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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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COVID Protocol
Wearing face coverings inside TLC is now required at all
services and indoor activities, regardless of vaccination status.
Singing is welcome. Social distancing optional.
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Rob Reid Director of Music |
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Bonus Worship This Week
Attend and/or Watch BOTH Services!
Greetings, Everyone!
It’s my pleasure to invite you to our worship services this weekend – we have two different services for you, one at 8:30am and one at 10:00am. So read on to decide which service you plan to attend/watch - or maybe I will convince to partake of both this week!
At 8:30am Organist Karen Daniels will share special music during the Prelude, Postlude, and Communion. Her solo pieces this week are by local composers: Mark Sedio of Central Lutheran and Augsburg College; David Cherwien of Mount Olive Lutheran and the National Lutheran Choir; and Kristina Langlois, recently retired organist of Westwood Lutheran Church. Jill and Rob Reid will lead the Psalmody, will sing “Here I Am to Worship” by Michael W. Smith for the Offering, and with Karen, will lead our Hymns and Songs, including some wonderful favorites: “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms,” “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” “My Faith Looks Up to Thee,” and “Standing on the Promises.” It’s a veritable Gospel Hymn Festival!
At 10:00am the Praise and Worship Team will share their special music and will lead our Hymns and Songs. Some of the joyous and lively songs include “Let Us Go Now to the Banquet,” “Step by Step,” and Bonnie Drewes’ songs “Glory to God” and “We Go Out from this Place.” Following the sermon we will sing a very calming hymn called “Come and Find the Quiet Center,” with words by a contemporary poet Shirley Erena Murray set to the familiar hymn tune of “Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service.” We will also hear from soloists Jill and Rob Reid and Shelley Smith throughout the service.
Pastor Arthur will preach, and Pastor Melanie will lead our liturgy and prayers, and will preside at Communion.
Hope to see you this weekend at TLC, or that you can join your TLC Family on-line!
Peace,
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TLC is Hiring
We are currently in need of a part-time Administrative Associate to work in the TLC office.
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This information is also on the TLC Website under the Documents menu.
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Live-Stream Viewers
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In-Person Attendance
Sunday, August 15, 2021
8:30 am Service
Note: The week before (August 8) was the single blessing of the animals service. There was no 8:30 service.
Live-Stream: 98 (week before: n/a)
In-Person: 41 (week before: n/a)
10:00am Service
Live-Stream: 212 (week before: 214)
In-Person: 40 (week before: 66)
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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
Dunwiddie Family
Don Jacobson
Judy Hanson
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Ron Schultz
Ron Schroeder
Stephen Nushann
Dave Dickson
Gail Kleven
Deanna Juergen
Sharon McComb
Marilyn Rundberg
Nicole Towns
Ray Jones
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Last Sunday, TLC hosted the 5th of 6 Imagination Events. Each event considers a particular area of ministry and this week it was Mission and Outreach. Many thanks to all who participated in-person or online. A special thanks is due to those who presented reports (available below): Ingrid Swanson on volunteer activities, John Thomson on benevolence support, Pastor Eva on Synod support, Barb Wigstadt on the ELC, Linda Meyer on Addiction and Faith, and Gretchen Schroeder on Center for Changing Lives – Liberia (PACT). A fruitful and enlightening discussion followed as together we considered strengths, challenges, opportunities and next steps. Our final Imagination Event will be this Sunday on Financial Sustainability. Please plan to join us in-person or online. |
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This Sunday, August 22
1:00pm to 4:00pm - Fellowship Hall
Topic: Financial Sustainablility
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You are invited to an Imagination Event that will engage the congregation in articulating their values, hopes, and aspirations for the Financial Sustainability of TLC’s 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)
- Masks required inside.
- Snacks and beverages will be provided
- Childcare for elementary-age students will be provided, please let Pete Erickson (perickson@tlcmn.com) know if you will be bringing your child.
Join the Zoom Coverage of the Meeting
Meeting ID: 885 0554 6383
Passcode: 850633
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PDF REPORTS FROM EVENTS TO DATE
Children, Youth and Family
Building and Property
Consolidated Care Ministry
Diversity and Neighbor Engagement
Mission and Outreach
SCHEDULE
- May 23 – Children, Youth and Family (completed)
- June 27 – Building and Property (completed)
- July 11 – Seniors and Care Ministry (completed)
- July 18 – Diversity and Neighbor Engagement (completed)
- Aug 15 – Mission and Outreach (completed)
- Aug 22 – Financial Sustainability
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We celebrated the success of YOUR donations for TLC's important missions and ministries. Click above to watch the video summarizing the accomplishments. |
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That's us!
Please visit the VEAP website to learn more.
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Plant - By Anna
Anna is 11 years old and has been in the ELC Photo Club for several years. She didn't do any digital editing of this picture because she was confident it turned out just how she wanted it when she took it. Anna is also taking pictures all the time at home and likes to pose her stuffed animals for different "photo shoots."
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Discover a place where your
children know they are home.
-Now Enrolling for the Fall-
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Explore KinderPlus!
Older preschoolers - 5 year olds this summer and children who missed Kindergarten.
Cut off: turning 5 this fall through December
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It's Tuesday morning, and after hearing so much about Kabul and the Taliban, there was a lot to read in the newspaper.
One surprise article that I had not anticipated was a woman's story about her "breakthrough" Covid 19 experience. She told in detail how she'd been fully vaccinated, and felt able now to be with friends and relatives, and did just that... Then, after all her relatives had been in her home, she began to have symptoms and felt ill. She went to a clinic for what she thought was a sinus infection and found out she had been exposed to the virus and had to tell all her relatives she was sorry to have maybe given them Covid 19 even after being vaccinated.
The Star Tribune knows how to surprise us. The clinic did tell her that her illness would be much milder because of vaccination. How mild is mild? Her sense of taste and smell left, she was so weak and feverish that just getting a glass of water for herself made her so weak that she had to sit down on the kitchen floor.
After reading most of the first section of the paper today, I decided the "funnies" might be better reading. With the State Fair soon in full swing, how can we spend a day there amongst the huge crowds and not wonder what we may have "picked up" besides fabulous new fair foods "on a stick?" People rely on the fair for their summer "job" and for a last fling before school opens. To go or not to go at all?... good question.
Another venue that is questionable: What about the crowds of motorcyclists in Sturgis, South Dakota? Did they have an event last summer that caused the virus to spread? All our "good times" seem to be causing a lot of problems. I doubt they have social distancing, with circles to stand in, firmly in place on the floor.
Well, what should we do? Let's keep on being vigilant as before, wear your mask, wash your hands often, drink lots of water, eat well, exercise if possible, and if you do decide to go to the fair, perhaps stay on the fringes of the crowd instead of right in the middle. When I see pictures on TV of the crowds milling all over and standing close together in line for fair food ... we have to use common sense.
A sad note this week. Pastor Murray's lovely dog, Suka, passed away after being a part of his family throughout many years. So hard to lose a pet who has been a good friend for so long. At least Pierre Richard and Richenarde have their guinea pigs, but thirteen years of Suka? What a beautiful dog that was!
-Bloomington Bird Lady
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Reverend Al Dungan is a retired Lutheran pastor. |
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Thoughts by
Reverend Al Dungan
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Who Wrote the Bible?
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“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”
The brothers who had sold Joseph to the Midianite traders had lived with their deception of what they had done to their brother.
Now they were faced with having to deal with that deception and it was tearing them up.
Running out of grain again, their father urged them to return to Egypt to buy more. But they reminded him of what the powerful Egyptian had commanded them: the youngest brother must return with them or he would never allow them to buy grain again.
First Reuben, and then Judah swore to their father that if anything happened to Benjamin on the trip they would shoulder the blame forever.
Finally, with great fear and trembling, they returned to Egypt with the money that had mysteriously appeared in their sacks on the first trip, plus more to buy more grain.
Joseph was not about to let them off the hook and when he invited them to eat with him, they were afraid that they would end up being slaves.
Once again, they had to humble themselves before Joseph’s steward and pleaded with him to accept both bags of money so they wouldn’t be perceived as deceitful. Ha!!
They were now feeling the guilt and shame of what they had done to their brother Joseph and were afraid that somehow this powerful Egyptian would call them to account for what they had done.
Then, wonder of wonders, they were told that they wouldn’t be held responsible for the money issue and their brother Simeon, who had been held hostage, was now freed.
Their heads must have been spinning! And to top it all off, they were again invited to eat and were seated according to their age at the table. How could this be known?
Food was readily available and five times what the other brothers received was given to Benjamin—a sneaky trick on Joseph’s part to see if this favoritism might create jealousy on the part of the other brothers.
But, there’s more, as the TV ad says.
Next time: Joseph plays a dirty trick on the brothers.
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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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Daily Affirmations
Daily affirmations are positive phrases that a person repeats to him or herself through meditation or prayer that complements the thought process. It is the action or process of affirming something or being affirmed, and it often provides emotional encouragement or support. Daily affirmations are beneficial because they promote a positive mindset and focus on intentions for change or to live a healthy life. Similar to physical exercise, positive affirmations can increase the amount of feel-good hormones in our brain. Positive thoughts create positive emotions, which can actually change our physiology and improve our mental, emotional and physical health.
Affirmations are typically "I" statements. Some easy affirmations include:
- I am loved and appreciated.
- I am capable of achieving anything.
- I am becoming a better version of myself every day.
- My past has no power over me.
- I forgive myself.
- I can and I will.....
Words are powerful and affirmations can help get you to where you want to go - whether that is in recovery from substance abuse, codependency, to stop smoking, to adopt a healthier relationship with food or weight, or to generally change one's outlook on life. Additionally, sharing affirmations with others can be equally motivating and beneficial. This is a great way to help your loved ones feel inspired and supported as they deal with a particular challenge or issue. Simply change the "I" statements to "You" statements. Share positive, daily affirmations abundantly - there are plenty to go around!
- Beth Rahn, Addiction Awareness Team member
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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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Click button above to experience additional details
about the upcoming October conference.
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More than 300,000 children in Minnesota live with food insecurity. When these children don’t have access to the free and reduced meal programs at school, they don’t have access to reliable food and the risk of hunger is very real. Every Meal works to fight hunger in our community by filling the gaps in food access that children face during weekends, summers, and extended breaks.
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
Since March 2020, Every Meal has responded to the skyrocketing increase in food insecurity in our community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic by adapting our food gap programs to get food to children and families who need it most. To provide more meals to more children in our community, we need to raise more funds to expand our program to 550 schools, which account for 47% of school-age children in the state.
Thanks to community support, Every Meal has provided OVER 4.1 MILLION MEALS. We continue to adapt our work to meet the rising demand and need your continued support.
Every Meal will be there for children through the ongoing disruptions caused by COVID-19 and long after to help stabilize families.
NOTE: Through the generosity of TLC’s 1 + 1 Mission Campaign, a check for $7,000 has been given to Every Meal (formerly The Sheridan Story).
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Above is the YouTube link to a video I made covering the State Fair over a two year period not that long ago. Rather than just a bunch of footage of a "few of my favorite things" at the Fair, I thought I'd make it into a trivia quiz, called STATE FAIR POP-UPS ON A STICK!
So, if you can't attend this year, watch this video to soothe your need. Or, if you're going, watch this video to whet your appetite (chocolate malt at the Dairy Building anyone?) and also see some footage of the old Heritage Square before and after it was destroyed.
Brad Nolte
TLC Weekly Editor
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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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