EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — July 19, 2015 Welcome to worship at Redeemer!

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A Newsletter for Members and Friends

of Redeemer Lutheran Church

Redeemer’s Mission… inviting all people to become

students, believers and followers of Jesus Christ.

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We are pleased to have you with us today. We want to help make your time with us more worshipful by providing you with the following information:

Service of Friendship Cards: in pew racks, please sign and pass to the center aisle during the offering

Large Print Orders of Service: available from an usher

Children’s Activity Bags: in the narthex, contain simple activities for children to do during the worship service

Children’s Bulletins: in the narthex or from an usher, provide activities for older children to do during the service

Fellowship Time: coffee is served in the narthex

Restrooms: men’s, women’s and family restrooms are down the west hallway, an additional women’s restroom is down the middle hallway

Changing Tables: located in the family restroom and in the women’s restroom down the middle hallway

Questions? Please ask an usher, they would be happy to help.

Church Nursery Available at all services;

located in the Nursery room off the middle hallway; for children

Kindergarten age and younger, staffed by volunteers.

King’s Kids Sunday School has concluded for the

2014-2015 school year and will resume again in the fall. King’s Kids meets for the

summer session at 5:00 p.m. each Saturday.

FOR THE YOUTH Inkjet printer cartridges FOR THE CHILD CARE Our Family Labels for Learning FOR THE PRESCHOOL Econo Foods receipts Campbell’s Soup Labels FOR THE LWML Cancelled stamps for Missions FOR THE HOSPITALS & BAY CLIFF Can Tabs RETURNABLE CANS & BOTTLES are being accepted by the high school youth. Please leave them by the pop machine in the gym or in the youth room.

If you or a loved one is hospitalized, please contact the church office or note it on the back of your Service of Friendship card so a member of our clergy staff can visit and bring a word of encouragement.

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Flowers in the chancel this week are given to the glory of God by Mary Sischo in loving memory of her husband Ray.

Women’s Island Devotion & Walk

All women are invited to the Island Devotion on Tuesday, July 21, 10:00 a.m. at the Island Gazebo. Barb Carlson will share an original devotion that she wrote. Warm Hardee’s cinnamon rolls with be provided. Bring something you’d like to drink. After eating our rolls and hearing our devotion those that would like can walk around the Island or walk down by the lake. Call Donna Fegan at 249-2114 with any questions.

PLEASE COLLECT THESE ITEMS:

These collection items can be left in the narthex outside the offices:

Men’s Wednesday Morning Bible Study

Meets Year Round Location: Chapel Lounge

Led by Pastor Steve

Last High School Hang Time

of the Summer Sunday, July 19 5:00 — 8:00 p.m.

Meet in the youth room for an even-ing of activities and fellowship. As it is the last Hang Time, and the last activity with DCE Intern Jessica, Hang Time is extended an extra hour! Pizza will be provided. Please bring your own beverage. Hope to see you there.

EAST BETHLEHEM MISSION Redeemer is sending a team through Most Ministries to Detroit. The team members are May and Dick Bohjanen, Donna and John Fegan, Terry and Rick Hartwig, Mike LaPointe, Kim Marsh and his brother Ron Marsh from down-state Michigan. The team will be commissioned on Sunday, July 19, at the 8:30 a.m. worship service. The mission will include working at the East Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Detroit doing painting, church repairs and maintenance, and providing a church meal. Please pray for the members of this mission team and the people in Detroit they will be helping.

Blood Drive at Redeemer The U.P. Regional Blood Center (a service of Marquette General Hospital) will have the Bloodmobile at Redeemer for a Blood Drive during Redeemer’s Block Party. In order to give blood you must:

not have given blood within the previous eight weeks; be 17 years or older; be free of flu, colds, sore throat; weigh at least 110 pounds; have a picture ID.

Sign up sheets will be posted in the narthex beginning July 20.

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Lily Kerry 7/18

Marie West 7/18

Lydie Batchelor 7/19

Hanna Betts 7/19

Sarah English 7/19

Heather Evans 7/19

Jill Gethers 7/19

Brent Griffin 7/19

Romy Kus 7/19

Cindy Mahaffey 7/19

Terry Morse 7/19

Kyle Nemacheck 7/19

Tricia Nolan 7/19

Cora Erickson 7/20

Brenna Garrison 7/20

Carmen Albert 7/21

Pam Grundstrom 7/21

Jessica Durion 7/22

Eva Perroud 7/22

Erin VanderSchaaf 7/22

Hayden Heintz 7/23

Theresa Nease 7/23

Elaina Benz 7/24

Tyler Johnson 7/24

Christine Trombly 7/24

Becca Yates 7/24

Caleb Downs 7/25

Eli Havel 7/25

Steven Heise 7/25

Julie Larson 7/25

Linda Mahaffey 7/25

Kyle O’Donnell 7/25

Cheryl Maddox-Smith 7/26

Paul Schoonveld 7/26

Connie VanderSchaaf 7/26

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Altar Flowers

Beginning August 1 a new price for altar flowers will take effect. Flowers for the altar will now be $35.00. Thank you for your continued support for the altar flowers through your donations.

Thank You We would like to thank our Redeemer family for their care and concern during the past few months while we were dealing with surgery, chemotherapy and a lot of anxiety. We are so thankful for the cards and gifts and for the sup-port, encouragement and many prayers that we have received. We are also grateful to the Lord for blessing us with so many dear friends. Our sincere thanks, Dan and Sandy Miller

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Farewell Reception in Honor of DCE Intern Jessica Borchardt

DCE Intern Jessica’s time spent at Redeemer will end on July 26. She will return to St. Paul, Minnesota, for her final year of college. She has been a wonderful asset to our staff team during this past year and will be greatly missed. Please join us in a reception in her honor following each worship service on July 25 and 26 when you can wish her a farewell.

DCE Intern Jessica Borchardt Farewell Reception July 25 and 26

Have you thought about volunteering at the church?

Do you have a knack for the computer and video?

If you answered yes to these questions you may be the volunteer we are looking for.

The Media Team records the worship services

for Redeemer so they can be put on our web site and copied for our shut-ins.

At the current time we have very few media volunteers and are in need of many more.

Please consider this opportunity to offer your time and talents for this important service.

Contact DCE Intern Jessica at 228-9883 and she will train you for the Media Team.

CALENDAR

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Sun.,

July 19

8:30 am

8:30 am

9:30 am

10:30 am

10:45 am

5 pm

Service of Praise with Communion

Detroit Mission Commissioning

High School Bible Study

Coffee Fellowship

Communion

High School Hang Time

Mon.,

July 20

5:30 pm National Night Out Planning Team

Tues.,

July 21

10 am

1 pm

5 pm

7 pm

Women’s Island Devotion & Walk

Prayer Shawl

Endowment Fund Meeting

Divorce Care

Wed.,

July 22

7 am Men’s Breakfast Bible Study

Thurs.,

July 23

6:30 pm

Fri.,

July 24

5 pm

6 pm

AA Meeting

Sat.,

July 25

5 pm

5 pm

5 pm

DCE INTERN JESSICA BORCHARDT

FAREWELL

Detroit Mission Begins

Service of Praise

King’s Kids

“Word of Hope” WKQS 101.9 FM

Sun.,

July 26

8:30 am

10:30 am

10:45 am

DCE INTERN JESSICA BORCHARDT

FAREWELL

Service of Praise

Coffee Fellowship

Worship

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Jeremiah 23:1-6

1 "Woe to the shepherds who are

destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD. 2 Therefore this is what the LORD,

the God of Israel, says to the shep-herds who tend my people: "Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not be-stowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done," declares the LORD. 3 "I myself will gather the remnant of

my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and in-crease in number.

4 I will place shep-

herds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing," declares the LORD.

5 "The days are coming," declares

the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.

6 In his days Judah will be saved

and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Ephesians 2:11-22

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Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)—

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that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizen-ship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

14For he himself is our peace,

who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,

15by abolishing in his

flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,

16and in

this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17

He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

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through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

19Consequently, you are no longer

foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and mem-bers of God's household,

20built on

the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

21In him the

whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

22And in him you too are being

built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

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Mark 6:30-44

30The apostles gathered around

Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

31Then, be-

cause so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

32So they went away by them-

selves in a boat to a solitary place. 33

But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

34When Jesus land-

ed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

35By this time it was late in the

day, so his disciples came to him. "This is a remote place," they said, "and it's already very late.

36Send

the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy

themselves something to eat."

37But he answered, "You give

them something to eat." They said to him, "That would take eight months of a man's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?"

38"How many loaves do you

have?" he asked. "Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five—and two fish."

39Then Jesus directed them to

have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

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they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

41Taking the five loaves

and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to set before the peo-ple. He also divided the two fish among them all.

42They all ate and

were satisfied, 43

and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. 44

The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.

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Pastor: Let us pray for the people of God here and around the world, and for all people in their various needs and conditions. That our heavenly Father, who ordains all the powers in the nations of the world, would set rulers in place who will care for their people, dispel fear of injustice from within and attacks from beyond their borders, and allow the Church to flourish, let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord, have mercy. Pastor: That the Holy Spirit, who uses Word and Sacrament to instill

and strengthen faith, would provide peaceful days and calm confidence in our God for all who face this day fearful of evil, surrounded by enemies, in the midst of crisis, or while enduring long-term ills, especially those near and dear to us [including...], and use us to care for them wherever possible, let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord, have mercy. Pastor: That our compassionate Shepherd, who used five loaves and

two fish to feed five thousand men and their families, would open our ears to hear his call to feed the people around us with the gracious news of the Gospel as well as with physical expressions of compassionate care, let us pray to the Lord.

People: Lord, have mercy. Pastor: Into your hands, heavenly Father, we commend all for whom we

pray, trusting in your mercy for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

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WORSHIP INFORMATION AND SERVANTS

Saturday, July 18, 5:00 p.m. Worship supplement Page 1 Acolyte: Becca Yates Ushers: Donna Brege, Cole Arntsen, Dorothy Grimes, Sue Nunez, Sandy Pritchett, Mary Umstead Elder: Paul Albert, Ron Wuokko Altar Duty: Jill Fleury Media Team: Jessica Borchardt Scrip: Emily Ott Nursery: Emily Ott Musicians: Donna Fegan, Julie Larson, Tom Buck, Steve Scheel, Deaconess Betty Knapp

Sunday, July 19, 8:30 a.m. Worship supplement Page 1 Acolyte: Karen Ludwig Ushers: Phil Creech, Rich Demboski, Debbie Mattson, Lin Metzger Elder: Tom Buck, Brett Conklin Altar Duty: Jill Fleury Greeter: Jean & Larry Lawless Media Team: Julie Higbie Scrip: Rich Demboski Musicians: Donna Fegan, Julie Larson, Tom Buck, Steve Scheel, Deaconess Betty Knapp

Sunday, July 19, 10:45 a.m. Worship supplement Page 8 Acolyte: Karsten Kamps Ushers: Ray Kuczwara, Perry & Sheila Laing, Steve Peters, Chris Stanley Elder: Kyle Gawry, Harry Erickson Altar Duty: Jill Fleury Greeter: Marian & Kalmer Stordahl Media Team: Cara Kamps Scrip: Sarah Stanley Coffee: Karin Hansard Nursery: Donna Brege Reader: Don Ryan

MINISTRY STAFF

Redeemer Lutheran Church The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

1700 West Fair Avenue Marquette, MI 49855

906-228-9883 FAX 906-228-8912

Email: redeemer@RedeemerMQT.org Web Site: www.RedeemerMQT.org

Rev. Steve A. Hulke, 249-8433 Rev. Chad Ott, 273-0280

Deaconess Betty Knapp, 228-5180 Rev. Paul Weber, Emeritus

Jessica Borchardt, DCE Intern, 228-3047

Redeemer Campus Ministry 228-3047 Carmen Albert, Preschool & Child Care

Director 228-5439 Carl Pace, Gift Planner 204-5399

Lois DeWell, Organist Dawn Betts, Adult Choir Director Donna Fegan, Women’s Ministry

Director 249-2114 Kathy Enright, Kid’s Club Coordinator

458-5343 Pam Ott, King’s Kids Coordinator

ATTENDANCE LAST WEEK 388

STEWARDSHIP LAST WEEK

General Fund $10,430. Endowment Maintenance

Fund $500. Gathered to Grow $4,422. (Total given to Gathered to Grow to date: $281,980.)

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