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During this school year, the St. Paul Sunday School program will have a “kids helping kids” theme, supporting Wellspring Lutheran Services through offerings and donation drives. We were able to donate a generous supply of items to Wellspring from the collection during Sunday School kick-off on September 12. Thank you to those who donated school supplies, personal care items, cleaning supplies, diapers and baby wipes to help support the kids and families that Wellspring serves. Please remember to send offerings with children attending Sunday School. This year, all offerings collected will benefit Wellspring.

The St. Paul adult vocal choir and the bell choir have begun regular rehearsals again! Are you blessed with the ability to sing on pitch (people don't complain when you sing with the radio!), or can you keep a rhythm with some coaching? Are you in high school or older? Talk to choir members and see if this is a way for you to help in worship, or just show up at practice and give it a try.

Vocal choir meets at 6 pm, Bell Choir at 7, on Tuesdays in the church.

Call Tom or Naomi at 989-493-5835 with questions.

PTO is organizing a St. Paul Lutheran Church & School Cookbook fundraiser. Submit your favorite recipes, and order copies for all your friends! Please visit the display set up in the back of church for more details or contact the following:

Shasta Duffey 269-753-4957

Kayla Schlicker 989-450-8057

Deadline for submissions and orders is Monday, October 4.

The 10th annual JME Memorial Run / Walk was a great success! We had record high participation with 176 racers! Following the race, families enjoyed lawn games, concessions, face painting, a bounce house, and good old-fashioned fellowship. It was a beautiful day spent together. Our Dunk Tank Fundraiser, featuring Lara Polzin, Andrea Dent, Justin Garcia, and Pastor Matyas raised $300! Concessions earned another $370 to make next year’s event possible. A special thank you to Liz Begick for donating event beverages and Gary Behmlander for the delicious Italian Ice. Thanks to all who attended and volunteered. We could not have done this without you! See you next year! – With appreciation from the Garcia and Glasser families and the St. Paul Board of Education

If you consider yourself able-bodied, please leave the parking spaces in the front of the church on Ziegler Rd. for those who may need a shorter walking distance. Thank you!

It's back! Friday, October 29th, from 6-7pm, at the school playground and ball diamond. Bring the kids for a bit of trick-or-treating, run around, and enjoy being together. The event will be all outdoors this year, light snacks and cold drinks provided. It's super fun to host a Treat Trunk! Text Katie at 989.225.3532 to register a trunk.

Our vision is to identify the gifts and abilities and time and talents of our congregational family, and connect them to the needs and areas of service of the staff and the programs at St. Paul to further God’s kingdom.

Our annual Roll Call Sunday celebration was not annual last year! So this year we are inviting anyone celebrating an "every 10th Year" anniversary in either 2020 or 2021 to come to the Roll Call Service and Banquet at the 10:30 service on Sunday, Oct. 31 2021. If you were confirmed in one of those years at St. Paul or a sister congregation, you should receive a letter with details and a registration form. If you think this is you (or someone you know) and you haven't gotten a letter, it is possible that our records need updating, so please contact the church office to bring us up to speed. You can also register on-line by going to the St. Paul website (www.stpaulbaycity.org) to the "News & Events: Event Registration" page and clicking on the Roll Call link. If you would like to come to the Banquet, but are not part of one of the classes, you may register on-line as well.

7th and 8th grade families are invited to attend Valley Lutheran's Fall Information Night - a station-based, on-the-move, one-hour, in-person opportunity to experience Valley Lutheran on Thursday, October 7. Hear how VL is a place where students prepare, belong, and excel. Tour new spaces and meet school leaders. Arrivals begin at 6 with the last tour beginning at 7:10. Please let us know when you're coming at www.vlhs.com/InfoNight. Small groups will be maintained throughout the evening. Contact Director of Admissions Amy Cooper at [email protected] with any questions.

In keeping with guidance from the corporate offices of Wellspring Lutheran Services, there will be no Wellspring Auxiliary meeting in September or November this year. Hopefully we will be able to meet again in May 2022.

Like last year, we will be collecting $30.00 Walmart gift cards or checks made out to Wellspring Lutheran Services to help provide Christmas for Bay County foster children handled through their office. The cards and checks need to be taken to the Economy Center by November 5, 2021.

If you have any questions, please call Kathie Colone at 989-671-9650. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

A Hymn Festival celebrating the completion of organ renovations will be held at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Richville on Sunday, September 26, at 3:00 PM. Under the theme "Our Help in Ages Past," it will focus on the blessings of God as He has given them in the past, at the present, and the future.

The organ at St. Michael's was first installed when the new sanctuary was built in 1971. The recent renovations included replacing the console with a new, four manual design, and expanding the size of the instrument by making it a "hybrid," this is, by the addition of electronic stops to the existing pipes. The newly remodeled instrument now has 2395 pipes and a total of 92 ranks (both pipe & digital).

The organist for the Festival will be St. Michael's new Director of Parish Music, Dr. Jon Eifert. He holds the D.M.A. in organ performance from the University of Texas, where he studied with Dr. Gerre Hancock. He has been an active organ teacher and clinician, and has played many organ dedication concerts across the country over the course of his career. The Adult Choir of St. Michael's Church will also be featured. Some highlights include Bach's monumental Passacaglia and Fugue; Maurice Durufle's Chorale & Varations on "Veni, Creator," plus featured Hymn Concertatos and settings by Walter Pelz, Charles Ore, Paul Manz, John Behnke, Ralph Vaughan Williams, & Jon Eifert.

The public is cordially invited and encouraged to attend. A free-will offering will be received. Come and join us as we sing about the greatness of God's gifts to us all.

The ladies of Zion Lutheran Church of Beaver will be having a take-out only Smorgasbord Dinner and Country Store on Sunday, October 3, 2021, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the school located at Eleven Mile and Seidler Roads northwest of Auburn. A dinner is $12. They will be serving an old-fashioned country meal, including pork sausage, chicken, sauerkraut, dressing, German potato salad, real mashed potatoes and gravy, baked beans, squash, coleslaw, and pies. The Country Store will be open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and will feature Christmas items, sweethearts, plants, home-grown produce, candy, baked goods, and hand-crafted items.

In two years of regular operations, Orphan Grain Train—Michigan has prepared 9,000 boxes of humanitarian relief assembled at the OGT Center in Sebewaing. Goods include clothing, bedding, medical equipment, hygiene and school kits, and more. Donations and funding gifts make this work possible. We continue a general call throughout the church. Donations of clean serviceable clothing of all sorts (infant, children, adult) are welcomed. Medical supplies, bicycles in working condition, and blankets are also in the nature of primary needed goods. A much fuller list may be found at www.ogt.org. Tap “What We Do / Special Project / Wish List.” Items may be delivered to the OGT-Michigan Center Tuesdays or Thursdays (9:00 am—noon) or by special arrangement by calling 989-600-2264. The Orphan Grain Train—Michigan Center is located at 126 E. Main, Sebewaing. Our team of volunteers actively prepares these desperately needed relief supplies for people world-wide.