OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHNEWSLETTER

JUNE, 2015

Pastor’s Letter June, 2015PENTECOST

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Yes! We have worship during thesummer months at Our Redeemer! Yes, we are open both on Saturday at5:00 pm and Sunday at 9:30 am. Andwe’ve even made things morecomfortable for you. We have airconditioning!!!

So, the answer is yes! There areworship services during the summer!

Have you ever thought of worship assomething that could and does bringhealing to your lives? There is an oldhymn, “There is a balm in Galead,” And I often feel that worship is ahealing balm for our lives - a timebetween us and our God where Godspeaks to us through the lesson,sermons, hymns and prayers. He issharing with us and a troubled worldthe good news that God loves hispeople no matter what. He sent hisson, Jesus, to us to save us from oursins - our own brokenness. We are a died for people - a forgiven people - and worship is that place,that quiet place away from the worldwere God speaks words of love to usall and how do we need to hear thosewords, and how do we all needhealing.

So my brothers and sisters inChrist, I will be looking foryou all this summer. Yes,even on Saturday/Sundays atworship.

We are open!

See you at worship!

Peace,

Pastor Klose

Upcoming.....

MARK YOURCALENDARS!!!!

June 7, 2015 10:45 AM

AnnualCongregational

meeting. Allmembers are

urged to attend. Please mark your

calendars.

June 14, 2015New Members

Received

July 5, 2015Outdoor Service/

Brunch

REMEMBER YOUR CHURCH WHILE YOU ARE ON VACATION!!

Vacation holidays are great!! We all need to get away to relax, rest, and renew our energies andcreativity. Please enjoy your vacation and do all you can to make it safe and refreshing.

Also, remember that the work of the church does not stop because we go on vacation. Your prayersand offerings make our ministry possible. Before you go, please bring your pledge up to date.

And.... then enjoy your time away with the knowledge that the work of the Lord through ourcongregation continues undiminished. You'll be glad you did!!!

BAPTISMS

MAY 10, 2015

KELSEY MAE WALTERSDaughter of William & Sarah Walters

(nee Scott)Godchild of Luke & Jennifer Walters

JOSEPH MARTIN LIANA, IIISon of Joseph & Erin Liana, Jr.

(nee McDonald)Godchild of Janine & Joseph Cannella

STAINED GLASSMEMORIAL FUND

I/m/o RAYMOND DUMONTGiven by: Melissa & Jim McGee

I/m/o REGINA CLARKEGiven by: Eleanor & Charles Schmitt

FUNERALS

MAY 23, 2015SHONA ALLAN

JUNE ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL

&SCHOOL BOARD

MEETINGSUNDAY, JUNE 7 th

10:45 amAfter our 9:30 am

School Board members willbe voted for. You can make a

difference!! All votingmembers 18 years and older are encouraged to

attend and exercise your right to vote!

JUNE

June 6 - 5:00 PMJune 7 - 9:30 AM Holy Communion

10:45 AM Congregational

& School Board AnnualMeeting

June 13 - 5:00 PM June 14 -9:30 AM

Holy Communion -New Members Rec’d

June 20 - 5:00 PM

June 21 - 9:30 AM Holy Communion

Happy Father's Day!

June 27 - 5:00 PM June 28 - 9:30 AM Holy Communion

SUMMER RETREAT

Please join us for ourFamily Summer Retreatat Koinonia July 10–12,2015. Have fun in thesun rafting and enjoyingfellowship. Sign Up!

DO YOU LIKE TO WORK WITHNUMBERS AND COMPUTERS?

We can sure use you! Weare looking for people torecord the Sunday offerings. Approximately an hour aboutevery 4 weeks. (On any daythat is convenient for you) Can you help? Please call the church office and say YES!!!

COMMUNION ASSISTANTS andASSISTING MINISTERS

AND USHERS

for the 9:30 am service. If you areinterested, please speak to Pastor Kloseor call the church office. Please seriouslyconsider this service to the church—you’ll be glad you did!

NURSERY SCHOOL NEWS JUNE2015

I am pleased to announce that OurRedeemer Nursery School wasrecognized by the faculty, staff, andstudents of Long Island Lutheran Middle& High School with a $1,000 grant fromthe LUTHERAN CRUSADER FUNDduring a special on-campus Chapelservice on Wednesday, April 22. Thisgrant enables us to provide curriculummaterials to our Bible Fun teacher as wellas pay for the program's teaching staff. In addition, the monies will allow us topurchase children's Bibles as a gift foreach of our graduating pre-kindergartenstudents. Our Bible Fun Programcoordinates with our Chapel visits with

Pastor Klose and reinforcesour ministry to develop ourchildren's understanding ofJesus' love for them. Ourpre-school student'sspiritual growth is soimportant to us! Congratulations are in orderfor staff members, CarolDiCapua, Maureen Nuzio,and Gina Cerreta. Mrs.DiCapua and Mrs. Nuziowere recognized for tenyears of service and MissCerreta for five years ofservice and dedication toLutheran Education duringthe Lutheran School'sAssociation's (LSA) annualboard meeting andrecognition dinner. Thefestivities took place on May13 at Concordia College inBronxville. At OurRedeemer Nursery Schoolthe end of the year is uponus. Students are busypracticing their songs topresent at the end of yearceremonies. Thegraduation gowns are beingpressed for our 4 year oldsand decorations are beingmade. Our Redeemer'sbookkeeper, JackieEdwards, is also busyworking on a DVD photomontage of our graduatingfour year olds. Thiswonderful keepsake DVDhas photos, graphics andtouching music showcasingour children and the eventsof the year. Jackie'sdedication to this project isgreatly appreciated! Along with this preparation,students will enjoy their lastmonth of school playing onthe playground, makingcrafts for Father's Day,

learning about FlagDay, and planningsummer time fun.It is always bittersweetto see our 4's move onto Kindergarten andleave Our Redeemerbehind. We will lookforward to seeing ourplaygroup students and3 year old studentsreturn in September. Both groups will surelybe a little moregrown-up and a lotmore confident.However, beforeSeptember arrives,many of our studentswill return for SummerFun in July and August. Summer Fun is afun-filled Five Weekprogram for little onesages 3 by December 1,2015 - age 6. I lookforward to the return ofmy special team ofSummer Fun teachers! Thank you to the OurRedeemercongregation for yourcontinued support ofour faith-based nurseryschool. How rewardingit is for me to be a partof this special school! Ihope you all have anenjoyable and relaxingsummer!

Regards,

Caitlin DiLemme,

Director

DAY CARE NEWS JUNE 2015

In just a week, I will be on vacation with my family. My nephew Connor, who is four and a half,6 has anew baby brother, Breccan. I am so excited tospend time with them. Being so far away from myfamily (my parents and grandma are in westernPennsylvania and the boys are in Ohio) is sodifficult. The children and this busy job are quite adistraction from my homesickness.

We finished April with an Administrative Assistants'Appreciation lunch. I would like to thank the DayCare Secretary, Janine Bowles, for all of her hardwork. I am blessed to work with such a kind andamazing person. The Day Care is lucky to havesomeone so capable! I would also like to thankCindy Solliday for all that she does. She doeseverything, from phones to doors and so muchmore. Thanks for keeping us up and running!

In May we celebrated Teacher Appreciation Day. Iwould like to thank our teachers for all of their hardwork. Our parents can go to work knowing thattheir children are happily learning and playing withother children in a safe setting. The infant roomparents usually have a more difficult separationthan their children. Our staff makes them feelcomfortable so they are able to go to their jobswithout worry.

Mother's Day takes at least a week of preparationas the children make cards and gifts for theirMommy. The mommies appreciate how theteachers capture their tiny hand prints and sweetsmiles. Homemade gifts are the best!

During our May Chapel, Pastor taught us aboutAscension, when Jesus went back to Heaven, andPentecost, the birth of the Church. The childrenwere really paying attention. Pastor asked them tosay, "The Holy Spirit" while he moved his hand tohis forehead. Over half of the class repeated thewords, while touching their foreheads! Too cute!

Sabrina from Seaford Library completed her weeklyvisits with our Pre-K class. The visits make thewinter months so much more fun! The children willbe excited to see her at the Library this summer forthe Summer Reading Program. Dr. Pinto engagedthe students with songs and activities during MusicClass. Yoga with Miss Chris is also a monthlyfavorite. They are eager for the class and like toshow me the poses that they learn. Our Infants are growing in leaps and bounds. Themajority of the class is an older crowd and there islots of movement for the young babies to watch. Dancing is a must, and they will sometimes stopwhatever they are doing just to move to a song! Pre-K and Toddlers are finishing the numbers up toten and are preparing for our Graduation Program.It is a big project, but so worth the work! Thechildren have started to practice the songs andmake the decorations. The theme this year is aFairy Tale one. The magic will take place on June26th.

Warm Regards,Melissa

MOTHER’S DAY PLANT SALE

It was a huge success! Thankyou to all who planned, shoppedfor the plants, set up and all whobought!

And thanks to the Gil’s andKneer’s for the wonderfullemonade stand which raised $41for New Life Center!

SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS

We BEElong to JESUS

Where does the time go? Ihope everyone had good timeduring Sunday school. Thisyear our theme was "WeBEElong to JESUS!! We werevery busy during the year -October was the Blessing of theAnimals, and we celebratedReformation Sunday,November we collected food forthe Thanksgiving Baskets. InDecember we visited church forAdvent, had our ChristmasParties and to celebrate theBirth of our Lord we had ourChristmas Pageant. Thechildren, of course, werefabulous!! If you weren't able toattend this year, you can alwaysjoin us next December. Thosefour months just flew by!!

We now welcome in the NewYear - 2015 - January wevisited church for Epiphany andwe had a special mission forNicaragua through LuHi whichKristen Klose also went againon this mission. Thank you allfor your fabulous generosity.

March we visited church forLent and had our pretzel sales. On March 22nd our 4th gradestudents celebrated their 1stHoly Communion, and wecelebrated Palm Sunday.

April 3rd we had our GoodFriday children's service, a verysuccessful Easter Egg Hunt andthen we celebrated EasterSunday.

In May things settled down. On May 17th we celebratedour Sunday SchoolRecognition and had our yearend class parties!! Like Isaid, another busy year!!

I would like to thank ourClass Parents for all theirhelp.

Without saying, a SpecialTHANK YOU to CarolAarseth for running anothersuccessful Pretzel sales thisyear, and all the parents whograciously gave their timeand helped Carol in thekitchen. As always, this wasa huge success. The moneywe raise from our pretzelsales and the money that yousend in your child's missionenvelopes goes to ourmission project, HeiferInternational.

Our THANKS to Pastor,Cindy, Marco and all theparents who have helpedbehind the scenes.

Special THANK YOU to EricGroepler and Joe Imbro forthe fabulous job they do withour music program. Withtheir great talent the studentslearned new songs and eachtime we visited church theyall sang a special song. THANK YOU ERIC ANDJOE!!

We sadly say goodbye toDanielle Casha and LauraGurrera who will not bereturning next year after theirmany years of service to ourSunday school program. THANK YOU so much for

your dedication to our program. Also, DevneyAlbrecht, Allie Conlon, andKristen Klose will be going off to college. We wish all the best in your college years!!

As you can see, we are losing some of our dedicated teachers.Therefore, we need to filltheir spots. Teachers/helpersare on an every other weekschedule.

If you are interested inhelping, please contact me. Also, we are always lookingat ways to enhance ourprogram. If you have anysuggestions please let meknow. You can email me atrhsdfamily@aol.com.

We are looking forward towelcoming your children back next year.

Have a safe and wonderfulsummer. Look forward to seeing you in September.

Yours in Christ,Susan Smith

It is with great pleasure that we are able to award the following students with their SundaySchool Attendance Pin. These children have met the criteria of only having three absencesor less for the Sunday school year – September through May.

MAY 17, 2015EXCELLENCE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

AWARD RECIPIENTS

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

1 YEAR PIN 4 YEAR PIN 7 YEAR PINst th th

Jacob Cuthbert

2 YEAR PINnd

Emily BowlesMegan Bowles

Natalie Dispenza

Jillian DavisLouis Meduri

Joey CuthbertAddison Dispenza

Nicholas Meduri 8 YEAR PINth

Matthew MeduriIsabella MeduriKylie ReevesTyler Reeves

9 YEAR PINth

Noah Davis

ERIKA TEGELMAN MEMORIAL AWARDThis award is presented to a Third Grade student who demonstrated the following qualities: 1. ChristianAttitude, 2. Class Participation, 3. Christian Kindness, 4. Sunday School Attendance. This year’s awardgoes to:

JILLIAN DAVIS

Congratulations to the 6 Grade students who completed their Sunday Schoolth

studies and will enter their Confirmation studies in September.The following are the dedicated and hard working volunteers that teach yourchildren our Sunday school program. Without these individuals we would nothave the fantastic program we are able to provide your children.

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATION

MUSIC DIRECTOR – ERIC GROEPLER AND JOE IMBRO

SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND HELPERS(*)

PRE K (3 & 4 YEAR OLDS) KINDERGARTENDenise Groepler Barbara BarbutoKristen Klose* Nick Barbuto*Eryn & Allie Conlon Nancy PetrakCathy Clark Kyra GonsorChris JaeggliNicole Jaeggli*

1 GRADE 2 GRADE 3 GRADEST ND RD

Danielle Casha Susan Lopez Charles DavisLaura Gurrera Melissa Garneau* Kaelin King*Devney Albrecht Lauren KloseBrianna Spalletta

4 GRADE 5 & 6 GRADE th th th

Ellie Meduri LeeAnn DiedrickKC Manzoor*

Special thank you to all the class parents for all their help behind the scenes and toCarol Aarseth for running the Pretzel sales and all the parents who helped her.

Have a wonderful summer and see you all in September !