Christ the King Lutheran Church “Where We Are About God’s Grace For God’s People”

Special points of interest:

Vacation Bible

School Pictures

Mission of

Hope Opportu-

nities

Interim Pastor’s

Corner

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In The Parish Family 3

Attendance & Offer-

ings

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Birthdays 4

VBS Pictures 5

Those Who Serve 6

Calendar 7

Inside this issue:

July 2019

Mission of Hope Saturday, August 24 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the U.P. State

Clergy and community members have gathered on numerous

occasions to work on an event known as "Mission of Hope". The em-

phasis of this event is to bring the community together to offer a

myriad of opportunities to men, women and children. The goal is to

help them know that they are important and that there is hope

available to them.

Resources being made available include ...

Groceries

Health Screening

Job Fair

New Shoes

Portraits

Hair Cuts

Kids Books

Substance Abuse

Veterans Affairs

Counseling

School Supplies

Kids Zone

Lunch and Much More

There are a number of ways you can get involved to help make

this endeavor a success. Posted on the bulletin board by the office

are sign-up sheets detailing those ways. You may also check out

www.missionofhope906.com or their Facebook account to learn

more.

The day will be closed with a special concert in the grandstand

by the Christian group "Newsboys". Perhaps they are best known

to many of us for the music they sung for the movie "God's Not

Dead".

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Pastor’s Pen—Summer Reflections

Still After All These Years

As I outlined the lessons for the weeks of summer, I became aware of how the themes of

reformation thinking are still at the heart of my faith. Particular readings from Luke, Gala-

tians, and Colossians stirred an awareness of how deeply I experience theology. Theology that

has stood the test of time better than science, medicine, or politics and has in many cases freed

us to let these other forms of knowledge grow.

Key to the reformation was the acknowledgement that a church filled with sinful and self

centered human beings will become corrupt. The church, therefore, must be a Reforming

Church always re-forming itself in Christ.

Galatians tells us that in Christ we have a radical new

freedom, “neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male and

female, but all are one in Christ”. Our oneness does not

destroy our diversity, rather, it sets it free. Free to use our

particular gifts for our particular calling. Free to discover

our full humanity resides in Christ. You see, our differ-

ences describe us but don’t define us. Unity in diversity is what we are called into and giv-

en in the “priesthood of all believers”.

We enter this priesthood through God’s grace offered to us in the gift of Baptism. We are

nourished in this priesthood by the gift of God’s grace in Communion. Our relationship with

God is not dependent on our logic, our reason, our action or our emotions. Our relationship

with God is dependent on God alone who has offered and continues to offer God’s self to us. We

are saved by grace.

Christ has made us free. Christ has paid the price. We can do much to show love, adoration,

appreciation, and praise. We can do much to grow deeper in that loving relationship, to our

own benefit and the benefit of others, but the relationship itself is a free gift. We can teach and

learn from each other how to live the wonder of that Love, but anything we add as a require-

ment for that relationship negates the action of Christ.

That is Galatians message of grace. Christ, the Lord of all that exists makes us a part of

himself. This means that in God’s great love, the Father makes us lord of all in Christ. It also

tells us that to live the joy of this radical freedom in Christ means to live as Christ for each oth-

er. The Joy of faith is found in this dialectic: We are in the same moment “Lord of all we see

and Servant of all we meet.” Serving Christ by serving others in Christ is true freedom. Free

in Christ you are your true self. Free in Christ your particular uniqueness makes the unity

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Home from the hospital—Oral Thompson

Many Thanks to everyone from Christ the King who helped make this year’s Vacation Bible

School in Stonington a big success. A special thank you to Patty Lindstrom for planning and

preparing the delicious lunches and to all who provided the food. Trevor Christensen helped

lead the singing and for that we thank him. Other volunteers

from Christ the King included … Roland Jacobson, Alice Hintsa-

la, Brett Boudreau, Abbie Boudreau, Alesha Swanson, Pam Carl-

son, Donna Orzel and Connie Schmidt. Printed elsewhere in this

newsletter are pictures featuring the awesome program.

A heartfelt thank you to the Funeral Committee for the won-

derful meal that was served following the funeral service for my husband Robert Swisher. Al-

so, thanks to all who remembered me and my family with your prayers and cards. – Kristine

Swisher

Congratulations to Tim & Kim Kenneally on the birth of their son, Timothy Joseph Kenneal-

ly. We would also like to congratulate Kelly & Jaylene Kenneally as they welcomed a son,

Cam Ryker to their family. Congratulations to these new parents. A child is a precious gift

from God. May his blessings be with you and your little one today and always.

whole. Free in Christ your diversity makes the oneness one.

The rest of Galatians is a call. Our individual will is a delicate thing. While we find whole-

ness and freedom in the will and intention of God, we live in fear. We simply cannot grasp this

grace and so we fall back into what we believe to be the safety of our own choices. Acting on

what we believe to be free will, our actions move us away from God, even when we think we are

making the right choices. The exploration of the tension between free will and the bondage of

the will is a theme the reformers debated. But this is a topic for another time.

It is enough to say that this tension between acting on our own and trusting in the will of God

is at the root of the concept “Sinner – Saint”: Sinner by our own action, Saint by the grace of

God. I find great comfort in Mother Teresa’s expressions of doubt/faith, trust/fear, and unity/

isolation. She expresses the essence of a sinner-saint: saved, loved and led by grace.

The Biblical texts for this summer provide place to review, reflect, and hopefully nourish the

heart of our faith. Use the summer’s sermons as an opportunity to challenge yourself. Let’s

grow together.

Your Friend in Christ, Tom

In the Parish Family

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Date 5 P.M. 10:30 Total

June 1/ 2 44 34 78

June 8/ 9 33 63 96

June 15/16 39 49 88

June 22/23 36 42 78

Average attendance for June: 85

June 1/ 2 $2,513.00

June 8/ 9 $1,767.00

June 15/16 $2,460.36

June 22/23 $2,258.00

Year-To-Date Income: $74,473.43

Year-To-Date Needed: $87,413.00

Difference: - $12,939.57

DEBT RETIREMENT

Received in June: $256.00

Loan Balance: $12,772.53

Offerings & Worship Attendance For June

Offerings For June through the 23rd

Let Us Pray For those Celebrating Birthdays On:

July 1: Danielle Murray

July 5: Donna Eis, Roland Jacobson, Levi

Kenneally

July 7: Paxton Kenneally, Piper Savard

July 8: Marissa Marshall

July 10: Sara Lueneburg, Cory Tufnell

July 13: Liz Schlenvogt

July 14: Hailey Irving, Jennie Strasler

July 16: Kinsley Wilcox

July 17: Kennedy Bowden

July 18: Isabella DeCremer

July 19: Collin Sharkey

July 20: Evan Pascoe

July 21: Kane Rodgers, Nancy Tufnell

July 22: Mike Smith

July 23: Caydence Carter, Vicky MacBride,

Jordan Schlenvogt

July 24: Susie Cobb, Otillie Dimock, Jackson

Swanson

July 25: Heather Albanez, Jerry Beattie

July 26: Sarah Way

July 28: Dillon Buckley

July 29: Steve Weber

July 30: Justin Micheau

July 31: Kim Eis

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Readers

July 6/ 7—5:00 Dawn Martin 10:30 Heather Albanez

July 13/14—5:00 Sam LaMarche 10:30 Lynn Chylek

July 20/21—5:00 Lance Lindstrom 10:30 Sandy Jacobson

July 27/28—5:00 Lin VanEffen 10:30 Roland Jacobson

Acolytes

July 6/ 7—5:00 Jillian Cobb 10:30 Caydence Carter

July 13/14—5:00 Ashton Moran 10:30 Tregan Lippens

July 20/21—5:00 Colton Carter 10:30 Elijah Berthaume

July 27/28—5:00 Brett Boudreau 10:30 Camree Bonifas

Altar Guild

July 6/ 7—Sandy Jacobson & Judy Anderson

July 13/14—Mary Jo Johnson & Beth Jacobson

July 20/21—Bob & Lin VanEffen & Judy Anderson

July 27/28—Laverne Picard & Connie Schmidt

Assisting Minister

July 6/ 7—5:00 Bob VanEffen 10:30 Roland Jacobson

July 13/14—5:00 Sam LaMarche 10:30 Connie Schmidt

July 20/21—5:00 Lance Lindstrom 10:30 Lynn Chylek

July 27/28—5:00 Bob VanEffen 10:30 Roland Jacobson

Communion Assistants

July 6/ 7—5:00 Bob VanEffen 10:30 Roland & Sandy Jacobson

July 13/14—5:00 Sam LaMarche 10:30 Leigh & Connie Schmidt

July 20/21—5:00 Lance Lindstrom 10:30 Lynn Chylek

July 27/28—5:00 Bob VanEffen 10:30 Roland & Sandy Jacobson

Those Who Serve

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3

9:00 Quilting

9:30 Bible Study

4

10:00 Coffee

with the Staff

5 6

5:00 Commun-

ion Service

7

9:30 Coffee

Hour

10:30 Com-

munion Service

8 9

6:15 Finance &

Executive

Committee

Mtg.

10

9:00 Quilting

9:30 Bible Study

11

10:00 Coffee

with the Staff

12 13

5:00 Commun-

ion Service

14

9:30 Coffee

Hour

10:30 Com-

munion Service

15 16 17

9:00 Quilting

9:30 Bible Study

18

10:00 Coffee

with the Staff

NO Church

Council Mtg.

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5:00 Commun-

ion Service

21

9:30 Coffee

Hour

10:30 Com-

munion Service

22 23 24

9:00 Quilting

9:30 Bible Study

25

10:00 Coffee

with the Staff

26 27

5:00 Commun-

ion Service

28

9:30 Coffee

Hour

10:30 Com-

munion Service

29 30 31

9:00 Quilting

9:30 Bible Study

2019

1230 North 18th Street

Escanaba, Michigan 49829

CHURCH OFFICE ………………………..…………………………………..…………….…786-7400

INTERIM PASTOR

Rev. Tom Otis…………………………………………………………………..……………….428-4565

CHURCH OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

Arlene Cody………………………………………………………………………….………....786-5949

e-mail address: c.lutheran@att.net Website: www.ctk-escanaba.org

WORSHIP SCHEDULE:

Saturday—5:00 p.m. Worship

Sunday— 9:00 a.m. Youth Faith Formation; 9:30 a.m. Coffee Hour; 10:30 Worship

Holy Communion is celebrated at every Saturday and Sunday service. At the 10:30 a.m.

service communion will be distributed using continuous communion.

KING’S HERALD July 2019

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This issue of the King’s

Herald is given in honor of

their 44th Wedding Anni-

versary (July 12th) by

Tony & Arlene Cody