, and clean up help is needed on Friday morning and meal prep on Thursday. Please let Mary know if you can be available to assist. | |
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Are you a Thrivent member? If so, please consider using your Community Action Cards to help with the cost of these meals. Click on the picture to visit the Thrivent website!
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The monsoon rains create amazing artwork in the sky! Here is a picture of clouds and a sundog from Tuesday, July 27, by Freddie Fuentes Jr. | If you are traveling this week, be safe and send us pictures! | | | |
The vocal duet we never knew we needed! Here is Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell doing the Grace Kelly challenge. | | |
A little music trivia: For those of you who haven’t seen/heard this challenge and not heard the song it comes from, do yourself a favor and listen to the actual song, 56 million views on YouTube! MIKA hosted Eurovision this year. (Grace Kelly by MIKA): 2009 | |
Ethan got his first COVID vaccine last week!
Here he is during quiet time singing about the stickers he got during the visit--his most important part of the visit!
"Let's go get our stickers
Let's go get our stickers
Let's go get our stickers
So we can be healthy!"
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Happy Birthday!
Sarah Martin, July 30
Annette Thomson, July 30
Ethan Goats, August 1
Kasey Parknowitz, August 1
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Here's the link to Sunday's scheduled livestream. You will receive the Worship email on Sunday at 8:00 a.m. (so that it'll be higher up in your Inbox around 10:00 a.m.). If you've subscribed to our channel you can set a reminder! | |
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7763 E. Long Look Dr.
Prescott Valley, AZ 86314
PH (928) 772-4135
FX (928) 759-3541
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Office Hours
Monday: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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