HOW CAN I REACH BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR?

Phone: 480-967-2660; Email: office@beautifulsaviortempe.org

or check us out on the WEB: www.beautifulsaviortempe.org

Mail or in person at: 1337 W. 11th St., Tempe, AZ 85281

Church offices are open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

ATTENDANCE:

Average: September -32 service at church, also streamed online; September -7 Adult Bible Study.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

OCTOBER 11, 2020

After worship service

Congregation discussion with Pastor Paul Frank

Regarding: The Call

SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH

BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH ELDER’S ANNUAL FISH FRY

(Details below)

OCTOBER 18, 2020

QUARTERLY VOTERS’ ASSEMBLY MEETING

AFTER THE WORSHIP SERVICE

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Newsletter

October 2020

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEPTEMBER 2020 COUNCIL MEETING

The Council meeting was held September 15, 2020. Highlights of the meeting are:

• President Cyndi called the meeting to order with 10 members in attendance and 1 participating by telephone.

• Treasurer reported a negative balance as of Aug. 31st; however, pastor salary savings and benefits

expenses are being set aside.

• Food donation to Tempe High students is on hold and may be redirected to needy students when school re-

opens.

• Football Dinners will be prepared in BSLC kitchen for all home and away games and delivered to Tempe

High beginning Oct. 2nd.

• 2021 budget process will begin in October and a Voters approval meeting will be scheduled in November.

• Stewardship reported 4 cases of water and $358 collected for the JUSTA Center. The Center was contacted

and requested items needed to serve their senior clients on a daily basis. Stewardship also assembled

hygiene kits. Thank you Stewardship and all who donated to this project.

• Trustees have made a wheelchair, blankets, and pillow available for use during worship services if needed.

• Three toilets have been purchased; one to replace the leaking one in the ladies room and the other two will

be used when the bathrooms are remodeled.

• Music Director Ellen Brown thanked all who have participated in providing music for the worship services.

Thanks to Don Schumm who has been upgrading lighting and sound for on-line presentation of the worship

services.

• LWML Zone Rally will be Oct. 17th and will be an on-line virtual event of one and a half hours.

• LWML Sunday will be celebrated Oct. 4th.

• PTC will help with the fish fry event Oct. 17th.

• Rejuvenation fund balance is $48,650. Several new projects are being planned with trustees in addition to

the ones already approved. The new projects will be presented to the congregation for approval:

o Lighting in front of church (Approved)

o Bathrooms remodel (Approved)

o Electronic sign (Approved)

o Upgrade sound system to increase number of channels in mixer and purchase several additional

microphones (New)

o Move sacristy area to southside preschool kitchen area and convert present sacristy to sound room

(New)

• The Call Committee is completing paperwork for the District based on the results of the congregation surveys

and call committee meetings.

• New Business included discussion of ideas to celebrate Beautiful Savior’s 60th anniversary!! Music Director

Ellen Brown will begin the celebration in the Oct. 11th worship service.

If you are interested in receiving the Council minutes and report packets please contact Sandra Wardwell at

480-334-4176 or s.wardwell@asu.edu .

BOARD OF FINANCE:

WOMEN IN MISSION (LWML):

LUTHERAN WOMEN’S MISSIONARY LEAGUE (LWML)

The theme is “Kingdom People Produce Kingdom Fruit”. Please wear purple!

LWML ZONE 27/30

FALL ZOOM RALLY!

All Beautiful Savior women are invited to participate in the Fall Zone Rally via Zoom. Here are the

details:

Saturday, October 17th, 2020

9-10:30 A.M.

Join us for a Fall Rally with a twist!

Bible study, special guests, and elections!

Wake up, fix your hair a bit, grab a cup of coffee, and get ZOOMin' !

LWML Pacific Southwest District President, Nila Rodriguez, will be there to meet everyone and we'll spend

some time getting to know her.

Hopefully a few more special guests will be there with things to share.

See the Zoom meeting invitation below to join us.

If you've never Zoomed before, consider getting a family member or friend to help you get set up.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82696122476

Meeting ID: 826 9612 2476

Please contact Sandra Wardwell (480-334-4176 or s.wardwell@asu.edu ) if you have questions.

Thank you for your support of LWML! Sandra Wardwell

OTHER INFO:

Lutheran Ministry at ASU’s new name & address to send donations to: Sola Ministries, P.O Box 1923, Chandler, AZ 85225

GOLDEN FEET BY JANA SHIELDS

Jana Shields has sent Beautiful Savior Church a copy of her new book. If you would like to

read it, it can be reserved by signing up to check it out from the office. If you would like to

purchase a copy, you can go to Amazon.com Paperback: $6.99. eBook: $2.99; EBAY $6.95

with free shipping. Or if you want multiple books for a group 5 copies -$30; 10 copies $50;

this includes shipping. Send check payable to: Jana Shields, 6444 E. Spring #181, Long

Beach, CA 90818.

Mission West Online Conference

Saturday October 17, 11am to 3pm (PST)

PRAYER CHAIN:

Beautiful Savior Church has an active prayer chain sponsored by LWML and the BSLC Stewardship

Committee.

Men and women can be members of the Prayer Chain. To request to be a member of the Prayer

Chain, and/or request a prayer, please call or email Gladys Meyer (480 897-2236, geneglad@q.com)

or the church office (480 967-2660, office@beautifulsaviortempe.org). Members will receive the

prayer requests by email unless their preference is to receive them by telephone. A small email

devotion is sent out to all prayer chain members every Monday.

Prayers can be praise or adoration (Psalm 136), thanksgiving (Psalm 118), request for God’s help

(Psalm 22) and intercession in which we pray for others (Psalm 82), (From Luther’s Small

Catechism).

God our Father hears the prayers of His children and answers in His own way and in His own time,

“Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear,” (Isaiah 65:24). PRAYER IS

POWERFUL!

CAPMAKERS - BSLC

CAPMAKERS - BSLC originated February 12, 2014, sponsored by BSLC’s LWML and Stewardship Committee, with eight women meeting for the first time.

Some women were not able to knit because of arthritis in their hands. To begin, we practiced by knitting caps for every member of our families. Our first donation was 34 preemie and baby caps to Gateway Banner Hospital. Through the years, donations were given to Banner Desert Hospital, Maricopa County Hospital, Maricopa Burn Unit, Children’s Cancer Network, Ironwood Cancer Center, Contempo Tempe Rehab, Gililland Middle School, Camp ALOMA, Phoenix Rescue Mission, Grace Lutheran Church, Lutheran Ministry at ASU as well as to individuals going through chemo treatments. Over 900 caps (preemie, children and adult) have been donated. During one meeting, Pastor Misch modeled a red cap and he looked so good, we gave the cap to him.

Kathryn Odle came to Beautiful Savior Church in 2016 from Gethsemane having been crocheting caps for many years. She has crocheted and donated 302 caps to our group at BSLC. Since her retirement she crocheted and donated 50 caps to JUSTA Center, Phoenix, for retired and senior military homeless, 50 red caps to Arizona Heart Association and 1036 caps to Cardon’s Children Hospital plus matched sets of blanket, cap and booties for preemies. Kathryn was forced to take a break when she fell breaking a wrist, but is back doing her thing - crocheting caps and baby sets. Bobbie Littou knitted 40 baby caps while sitting with her daughter in the hospital. Chris Mahler, a member of Christ Lutheran Church, is one of our knitters. Our group of ladies knit/crochet at home during our spare time.

Knitters and crotchetier have taken a break for awhile after donating 150 caps to Lutheran Ministry at ASU but we are still making caps, expecting to get back into it in the fall.

Anyone interested in knitting or crocheting caps is not required to be a member of BSLC. YOU are more than welcome to come and help us.

SOLA FAITH, Grace, Scripture. Ministries New Semester, New Opportunities, and New Challenges

Dear Peter & Cristina,

As the new college semester at ASU begins, the ministry is excited to welcome some

amazing new opportunities and ready to overcome new challenges!

Sola Ministries is ready to do this because of your amazing prayers and support.

New Semester

As one of the largest universities in the United States opening, we are excited to greet

thousands of new students!

Please pray that God will lead these new students to the ministries' Bible Studies and

events.

New Opportunities

Thanks to your amazing prayers and financial support, Sola Ministries is going to be

expanding!

Previous semesters, the ministry has only been able to work the mission field of the

ASU Tempe campus.

But thanks to you, the ministry is going to be ministering to the ASU Glendale campus!

Thank you again for your faithful support!

New Challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting our lives, but Sola Ministries is continuing to

adapt to these ever-changing times.

We currently have been meeting with the students via Zoom, an online video

conference website, to host our Bible Studies.

These are special times where the students can share and express their Christian faith

and most importantly bring the students' burdens to the LORD in prayer.

But, we are continuing with our plans to outreach to those who haven’t heard about

the saving Grace of Christ in alternative and safe ways!

We are not only getting reading for engaging and safe events but also relief efforts for

our fellow students.

Please continue to pray for our missionary efforts!

Thank you again for being the Hands and Feet of Christ on Arizona State University

campuses! NEW Website: https://solaministries.org/

Norton Family Newsletter - Serving in God’s Mission in Navajo, NM

Dear Friends in Christ, Well it has been quite a few months for all of us. As you may have heard the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Navajo Nation particularly hard. At one point in time the Navajo Nation had more per capita infections than New York. Although 527 people have died of COVID here on the Reservation since March, none of them were members of our congregation. We did however, have 2 people infected with the virus, but they recovered after hospitalization, and are doing well now by God’s grace. Just as elsewhere the virus has disrupted life here. Originally, we had a very full summer planned, with lots of volunteer groups and two college interns slated to stay. But as the time approached everything was cancelled. There was really no other choice since the tribal government issued curfews, and people were not allowed out of the house from 8:00 pm on Friday evenings until 5:00 am on Monday mornings from April-August. The tribal government also discouraged (and still does) visitors to the Reservation. Again, as elsewhere this meant that we couldn’t meet face-to-face for worship, so we conducted worship through Facebook live. Finally, on the 22nd of August we had our first face-to-face worship service pictured above. As you can see, we met outdoors and had people socially distance. It was a hardship on everyone not to be able to meet for those months, but the joy of gathering together again was underscored by a baptism that took place that day. A week afterward we held the first wedding ceremony since I have arrived here 7 years ago. I have met many young couples on the Reservation that chose to live together without marriage. So, it was a nice turn of events to see this couple make promises to each other with the help of God for the benefit of each other, their children, and their community. Although the past months have been very challenging, it has been amazing to see the help and support we have received from friends both near and far. We received donations of masks, clothing,

food, and gift cards from congregations and LWML groups. On more than one occasion I was able through those gifts to help people who had nowhere else to go. It was a great demonstration of God’s mercy toward people in need. One other benefit of the changes due to the pandemic is that I was able to produce Bible Studies with Rev. David Sternbeck of Lutheran Indian Ministries on a weekly basis. You can access these through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Members-and-Friends-of-Shepherd-of-the-ValleyLCMS-Navajo-NM-45689232813899

They go back to the 21st of April, so we have covered quite a bit of material. It has been a joy to spend time in the Word of God with a great teacher in our Ministry Organization.

Thank the Lord with us for:

-The wedding on 8/29/20 and ask God to bless their marriage -God’s provision for people in need through the many gifts we have received -The opportunities to dig deep into God’s Word -The baptism that took place on 8/22/20 Gifts to support this ministry can be sent to: Lutheran Indian Ministries 15400 W Capitol Dr. Suite 201 Brookfield, WI 53005 a note: “for the support of Navajo” in the memo line Gifts to support this ministry can be sent to: Lutheran Indian Ministries 15400 W Capitol Dr. Suite 201 Brookfield, WI 53005 a note: “for the support of Navajo” in the memo line

PASTOR SPALLEK:

Let the Children Come

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But

when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder

them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the

kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying

his hands on them. (Mark 10:13-16)

“Let the little children come to me, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.” What a beautiful lesson

we learn here from our Lord. What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “little children”?

Innocence; trust; wonderment? Yes, children are a blessing. Sometimes they can be exasperating,

but mostly they brighten our lives with their cheerfulness and positive outlook.

So how is Jesus using children as an example of membership in God’s kingdom? Certainly, there are

many who have come to faith later in life. It’s not as if there is some maximum age limit to entrance

into God’s family. No, what our Lord refers to is receiving the kingdom “like a child.’ In other words,

with a trusting faith that worries not about how or why, but just believes.

Think about it. A child doesn’t worry about paying the bills or balancing the budget. Even if he or she

knows nothing about such matters, they still trust their parent or guardian to provide a safe and

secure environment. They simply trust that their present and future is well cared for. And what’s more,

they reach out in love to their providers. This is the way Jesus says we are to approach our Father in

heaven. With love for His goodness to us, and trust that He has provided for our needs, here and for

eternity.

None of this is to say Christians should check their brains at the door. We have a mission here on

earth to help and assist one another and to defend and spread the gospel. We also study God’s Word

to learn more about Him and to have our faith grow stronger. But it is not the strength of that faith that

gets us entry into His kingdom. It’s the childlike trust we show, the knowledge that He alone (and not

we) are the source of our salvation. And like a little child that is eager to explore and learn, it is that

whole attitude of trust that make us want to grow in Him and serve Him through our neighbor.

In God’s kingdom, to trust like a child is gain. “And He took them in His arms, and blessed them!”

Pastor Peter