TRANSFIGURATION LUTHERAN CHURCH
11000 France Ave. S. - Bloomington, MN 55431
Office: (952) 884-2364 (Also 24-hour Pastoral Emergency Service)
Office Open Monday-Thursday, 9:00am to 4:00pm
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In-Person Worship this Sunday
8:30 & 10:00am Services.
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COVID Guidelines for TLC In-Person Worship Services
All are welcome to worship in the TLC sanctuary every Sunday!
Singing is welcome. Social distancing is optional. No registration required. Holy Communion elements are provided in pre-packaged containers as you enter the sanctuary and self-served during the receiving of communion in the worship service. Pastors will also provide guidance for those celebrating the Eucharist via our live-stream.
Sunday 8:30am Service
Masks are optional for fully vaccinated people but required for those not vaccinated.
Sunday 10:00am Service
Masks are required for everyone in order to allow unvaccinated people to be safe, especially our children under 12-years-old currently unable to receive the vaccination(s).
We also ask that you wear a name-tag with a colored sticker that indicates your level of socializing comfort:
Green – handshakes and hugs are welcome
Yellow – fist or elbow-bumps only, please
Red – wave or Peace Sign only, please
Name tags & colored stickers are provided in the Narthex.
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Altar flowers for Sunday's service are given by
Carol Hill
in loving memory of Lawrence Hill.
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Rob Reid
Director of Music
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Celebrating the Faith of our Father Figures!
And Spoiler Alert: David over Goliath – Yay!
This Sunday, June 20, is Father’s Day, and at TLC we like to celebrate all the wonderful “Father” hymns and songs that are important to our faith. So come at 8:30 (Masks Optional) or 10:00am (Masks Required) and enjoy singing “This is My Father’s World” and “Children of the Heavenly Father,” and hearing our Men’s Ensemble of Kevin Erickson, Scott Knight and Bob Riley sing “Faith of Our Fathers.” We’ll also sing “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” and Beethoven’s wonderful hymn “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You.”
Carmen Englert is our organist and pianist this week, playing music for Prelude, Communion and the Postlude.
Pastor Eva will lead our prayers and communion, and Pastor Melanie will bring our Time for Children based on “The Fruit of the Spirit” from Galatians, and will preach the story of David and Goliath.
May we all feel God’s presence as we worship together this Sunday!
Peace,
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If you are in need of prayer or have the name of someone you would like to add, please ask permission from that person first. Then, contact Marilyn Erickson, Care Ministry at 952-884-2364 ext. 10, or merickson@tlcmn.com.
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Dave Merrill
Jane Kinyon
Joel Wigstadt
Larry Granger
Barb Halverson
Kevin Erickson
Jerry Hanson
Jean Nyberg
Walt Thomsen
Irene Amon
Dunwiddie Family
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Don Jacobson
Judy Hanson
Ron Schultz
Ron Schroeder
Lavern Nornes
Stephen Nushann
Dave Dickson
Gail Kleven
Marilyn Erickson
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VOLUNTEER HELPERS NEEDED FOR THE ABOVE
Setup • Leading Games • Food Support • Engaging/Inviting neighbors
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Live-Stream Viewers
In-Person Attendance
Sunday, June 13, 2021
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8:30am Service
Live-Stream: 44
In-Person: 55
10:00am Service
Live-Stream: 186
In-Person: 42
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Second in a Series of Six: Property & Building
FELLOWSHIP HALL
June 27 • 1:00pm - 4:00pm
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On June 27th from 1:00-4:00pm, you are invited to an Imagination Event to engage the congregation to articulate their values, hopes, and expectations about the future use of TLC property and building as an expression of our mission. Pastor Eva Jensen will facilitate this visioning event in Fellowship Hall.
Here are the details:
- If you are vaccinated we encourage you to attend in person. If you are not, please join us by Zoom (see link below)
- Snacks and beverages will be provided
- Childcare for elementary-age students will be provided by our ELC staff (please let Pete Erickson know if you will be bringing your child)
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Can't attend in-person?
Here’s the ZOOM link to the event:
Topic: TLC Property & Building Imagination Event
Time: Jun 27, 2021 01:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 889 2854 2928
Passcode: 256912
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Transition Update
There are five Imagination Events remaining. All are Sundays, 1-4pm. Every TLC member is asked to make this process a priority and attend at least one of these events along with the final Congregational Full-Day Event on October 9. Please save the dates that work for you and prioritize the ministry areas that speak to your heart!
Schedule is:
- May 23 – Children, Youth and Family (complete)
- June 27 – Building and Property
- July 11 – Seniors and Care Ministry
- July 18 – Diversity and Neighbor Engagement
- Aug 15 – Mission and Outreach
- Aug 22 – Financial Sustainability
Child care will be provided for all sessions. In-person attendance is preferred. All events will also be accessible by Zoom.
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Help fill the collection bins at TLC with Backpack Supplies!
Thousands of students in the Bloomington, Richfield and Edina school districts need help filling backpacks for school this fall. Let's help VEAP help them achieve academic success by donating some supplies they’ll need. Calculators are in high demand as well as headphones, washable markers and everything in between. Of course, they'll all need back packs to put them in too. And hurray! They'll be IN school!
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HOW WILL YOU STAY CONNECTED?
HOW WILL YOU GIVE?
We are blessed to be back in person, in church, and together as a community. The past 15 months have been a challenge for everyone. We’ve been challenged personally, professionally, and spiritually. We’ve experienced ups and downs. With adversity, we adapt, and new opportunities come into focus. We’ve adopted new best practices, and learned to do more than we could have imagined from home through innovation and technology.
Today, we welcome back into Church those that have participated remotely. Today, we also must acknowledge that some may not be comfortable coming back into the building, or simply prefer the remote experience. So, how do we extend that sense of church community outside of these walls and into homes? How do we encourage consistent participation and financial support? How do we each feel the connection to the church, and to each other? There are no easy answers. But there are opportunities. Opportunities to connect with each other and participate in strengthening this community, our community, your community.
Giving is one answer. Giving of ourselves is valuable. It’s an uncomfortable ask, and not an easy one. Our time, our thoughts, our friendship, and yes… our dollars. We all have something to offer. We have to think about tomorrow, and how our community will continue to grow together. How can we continue to expand our TLC family?
Remote participation isn’t going away, but it does offer an incredible opportunity to accept members from outside our normal geographical barriers. Those families that have moved away can now remain a part of our TLC family. We are now able to welcome new members that aren’t living in the Twin Cities metro area to join us. We are also able stay in touch with those that winter down South, or spend weekends at the cabin.
We all should be thinking of new ways to stay connected, to participate, and to invite others into our great TLC community. It starts with us, with each of you! How will you impact others? How will you stay connected? And, how will you give?
Blessings,
Dan Larkin
TLC Stewardship Committee Member
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Pete Erickson
Interim Youth & Family Minister
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TLC Summer Ministry Opportunities.
Get connected to what’s happening this SUMMER!
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Are you looking for a faithfully fun way to connect with your TLC friends this summer? Here are the dates for summer ministry opportunities this summer. As always – feel free to bring friends! Here’s what’s happening:
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June 22 MN Twins Game: 11:00am-4:00pm. Cost: $20 plus food money. (Spaces are filling up)
- June 29 Pool Party at Sandy Stooke’s. 5:30pm. Cost: $5 for pizza.
- July 13 Second Harvest Service Event. Time TBA
- July 27 Pool Party at Sandy Stooke’s. 5:30pm. Cost: $5 for pizza.
- August 3 Valley Fair 9:00am-5:00pm. Cost: $30 plus food money.
- August 17 Pool Party at Sandy Stooke’s. 5:30pm. Cost: $5 for pizza.
You MUST register to participate – Click here to sign-up for the summer fun! Look forward to seeing you IN-PERSON this summer! PLEASE NOTE: we will be adhering to the current policies of the organizations we will be using for summer ministry when it comes to masks. Stay tuned for more info as we get closer to the dates.
TLC/ELC Community Nights –
- Wednesdays, June 23 & July 21, 5:00-7:30pm
- Sunday, August 8, 10:00am – Blessing of the Animals Service
Transfiguration Lutheran Church and the Early Learning Center are partnering together on THREE community events this summer designed to connect in community, celebrate our resiliency over the last year, and imagine a new, exciting day for our community of faith.
We invite the whole ELC/TLC community to come for dinner, games, stories, music, and to meet your neighbors and our community partners at TLC. Here are the details:
- June 23 and July 21 (5:00-7:30pm) – in the TLC West Parking Lot
- August 8 (10:00am) – In the TLC Parking Lot – this will be a worship that includes a blessing of the animals!
The planning team is looking for help to make these events happen. Here are some areas we’d love your partnership:
- Set Up/Clean Up
- Leading games
- Food support
- Engaging/inviting our neighbors to attend
TLC Children, Youth and Family Survey
Please share your hopes and dreams!
The TLC CYF Transition Team invites your thoughts and feedback on the past, present and future of Children, Youth and Family Ministry in our community of faith. We would love for you to complete a survey that will help inform our work going forward. Click here to participate in the survey. It should only take about 15 minutes to complete! Thanks, in advance, for your partnership with us!
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The best in town! Our summer programs are filled with special activities all set up with the development needs and interests of the school-aged children in mind.
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The Adventure Club classroom kicked off summer last week with a field trip to Moir Park and making ice cream. This week the fun has continued with an outing to a mini golf course and staying cool with a water day.
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So nice to see familiar faces again! I hope the 8:30 service was well attended, but I was a bit disappointed in the 10:00 service. Maybe fewer people was actually better, as we could greet almost everyone, and if we wanted, give them a hug or at least a fist bump. Let's try to wean ourselves from live-stream, maybe. It's become just too easy??
Father's Day is almost here. My dad has been gone for years, and I don't remember what we used to do to make that day special, At TLC, Rob got a men's chorus together, and they always did so well. Summer is not the easiest time to find enough guys to have four-part harmony.
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My Dad was quite musical, playing an alto sax in a dance band on Saturday nights. I can remember him going off, his white pants, etc., and coming home quite late from whichever place "Hank's Playboys" was that night. I mentioned before that I had chosen a baritone to play at school, but he always regretted that I didn't take up the saxophone. Being a rather old instrument, it would smell and taste musty when playing. Now I don't even know who did finally use it.
Looking way back to when I was born, my dad was a country school teacher. He'd attended "Normal School" a short time and taught all eight grades for several years at a couple of schools. When I was a reading buddy over at Westwood [Elementary school in Bloomington], I used to bring some of the books my dad used, especially since they really looked "used." They were much more difficult than what is used today, and my little reading buddies were impressed.
Dad did not take many piano lessons as a boy, but as he got older he could play "by ear" and figure out the chords that he wanted. At our church the men's group always needed someone to play the hymns, and so he had to practice them.... Not easy to use a hymnal when you can only play by ear. He must have had enough lessons to learn "Kitten on the Keys" though, and would entertain us once in a while.
After he started working at his step-aunt's grocery store, there was never enough time to play piano or his saxophone, except at nursing homes. Several times I brought my baritone home from Bloomington and we would go to a nursing home for what we called a "jam session" to entertain the folks there. It was really fun and my step mom played her accordian with us. Her mom was at the home where we played, so it was a bit like playing for my grandma.
His first grandchild, our daughter, Kathryn, worked in the grocery one summer, and my dad taught her so much. She has not forgotten what he taught her! My experience as a kid in that store was not the best. I was pretty young and was weighing-out ten pound bags of potatoes on a huge scale. My step-aunt, the store's owner, came out and re-weighed each bag, kind of humiliating to me. Should I have cut a potato in half to make the weight perfect? Never forgot that.
I asked Birdman if he had memories of my dad. He always loved both my parents, and ended up running the store when they took a trip to Europe one whole summer. He fondly remembers my dad leaving his half-smoked cigars somewhere in the store quite often. Birdman did learn how to run a grocery store and put that to use running the Manypoint Scout Camp store for three years.
I hope you have fond memories of your dad. It's fun to bring back memories, but it would be even more fun just to have our dads back again.
-Bloomington Bird Lady
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Thoughts by Pastor Al Dungan
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Who Wrote the Bible?
-A Continuing Series-
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20 years. 20 long years since Jacob had seen the land promised to Abraham and Isaac by Yahweh. His father was dead. His mother was dead. And his only living relative was Esau who had been ready to kill him when he left home. Not much to look forward to, but the call to return was strong and he was really tired living under the thumb of his father-in-law.
He had lived in Haran, the land of his father-in-law Laban and the father of his wives Leah and Rachel who did not worship or know Yahweh. And so he planned with his family to leave surreptitiously in order to put distance between them.
His wife, Rachel, took the household gods from her father’s home which, in their belief, left his home unprotected from all sorts of danger from the deities they worshipped.
Laban had repeatedly either cheated or tried to cheat Jacob in many ways. First when he had substituted Leah when Jacob thought he was marrying Rachel and then in trying to cheat him out of developing his own flocks and herds. Finally Jacob had had enough, so he, his family, his flocks and herds slipped away.
When Laban discovered what had happened and that his household gods were missing he came after Jacob with blood in his eye.
It wasn’t too hard to catch them because they were moving slowly with a large family and their flocks.
The biblical story leaves unsaid how harshly Laban spoke to Jacob but he made it clear that they had no right to slip away like they had done. And, Laban insisted in turning over everything to locate the gods that had gone missing.
He was able to look every place but one. Rachel was in her tent sitting on a saddle under which the household gods were located. When Laban insisted on searching her tent, she told her father that she was having her monthly menstrual cycle and he left rapidly.
Men, in those days, and in many days since, had feared women who had this very natural experience. They feared being tainted by the blood and so shut women up in tents outside of the normal living areas during that time.
Before Laban and Jacob parted, Laban put a kind of curse on Jacob and it was this: “The Lord watch between you and me while we are apart.” In other words, if you do me any more “dirt” your God will bring you to account. The word to describe this place and event was Mizpah.
Then they parted, never to see each other again.
Did you know that there is/was a very small town in northern Minnesota named Mizpah? It’s near International Falls.
Next time: Jacob wrestles with God, has a name change and meets his brother again.
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Transfiguration Lutheran Church
Addiction Awareness
Team
-Our Mission-
This ministry exists to provide a safe environment for those seeking hope and restoration from addiction and codependency.
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If you are new to recovery or are just interested in finding out what AA or NA meetings are all about, and would like for someone to attend a meeting with you for the first time, please contact our group. We are here to support and guide you!
- Chris Campo
- Dave Dickson
- Al Dungan
- Mary George
- Griffin Myslivecek
- Louise Olson
- Beth Rahn
- Rick Zeidler
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- August 28-31 – Family Mission Camp at Wilderness Canoe Base. Approx. cost $100 per person. Open to: All ages and abilities.
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Meals on Wheels is a non-profit service organization with a simple mission: to provide hot, nutritious mid-day meals to people in Bloomington and Eden Prairie who are elderly or disabled, homebound and unable to manage their own meal preparation. TLC has supported Meals on Wheels since 1971 with volunteers and funding.
During the pandemic it has been a priority to make sure that all of our neighbors receiving meals did not see a disruption in service. MOW was able to handle an increase in meals delivered with safety protocols in place.
Volunteer drivers from churches, corporations and the community continued to give their time week in and week out. Delivery routes increased from 11-12 routes and in April of this year over 2,800 meals were delivered, the most since August of 2005. Funding sources have grown more vulnerable with the changing financial landscape so we know the money raised at TLC through the One+One Benevolence Campaign will be greatly appreciated. $9,000 will be given to MOW following the wishes of the congregation.
The success of MOW is reliant on the volunteers who deliver meals and we thank all the drivers from TLC who volunteer to drive as needed once every six weeks.
For more information about becoming a driver for MOW, please call one of the following: Ingrid Swanson (952-944-5696), Jo Benson (952-884-9881), Nancy Dahlof (952-831-1961) or email blepmn@gmail.com.
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TLC Memorial Garden
A place of peace and reflection, honoring and remembering those close to our hearts. Please click here to visit our website dedicated to those who have passed on -- from 2012 to the present. Each person -Saint- has a page with their obituary, video photo collage, the funeral service bulletin, homily, photo album, and in more recent years, a video of the entire funeral service that was held at TLC. |
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A Reconciling in Christ Congregation
A Culture of Diversity and Inclusion
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