Peace Council

Derek Getz, Chair PO Box 214 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2445 getzderek@yahoo.com Nancy Waugh 805 Spruce Ave Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2282 nhwaugh@runestone.net Tom Perry PO Box 159 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2342 T.RP@Live.com Terry Volker 17239 US Hwy 59 Barrett, MN 56311 volkercrr@gmail.com Patricia Schack 20815 180th Ave Barrett, MN 56311 218-685-5478 schack@runestone.net Diane Puchalski 22785 Co Rd 21 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-6208 puc@runestone.net Craig Schroeder 23877 Co Rd 21 Elbow Lake, MN 56531 218-685-6277 craig.schroeder@starbank.net Jennifer McLaughlin 11254 Co Rd 2 Barrett, MN 56311 320-986-2139 mikejen@runestone.net Youth Representative Koel Seifert

Peace Lutheran Church

December 2012
2012 DECEMBER SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS Our Sunday School Christmas Program is entitled, A Traditional Christmas Pageant: and will be held on Sunday, December 16th at 10:30 am. Come see our students perform and sing your favorite Christmas carols! Practices will be held on Sundays, December 2nd and 9th from 9:00 am until 10:15 am. Please make sure your kids are there and if they arent able to be there, let us know so we can juggle the parts around. Were asking that they come a little bit early so we can do costume fitting and practice singing. Dress rehearsal will be held on Saturday, December 15th at 3:00 pm. All our actors, readers, and animals will have on last chance to practice. We can use all the extra help we can get during this busy season. If you can help with stage design, props, or costumes, please let us know. There is no Sunday School on Sundays, December 23rd and 30th. A blessed holiday season to all! We start our new year out on January 6th, 2013 with our Winter Rally watch for details. Our first rotation of 2013 is The Prodigal Son followed by Ten Men Healed in February and March and The Sower in April. On our Sunday School wish list is help in our Movie Room. We need speakers, etc. in our favorite room. Please contact Joyce if you have suggestions or can help in any way. Thanks so much. Joyce Hanson, Director Peace Sunday School 320-528-2354 (Home) 320-304-0727 (Cell) baskets@runestone.net (email)

Christmas Day Dinner will be served here at Peace Church at 12:00 pm. Meat and potatoes, dressing, bread and beverages will be provided. A sign up sheet will be posted to RSVP along with what dish you will be bringing. Everyone Welcome!

Christ In Our Home

is a devotional published 4 times a year and available to our members. You will find copies on the table in the back of the church.

American Red Cross Bloodmobile At Peace Lutheran Church December 6 (2:007:00pm) December 7(9am2pm)
Call Connie at 528-6200 for more information.

Beginning December 2, 2012 we will be adding an 8am service. This will not affect times for our 9:15 Sunday School or our 10:30am service, so we are expecting it to fit in nicely with what we already offer here at Peace. As of right now the decision has been made to give this new service time several months of life and evaluate how it fits into worship life together around Easter. Please let us know by voting with your presence.

DECEMBER

2012

Advent Brunch, Bake Sale & Hand-Crafted Sale

Sunday, Dec. 2, Peace Lutheran 9:00 -10:30, 11:30-12:30 Baked French Toast Sausage Fruit Milk Coffee
Free-Will Donations to support Peace WELCAs mission projects

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2012

Peace Church Council Minutes October 10, 2012

Meeting was called to order by Vice President, Tom Perry. Devotional Time was given by Pastor Matthew Rose. Members Present: Nancy Waugh, Tom Perry, Craig Schroeder, Jennifer McLaughlin, Treas. Sandy Kashmark, Koel Seifert, Diane Puchalski. Members Absent: Derek Getz, Patricia Shervey, Terry Volker. Secretary's Report was motioned for approval by Nancy, 2nd by Jennifer and carried. Treasurer's report was presented by Sandy. After some discussion, it was motioned by Diane to approve it, with Jennifer 2nd to the motion, carried. Pastor's Report was given. Highlights of his report included the 2013 Mystery Mission Trip - Sign up will take place in November to allow for plenty of time to plan and prepare for it. -- He has been in contact with the post office about sending post cards to Barrett zip code residents to invite them to worship with us. -- Release time is going well; there is more time spent with the kids now that we have our own transportation. -- Confirmation class is made up of 12-13 students. This is a huge class; Pastor is looking for an adult helper. -- Nursing Home services are once a week. -- He has been spending a lot of time with a few people rather than the same time with lots of people; this changes with seasons and happenings in people's lives. Old Business: Bus - warranty work is being done right now and should be done this week. We will send a Thank you to Beyers Tire Repair in Elbow Lake for the donated tire. The budget meeting has been rescheduled for Oct. 14, 2012 after church services. New Business: Offering a second service was discussed. Jennifer motioned to move forward with scheduling a second service at 8:00am beginning Dec. 2, 2012 if all the logistics can be worked out by then. Nancy 2nd the motion, carried. Snow removal: Tom volunteered to talk to one of our members to see if he is interested in doing it again Church laptop: Pastor Matthew mentioned that the laptop is four years old. It is getting outdated and slow - we may need to replace it soon. It was brought up that the sound quality is not always good on the TV broadcast of services. There is really not much we can do about it - can try to turn up the speakers. Nancy motioned to adjourn the meeting, 2nd by Craig, carried. Closing prayer was led by Pastor Matthew. Submitted by Diane Puchalski, Acting Secretary

December 2012
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Worship 8am Sunday School 9:15am Worship 10:30am Advent Brunch 9:00am

Release time 2:10pm Confirmation 3:30-5:15pm

Mens Breakfast 6:30am Bloodmobile 2pm

No Faithful Folders Bloodmobile 9am

Worship 8am Sunday Schoo9:15sm Worship 10:30am

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Release time 2:10pm Confirmation 3:30-5:15pm Council 6pm

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Mens Breakfast 6:30am

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Faithful Folders 10am

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10am SS Christmas Program Rehearsal B Care Center

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Worship 8am Sunday School 9:15am Worship/Sunday School Christmas Program 10:30am

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Release time 2:10pm Confirmation 3:30-5:15pm

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Mens Breakfast 6:30am

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Faithful Folders 10am

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8am Worship Worship 10:30am Mens Choir 9:40 am No Sunday School

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Christmas Eve Worship

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Christmas Day

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No Release time No Confirmation

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No Mens Breakfast

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No Faithful Folders

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Worship 8am Worship 10:30am No Sunday School

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Make your checks payable to Lakeland Hospice Foundation You can drop it off at the office or put it in my box at the back of the church. Sign your Angel and hang it on Our Angel tree. Thanks

Lakeland Hospice Angel Tree

Join our congregation as we raise money to help Lakeland Hospice provide compassionate end-of-life care to our family, friends, and neighbors by participating in this years Angel Tree. Your $5 donation will give you an angel to hang on our tree in honor or memory of a friend or loved one. Angels will be sold through the Christmas season. Life is precious and time is a key element. Lets make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own. Harmon Killebrew
The mission of Lakeland Hospice & Home Care is to provide compassionate, emotional, spiritual and quality health care to each patient, promoting independence, comfort and dignity in all stages of lifes journey.

The Holiday Train is Coming Again!

Holiday Trains, decorated with thousands of Christmas lights, runs in partnership with the Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB) and U.S. food shelves and pantries associated with local communities, neighborhood services and organizations such as the Second Harvest Heartland and the Emergency Food Shelf Network to raise donations and awareness for the issue of hunger. The Holiday Train program allows employees, customers and communities to come together to help people in need. The Holiday Train is scheduled to be at the Elbow Lake Main Street railroad crossing from 4:305:30pm on Saturday, December 15th. Remember to dress warmly and bundle up the little ones in snowsuits, mittens and caps. This is an opportunity for the Grant County residents to enjoy a good show and make donations of food and money to the local Food Shelf. Gifts to the Food Shelf are tax deductible, and donations made by check are easily documented for the IRS.

Camp, Campus, and Congregations

Working Together Nurturing Faith and Life of the Next Generation of Christians!

Through our shared ministry with Lutheran Camps and Campuses in our area, the lives of Youth and Young Adults, are being changed for the better.

Luther Crests 2012 theme of HOPE reminded both campers and staff to be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. Luther Crest grounds itself in the power of Christ who is our HOPE in all Situations at all times. Our summer consisted of over 850 youth and adults hearing, tasting, seeing, feeling and smelling Gods love in many different ways. Jennifer was a new camper to Luther Crest. It was her first time away from home. Her mom said she had jitters about being away in an unfamiliar place. Despite these obstacles, Jennifer gave it her all. She go to know her fellow cabin mates and her counselor. Because of the support and prayers you provide, Jennifer was able to overcome her fears and experienced camp to the fullest Being welcomed with love, care, guidance, forgiveness and 120 total hours of Christ immersion at Luther Crest gave Jennifer the experience which taught her about who Jesus is in her life and age her the confidence to grow in her faith. Stories of HOPE happen all the time at Luther Crest. We know and tell the story that Jesus is the HOPE that drives us to love one another. Stories and lives like this are a regular part of the ministry to the next generation of Christians from throughout our area, and are an important part of our Churchs future. As the Bible Camps, and Campus Ministries of your area we ask that, as you feel called, you support, through prayers, volunteering, and of course financial gifts these ministries and others doing Gods work on your behalf in the lives of young people.
Lutheran Campus Ministry of Bemidji 1221 Birchmont Drive NE Bemidji, MN 56601 Phone: 218-751-5326 Info@LCMBemidji.org Pathways Bible Camps PO Box 1187 Bemidji, MN 56619 Phone: 218-751-1453 pathways@pathwaysbiblecamps.com Luther Crest Bible Camp 8231 County Road 11 NE Alexandria, MN 56308 Phone: 320-846-2431 daveh@luthercrest.org Lutheran Campus Ministry of Moorhead 619 10th Street South Moorhead, MN 56560 Phone: 218-233-4720 lthnstmv@mnstate.edu

Serving in December
Servers 10:30am Service
12/2 WELCA Advent Brunch 12/9 Karen Block/Byron Bartz Dayle & Bea DeFrance 12/16 Sunday School / Lee & Pat Ronhovde 12/23 Chuck & Eileen Olson Norma Olson 12/30 Steve & Lori Stonestrom Bernice Humann
If you are unable to be there as scheduled, please exchange with someone to be sure these dates are covered or call your group leaders. NOTE: Since there will be an early service, Coffee should be ready by 9:00am.

Ushers 10:30am Service

12/2 WELCA Advent Brunch 12/9 Karen Block/Byron Bartz Dayle & Bea DeFrance 12/16 Sunday School / Lee & Pat Ronhovde 12/23 Chuck & Eileen Olson Norma Olson 12/30 Steve & Lori Stonestrom Bernice Humann
If you are unable to be there as scheduled, please exchange with someone to be sure these dates are covered or call your group leaders. NOTE: Since there will be an early service, Coffee should be ready by 9:00am.
Altar Guild Kay Johnson Gaylene Hanson Kim Lang & Sara Getz

Readers
10:30am Service

Work Group # 3 Leaders Lee & Pat Ronhovde Bob & Joan Roe

12/2 12/9

Byron Bartz Marilyn Frykman

YOUTH WORSHIP LEADERSHIP 10:30am Service 12/2 Zach Ketchner 12/9 Kode Seifert 12/16 Kode Seifert 12/23 Maryann Thompson 12/24 Kylie Sabby 12/30 Kylie Sabby

12/16 SS Christmas Program 12/23 Ardis Paulson 12/30 Warren Dahlen

If you are unable to be a helper on your Sunday, please call one of your work group leaders and he or she will help you find a replacement. Thank you.

Stewardship of the Good News

Dear friends, Like Lent it is a season that renews our attention to the care of the poor. There is not only gift giving with family and With this letter is a small devotional leaflet for the Advent season. Like Lent, Advent is a time of preparation. Where friends, but support for food pantries and soup kitchens, Lent looks toward the cross and resurrection, Advent looks and warm socks for the homeless. Like Lent it is a season of toward the Nativity. We think of this time of year as a shop- prayer and worship. When we are surrounded by the attenping season in preparation for gift giving, but in the history tion to gifts it is nice to focus on the heart of Christmas and the Giver who is our worlds true Lord. of the church this has been a season of reflection, renewal and preparation to celebrate the mystery that God, who fashioned the universe, has entered into our world as a help- This is a wonderful season of the year to do devotions at
less child.

WATCH PREPARE REJOICE BEHOLD!!!

Week 1 Watch The first week in Advent focuses on the call to wait & watch. Dec 2 .................. Luke 12:35-40 Dec 3 .................. Luke 13:22-30 Dec 4.................. Luke 14:15-24 Dec 5...................... Luke 16:1-13 Dec 6 .................... Luke 16:19-31 Dec 7 .............. Matthew 25:14-30 Dec 8 ...................... Mark 12:1-12 Week 4 Behold The fourth week of Advent directs us behold the new born Savior. Dec 23 .................... Luke 1:67-79 Dec 24 ..................... Luke 2:1-20 The 12 days of Christmas The Nativity of our Lord Dec 25....................... John 1:1-18 The 2nd Day of Christmas Dec 26 ....................... Isaiah 9:2-7 The 3rd Day of Christmas Dec 27 ................... Isaiah 11:1-10 The 4th Day of Christmas Dec 28 ....................... Micah 5:2-4 The 5th Day of Christmas Week 2 Prepare

home with your family. Lighting an advent wreath, reading a scripture, saying the prayer of the week, opening an Advent calendar, putting aside an offering for those in need, is a simple and rewarding time for keeping clear what Advent and Christmas are all about. Even when there are no children to sit with us at the table or sing an advent hymn with us, such small rituals are still wonderfully meaningful. They have a marvelous way of keeping our attention focused on those things which really matter.

Week 3 Rejoice The third week of Advent focuses on the fulfillment of Gods promises. Dec 16..................... Luke 1:39-56 Dec 17 ................... Luke 13:18-21 Dec 18 ................... Matthew 15:21-28 Dec 19 ............. Matthew 13:44-46 Dec 20....................... Luke 1:5-25 Dec 21..................... Luke 1:26-38 Dec 22.................... Luke 1:57-66

The second week of Advent focuses on the call to prepare for New Life through Christ. Dec 9 ......................... Luke 3:1-18 Dec 10 ..................... Isaiah 1:18-20 Dec 11 ......................... Micah 6:1-8 Dec 12 ........................ Joel 2:12-13 Dec 13 ....................... Hosea 14:1-3 Dec 14 ................... Amos 5:14-15 Dec 15 ................... Isaiah 58:1-14

Dec 29 ..................... Isaiah 42:1-4 The 6th Day of Christmas Dec 30 ..................... Isaiah 61:1-4 The 7th Day of Christmas Dec 31 ................. Isaiah 65:17-25 The 8th Day of Christmas Jan 1 ......................... Isaiah 40:9-11 The 9th Day of Christmas Jan 2 ............................ Micah 4:1-7 The 10th Day of Christmas

Jan 3 ........................... Isaiah 42:5-9 The 11th Day of Christmas Jan 4 ........................... Isaiah 60:1-7 The 12th Day of Christmas Jan 5 ......................... Psalm 72:1-17

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH PO Box 206 Barrett MN 56311

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Rev. Matthew Rose, Pastor revmatthew@runestone.net cell phone: 218-770-8470 Office: 320-528-2536 email: peacelca@runestone.net

MERRY CHRISTMAS