ST. LUCAS UCC WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL
AT LEAST SATURDAY, MAY 30.
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REMINDER:
Though it is hoped that the church will reopen soon, the building is still completely closed during office hours. Unless your presence has been approved by Interim Pastor Bill Smutz or Council President, Dave Johnston, do not enter the building. If Debbie is at the office checking mail, she has been instructed to not let anyone inside.
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Online Worship Service for May 23 & 24, 2020
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Scripture For This Week:
Matthew 14:13-21
Somedays, sheltering in place with two junior high boys feels a lot like feeding a multitude. Cooking and grocery lists are forever on my mind, as are the essential workers that have been keeping us fed in this strange time. Join us for worship this weekend as we feast on the word and read from Matthew 14:13-21 of a time when Jesus fed the crowd with just fives fishes and two loaves. It’s a story of miracles and a story of abundance, of enough, and of being made full by the compassion of Christ.
Join us, there is plenty of bread for all.
-Pastor Kelly
This will be an online worship service! We will send it in an e-blast and post it on
Facebook
,
YouTube
and the
website
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We request that you continue to care for St. Lucas by giving online or mailing in a check. While the building is currently closed, our operating costs remain the same! Mail and checks are picked up, deposited, and recorded weekly!
Mail checks to: St. Lucas UCC, 11735 Denny Road, St. Louis, MO 63126.
You can give to St. Lucas by clicking the button below. Questions on how to give online? Contact Megan Ligeti at
mligeti@stlucasucc.org
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Heritage Fun Fact for the Week:
In the minutes of a Council meeting in 1927, the recording secretary for the Church Council editorialized on the result of one of the votes in this way: “Thus a severe blow was dealt to the educational program of the church in general and the young people in particular!” What was the motion and who was the recording secretary?
Look for the answer at the end of this Weekly Update.
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This week we have seen the first baby steps to life returning to some sort of normalcy. Restaurants opening for dine in, barbers and hairdressers making us look human again. What will normal be as we move forward? It is interesting to see the variety of descriptions of what normal will be. We just need to wait and see and continue working together to adapt to the new normal.
Thank you to: Jerry and Kathleen Wiesehan, Lanny Wingbermuehle, Kirk Dalgaard, Brett Dalgaard, Dan Wenk and Randy Ottinger. Your placing of memorial flags on the graves of the 272 Veterans buried in our cemetery is greatly appreciated.
Your Virus Task Team has begun to look at a date when we can once again have services in the sanctuary. Early June looks promising. This said, it will not be “just like before." The team is developing detailed instructions that we will all have to follow to make it a safe and meaningful “reopening."
Technology continues to move St. Lucas forward. Randy Jurgensen continues to grow our ability to communicate in the electronic world. Randy has successfully tested live streaming from the sanctuary.
Thank you also goes to all who participated by donating or helping Isaiah 58 have a successful no-contact food drive this past Sunday. There were other collection sites besides ours and it has been reported that they collected a very substantial amount of food.
And now some unfortunate news. Jill Meyer has submitted her resignation from the Council. We thank you Jill for all you have done as a Council member. The Council will miss your wise insight and advice.
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PLEASE NOTE:
All church events and meetings through May 30th have been cancelled.
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Prayer Concerns:
- Norman Bast
- Robert Beitel
- Jean Glovanovitz
- Tom Hensley
- Phyllis Kuhns
- It is with great sadness that we report that Marvin Smith passed away on Monday, May 18th. The funeral service (for family only) will be graveside at St. Lucas UCC Cemetery on Saturday, May 23rd at 2 PM. Please send your condolences in lieu of attending. Reach out to the church office if you need contact info.
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LAST CHANCE! Submit Your Info For Graduation Sunday!
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Graduation Sunday is coming up! If you or a loved one is graduating this spring,
please fill out this form by May 22nd
so we can celebrate together!
St. Lucas UCC honors graduates at all levels of academic achievement for their hard work and dedication.
We encourage any of the following graduation/ promotional experiences:
- Preschool > Kindergarten
- 5th Grade Promotion > MS
- 8th Grade Promotion > HS
- HS Graduation
- College / Tech Graduation
- Advanced Degrees or Certifications
FORM DUE by FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020!
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Memorial Day at St. Lucas UCC Cemetery
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272 Veterans were honored on Monday May 18, 2020 with a flag placed at the head of their resting place at the St. Lucas UCC Cemetery. This annual tradition serves to remind all, "FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE. " Participants in placing the flags were Jerry Wiesehan, Kathleen Wiesehan, Lanny Wingbermuehle, Kirk Dalgaard, Brett Dalgaard, Dan Wenk, and Randy Ottinger. Social Distancing was followed.
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No-Contact Food Drive A SUCCESS!
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It went very well at St. Lucas! We had a steady stream of cars throughout the 2 hours and collected 3 vehicles FULL of food. Together with the other locations, we collected over 10,000 lbs of food! What a blessing. It far exceeded any expectations we had. We truly are blessed by an incredible community!
Thank you for allowing us to have St. Lucas be a drop off point.
Blessings always,
Rev. Brenda Booth
Executive Director, Isaiah 58
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Happy Birthday Little Free Pantry!
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Happy Birthday St. Lucas Little Free Pantry!!!
The St. Lucas Little Free Pantry was installed in early June 2017; coming up on 3 years now! Since that time, through the loving support of the church family, we have been able to keep the pantry stocked with food and personal care items. The food insecure members of our community often use the pantry to supplement their food sources when needed. We sometimes find thank you notes and cards in the pantry, letting us know how grateful the pantry users are for our offering. Although we live in a wonderful community, we have come to learn there are those, maybe even our next door neighbor, or the person sitting next to us on a Sunday morning, who are not always as food secure as we think.
Keeping the pantry stocked can be quite an undertaking. I'm very grateful to Pam Smith for taking on the role of assisting with coordinating a sign up list of volunteers to keep an eye on the pantry and stock if needed. During the current situation we have found there to be not only more from the community using the pantry, but also more random people leaving food in the pantry.
Thank you to everyone who has helped in one way or another make this pantry a reality!
Thanks,
Cheryl Wilcutt
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Have Coffee With The Pastor
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Interim Pastor Bill Smutz will host a Virtual Coffee Meeting every Tuesday from 10-11 AM via Zoom. If you'd like to join for some or all of this time, please email Megan Ligeti at
mligeti@stlucasucc.org
by noon on Monday and she will send you a link to the meeting as well as a link for how to use Zoom. Pastor Bill will open the meeting about 9:55, and the visiting will commence. Coffee is not required. Feel free to sip whatever beverage you desire!
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Heritage Fun Fact Answer:
The motion, which was made by Jacob Bach, one of the charter members of the church, was that all motion pictures be banned from the church! The recording secretary was the new pastor of St. Lucas, the Rev. Fred J. Langhorst, who served from 1927 until 1945.
***Correction to a detail in the answer of last week’s fun fact: Four, not three, of the descendants of Rev. Kruse are members of St. Lucas today!***
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