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Redeemer Happenings
June 2019
A Tale of Three Churches
Redeemer Three Lutheran Churches in
Saskatoon will celebrate significant
anniversaries this year - Redeemer
celebrates 60 years, Augustana
celebrates 90 years and Zion
celebrates 100 years.
Full details of the events are available on
the church websites:
redeemersaskatoon.ca
augustanasaskatoon.net
Zion zionsaskatoon.com
Here is a brief summary of the Sunday
services:
Redeemer - Sunday, June 16, 2019,
10:00am A Celebration Service will be
held with shared memories of the past
60 years. Cake and fellowship to follow.
Augustana - Sunday, June 23, 2019,
Augustana
10:30am A Celebration Service will be
held. Guest Preacher will be Bishop Sid
Haugen. The service will use the Hosanna
Jazz Liturgy.
Zion - Sunday, June 30, 2019, 10:00am
Festival worship followed by a light lunch
and birthday cake.
Older but Wiser
LutheranS
June Lunch
Thursday,
June 13 -12 noon
About 25 years ago, Loraine Schultz’s daughter
Marla invited Bill and Loraine to visit Nepal Join us on Sunday, June 2nd at 3:00pm as
while she was there. They went with some anxi- we welcome the LCBI choir in concert
ety as it was not their custom to travel in third
world countries. However, they went and came featuring our own Elsa Graupe. Refresh-
away with an appreciation of life in Nepal and a ments and fellowship will follow the con-
special appreciation of how privileged we are to
live in a free country like Canada. cert.
The entire family returned 10 years ago and
Marla, her husband JP and 2 young girls have
just come back after spending the month of
March in the villages. Loraine and Marla will
share their experiences in being connected to Worship Teams
the people in Naudanda, Nepal.
Come out to our final OWLS Luncheon before June Team Galatians
we break for the summer. We will be BBQing July Team Ephesians
and there is no charge! Please phone the August Team Philippians
church office to RSVP by Tuesday, June 11.
September Team Romans
October Team Corinthians
November Team Galatians
Council Corner
As part of a commitment we made a year ago we plan on continuing to
provide updates to the congregation in a variety of ways throughout
2019. One of those ways is to continue to make available the Leader-
ship team minutes once they are approved. To help with knowing who
to ask questions, in this newsletter and placed in the place of welcome, we are also including a
point of contacts list which includes the responsible leadership team members, staff members
and some of our volunteer points of contact. Although we may list one or two points of con-
tact there are numerous very active volunteers that make sure everything comes together at
Redeemer. Please accept any errors and omissions as just that and do let us know if we missed
anything you feel is important. Within the next month we will be trying to find time to hold an
information session focused on an update on where we are with progress against our vision
including an update on how things have progressed with our sister Lutheran ELCIC churches in
Saskatoon.
Our next key congregational activity is the 60th Anniversary of Redeemer. Special thanks to or-
ganizers, Ed Miller, Arlene Schmalz, Margaret Lissel and Ed & Gwen Herman. I am sure this
event will be a fitting celebration of the great community we have at Redeemer. Something
you hopefully don’t notice is that we are upgrading some of our computer hardware and soft-
ware. Special thanks to Tim Akre who has kept all of our equipment running for years and to
Rod Carter who has been lending his talents to the upgrades over the past couple of months.
Brett Wilson on behalf of your Leadership Team
Points of Contact
Vision / Capability Priority
Key Tasks - Leadership Volunteers
Vision;
Capability Subset Key Tasks that support Leadership Liaison Point of Contact
Priority
Worship Service Planning Worship Teams – Ushers, Greeters, Readers, Communion Assistants
Ed Miller
Service Planning PowerPoint Wendy Erickson
Service Planning
Communion Joel Nostbakken
Service Planning Sound Joel Nostbakken; Tim Akre
Service Planning Bryce MacEwan
Coordinate Sunday bulletin preparation and communicate the service,
Becky
bulletin, announcements and readings to staff and volunteers
Service Planning Encourage youth, lay people in services
Service Planning Service style: Music selection and delivery covered by Pastor; Admin Pastor
Assistant to make the contacts
Christian Children Sunday School as part of Worship Service
Rhonda Bhouris;
Education Deb Voigts;
Charlene Neumeyer;
coordination of
Lisa Sparrow-
Volunteers
Moellenbeck
Youth CLAY Lavina Carter Marlo Wilson
Adult Bible study
Rhonda Bhouris;
Charlene Neumeyer;
Ed Miller
Lisa Sparrow-
Moellenbeck
Confirmation (Shared City-wide
Pastor Parent as required
Service)
Community life Congregational groups RLC Circles; Men's Breakfast, FELLOWSHIP ACTIVITIES, etc (see version 1
Lavina Carter various
of Community Life Playbook at RLC)
Garage Sale Annual event
Charlene Neumeyer n/a
60th Anniversary 2019 key activity Ed Miller; Gwen
Arlene Schmaltz Herman; Margaret
Lissel
Fall Supper Annual event TBD
Potluck Meals Continue to provide monthly meals Deb Voigts;
n/a
volunteers
Visitation Continue to provide visitations by pastor and volunteers Becky Wilson;
Pastor
Bernie Karstad
Mission Continue to provide special mission projects (e.g. Food bank, refugees, Pastor;
Staff; Volunteers
CLWR) Joel Nostbakken
Vacation Bible School • Timeline: Planning starts January-February, along with the pastor(s), in
areas of curriculum/resource selection and calendaring.
• Planning and recruiting team members also inclusive of preparations of Marlo Wilson and
resources and providing training/equipping for each team member prior Lavina Carter Lavina Carter
to VBS. coordinators
Connectivity with various actions based on databased information
Brett Wilson;
Families Becky Wilson
Bruce Grahn; Pastor
Collaboration Actively pursue combining with other Lutheran churches; Open the Pastor Trent; Brett Pastor Trent; Brett
church facility for more community use during the week Wilson; Paul Deason; Wilson; Paul
Bruce Grahn Deason; Gretchen
Roesler; Bruce
Grahn
Lutheran Janitorial Cleans the church Ron Litzenberger Deb Voigts
Churches in
Saskatoon
Operations Rental Property Manages rental property Joel Nostbakken Deb Voigts
Repairs; Maintenance Church Maintenance Joel Nostbakken Deb Voigts; Tim
Akre
IT Support Infrastructure Brett Wilson Deb Voigts
Staff See Job descriptions (Bookkeeper, Administrative Assistant, Facilities & Brett Wilson; Ron n/a
Volunteer Coordinator) Litzenberger; Bruce
Grahn
Information Sessions 3-4 times per year provide information on various activities in the church Brett Wilson; Council members;
Bruce Grahn volunteers
Policy Update, create policies as needed Zane Hansen;
Ron Litzenberger;
Lisa Sparrow-
Moellenbeck
Stewardship Committee see terms of reference Ron Litzenberger Ed Miller
Committees Nominations Committee Brett Wilson; Wendy Hansen
Bruce Grahn
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Registration for Redeemer VBS 2019 is open but filling fast!
This year Redeemer’s VBS will go To Mars and Beyond on July 15 -
July 19, 2019, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.
Registration Forms are available at
www.redeemersaskatoon.ca. Feel free to share it with family and
friends. If you have any questions, contact us at
redeemervbs@sasktel.net or 306-374-7585.
Ways for YOU to help make our VBS successful!
1. Donate Items There is a list of wanted items on the board in the Place of Welcome
which will be updated regularly.
Things that will be used as décor Things that will be used with no hopes of being
and returned to you (label with your returned
name)
Rope lights (any colour) 2 L pop bottles or milk jugs (rinsed)
Small lights (fairy lights) Small, clear plastic bottles with lids (water bottles)
Black tarps/sheets Metal rings and tops from canning jars
*Any space themed items* Metal lids from frozen juice concentrate
250-500 ml clear glass jars
Shop vac – broken/unusable
Aluminum tape
Flexible dryer vent hose
2. Volunteer For the week of VBS or a few days of it
For preparations leading up to VBS
For the community evening on Thursday July 18th
Please see Lavina Carter or Marlo Wilson or leave a message at the church office if you are
able to assist in any way!
Next VBS Prep Days: Thursday June 6th at 9:30am , Tues. June 11th at 6:30pm,
The excitement is starting to soar for To Mars & Beyond VBS where we will Explore Where
God’s Power Can Take You!
Lavina and Marlo
Women’s Ministry
Women’s Ministry News – June 2019
Our mission is to encourage growth and development of women through
faithful service in Christ, regular study of scripture and faith in action.
The Women’s Ministry prayer chain is a prayer support for the members of our congregation. Any pray-
er requests can be forwarded to Pastor Trent or the office, and they are forwarded to the women of the
prayer chain. Previously, the prayer chain has always been contacted by phone, but we have now ex-
panded that to include the option to be contacted by email as well. If you would like to join the prayer
chain, let Becky at the office know, and she can add you as a prayer chain contact.
Thank you to those who have supported the Women’s Ministry “No Bake Sale.” If you haven’t already,
please consider donating. The money collected will support several worthwhile causes within and out-
side our church.
Upcoming Events:
1. Gather Magazine Renewals Due June 2nd
2. Let-Us-Eat Salad Supper Women’s Nite Out– Tuesday, June 4th at 6:00 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge -
Bring your favourite salad to share (Hannah Circle hosting/ Ruth Circle Clean-up)
3. CLWR Packing Day – June 18th at 2pm (All the Beautiful Quilts and We Care Bags containing various
kits will be sent on their way to new homes!)
Bible Study for the month of June (from Gather June 2019 magazine p.22): For Just Such a Time as This:
Ester the Queen: Voices in the King’s Court.
All women are welcome to come to any of our monthly Bible Studies. For more information, please call
Becky at the church office.
Summer Bible Studies:
Augustana Lutheran Church at 1201 Broadway Avenue will be hosting the July Bible Study on Monday,
July 15th at 7:00 p.m. Pastor Marilyn Fowlie-Neufeld is the guest speaker.
Redeemer will be hosting the August Bible Study on Tuesday, August 20 th at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor
Heather Anderson leading us.
Hope you can take in both events and join us for some fellowship and refreshments with women from
other congregations this summer. It is always great to see old friends and to make some new ones too!
Hannah Circle Thursday, June 6, 2:00 pm @ Jeannine Smith’s, 202 1st St. E.
Rebekah Circle Tuesday, June 18, 2:00 pm @ the church
Ruth Circle Thursday, June 20, 7:00 pm @ Lavina Carter’s
Mary Magdalene Circle Tuesday, June 25, 2:00 pm in the Fireside Lounge
Saturday, June 15
8:00am Grainfield’s Restaurant in
Grosvenor Park Mall
All men are welcome!
STEWARDSHIP IS ... …A FAITH ISSUE "Stewardship, including financial stewardship, is essentially a faith issue… God calls us stewards as his beloved children, and promises his love and acceptance of us forever. Having incorporated us into his fam- ily, then God invites us to work in the world to foster God's purposes. Part of that call is to acknowledge in our hearts and lives that our very being and everything we have belongs to God, and we are caretakers using ourselves for his Kingdom." Dr. William O. Avery, "Y2K, A Report Card on Stewardship", Faith in Action, (Winter 1999), p. 13 …BETWEEN GOD AND US "Stewardship is a relational issue between God and us. We may have a good relationship (like Zacchaeus in Luke 19) or we may have a bad relationship (like the rich ruler in Luke 18). Our stewardship is how we live in that relationship between God and us. More- over, God invites us to consider money and possessions in the same way we are to consider everything else: as belonging to God who has entrusted them into our hands. The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue. Dr. William O. Avery, "Y2K, A Report Card on Stewardship", Faith in Action, (Winter 1999), p. 13 …LIVING IN COVENANT "The Christian who sees his or her primary identity as a steward living in covenant with the living God will not have to struggle too much with stewardship as an abstract concept. When we realize that to be a steward is far more than to wonder about how much money to give to the church, that is the beginning of our journey as stewards. " Ronald E. Vallet, The Steward Living in Covenant (Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2001), p. 1 …GOOD NEWS "How we use and manage God's gifts affects far more than our economic life. We are stewards in our use of God's creation, in our personal relationships, in our political and ecclesial institutions, in our work, and in our use of time. Indeed, we are stewards of the gospel itself—the good news entrusted to all of us in the church." Bruce C. Birch, in his Foreword to The Steward Living in Covenant by Ronald E. Vallet, p. xii …A JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE "Our religion is not a struggle to develop our own spiritual resources in order to rise to his (God's) level. It is a joyful acceptance of the divine resources to which we have access because he has descended to our level… The keynote of this Christ centered theology is grace… We do not have to bargain with God: if I do this for you, will you do this for me? We do not have to buy his favour. It is he who has already bought us with a price… He has already given us the status of sons." T. A. Kantonen, A Theology for Christian Stewardship (Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1956), p8 - 9 …A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED "God invites us to develop into stewards. As stewards we accept the mantle of leadership and do so in every aspect of life. One of the main problems in today's church is that too many laity are content to remain as children of God and disciples rather than assume the responsibility of stewardship leadership. You become a steward when you recognize that you are responsible for some thing you do not own and you act on that recognition… What the Christian Church needs today is for laity to take their proper place as stewards throughout their lives. Our society needs laity to accept the challenge of living as leaders—taking active responsibility in their lives as co-workers with God in God's plan for this world." William O Avery, A History of Stewardship (Chicago, Lutheran Laity Movement for Stewardship 1995), pp. 34 - 35 …A REASON TO REJOICE "…loving God, loving people, reaching out." Herb Miller in his foreword to Eugene Grimm's Generous People (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1992) p 7 "We believe, teach and confess that everything we have is a gift from God entrusted to our nurture and care and that the Christian life is a life of stewardship." "We, as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, will celebrate and rejoice in the gifts which God has given us to carry out our mission in the world today. Where we see need we will take action. We will use our gifts deliberately to be the people of God for others."
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
1:30 pm AA [Hall]
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
10:00 am Worship 9:00 am Quilters 9:30 am Tai Chi 9:00 am Quilters 8:00 pm AA [Hall] 1:30 pm AA [Hall]
3:00 pm LCBI Choir 5:30 pm Leadership Team 6:15 pm Weight 9:30 am VBS Prep
Concert meeting Watchers 2:00 pm Hannah Circle
6:00 pm Let-Us Eat Salad 7:00 pm Stephen Ministry Peer
Supper Supervision
7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
10:00 am Worship 6:30 pm VBS Prep 9:30 am Tai Chi 12:00 pm Senior Lunch 8:00 pm AA [Hall] 8:00 am Men's Prayer
1:00 pm KInasao SIT 6:15 pm Weight 7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall] Breakfast
training / Fireside Watchers 1:30 pm AA [Hall]
Rm & Hall
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
10:00 am RLC 60th 9:00 am Quilters 9:30 am Tai Chi 7:00 pm Ruth Circle @ Lavina 8:00 pm AA [Hall] 1:30 pm AA [Hall]
Anniversary 2:00 pm Rebekah Circle 1:00 pm ICHM Lunch Carter's
Worship & Fireside Rm 7:00 pm Stephen Ministry Peer
Celebration 6:15 pm Weight Supervision
Watchers 7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
10:00 am Worship 2:00 pm Mary Magdalene 9:30 am Tai Chi 7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall] 8:00 pm AA [Hall] 1:30 pm AA [Hall]
Circle 6:15 pm Weight
Watchers
30
10:00 am Worship
Redeemer Lutheran Church Redeemer Lutheran Church Offers:
812 Preston Avenue • A dynamic, multi-generational worship opportunity at
Saskatoon SK 10:00am on Sundays.
S7H 2V2 • A vibrant and diverse community of believers who want to
Phone: 306-374-7585 welcome you
E-mail: redeemer.luth.stoon@sasktel.net
• Confirmation
• Women’s Ministry – fostering friendship and Bible Study
We’re on the web! • Senior Lunches monthly September - June
redeemersaskatoon.ca • An exciting and community-wide Vacation Bible School
• Ongoing support and spiritual care for people in need
A Community of • Exciting ways to put faith in motion through missionary and
Life & Love, charitable activities
• Many opportunities for fun and fellowship
Hope & Healing
Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you
want to be important, wonderful. If you want to
be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be
great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is
greatest among you shall be your servant.
That’s your new definition of greatness. And this
morning, the thing that I like about it, by giving
that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Because
everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You
don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have
to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s
theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of ther-
modynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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