Faith Lutheran Church

Return Service Requested

NONPROFIT ORG

U.S. Postage

PAID

Columbus, WI 53925

Permit No. 70

Faith Lutheran Church

120 Faith Drive

Columbus WI 53925-1602

2

August

2020

FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH 120 Faith Drive Columbus WI 53925

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – ELCA

South-Central Synod of Wisconsin

August 2020

FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH 120 Faith Drive Columbus, WI 53925

920-623-3610

Email: faith@faithcolumbuswi.org

Website: www.faithcolumbuswi.org

Christine Hilbrich, Administrative Assistant 920-885-4741

Sue Frish, Assistant to Treasurer 920-484-6545

Jeanne Miller, Assistant to Treasurer

CHURCH COUNCIL

Henry Elling 920-350-5644 President

Pat Sullivan 920-484-3545 V. President Marilon Krebs 608-516-2934 Secretary

Stephen Peterson Treasurer

Sydney Penzotti, Youth Rep.

Melissa Jacobs

Liz Mitchell Pete Kaland

MISSION STATEMENT

Joyfully recognizing God’s commitment

and faithfulness to us, FAITH LUTHERAN

CHURCH exists to serve God through serv-

ing God’s people. We eagerly work towards

the realization of God’s Kingdom by:

• Offering praise-filled worship to God.

• Nurturing individual spiritual growth.

• Fostering an environment of caring and

acceptance.

• Reaching out to serve the needs of our

community.

God’s love stirs us to touch others with

the same love we have received—and invites

them to share our life of praise and service.

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Columbus, Wisconsin

AS MEMBERS OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH WE

PROMISE:

• To attend services regularly. • To support the congregation financially. • To live responsibly as a Christian witness. • To become as involved as possible in the total life and work

of the congregation.

And this we promise to do by the help of God.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the

conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

We’re on the web:

www.faithcolumbuswi.or

3

August 2020

MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF FAITH –

August, 2020 brings another opportunity to experience the richness of God’s gifts to His people in Columbus. We have the benefit of a new minister to assist us in worship. Pas-tor Mary Pharmer will join us to lead the Sunday morning on-line worship from our sanctuary. She will be familiar to some of us who first met her last summer as she led us twice during the absence of Pastor Larry. Her position will be as “supply pastor” for the time.

We also have the benefit of several recommendations from Pastor Beth to the council and congregation. Her first recommendation was to keep things simple during this re-maining time of change. Focus on three or four strengths of our group and work to keep those effective and growing. Those areas are music as a part of worship, support of our little pantry/library, the confirmation education of our youth, and the efforts to bring for-ward a full-time, settled pastor.

Finally, we have the blessing of a committed staff to support these efforts. Lisa and Chris continue their work to find ways to communicate with us, encourage us, and bring forward new ways to keep us connected. Thank you from all of us to them for their on-going work.

We will continue on-line worship for the month of August and into September. The wor-ship committee has asked us to plan for an on-line/in-person/outdoor worship event in September and perhaps October. A set of parents will be meeting to review the confir-mation program for the fall season. And we still need to coordinate something for our youngest members who will be starting a school year in an unusual way.

God blesses us every day with new and exciting opportunities to serve Him and our neighbor. Thank you for your work to the benefit of God’s kingdom on earth.

Henry

4

ELCA “Good Gifts”

The spare change container is in the Narthex, within the goose decoy. The mission for your spare pennies, nickels and dimes is the

ELCA “Good Gifts” program. Starting this new year the flock is up to 90 chickens! Our few extra coins are turned into food and livelihood for people in need, world-wide. Thank you.

For men only…third Thursdays at Faith

Hosted by the Java men (Denny, Pat, & Al). Come for food, fun, fellowship and a little faith exploration at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, August 20th, Text or leave a message by 8/18 on Denny’s mobile phone 920 296 9388 to confirm your attendance. Feel free to invite a friend.

THE RED

TENTERS’

BOOKCLUB

The book club is meeting in Fellowship Hall

on the 27th of August at 7:00pm. The book

we are reading is “The Residence” by Kate

Anderson Brower. Hope to see you there.

August 2020

CALENDAR AND

WORSHIP ASSISTANTS FOR AUGUST

There will be a August calendar but again no Worship Assistants for the month of August.

Thank you for your understanding and everyone keep safe.

SCHOOL SUPPLY CHALLENGE TO FAITH LUTHERAN CONGREGATION

Faith in Stitches is working on an outreach project to make school bags for Lutheran World Relief. We are making 20 school bags and we need your help to fill the bags with school supplies. The stores will soon have school supply sales, so please help us fill these bags. Listed below are the supplies that will go in each bag:

• Padded or spiral notebooks of ruled paper, 8 ½ x 11, totaling 150-200 sheets (If us-ing 70 count notebooks, include 3); no loose-leaf papers

• 1 blunt scissors • 1 30-cm ruler, or with both inches and centimeters • 1 pencil sharpener • 1 eraser, about 2½ “long • 6 new #2 unsharpened pencils with erasers, secured with a rubber band • 1 box of 16 or 24 crayons • 12 sheets of 9” X 12” construction paper, assorted colors

Help us meet our goal and please bring your supplies to church by August 31. The church will ship quilts, school bags, and other needed supplies in fall.

5

Wedding Anniversary's August

08/02 Jim & Jodi Smith 23 08/03 Jim & Sandy Schieble 46 08/05 Bill & Linda Bussian 48 08/06 Eric & Heather Schultz 16 08/07 Tim & Kristie Rozinski 21 08/12 Peter & Judy Kaland 53 08/13 Steve & Judy Rubert 54 08/14 Bill & Trina Byrne 27 08/15 Gene & Connie Frey 61 08/16 Eric & Jenny Anthon 17 08/17 Carl & Beth Simons 24 08/26 Joel & Luanne Miller 42 08/26 Danielle & Lucas Lueloff 3

August Birthdays

08/01 Karen Decker, Tisha Kurth, Trina Byrne 08/02 Gary Ducat 08/03 Cindy Nickell, Karin Westlake 08/04 Jim Agnew, Colleen Miller, Tanner Wescott, Drew Dykstra, Lilly Weigen 08/05 Dick Hartl, Eric Carney, Michael Rowe, Joseph Morris 08/06 Wilhelmina Mickelson, Meredithe Campbell Dexter Agnew 08/07 Teegan Weidemann 08/08 Retta Kurth, Presley Beck 08/09 Kristen Hart, Amber Bussian 08/10 Jan Ulrich, Megan Ferrera 08/11 Carson Herrick 08/12 Peggy Agnew, Jarod Alverez, Ellie Benter 08/13 Justin Stark 08/14 Connie Schulz, John Hood III, Breanna Kelly 08/15 Brody Scheeler 08/16 Betty Thom, Zach Rohrbeck 08/17 Graham Lauer 08/20 Fred Hurckman, Bob Ayer 08/21 Stephanie Dykstra, Ginny Klug 08/22 Debbie Talg, Lillian Schuster 08/24 Reta Thies, Luanne Miller, McKenzye Bruss 08/25 David Jakel 08/27 Bill Murray Jr., Heather Schultz, Jamine Kurth, Josh Kirchberg 08/28 Sandra Ebert, Pia Penzotti, Caroline Morris, Noah Sebranek 08/29 Emily Fritz 08/31 Darlene Tjugum, Holly Schuster, MaKayla Mitchell, Noelle Niehoff

August 1 Kelli Campbell 3 Hannah Fox, Avery Jacobs 6 Bethany Patrick, Gavin Bruss 7 Charli Weidemann 8 Ted Miller, Jocelyn LeClair 9 Abigail Fox, Grady Ganta 10 Tisha Kurth, Larry Haseman, Hunter Wodill 11 Norri Brozek 13 Dana Kelly 14 Jim Agnew, Jay Pohlmeier 16 Alex Lewke 17 Hunter Hurckman 18 Scott Vick 19 Emma Baxter, Blake Kurth, Cade Kurth 20 Shavlik Schultz, Gary Ducat, Boyd Weisman 21 Mitchell Freeman 22 Kelsey Dauman, Melissa Miller, Don Link Kailey Schroud, Mary Larson 24 Sienna Sell 26 Jason Gaska 27 Teegan Weidemann, Emily Anthon, David Olson 28 Dustin Miller 29 Jessica Gaska 30 Danielle Ayer, Karin Westlake Rachel Paul Connor Graffin, Wilhelmina Mickelson, Jacob Peterson, Lucas Simons, Rick Tjugum

August 2020

08/29 Rick & Sandy Tjugum 39 08/31 Fred & Pat Hurckman 52 Donna Hanks, Christi Jurgerson, Dawn Kaminski, Kim Steers, Linda Ulmer

6

Faith Lutheran Church - Financial Dashboard - 2020

Dated: 07/07/2020 Prepared by Stephen Peterson, Treasurer

Total General Ac-count Offerings,

Donations

Borrowed from Parson-age Proceeds

Trimester Giving history

January $13,855 2016 $76,759

February $12,824 2017 $74,906

March $16,199 2018 $70,394

April $17,256 2019 $67,292

Trimester 1 $60,135 $0 Trend $70,846

May $14,689 2016 $74,935

June $14,954 2017 $67,611

July 2018 $70,399

August 2019 $62,122

Trimester 2 $29,643 $0 Trend $68,399

September 2016 $87,627

October 2017 $89,350

November 2018 $89,327

December 2019 $88,329

Trimester 3 $0 $0 Trend $91,302

YTD total $89,778 $0 $230,547

General Account Expenditures by Categories in Treasurer's Report

Mission Pastoral Support

Staff Support Operations Total

Jan $2,908 $7,603 $4,245 $6,518 $21,274

Feb $2,325 $7,570 $3,972 $1,873 $15,741

Mar $1,741 $5,751 $4,245 $7,276 $19,013

Apr $2,492 $800 $4,245 $3,818 $11,355

May $2,117 $975 $3,886 $1,878 $8,855

June $2,117 $800 $4,245 $3,457 10,619

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

TOTALS 13,700 23,499 24,836 $24,821 $86,856

Operations combines Worship Programs + Education + Administration + Operations + Misc

Simply Giving portion of total

% Simply Giving

$4,170 30%

$3,910 30%

$4,270 26%

$4,772 28%

$17,123 28%

$4,833 33%

$5,161 35%

#DIV/0!

#DIV/0!

$9,994 34%

#DIV/0!

#DIV/0!

#DIV/0!

#DIV/0!

$0

$27,117 30%

August 2020

Fund balances this month - Ending balances from Summary of Cash Activity Reports

Faith General Account checking $ 24,238.69 $ 21,172.18

Faith General Account savings $ 20,093.42 $ 20,093.42

Faith Project checking $ 55,812.39 $ 35,577.20

Parsonage Proceeds checking $ 106,143.63 $ 106,097.00

Parsonage Proceeds savings Total $206,288 $ 161,141

Simply Giving $ Participation 30% of total revenue to date

Accounting system treasurer reports are posted on the Council bulletin board in the fellowship hall.

7

Lu

thera

n W

orld

Relie

f (LW

R) is a n

on-go

vern

mental

organ

ization fo

unded in

1945 to

resp

ond to

the n

eeds o

f

com

munitie

s devastate

d b

y World

War II. Sin

ce th

en it h

as evo

lved

into

an age

ncy th

at work

s with

partn

ers w

orld

wid

e in

these

secto

rs:

Peace a

nd

Justic

e

Em

erg

en

cy R

esp

on

se

Su

stain

ab

le R

ura

l Develo

pm

en

t

Parish

Pro

jects su

ch as th

ose

describ

ed in

the in

structio

ns h

ere

are d

istribute

d w

orld

wid

e, as n

eeds arise

and aid

is requeste

d.

P

lease

follo

w in

structio

ns e

xactly

so th

at distrib

utio

ns are

consiste

nt an

d fair. D

o n

ot a

dd

oth

er ite

ms o

r leave o

ut a

ny

of th

e ite

ms liste

d fo

r each

kit.

•

Sendin

g top q

uality ite

ms m

akes a carin

g statem

ent to

the

recip

ient ab

out th

e give

r. Ple

ase

giv

e n

ew

item

s on

ly,

ex

cep

t wh

ere

no

ted

oth

erw

ise.

•

Ple

ase

do

no

t do

nate

item

s with

an

y re

ligio

us sy

mb

ols

or w

ord

s. LW

R p

rovid

es re

lief b

ased o

n n

eed, re

gardle

ss of

religio

us cre

ed. R

eligio

us re

fere

nce

s could

be m

isinte

rpre

ted b

y

gove

rnm

ents o

f the re

ceivin

g countrie

s, jeopard

izing th

e

delive

ry to th

e p

eople

who n

eed th

e ite

ms m

ost.

•

Ple

ase

do

no

t do

nate

an

y ite

ms d

eco

rate

d w

ith a

U.S

.

flag, p

atrio

tic o

r milita

ry sy

mb

ols, o

r refe

ren

ces to

the

arm

ed

forc

es, in

clu

din

g c

am

ou

flage. L

WR

and its o

verse

as

partn

ers h

ave acce

ss to are

as of th

e w

orld

oth

ers d

o n

ot

becau

se th

ey are

impartial h

um

anitarian

organ

izations. If th

eir

inte

ntio

ns are

misin

terp

rete

d as b

ein

g politically m

otivate

d,

their w

ork

, their p

artners an

d th

e p

eople

they assist co

uld

be

Luth

era

n W

orld

Relie

f

Parish

Pro

jects

More

details availab

le fro

m F

LC

W, th

e

SE

WIN

G K

IT

3 yard

s of 4

4" o

r 45" p

re-w

ashed co

tton o

r cotto

n b

lend fab

-

ric; 4 yard

s, if fabric is 3

6" w

ide; n

o k

nits o

r 100%

po

ly-

este

r

1 p

ackage

of ab

out 1

0-1

5 n

eedle

s for h

and se

win

g (Needle

s

purch

ased in

larger p

ackage

s can b

e d

ivided, in

sertin

g 12

needle

s into

swatch

of fe

lt or th

ick fab

ric.)

1 sp

ool o

f match

ing th

read

1 card

of 6

or m

ore

match

ing b

utto

ns, ½

" to ⅝

"

SE

WIN

G F

AB

RIC

Additio

nal fab

ric for re

cipie

nts o

f sew

ing k

its pro

vides fab

ric

for e

xtra se

win

g practice

, to m

ake clo

thin

g for th

em

selve

s,

or clo

thin

g to se

ll.

Fab

ric should

be p

re-w

ashed co

tton o

r cotto

n b

lend; n

o

kn

its o

r 100%

po

lyeste

r.

Fab

ric should

have

no stain

s or h

ole

s.

Very

imp

orta

nt: F

abric sh

ould

be cu

t in 3

-yard le

ngth

s if it

is 4

4" o

r 45" w

ide, o

r 4-yard

length

s if it is 36" w

ide.

Genera

l Info

rmatio

n

C

om

ple

ted k

its or d

onate

d ite

ms fo

r kits m

ay be p

laced

in th

e n

arthex at an

y time. M

ark b

ag “For K

its.”

S

uggestio

n: Sh

op in

Augu

st for sch

ool ite

m b

argains.

Man

y good ite

ms can

be fo

und at garage

sales. L

ook fo

r good

8

CLO

TH

ING

For a varie

ty of re

asons, L

uth

era

n W

orld

Relie

f no

QU

ILTS

Quilt tyin

g is usu

ally done o

n th

e la

st Tu

esd

ay o

f each

mo

nth

from

Septe

mber th

rough

June. Q

uilte

rs meet at 9

:30

a.m. at th

e ch

urch

. If you are

not ab

le to

help

tie q

uilts, th

ere

are o

ther w

ays to h

elp

.

Mate

rials n

eed

ed

:

new

and go

od u

sed fab

ric drap

erie

s (not fib

erglass)

old

blan

kets (o

r new

) bedsp

read

s

table

cloth

s sh

eets, p

illow

cases

croch

et co

rd

strong yarn

Brin

g contrib

utio

ns to

church

and p

lace alo

ng th

e w

all in th

e

narth

ex o

r under th

e tab

le. M

ark ite

ms “F

or Q

uilts.”

LA

YE

TT

E

2 sh

irts or O

nesie

s (or sim

i-

lar)

2 go

wns o

r sleepers (w

ith o

r

w

ithout fe

et)

2 re

ceivin

g blan

kets (ab

out

36" to

45" sq

uare

)

4 clo

th d

iapers, flat fo

ld

pre

ferre

d (2

5"x

27")

1 sw

eate

r or sw

eatsh

irt (front

tie

s or b

utto

ns p

refe

rred

on sw

eate

r)

2 w

ashclo

ths

Use

sizes u

p to

24 m

onth

s, varying size

s for lo

nge

r use

fuln

ess.

No

te c

han

ge in

dia

pe

r size. If cu

tting b

lankets o

r diap

ers

from

flannel, u

se p

inkin

g shears an

d zigzag stitch

the e

dge

s, or

sew

a narro

w h

em

to p

reve

nt rave

ling. G

ently u

sed ite

ms m

ay

be u

sed. W

rap ite

ms in

one re

ceivin

g blan

ket an

d se

cure

with

diap

er p

ins. D

o n

o e

nclo

se an

y part o

f the k

it in p

lastic bags.

SC

HO

OL K

IT

pad

ded o

r spiral n

ote

books o

f

ru

led p

aper, ap

pro

xim

ate-

ly 8"x

10½

", tota

ling 1

50-

200 sh

eets (if u

sing 7

0-

co

unt n

ote

books, in

clude

3); n

o lo

ose

-leaf p

ap

er

1 b

lunt scisso

rs

1 3

0-cm

rule

r, or w

ith b

oth

in

ches an

d ce

ntim

ete

rs

1 p

encil sh

arpener

1 e

raser, ab

out 2

½" lo

ng

6 n

ew

unsh

arpened #

2 p

encils

w

ith e

rasers, se

cure

d w

ith

a ru

bber b

and

1 b

ox o

f 16 o

r 24 crayo

ns

12 sh

eets o

f 9"x

12" co

nstru

c-

tio

n p

aper, asso

rted

co

lors; fo

ld if n

ece

ssary

1 stu

rdy clo

th b

ag, appro

x.

12"x

14" w

ith clo

th h

an-

All ite

ms sh

ould

be n

ew

and in

good co

nditio

n. R

em

ove

ex-

cess p

ackagin

g. Pack

item

s in th

e b

ag, fold

the h

andle

s ove

r,

and se

cure

with

two large

rubber b

ands, o

r tie w

ith yarn

. Do

not e

nclo

se an

y part o

f the k

it in p

lastic bags.

HE

ALT

H K

IT

1 b

ath size

tow

el (ligh

t

weigh

t) 52”x

27”

1 b

ath-size

bar o

f soap

(4-5

oz.) in

origin

al wrap

pin

g

1 ad

ult-size

tooth

bru

sh in

origin

al pack

aging

1 co

mb, w

ide-to

oth

pre

ferre

d

1 m

etal n

ail file o

r nail clip

-

pers w

ith file

attached (d

o

not su

bstitu

te card

board

em

ery b

oard

for th

e file

)

6 B

and-A

ids (o

r similar

bran

d), ½

" to ¾

" wid

e

pre

ferre

d; se

cure

with

a

ru

bber b

and

All ite

ms sh

ould

be n

ew

and in

good co

nditio

n. R

em

ove

pack

-

aging e

xce

pt fo

r tooth

bru

sh. W

rap sm

aller ite

ms in

the to

wel

and tie

secu

rely w

ith rib

bons o

r yarn. D

o n

ot e

nclo

se an

y

part o

f the k

it in p

lastic bags.

SO

AP

: bath

-size b

ars (4-5

oz.), still in

origin

al wrap

pin

g