Sunday, July 28, 2024

This Week's Message is:

"Jesus Feeds Us"



John 6:1-15

ACCESS WORSHIP

Join us for our regular worship Sundays at 8:00 a.m. (Traditional) and at 9:45 a.m. (Praise) which is also always livestreamed on our Facebook and available on our YouTube any time after, not just when we're live. Our most recent worship services are also posted to our website and are featured in this weekly newsletters on Wednesdays.

To view the service from July 21 click here

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR WELCOME TEAM

We always encourage and appreciate volunteers for the Welcome Team to help out with parts of the worship service, such as greeter, welcome table, usher, tellers, coffee server and Communion helpers.

Here is the July Welcome Team

(or click on the picture)

Here is the August Welcome Team



The sheet is on the welcome table to write your name in while you're here or enter in your name from a computer or laptop or contact the office to sign up.

Here is a link to a sign-up genius form for Communion/Altar Care shifts too. Please sign up - we need helpers for this! If you would like to set up, serve or clean up Communion, please contact Ann Krebs Byrne.

Anyone is invited to join the Welcome Team at any time!

SUPER SALE - THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who donated items, took time to help with sorting and pricing, and signed up to help with the sale. It's always a wonderful couple of days to be in touch with our larger community and serve them! We will update you next week on the proceeds, which will be used for our children and youth ministries. Again, thank you! 

Wednesday July 24 NO HELP NEEDED! Call Jillene at 608-692-8265 with any questions or to talk about your job duties for the sale.

SIGN UP FOR BREAKFAST!

If you are interested in helping to serve a breakfast in the future, sign ups are posted by the kitchen. We need people to sign up for August 4th, September 1st, October 6th and November 3rd. If you'd like help, please let the office know! If no one signs up there will be no breakfast.

SHEPHERDS NEEDED

We have a new Team! In order to guide people who are new to our community, we'd like to pair them up with Shepherds - and that's where you come in! The new Shepherd Team has a great group of leaders who will train you to accompany new people, so we're looking for 8-10 individuals or families to be Shepherds. Please let Pastor Heather know if this is something you're interested in. Training will take place early September.

VIDEO & MEDIA PROJECTS

Sandy Kowal and Gregg Schieve are working on some video and media projects for us as a community - and we'd like you involved! On Sundays, please look for Sandy's video set up and be a part of the video of our Welcome Statement that will be up on our website soon. And watch for the new Facebook posts that Gregg is creating - he may ask you to be in a picture or two! Please help out if asked! Thanks! And thanks to Gregg and Sandy!

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL!

Monday, August 5 - Thursday, August 8, 9am - 12pm

One week left to sign up for VBS! Friends and family are welcomed to join! Sign up to attend or volunteer here!

VOLUNTEERS We are looking for someone to lead the opening and closing each day, a few more Crew Leaders and some hands to help serve the family lunch on Thursday. Please let Jessica know if you have any questions or are interested in helping!

DECORATION NIGHT

Please join us next Wednesday, July 31st at 6pm for VBS decoration night. Help us turn our space into underwater fun!

DONATIONS

If you would like to donate snacks for the week or items for Thursday's family lunch, check out the sign up sheet!

CHICAGO MISSION TRIP

Thank you for your support and prayers for the youth on the mission trip.

The group had a wonderful time connecting with friends from Detroit, Michigan as well as the Dolton and South Holland community! Check out their trip journal along with the below photos.



Thank you for your fundraising donations that made this trip possible!

NEW SOCIAL STATEMENT

Thank you so much for joining the Director of the Lutheran Office of Public Policy for Wisconsin, Rev. Cindy Crane, in a vital discussion of a new Social Statement for the ELCA called “Civic Life and Faith” which speaks to the intersection of church and state. In case you weren't able to join us, click here for the statement. And if you would like to reply in order to make your voice known, please reply here. There was also a wonderful video that Pastor Crane shared from our Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton - this is a comment on Christian Nationalism and very well stated. Please watch here!

And please watch for more conversations about these topics coming up in the fall! Book studies and discussions about Christian Nationalism.

ST. MARK'S FOOD PANTRY

Many thanks to all who brought in donations for St Mark’s food pantry in recent weeks. The volunteers at the pantry wanted to extend a huge “thank you” to the congregation for our generosity. In June, St Mark’s pantry served 88 families (ranging from 1 to 9 members/family). Any donations of shelf stable food are always welcome, but they have seen increased requests for ramen noodles and plain pasta (noodles and macaroni) in addition to their top 5 needs of breakfast cereal, soup, condiments, canned fruit and toilet paper. Donations can be placed on the table located in the Community Room. Please continue to help our this wonderful ministry!

EXPO HOUSE NEEDS

We have an updated list of needs from the women in the EXPO house and in the month of August we will be specifically collecting these items for them:

Paper Towels, Toilet Paper, Kleenex, Paper Plates

Cleaning supplies (Windex, PineSol, Pledge, Dawn, etc.)

Laundry supplies (Soap, dryer sheets, scent beads, etc.)

Personal Hygiene products (shampoo/conditioner, body wash, razors, etc.)

First Aid (bandaids, antibiotic cream, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide)

For a more detailed list please click here. There will be a table in the entry way for these items - please look for it throughout the summer!

Here are some other ways you can help:

Donations directly to EXPO (https://expowisconsin.org/)

Uber/Lyft gift cards and/or rides

Carpentry work (need to submit plans for permitting)

Building supplies for shelving

Meals once a month for up to 10 people

Pay for an exterminator

Get involved in advocacy toward better systems

If you would like to connect directly with Tamra about any of the above, please email her or call/text her. Thank you for your help in making our community a welcoming and better place!

BLACK HISTORY FOR A NEW DAY COURSE THIS FALL

Nehemiah will again be offering their Black History for a New Day course this fall. We’ve had two groups plus several individuals from our New Life community take this course virtually – and all found it to be life changing! Now we have the opportunity to learn this important part of American History IN PERSON at the Fountain of Life Church off of South Park Street. The course consists of nine two-hour sessions; this fall it will run Sept 16 through Nov. 18 (skipping Oct 14). Please consider joining this group study. For further information contact Kathy Michaelis (ksmichaelis@gmail.com) or visit https://nehemiah.org/resources/bhfand/

SOCIAL PURPOSE FUND

We continue to need your help in order to be able to distribute gift cards to those in need - which totals on average about $2,000 every month! Because of the increased need, if you would be able to give to this fund, please submit checks with "Social Purpose Fund" in the memo or give online to that fund. Thank you! Also, please know that if you are experiencing any financial need (rent/mortgage, utilities, groceries, medical, unemployment/furlough, etc.) you only need to let Pastor Heather know. This information will be keep confidential to her and our financial officers (treasurer and bookkeeper).

Prayers needed for

Hospitalized, Injured, Ill or Medical Prayers :

Terry Phillips

Stan Phillips

Connie Losse

Vicki Landes

Dave Kolmodin

Barb Zimmerman

Michael Kruchten

Lorraine Kamps 

Hannah Theel

Rick Krueger

Bill Cheadle

Every Day Prayers

Susan Flippin

Alliette Flippin

Donna Butler's daughter Michelle



Apple Grove Lutheran Church in Argyle WI

Charlotte, John and Michael

Condolences



If you would like to be included on our prayer list, please contact the church office. Permission is required from the individual for us to print their name. Individuals will be on the list for one month unless requested.

Please click on the calendar to take you to our Google calendar.

Office hours are Monday through Thursday. Please feel free to contact staff members of New Life by email at newlifelc@newlifelc.com or by calling the office at 608-223-9337. Contacts are listed here.

New Life Staff:

Rev. Heather Hayward, Pastor

pastor@newlifelc.com

Jessica Korrison, Children & Youth Ministry Coordinator

youtheducator@newlifelc.com

Liz Rusch, Office Manager/Newsletter

newlifelc@newlifelc.com

Jim Manos, Bookkeeper

bookkeeper@newlifelc.com

Shakia “Queen” Turner, Property Manager

shakiamturner@yahoo.com

ELCA South-Central Wisconsin Synod website:

https://scsw-elca.org/

New Life Church Council:

Janice Newell, President

Jillene Fisch, Vice-President

Tom Olson, Secretary

Ken Wundrow, Treasurer

Iris Christenson

Brian Coel

Shannon Erb

Deb Kohlwey

Louise Miller

Shawn Peters

Linda Sime

Russell Theel