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In This Issue: Note from Pastor Jim Granny's Garage Sale & Ole's Bar Sign up for Worship Kamp & Coffee at Rejoice Volunteer in Sound Booth Amazon Donations Thrivent Dollars Read this Book Community Prayers and Links

Depend on God- D.O.G. That is the title of our three-week worship series beginning September 20, and ending on October 4, St. Francis of Assisi Day with a pet blessing attributed to St. Francis. This coming Sunday we look at the adoption of pets and what they tell us about God's immense love to adopt us with our troubled human history. Adopting a pet is costly while rewarding. Many of those costs are unknown at the time of adoption. As God adopts us in baptism, we become children of God, and inheritors of Jesus' Spirit setting us free from our troubled past to become vessels of God's will for this world.   We had a wonderful day for God's Work Our Hands and First Communion last Sunday. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.   Join us Sunday online or in person, as we remember and celebrate our baptisms, and learn from our dogs what inherited new life can bring. We pray: Abba Father, we can never repay the cost of our adoption by you. Fill us with your Spirit and reveal your will in this world and the life to come. Amen. Pastor Jim

Visit Granny & Ole Please stop by this weekend, and bring your neighbors, family and friends! Granny's Garage Sale Friday and Saturday, September 18-19 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 20 10:30 a.m. until Noon Rejoice Farmer’s Market Friday and Saturday, September 18-19 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 20 10:30 a.m. until Noon Ole's Bar & Grill Friday and Saturday, September 18-19 Serving 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. (Closed on Sunday)

Sign Up for In-Person Worship WE WOULD PREFER that you sign up if you are attending in-person worship service. But please feel free to attend if you do not sign up - you are ALWAYS WELCOME at Rejoice! You may call the church office at 320.558. 6851 to let us know you are attending or sign up online. *Please RSVP by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday each week.

Kamp and Coffee We're adjusting our social activities like so many others. Because we miss you, we are hoping you join in on some safe social events outside at Rejoice. Koinonia Kamp-out  Wednesdays, September 16, 23, 30 Come anytime between 5:30-7:00 p.m. Rejoice parking lot Park in every other space Bring your own dinner, drinks, and chairs Sunday Fellowship Every Sunday morning (weather permitting) 9:00 a.m. before service Rejoice parking lot Bring your own coffee and chair

Help us See and Hear Now that we can again worship in person at Rejoice, we are in need of helpers to run audio and video equipment on Sunday mornings. Training is provided and signing up to help is easy! Sign up online to run audio equipment Sign up online to run video equipment Sign up at the sound booth in the back of the sanctuary. Thank you!!!

Smile with Amazon AmazonSmile has donated over $200 million to charities worldwide! You can help increase AmazonSmile donations to Rejoice by shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/41-1758613 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app.

Thrivent: Thrive With Purpose Are you a member of Thrivent Financial (formerly Lutheran Brotherhood)? If so, have you checked your account lately to see if you have Choice Dollars that you can donate to a non-profit organization? Please remember that Rejoice is one of the organizations on Thrivent's list. Thanks!

Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. by Lenny Duncan (2019). Fortress Press, Minneapolis.

The Whitest Denomination in the U.S. That’s us. The ELCA. Duncan’s love letter is a bold call to revolution to all in the ELCA to acknowledge and dismantle white supremacy in the Church. He reminds us that Jesus was revolutionary, political and divisive. He reminds us that Jesus named and confronted radical evil and in our time that radical evil is racism. The book is uncomfortable at times given the clarity of his voice and his passionate call for change. Some of the language he uses may seem offensive, but he uses it to GET OUR ATTENTION because as a Church we cannot continue to ignore the connection between our lack of diversity and our lack of vitality. Read. This. Book. Then, let’s talk.

Rest in Peace, Elsa Rhoda Senkler and family will be hosting a funeral for her mother, Elsa Petersen, next Wednesday, September 23. Elsa's committal will be Thursday, September 24 in Chicago. God bless your memories, Rhoda!

Community Prayers

If you have a loved one or friend in need of prayer, fill out a prayer request or use one of the prayer concern requests located on the Interest table and in the sanctuary welcome pads. The star(*) in front of a name denotes a Rejoice member. This is a dynamic list. Requests will be printed for up to four weeks; call the church office at 320.558.6851 to extend listing. If a name of a friend or loved one has been omitted please resubmit the name and/or concern using one of the prayer concern forms found in the red Welcome Pads in the worship area.

Receiving Treatment for Cancer: Doug Nieters (friend, Ryan Pridgeon) Kris (friend, Kari Line) *Kent Asheim Sunday Burquest, "Grit Girl" (Speaker at the 2019 Women's Salad Supper event) Lester Dupont (father, Linda Painter) Kathy Ryan (sister, Brad Johnson) Judy Schill (mother, Chris Schill) Terri (mother, Jill Charboneau) Kari Hilden (friend, Lori Lanes) Marlene Anderson-Woods (friend, Linda Agre) *Pete Lidberg

Others: Doug Lindseth (friend, Linnea Lindquist) Jed Anderson (friend, Ray & Mary Wilson) Theresa Klicker (daughter, Brad & Martha Johnson) Karen Kroska (friend, Ray & Mary Wilson) Doug Regnier (brother-in-law, Bill & Rhoda Senkler) *Bev Allen Mitch & Kalley Czech (brother-in-law and niece, Cindy Kirchoff) *Dianna Jussila *Martha Johnson Lucas Barrett (grandson, Mike Barrett) Nick Eldred (friend, Ryan Pridgeon) Violet Viesselman (friend, Jim & Marlys Johnson) Ken Johnson (brother, Brad Johnson) *Charlie Johnson Brian (nephew, Scott & Doris Scharmer) Ryan, son of Layne & Julie (friend, Lori Lanes) Linda O’Dell-Cowles (family friend, Leigh Holman) Kent Petersen (brother, Rhoda Senkler) Justine Honor Pridgeon (granddaughter, Lisa & Ryan Pridgeon) MJ Havlicek (friend, Lori Lanes) Nancy Nicoloff (friend, Lori Lanes) *Dick Swanson Sandy Swanson (daughter-in-law, Dick Swanson) Ron Dettman (friend, Linda Agre) Marlene Vogel (mother, Joni Hagstrom) Ron Wolfbauer (nephew, Carolyn & Ron Stensby) Walker James Vreeland (grandson, David & Cindy Kirchoff) Baby Henry Opatz (friend, Tina Bunting) *Jerry Jagadzinski *Bev Hugo

Deployed or Returning from Active Duty: Pastor Daryl Thul (Pastor at South Santiago Lutheran Church) and members of the 34th Combat Aviation Brigade Tyler Sunder (son of Karie Monk-Gohman's co-worker)

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