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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Sunday, June 27
In-Person and Live-Stream Worship Services
8:30am & 10:00am
Ice Cream Hospitality After Each Service
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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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Rob Reid
Director of Music
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In-Person Worship Continues!
Come join your TLC Family in the Sanctuary this Sunday, June 27! At our 8:30am service, masks are optional, so breathe freely, greet one another, and sing out on the hymns and songs, led by Organist Karen Daniels and Songleader Mary George: O Worship the King, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, and O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing! Mary will also share Special Music during the Offering, as will Karen during Communion.
At our 10:00am service, masks are still required, to allow children and those with underlying health concerns to feel welcome and safe. The Praise and Worship Team will lead our hymns and songs, including Awesome God, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, and Shine, Jesus, Shine!
For both services Pastor Arthur will preach, Pastor Eva will lead our Prayers and Communion, and Pastor Melanie will share another Installment in her summer series of Time for Children based on The Fruits of the Spirit from Paul's Letter to the Galatians.
Hope to see you on Sunday!
Peace,
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-By Pete Erickson, TLC Interim Youth and Family Minister
TLC “Property and Building” Imagination Event – June 27 from 1-4PM at TLC – YOU ARE INVITED!
On June 27th from 1-4PM, 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.
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 children of all ages will be provided. (Please let Pete Erickson know if you will be bringing your child)
Here’s a 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
TLC Summer Ministry Opportunities – Get connected to what’s happening this SUMMER!
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:
June 29 Pool Party (Sandy Stooke’s) (5:30PM) (Cost: $5 for pizza)
July 13 Second Harvest Service Event (Time TBD)
July 27 Pool Party (Sandy Stooke’s) (5:30PM) (Cost: $5 for pizza)
August 3 Valley Fair (9AM-5PM) (Cost: $30 plus food money)
August 17 Pool Party (Sandy Stooke’s) (5:30PM) (Cost: $5 for pizza)
You MUST register to participate – Here is a 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 – July 21 (5:30-7:30PM) and August 8 (Sunday, 10:00AM – Blessing of the Animals)
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:
- July 21 (5:30-7:30PM) – in the TLC Parking Lot
- August 8 (10AM) – 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
Calling ALL TLC paddlers! BWCA Trips are Coming Up!
There is still space for the following TLC BWCA trip this summer:
· August 28-31 – Family Mission Camp at Wilderness Canoe Base. Approx. cost $100 per person. Open to all ages and abilities.
Please contact Pete Erickson or Pastor Arthur for more information or to hold your spot for any of the trips.
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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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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
Barb Halverson
Kevin Erickson
Jerry Hanson
Jean Nyberg
Walt Thomsen
Irene Amon
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Dunwiddie Family
Don Jacobson
Judy Hanson
Ron Schultz
Ron Schroeder
Lavern Nornes
Stephen Nushann
Dave Dickson
Gail Kleven
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Sympathy to family and friends on the death of Larry Granger.
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Live-Stream Viewers
In-Person Attendance
Sunday, June 20, 2021
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8:30am Service
Live-Stream: 42
In-Person: 24
10:00am Service
Live-Stream: 152
In-Person: 17
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VEAP Mission Partners
Summer is here and VEAP is in full swing! Every day, nearly 150 households receive food support from our drive-through and home deliveries. This year alone, we've already distributed 2 million pounds of food and over $2.3 million in rental and utilities assistance through May. Mission Partners like you support this critical work, and I'm writing to share upcoming opportunities for your faith community to get engaged this season at VEAP.
School Supply Drive July 12 - 30, 2021. Thousands of students in the Bloomington, Richfield and Edina school districts need help getting ready for school this fall. VEAP is collecting backpacks, calculators, and other traditional supplies to support them. Please consider hosting a drive with your faith community. Register your drive here and download flyers to spread the word.
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TLC STEWARDSHIP
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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After reading about so many people having mental problems after all the quarantines, or having the virus and not getting completely well for some time, let's think of something we could do, and even cheaply!
Years ago when our first two children were quite young, we wanted to try camping with them, and there were ads about renting all the equipment needed, especially the tent. At first, one doesn't even know what is essential to having a successful try at spending the night outside, cooking outside, and not wishing to be home in our own beds. Being at my parents', we used some of their things: camp stove, and since we didn't have any sleeping bags or cots, we used their sheets and blankets. After we found our campsite, we had never even setup a tent before, so it took awhile. We had enough food, the ice to keep it cold in the coolers, and enough mosquito repellent to keep from being bitten. What could go wrong?
We had found a campsite by a lake, and were enjoying being outside with no TV....no electricity at all, and no phone! The best part of camping outside is just the smell of bacon and eggs frying, coffee cooking on a camp stove, in the morning. It did not rain, so that was a plus, but getting little kids to fall asleep the first night out can be trying, to say the least. We had thought they were potty trained, but discovered that being in a tent and not sleeping as usual can make a difference. The very first morning, guess what? Okay, so I had to take the kids' sheets and rinse them in the lake! No clothesline to hang anything... Why didn't we think of that?
The second night went a lot better. The kids adapted pretty fast and there were no more "rinsing" episodes. They loved camping! No one had brought their dogs along, and we remembered to put all food away so there would be no hungry animals wanting a hand-out.
Our love for being outside and enjoying nature continued for years. The kids were good at finding wood for campfires, we'd gotten ourselves some cots so we would be up off the ground, and bought some sleeping bags. We ended out getting a small trailer to hold all our equipment, learned how to put up a tent quickly and not let any mosquitos get in either. One thing that happens so often when camping on a road trip....If you are in the mountains, it rains so easily almost every afternoon, and keeping things dry is important. Also, with a tent, kids cannot run in and out with muddy feet, or lay things down on the "floor" when there is no hook to hang anything up.
We had some surprising events! We had gone to a camp in the mountains, were walking around just looking at the scenery, and suddenly I saw someone we all knew in another campsite...Milda and Orville Ruud. It was so surprising we all didn't even know what to say! I wonder if Milda still remembers that? Another time it was so cold, and we found Lois and Lavern Nornes in a campsite... It was their son Luther's birthday, and we sat around their fire just getting warm.
Finally, the Birdman and I ended up traveling with friends who pulled a trailer with room for us to sleep too. No more tents, no more cots, such luxury! Sometime I'll tell the tale of how the two couples got separated on the road, and were not anywhere near where our campsite was. They had experienced car trouble, and.... well that's a whole 'nother story.
-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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The parting between Jacob and his father-in-law Laban was not an amicable one. On Laban’s side it was loaded with threats of what he would do to Jacob. Yet, because of a dream he had had from the God of Jacob, he was constrained in doing little more than verbally threatening him.
A quick aside: Jacob spoke of the God of his father Isaac as “the Fear of Isaac” which probably hearkened back to when he was, as a boy, almost sacrificed to Yahweh when Abraham’s faith was tested to the utmost. From that point on, I would imagine, Isaac saw Yahweh as a God to be feared.
As the family moved on, Jacob became aware that his brother Esau was coming to meet him with armed men.
To appease him, Jacob sent gifts of sheep, goats, camels, cattle and donkeys hoping that these gifts would lessen his brother’s supposed anger towards him. And he did this not once, not twice, but three times.
In addition, to protect his family, he divided them up and sent them far enough away so that even if Esau didn’t favorably receive the gifts and took his life, the family would be protected.
Then, at a fork in the river Jabbok, Jacob spent the night in prayer, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
The story tells us that Jacob’s praying was like a wrestling match that he had, first with an angel of Yahweh and then Yahweh himself. What a sight that must have been!
Toward morning, when it seemed that neither could get the better of the other, the angel struck Jacob on his hips socket so that the hip was put out of joint. Then the angel (Yahweh) said to Jacob, “Let me go for the day is breaking” (probably because this divine being could not be seen in broad daylight).
Jacob wouldn’t let go and said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
Then the angel asked his name and he said, “Jacob” (the one who pushes another out of his way). To which the angel then replied, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” From that point on Jacob, now Israel, lived a much different life.
When Jacob tried to discover the name of the divine being he was refused and the angel left him.
The story goes on to tell us that the reunion was a joyful one, that Esau was introduced to Jacob’s family and accepted Jacob’s gifts.
As Shakespeare has said, “All’s well that end’s well”.
Next time: The rape of Dinah and Joseph, the spoiled brat
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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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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 (612-616-5396) or email blepmn@gmail.com.
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TLC Community Event Photos
June 23, 2021
By Pete Erickson
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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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