WORD IN SEASON devotionals for January, Febru-

ary & March are on the narthex tables. Please take one

home for your daily devotions.

2016 FINANCIAL COMMITMENT

CARDS There are commitment cards for

next year on the narthex tables. If you have

not turned one in yet, it is most helpful for

our mission planning if you do. Please fill

out a card and place it in the offering plate.

CHRISTMAS DAY LESSONS & CAROLS

READERS If you would like to read a lesson

at the Lessons and Carols service on Christmas

Day please speak to Pastor Billmeier

ST. LUCAS 2016 ALTAR FLOWER SIGN UP

CHART is on the narthex bulletin board. Please help

beautify our space by signing up to sponsor

flowers for a Sunday or two or three.

LAST ADVENT COMPLINE service is this

Wednesday at 7pm. Compline is a beautiful chant-

ed “night prayer” service. We are a smaller group

and just gather at the pews by the piano for the

service.

YOUTH CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE Look

for our sale flyers inserted in the worship

folder.

2016 OFFERING ENVELOPES are available on the nar-

thex tables. Look for the box with your name on it. If you

do not currently receive envelopes and would like us to issue

you a box, please indicate on the back of your “I’m Here To-

day” card.

WELCA SHUT IN GIFTS The women of the church

have put together Christmas gifts for our shut-ins. They are

now asking the congregation’s help in delivering the gifts.

They are on the narthex table with name and address of the

shut-in indicated. Please use the sign up sheet to let us know

to whom you are delivering.

SUNDAY COFFEE HOUR NEWS The coffee hour is a

significant part of our fellowship with one another. As part

of our efforts to support environmentally sound practices

and to participate in globally conscientious programs, we

would like to start using Fair Trade Coffee purchased from

Lutheran World Relief. These items cost a bit more than

what we currently use. You will find a donation jar by the

coffee set-up if you would like to contribute toward this fel-

lowship program. Thanks for everything you do to make St.

Lucas and its ministries top notch!

FREETASTESGOOD MEAL is this weekend on Sunday

from 4-5:30pm in the St. Lucas gym. Please join Joni and her

crew for this wonderful neighborhood meal and pitch in to

help where they need it. We thank our friends from Free-

tastesgood.com for this service to our community. see back.

NO CATECHISM CLASS THIS WEEK

December 19 & 20 2015

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WELCOME TO ST. LUCAS! We are glad you are here. Please fill out the I’m Here Today card in your worship

folder and drop it in the offering plate. May our Lord bless your worship with us.

CHILDCARE AREA & RESTROOMS For families with infants & toddlers there is a nursery area in the lower

church that has speakers so you may listen to the service while you attend your children. Restrooms are also in the

lower church. You may access these areas via the narthex stairwell or the stairwell by the baptismal font.

MEMORIAL/HOPE CANDLES Worshipers are invited to light candles in remembrance of a loved one or

of hope against some darkness in their lives. These remain lit during the service only. Prayer inten-

tion candles are under the crucifixion side hymn board main sanctuary and at the front altar lower

church for Saturday worshipers. SUNDAY SCHOOL September-May we offer Sunday School every Sunday at

9:15 am in the education building for all ages preschool—adult. All welcome.

WORSHIP SCHEDULE FOR

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR’S

Advent Compline Services

7pm Wednesday Dec. 23

Christmas Eve

7pm Jazz Mass/Blue Christmas

11pm Communion, Carols & Candlelight

Christmas Day

10am Christmas Lessons & Carols

First Sunday of Christmas

4pm Saturday Dec. 26

8:30 & 10:30 am Sunday Dec. 27

New Year’s Eve Dec. 31

4pm Evensong & New Year’s

Toast Reception

attendance Dec 12 Dec 13 Compline Dec 2 12 Dec 9 10 Dec. 16 4

S 20 4th Advent

8:30 Worship 9:15 Sunday School 10:30 Worship

4-5:30pm Free- tastesgood.com Sunday Supper

M 21 Office closed

10am AA Meeting

T 22 Office Open 9-3

9-Noon Cindy’s Corner

Outreach 9-Noon Cindy’s Corner Café

W 23 Office Open 9-3

Cindy’s Corner Ministries Closed Until Jan. 5 Thrift Shop Closed Until Jan. 6 No Catechism Class 7:00 Advent Compline

F 25 Office Closed

CHRISTMAS DAY 10:00 Lessons & Carols 7:00 AA Meeting

Sa 26

4:00 Worship

S 27 1st Christmas

8:30 Worship 9:15 Sunday School 10:30 Worship

Th 24Office Open 9-3

CHRISTMAS EVE 10:00 AA Meeting 10-Noon Free Bread Ministry 7:00 Jazz Mass/Blue Christmas 11:00 Communion, Carols & Candlelight

St. Lucas This Week at a Glance

4:00 16 8:30 18 10:30 69 Total 103

prayer list

Hospitalized

UTMC Roy Deeds (released)

Visitation List rarely out/unable to

attend church

Lois Bening, Bill Cottle, Ruth Fox, Pat Goeble, Bill Granger,

Carl & Judy Hischka, James Hoch, Cheryl Jones, Helen

Nostrant, Marilyn Pockmire,Carl & Alice Ritter

St. Lucas Thanksgivings

For Our Youth Group &

Leaders

memorials/honor

gifts CHRISTMAS BOOST (GENERAL FUND) In loving memory of Don Wessendorf’s birthday Dec 22 given by his wife Betty Wessendorf 100.00

sunday school window fund gifts

Phil Chambers 5.00 Bill & Jeannie Dennler 40.00 Gary Walton 200.00 Bill Kahlenberg 20.00 George Pfaff & Steve Hudson 20.00 Randy Hyter 15.00

organ fund gifts Phil Chambers 5.00

christmas boost appeal

Previous Balance 2500.00 Received This Week 1315.00 To Date Total 3815.00

next year’s garden, of course. Ideas are

percolating for additions and improve-

ments for next year, so if YOU have any

ideas, requests for other fruits or veggies,

or suggestions that you’d like to toss onto

the compost pile to improve our garden,

please pass them along to Mike Biscay,

Phil Chambers, or Pastor Billmeier and

we’ll make next year’s garden even better.

DARTBALL NEWS

The “Oxen” St Lucas Dartball season

is now half completed. Our record is

9 wins & 12 losses. We are in 5th

place of the 8 team league. Our cur-

rent roster consist of Captains Charlie

Bowes & Tim Steele, Team player of

St. Lucas, George Brasel, Russ Wells,

and Holy Trinity’s Dean Weygandt.

Friends of St. Lucas:Jim Fedor, Glenn

& Robb Collins, Matt Potts, Tom

Geraghty, Kevin Hejnicki, Correy

Samuelson, Barb Fedor, Melvin Smith

& Paul Schmidit. The second half of

the begins this Monday, Dec 21, 2015

at home vs St. John’s #2. Anyone in-

terested in participating, or just want-

ing to observe is welcome.

SYMPATHY & PRAYERS The

St. Lucas faith community offers our

prayers and heartfelt sympathy for

Sharon Schaefer and family at the

death of her father

Sunday School

Window Fund

Loan Amount $56,000.00

Donations to date 19,901.50

Remaining Goal 37,105.50

altar flowers ARE GIVEN TO THE

GLORY OF GOD IN LOV-

ING MEMORY OF WOODY

& ELIZABETH BESESKE AND DAN-

NY WOLFRAM JR BY DAN & FAITH

WOLFRAM

GENERAL FUND REPORT The

Lord blessed us in November! Please

continue to pray that we will finish the

year with a surplus, not a deficit, and

make a Christmas Boost offering!

GARDEN NEWS ~

FINAL FALL EDITION

All beautiful the march of days, as seasons come

and go;

The Hand that shaped the rose hath wrought the

crystal of the snow;

Hath sent the hoary frost of Heav’n, the flowing

waters sealed,

And laid a silent loveliness on hill and wood and

field.

The frosts and the recent snow have

pretty much finished the growth in the

garden. The birds enjoyed the last of the

sunflower seeds as the flowers defied the

first few frosts and the tomatoes and pep-

pers ripened their last few fruits. It’s time

to put the garden to bed for the winter.

And when you’re tucking a garden in, you

need a blanket. So… if you have bagged

your leaves and the city hasn’t picked

them up yet, please bring them to our

garden. Just leave them by the parking

lot’s edge and we’ll get the beds all snug-

gly for the winter.

Anyone who has gardened for several

seasons is familiar with the plants that

appear in your beds without human inter-

vention. Sometimes they’re holdovers

from previous seasons, sometimes they’re

the plantings of a friendly bird or an ac-

quisitive squirrel. We call them

“volunteers.” The St. Lucas Community

Garden has been blessed with a host of

human volunteers this season, too. The

folks who donated the lumber, the soil,

and the plants, the crew that assembled

the new beds and filled them with soil,

the team from the CYF2G, who planted,

weeded, and feasted on the bounty, the

workers from Cindy’s Corner who plant-

ed, tended, and harvested several of our

beds – all helped make the Community

Garden a success. A grateful THANK

YOU to all of you!

Someone asked me, “What does a gar-

dener do in the winter?” Why, we plan

GENERAL FUND REPORT

NOV. 1 BAL.

RECEIPTS

DISBURSEMENTS

NOV. 30 BAL.

BAL. LAST YEAR

$(37,261.85)

28,710.95

(15,376.98)

(23,927.88)

(23,607.16)