Available Signups & Links
Access Code, If Needed, Is Serve
See the Quick Links article to the left for links to our website, Facebook page & YouTube channel.
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Outdoor Worship
This Sunday, August 9, 9:30 a.m.
Faces, God's People, Reconnecting!
Outdoor Worship continues this Sunday, August 9, 9:30 a.m. As we continue to share outdoor worship each Sunday through Sunday September 6, Labor Day weekend, we give God thanks, for blessing us as God's people begin to reconnect! A special thank you to the ongoing efforts of our Pandemic Response Team, Council, Worship & Music Ministry Team, Property Management Team, and Staff.
Please note: On Sundays when the weather does not allow us to worship outside, we will make every effort to live stream the service for you at 9:30 a.m.
Details, Wish List & Volunteers:
You can access the details and what to expect at our outdoor worship here.
You can access a wish list, including a variety of ways to share your generosity to assist us in ongoing supplies and some special items here.
You can access ways to volunteer on Sunday morning here. (Access code is Serve.)
Thank you for your generosity, your faithful giving, and your volunteering spirit!
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This Sunday, August 9
The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
A Devotion & Bulletin Coming This Week!
As we feel the gentle breezes of grace and the rush of the wind of The Spirit and continue to share the Pentecost season, a devotion will come your way this week via email and Facebook, including access to our bulletin for outdoor worship this Sunday, children's activity sheets, and sermon notes. You can also access these same materials and messages via our website: www.lordoflifemn.org or in the first article above. |
Join our Facebook page!
This Weekend: Outdoor Worship!
August 9, The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Stay even more spiritually connected!
Thank you, and thanks be to God for one and all, who continue to stay spiritually connected each week via Facebook! A special thank you to everyone who takes the time to share a like, to comment, to share, to subscribe. Your interest and energy, feeds our energy, and we are most grateful!
Visit our Facebook page this weekend to receive even more spirit and energy and support, and to find more new messages from Pastor Jamie, including the bulletin for outdoor worship, this Sunday, August 9, as we celebrate The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. You can also find all of Pastor Jamie's videos on our YouTube Channel! Please note: On Sundays when the weather does not allow us to worship outside, we will make every effort to live stream the service for you at 9:30 a.m.
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Vacation Bible School 
"From Our Hearts To Our Hands;
Touching The World With God's Love!"
Join us for a special day, Tuesday, August 18!
Grade levels to share a very special hour together!
Signup required by Sunday, August 16!
This one day Vacation Bible School event is free!
Signup HERE! Final protocols, details, to be provided!
Taking every precaution, evaluating what is safest, committed to honoring one and all, thanks to the hearts and leadership of others, we are finalizing our efforts to provide a safe, energizing, and heartfelt Vacation Bible School experience on Tuesday, Aug. 18; with a make-up day on Wednesday, Aug. 19. Thursday, Aug. 20, would be the make-up day, if the weather is not favorable on Wednesday. If the weather is not favorable any of those three days, the event would need to be cancelled at this time.
Each age level will share a fast, fun, engaging, spiritually centered, pack filled, blessed hour!
The schedule for age levels for the day include: (ages are ages this fall)
9-10 a.m.; for Pre K - Kindergarten
11 a.m. - 12 noon; 1st-2nd grade
1-2 p.m. - 3rd-4th grade
3-4 p.m. - 5th-6th grade
Each hour to include: (All activities, outside, with physical distancing enforced and provided)
Opening Music & Prayer;
Bible Story;
Rock Painting; bring your own rocks of all sizes, as long as easily handled by the child; bring your paints and brushes; materials provided if needed;
Sidewalk Chalk; bring your sidewalk chalk; chalk provided if needed;
Music with Robin Martens
Closing Song & Prayer
The hour to likely include a contact free obstacle course: Run to point A, do jumping jacks; run to point B, do a sit-up; run to point C, share a favorite Bible verse; run to point D, sing "Jesus Loves Me," and more.
Donations to support local needs: As we highlight Jesus' love for us, and Jesus' call for us to love one another; the single day event will promote and invite families who wish, to support the needs of others, by bringing donations of:
1) non-perishables and hygiene items for local food shelves
2) school supplies for local schools
3) new socks and underwear to donate to "The Drawer" to assist local needs
Signup required by Sunday, August 16! Any final details, protocols, and logistics will be provided. Sign up HERE! All children must be signed up in advance; each child must be signed in and signed out the day of the event. A few details, protocols, to keep in mind, include: 1) Masks will not be required for outside activities, though we encourage each child to have a mask with them, and to wear it if they wish; 2) Children needing a restroom, to be accompanied in and out of the building, and need to wear a mask; the water fountain will not be available; 4) Children should bring their own easily identifiable water bottle. Any additional details to be emailed to participants.
If interested in volunteering, email Pastor Jamie, or sign up here!
Please reply to Pastor Jamie to indicate your interest and willingness to volunteer as together we provide this blessed ministry this year in a unique way to touch and to bless God's children. Your reply in the next week is greatly appreciated! Thanks be to God for one and all!
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We need your videos!
We need your videos! We are putting together a movie of our children and youth singing and/or dancing to Jesus Loves Me!
Please record children and youth singing along with the following YouTube video:
https://bit.ly/JesusLovesMe-withtext When you record, either have them use headphones OR place the recording device closer to the singer(s) than it is to the device playing the video.
You can submit more than one video so have some fun! If the child is too young to sing the second verse, it's okay, have them sing what they know, dance, pray, smile - it's all good thanks to the magic of movie editing!
Once recorded, upload the video to our Google Drive here:
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Music Ministry
 Make a Joyful Noise! Thank You to Those Who Touch Us with Their Music! Watch these videos via the links provided here!
We want your videos!
Do you have a song you have been singing?
A song that might need singing at this time?
Do you have an idea for a video?
Are your children singing, playing instruments, giving God the glory?
We want your videos!
Click on the links below to enjoy music created and shared by members of Lord of Life!
Thanks be to God for the blessed gifts and spirit of one and all!
Shepherd Me, O God (Doris & Tim McNamara, Gretchen Porisch, accompanist)
Be Thou My Vision (Al Haugen, Robin Martens, accompanist)
Jesus Loves Me (Doris McNamara & Nancy Zaske) This is the video to sing along with to create and send in videos of your kids singing along. Thanks to those who have already sent theirs in! Watch for an updated compilation video!
Come, Now Is the Time to Worship (Youth Sunday 2020)
We would love to have you, part of the talented musicians of Lord of Life, whether or not you have been a worship leader, musician, or choir member; we want you to individually, or as a family, create and submit videos to be shared with our continuing digital and online ministries. If you have an idea for a song or a video you have been working on, please let us know.
In Him,
Robin
Director of Music Ministry
Cell phone: 612-990-8526
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Council Update 
Pandemic Response Team
Thanks be to God!
Access Wish List Here
Access Ways To Volunteer Here
Many messages! Many steps!
We go forward, step by step, in faith,
grace, hope, wisdom, safety, confidence!
Outdoor Worship continues Sundays, 9:30 a.m.
Staff is back in the building:
Wednesdays & Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Some small groups have begun meeting outside; meeting inside begins soon!
Email Marne Luebbert to get on the schedule
Join us for Worship, this Sunday, August 9, 9:30 a.m., outside, in the parking lot!
Pandemic Response Team Meeting Weekly:
Team Members: Several weeks ago, the Church Council appointed Bruce Duden, team facilitator; Julie Blomster, team secretary; Bob Blomster, Mike Claywell, Ted Dau, Amy Ehrlichmann, and Cindy Rustan, to serve as our Pandemic Response Team. The team has quite timely, effectively, and efficiently, identified initial steps, issues, questions, concerns, strategies to meet our needs to begin reopening our facility.
Focus Groups: Three focus groups were quickly formed: 1) Access: getting staff and others back into the building; 2) Small Groups: having ministry and community groups once again have access to our grounds and the building; 3) Outdoor Worship: exploring and creating a brief, inviting, safe, engaging, and meaningful time of community worship. Recently, a new focus group effort has been formed to begin exploring possibilities, practices and potential timelines for worship to be offered in the sanctuary.
Outdoor Worship This Sunday, August 9, 9:30 a.m. God's people reconnecting! The Pandemic Response Team, Council, Worship & Music Ministry Team, Property Management Ministry Team, and Staff, continue to collaborate and lead us and communicate to us the latest next steps as our outdoor worship schedule continues!
Space is limited inside. Meeting dates are limited. More details to come; to be finalized; to be provided. Though our plans include providing as much meeting space inside as possible, as quickly as possible, there are precautions and practices being evaluated and soon finalized. Scheduling will be critical. There will be limited space. All individuals and groups will need to be scheduled on the calendar in advance, even if that involves just stopping in.
Volunteers and Wish List Items Details Available Here: The Pandemic Response Team as a whole, along with the three focus groups, in collaboration with our Worship & Music Ministry Team and our Property Management Team, want to share with you ways to Volunteer in assisting Sunday Outdoor Worship and Care For Our Building; along with ways to share your generosity and support our many needs, and a list of immediate and ongoing supplies and items to serve our ministry as we reopen our building. Thank you to one and all who have so generously offered to support our initial needs!
Details, Wish List & Volunteers:
You can access the details and what to expect at our outdoor worship here.
You can access a wish list, including a variety of ways to share your generosity to assist us in ongoing supplies and some special items here.
You can access ways to volunteer on Sunday mornings here. (Access code is Serve.)
Thank you for your generosity, your faithful giving, and your volunteering spirit!
The Church Council and the Pandemic Response Team continue to gather and to process information and updates from the synod office in addition to the latest from the CDC, and the government on every level.
As we all know, this information, and many of the recommendations continue to change and to be updated frequently. If our recommendations or any of these initial steps need to change, we will update you.
To learn more, to share in this process, or if you have any questions, please email any or all of us, and we will forward your email to our Pandemic Response Team and ministry teams.
Thanks be to God for one and all, as together we make God first!
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Would you be interested in,
willing to, help us prep and clean our building, to care for our grounds?
Property Management Ministry Team Update
As our leadership continues to explore plans and options to begin using again our building more and more, one phase at a time, including prepping for the day we will worship in our sanctuary again, we know these plans will require the efforts of many to serve together to prep and clean our building, and to care for our grounds as well. We are hoping to grow the circle of those who are on a weekly rotation to clean the building or those who care for the grounds, as well as grow the list of those who are willing to assist as needed. If you would be interested in and willing to volunteer in this way, if you would like to begin by hearing more or learning more, please contact Cindy Rustan or Pastor Jamie.
Thank you for your giving and serving spirit as together we look forward to again using soon our building and grounds more and more!
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A More Just World
An invitation to share your interest as those who wish, explore issues of social justice!
Watch for an initial conversation and meeting to be scheduled soon!
Please reply to Pastor Jamie to learn more.
Pastor Jamie wants to invite one and all who are interested, to begin meeting with him as together we explore new ways to grow awareness, conversations, relationships, experiences, resources, insight, opportunities and more. Watch for an initial meeting date to be scheduled soon. Contact Pastor Jamie now to begin shaping our shared efforts. Your reply in the next week is greatly appreciated! Those who reply will be invited to share a meeting in the coming weeks! Thanks be to God for one and all!
Thank you to those who stopped by to share in the "Chalking For Justice" event recently in Rosemount. Watch for more events and more opportunities to connect soon. You are also invited to follow Rosemount's community group, "Listen and Change" on Facebook.
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Graduate Recognition
Graduates of all ages, send in your photos!
"I am confident of this, The One who began a good work in you, will bring it to completion in the day of Jesus Christ." -- Philippians 1:6
If you are graduated from high school, college, vo-tech, or grad school, if you recently received a degree or certificate at any level, if you are graduated from nursery school, kindergarten, 5th grade, middle school, please let Pastor Jamie know, and send a photo or two to Pastor Jamie.
To honor all graduates, we are still committed to creating a special video tribute in the coming weeks, so please, join us, and know there is still time to send your photo. We look forward to including one and all who have graduated! God's very best to each of you, and congratulations to one and all!
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Children's Activity Sheets Continue
The invitation to create pictures, posters, videos,
3D projects, and more, continues!
Submit them and they may be posted on our Facebook Page!
Are your children looking for more to do? You can reference the activity sheets and Bible stories provided each week, and have your children create their own projects. You can also look for stories every day in the news or that you see or experience, stories of people helping people, stories of God's love being shared. Have children color pictures, make posters, create displays or 3D projects, or even videos. Submit what you create to our Facebook Page as we hope to create a gallery of hope! |
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Prayer Ministry
Prayers for so many continue!
Our Christian sympathy is extended to the family of Brian and Betsy Rogers, following the death this week of our beloved sister in Christ, Brian's mother, Gloria. May God's comfort and peace surround and hold close Brian and Betsy, Sean, and Cece, and their circle of loved ones.
Please join us in praying for:
Those who serve as first responders and health care providers; including hospitals, clinics, long-term and memory care;
Those who serve in the military, here and abroad;
Those who are manufacturing, providing, distributing, donating, much needed medical supplies and equipment;
Those who are devoted to and skilled in research;
Those who teach, serve, maintain, administrate, oversee, our schools; and those who care for children;
Those who manage, stock, cashier, clean the stores we depend on;
Those who are truck drivers, who put on miles and put in hours, to get what is needed from place to place;
Those committed to public service to meet the needs of others, including local and county needs;
Those who are facing financial insecurity and uncertainty; businesses closed, reduced hours, the unemployed and those recently laid off;
Each of you, in the midst of these times, whatever you and your loved ones and your hearts are experiencing;
And so much more!
For those interested; Pastor Jamie invites you to join him as he prays with others who have invited us to join brothers and sisters in the faith, locally and regionally in praying together, as is convenient and doable for you, to simply stop what you are doing and to pray at 10:10 a.m.; and, or 12 noon; and, or, 10:10 p.m. There is power in knowing we are praying with so many others.
Each week our prayers go out to our beloved brothers and sisters in so many places. Thank you to one and all who daily lift up in prayer one another, who daily call on the power of The Almighty, and the comforting presence of the One who is Present!
May our prayers surround one and all who are in the midst of grief, longing for strength and hope, facing all that is still unknown. If you personally know people who have been impacted by recent events, or if you or someone you know is in need of prayer, let Pastor Jamie know.
Please keep the following families and friends of Lord of Life and their loved ones in your prayers: Anderson (Brian & Valerie), Ausen, Barth, Beck, Bergquist (Matthews), Betchwars, Beyl, Blomster, Boche, Butler, Butt, Carlson (Joy & Kelton), Chambers (Deb), Chambers (Doug & Kim), Chadwick, Chuchna, Claywell, Crabtree, Danielson, Dau, Craig & Kelly Davis family, Duden, Dwyer, Eads, Edmiston, Estenson, Gensmer, George, Gideon, Gilbertson, Glor, Gordon, Grady, Scott Haugen family, Hendrix, Herzberg, Hoehne, House, Hudson/Demming, Hunt, Johnson, Johnston (Kaderlik, Miller), Kalstabakken, Kral, Krueger, Lindell (Hines), Luebbert, Lunde, Martens, Martin, Mikiska (Shaffer), Mitchell, Cheryl Nelson, Jeff Nelson, Neuman, Olson, Oslos, Pemble, Pierce, Pomasl, Popple, Reischauer, Rogers, Roiger, Rustan, Schaaf, Schentzel, Schmidt, Smith (Diane & Jess), Sny, Sohre, States (Running), Staum, Svoboda, Taft, Tank (& Bolstad), Thompson (Schultz, Pederson), Trevis, Ulland (Landowski), Undem, White, Wratz (McAdams, Hiatt), Wright, Zaske, Zeigler and Zieman.
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Your Generosity Is A Blessing!
Greatly Appreciated!
Scrip Continues!
Thanks be to God for your generosity!
The faithful giving of so many is a sign of awe at this time!
Our Pandemic Response Team has identified a wish list of items including ongoing supplies and some special items. If you would like to support our efforts in this way, your added generosity would be an added blessing! You can access that wish list here. Thank you!
Thank you to those who have sent in special one-time gifts!
Thank you to those who have initiated Simply Giving or Online Giving!
Thank you to those who continue to give weekly, regularly, by stopping by, or by continuing Simply Giving, our automated giving program!
As we have shared over the weeks: The CARES Act was initiated; Lord of Life executed our application and received funds several weeks ago. Though we were able to receive support, we thank you and we give thanks to God for your continued generosity!
As we journey through these very different times, we pray for one and all who are experiencing financial uncertainty, unemployment, or hardship. Please trust that you can contact Pastor Jamie if it would be best for you to change your giving at any time. We completely understand, and support you taking care of your family and loved ones! We pray God's very best for one and all!
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Scrip Continues!
A Way to Support Lord of Life As You Shop During These Times!
Have Questions? Learn More from Doug Chambers
Helpful Packet & Info Available
Though much of our shopping has changed at this time, our shopping efforts continue to benefit Lord of Life! Many of us are still purchasing gas, groceries and more. Visit www.shopwithscrip.com to see the many participating retailers.
You may set up an account and order physical or electronic gift cards online, or purchase directly from your phone while out shopping. These days, with many of our neighbors in need, remember, you can even email e-gift cards to someone for immediate or future delivery!
Retailers give a percentage of your purchase back to Lord of Life -- without charging you anything extra!
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Loaves & Fishes
Serving in Farmington!
Wednesdays at Faith United Methodist Church!
Still many ways to volunteer and support!
Loaves and Fishes continues to provide a weekly meal, every Wednesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m., at Faith United Methodist Church, 710 8 th Street in Farmington. There are many ways to volunteer and support this blessed community effort! Click here for the flyer. You can also visit: www.loavesandfishesmn.org These meals, for now, are continuing each Wednesday through "to-go" boxes provided for people who stop by. Each of the last few weeks has averaged over 240 to go boxes being given away. Follow the links above to learn more about how you can help prep these meals and serve this effort, or simply stop by Faith United Methodist on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., to pick up meals for your family or to drop them off for others.
Thank you, and thanks be to God, for the many ways the Lord feeds the people, our souls, and the spirit of community! |
Lord of Life Lutheran Church
For Pastoral Care Call 952-953-4484
Church Phone: 952-953-4484
Dylan Barth, President
Holly Pemble, Vice President
Genal Heinsen, Secretary
Susan Bergquist
Crystal Hendrix
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Dylan Barth, Council President
