PARISH NEWSLETTER

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

Beatrice, Nebraska

AUGUST 2016

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SCHOOL NEWS

“Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.” Isaiah 26:4

The 2016-2017 school year is quickly approaching. Our theme for the year will be,

“Upon This Rock”, based on Isaiah 26:4. Our chapel talks and activities for the year will center

on this theme. We will focus on Christ, the rock upon which our Church and School are built.

Lutheran schools are built on an unchanging, eternal foundation, the rock of salvation.

The first weeks of August will be spent making final plans for the new school year. The

teachers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 will make home visits to their students before school

begins. The new school year promises to be filled with excitement, learning, and many

opportunities to grow in Christian faith and serve others.

Registration Days for the 2016-2017 school year for Kindergarten through Grade 5

students will be on Wednesday, August 3rd from 5:00 to 8:00 PM, and Thursday, August 4th

from 2:00 to 5:00 PM. Parents received a mailing in July containing Registration Day

information.

Open House and Registration for Pre-Kindergarten students will be on Monday, August

15th from 4:00 to 7:30 PM, and for Pre-School students on Thursday, August 11th from 4:00 to

7:30 PM. Parents of Pre-School and Pre-Kindergarten students have already received scheduling

information for the Open House and Registration.

The teachers will come back on duty August 1st and begin with an In-Service meeting

that day. The first day of school will be Tuesday, August 16th from 8:30 to 11:45 AM for

Kindergarten through Grade 5. The first full day of school will be Wednesday, August 17th. The

first day of classes for Pre-Kindergarten (4year olds) will be Wednesday, August 17th from 8:30

to 11:00 AM and 12:45-3:15 PM. The first day of school for Pre-School (3 year olds) will be

Thursday, August 18th from 8:30 to 11:00 AM and 12:45 to 3:15 PM.

We are looking forward to an exciting and rewarding school year, knowing that

Christ, the solid rock will continue to bless us as we share the message of His love with the

children and families of St. Paul’s and our community through our school.

Mrs. Duever

Principal

Scrip Program is an

incredible fundraising

opportunity for St. Paul’s

Lutheran Church and

School. You purchase gift

cards for America’s most

popular retailers and use

them for your everyday

purchases. Scrip gift cards

are the same as gift cards

you purchase from

retailers. By simply

planning ahead on everyday

purchases, you can raise

money for St. Paul’s. A

percentage of each gift card sold is profit for St. Paul’s at no extra cost. It’s

that simple.

OTHER WAYS TO HELP OUR SCHOOL We also collect Box Tops, Our Family UPC Barcodes, SunMart Receipts, and Tyson

A+ Labels. If you use any products that have these on them, please help our school

and send them in either to the church or school office.

Order forms may be dropped off at the

Church office or at St. Paul’s Lutheran

School.

Orders due the 4th Tuesday of every month.

Cash or check must accompany order.

Checks payable to St. Paul’s Lutheran School.

Any questions contact Vanessa Smith, school

secretary. 402-223-3414

If there is a business you purchase from

frequently and do not see them on the

current list, contact Vanessa to see if they

are/can be included.

Notes and Reminders…

Every Sunday 8:00am & 10:30am - Divine Services

9:00am - Coffee & Snacks served in the basement 9:15am - Adult Bible Class No Sunday School or Youth Bible Class until August 21.

Every Monday 7:00pm - Divine Service

Church Office: Office hours are 8:30am to 1:30pm, Monday through Friday. The office may be closed on occasion, so please call ahead. Radio broadcast and bulletin sponsorships are available in October through December. Radio sponsorship cost $100 and bulletin sponsorship cost $20. Please call Kelly in the church office if you are interested in sponsoring a date.

**School Starts August 15th for BPS and the 16th for St. Paul’s 1st Day of Sunday School – August 22nd

Thank you to Amy Loomis and everyone who volunteered their time & gave donations for this year’s Vacation Bible School. Thank you to Suzanne Munn & everyone who have given their time, money & energy into cleaning up our church and lawn! Thank you to the gracious people at the BSDC for preparing our monthly newsletters for mailing this month. We sincerely appreciate their volunteer work and a job well done.

Thank you to everyone who sent cards, made telephone calls to myself, my family or my sister and who were concerned about my progress since my recent heart surgery. All of these gestures were very much appreciated. Thank you to Pastor Irmer for his visitations while in the hospital and since my return home. May the good Lord bless and keep us always in His care. Friends in Christ, Sharon Naaf

August at St. Paul’s Lutheran School:

3 – School Registration (K-5) 5-8pm 4 – School Registration (K-5) 2-5pm 11 – Pre-School Open House 4-7:30pm 15 – Pre-Kindergarten Open House 4-7:30pm 16 – FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 17 – First Pre-Kindergarten Class 18 – First Pre-School Class

BULLETINS RECEIVED

June 26 Carline Mencl American Lutheran Church, Filley, NE July 3 Floice Meyer Trinity Lutheran Church, Van Meter, IA

July 10 July 10 July 10

Genial (Geri) Heist Althea Wiest

Dorothy Nickels

Trinity Lutheran Church, De Witt, NE Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Olathe, KS

Holy Savior Lutheran Church, Lincoln, NE

SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

No Sunday School classes during the summer. Sunday School will resume on August 28th. Teachers this year include Dixie Johnson (Pre-S -K), Lacey Jurgens (1-3) and Robin Klaus (4-6). We are looking for substitute teachers, if you would like to be one or know of someone who may, contact Toree Lang.

Toree Lang, Sunday School Chairperson

Do You Have Some Free Time?

St. Paul’s is always looking for volunteers to serve on the various Boards, to help out with the Turkey Supper in the fall, to help the Trustees with various cleanup activities throughout the year, to volunteer at Vacation Bible School in the summer, to help with funeral dinners, to teach Sunday School, or to help out in some other way. Volunteers are such an important part of St. Paul’s! Contact the church office or a board member if you can help!

We’re updating our church records!

The church office is working on keeping our records up to date. We are not deleting anyone from the roster, but rather wanting to gather current information on everyone. So if you have moved, changed your home or cell phone number, children have gone to college or have moved out on their own, etc. please let the church office know. Information the church office collects is names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, birthdays, baptism dates, confirmation dates & verses, and wedding dates.

Listed below is a list of people currently on our church roster for whom we have NO contact information. If you know any of them could you give the church office their information.

Jennifer Allington Tamara Little Children: Parker & Preston Children: Brooke & Madison Erick Fricke Anastasia Riley Kathleen Gonderinger Clayton Schwisow Ashley Hersel Child: Balinda Rochelle Hirschler Travis & Megan Spilker Andrew Korte Child: Beau Lois Lampe

Our St. Paul’s students will be singing in church on the following Sundays:

Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 13, Dec. 18, Jan. 22, Feb. 26, Mar. 26, Apr. 23, May 14

Dates are subject to change.

August Birthdays & Anniversaries Happy Birthday to… 1 Anthony Itzen Sarah Morris Dale Rickers 2 Neeley Duff Merle Kuhlmann Donna Lofing 3 Robert Frerking Benjamin Martin 4 Brittanie Keating Carla Meyer Cheryl Wirth 5 Madison Little Lester Miller 6 Thomas Boyer Parker Fossler 7 Donavon Eckhoff Christine Huls Virlene VanLaningham 8 Berri Easley Lois Luebs Megan Siems 9 Tami Helmick Cheri Lytle Austin Oestreich 10 Aaron Bishop Daniel Helmick Kirsten Holle

13 David Doering 14 Norbert Meyer Celeste Wells 15 Neal Niedfeldt Jamie Norton 16 Talena McClellan 17 Gerrad Busboom 18 Ethel Hartman Lawrence Kumm 19 Carter Aden Connor Kelley Marilus Snyder Stacy Wallman Vera Weber 20 Dale DeBuhr James Nelson Nancy Rudder Courtney Thomas 21 Ann Kelley Theodore Robinson 22 Yvonne Eckhoff Richard Martin Joan Schmidt 23 Hadley Kelle Jarod Lueders Stan Wirth Teri Zimmerman

24 Monetta Meyer Beverly Weishahn 25 Darcie Compton Carla Loemker Chase Lofing Phyllis Schmidt Page Southwick 26 Todd Deke Mia Holthus Lora Kuhlmann 27 Garrett Easley Kaylee Helmick Marie Kitt Madison Oestreich David Taylor 28 Bryan Bishop Walley Boerger Tierra Snyder 29 Taylor Easley 30 Daniel Craven Stefanie Lloyd Jane Oeltjen 31 Elizabeth DeBuhr Janette Hill

Happy Anniversary to… 6 Terry & Teresa Brethouwer, 33 yrs. 10 Eldred & Carol Lohse, 25 yrs. 11 Eric & Robin Klaus, 21 yrs. 13 Rodney & Doris Luedders, 45 yrs. 16 Ivan & Mary Ann Stohs, 63 yrs. 18 Michael & Dixie Johnson Sr., 35 yrs. Christopher & Amy Whitfield, 15 yrs. 23 James & Carolyn Nelson, 42 yrs. 24 Virgil & Sharilyn Anderson, 31 yrs.

25 Kevin & Bonnie Riekenberg, 37 yrs. 26 Wilbur & Bonnie Oestreich, 72 yrs. Kevin &Judy Weakland, 38 yrs. 28 Lawrence & Rowien Kumm, 12 yrs. 29 Glen & Myrna Spilker, 65 yrs. 31 Rodney Aden & Melody Philippi-Aden, 25 yrs.

If your information is missing or incorrect, please contact Kelly in the church office as work continues in order to keep our records up to date. We apologize for any errors.

Visit our website for the latest updates at stpaulbeatrice.org

Stewardship Article “Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift” (2 Cor. 9:15)! This is St. Paul’s exclamation upon hearing the Corinthian church’s response to the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his request for support for the Church in Jerusalem. The Christians in Corinth heard and received God’s mercy in Christ, and they responded to St. Paul’s call to support Christians in Jerusalem with a collection. The Corinthian’s joy filled Jerusalem’s need. This is the reality of stewardship. Because of God’s generosity in the giving of His Son to die on the cross for us, we are to be generous with all that we receive from Him. What do we receive? Everything. All that we are and all that we have is the Lord’s. He is the creator and the giver. We are His creatures and those who receive what He gives. It sounds easy. And it is. But then again it isn’t. Stewardship is easy because it God’s work. Through what God gives, we give to others. Through what God gives, we support the work of the church for the life of the world. He gives; we receive. And like our generous Father in Heaven, we, as His children, use what He gives to us to love and serve others. But stewardship is also difficult. That is because it goes against our natural inclination to think that what I have is mine to do what I want with. This is our sinful nature. It is our selfishness and our greed. How can we who have been given everything—life, food, clothing, house, home, forgiveness, divine sonship, an eternal inheritance—be so stingy with what we give to the church, the place where we hear about and receive all that God gives us and does for us? We are all guilty of this kind of thinking. And the only godly response is to repent and trust in the Gospel. For if God has given you His own Son, will He not give you all things? Yes. He will. This is His sure and certain promise. God provides for His people. He provides everything we need for this body and life and for the life that is to come. The church is a mercy place. It’s a place where God’s mercy in the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ, is given and received. For we who believe in Christ, it means forgiveness, life, and salvation in the face of sin, death, and the power of the devil. Here in the church we inhale God’s mercy in Word and Sacrament, and exhale this same mercy in love and service to our neighbor. And that is an enduring, joyful thing to do. Our joy fills our neighbor’s need because His joy filled ours (Heb. 12:2). Thanks be to God for His inexpressible gift!