Hello LCR families!

Reminder: The Family page for this weekends assigned readings can be found here.  As always we encourage you to use this in discussion with your family. 

I hope that you and your family have begun practicing FAITH5 each day.  This is a practice my family and I love to do together!  

As a reminder the five steps are:

STEP 1: SHARE your highs and lows

STEP 2: READ a Bible verse or story

STEP 3: TALK about how the Bible reading might relate to your highs and lows

STEP 4: PRAY for one another’s highs and lows

STEP 5: BLESS one another

Further at home resources for all ages can be found below.  The Gospel text for this weekend is John 9:1-41.

Here are some coloring/activity sheets:

prek-k

1st-2nd

3rd-4th

5th-6th

Also, my family and I like the following sites for games, craft ides, and learning:

HowStuffWorks 

DisneyFamily

GameIdeas

Also, here is a great site that provides Bible based videos that we occasionally use in Sunday School and at our neighborhood camp!

SaddlebackKids

This Saturday I will provide a video of me teaching our children some new songs as well as a video for our Bible reading for this Sunday!  I will be trying to reach out to you each day we are apart!  

Finally, please feel free to text me/e-mail me how you are doing or share crafts/projects that you are working on as a family. I’d love to share them with our Church community!

If you have any further questions about Sunday School, please feel free to e-mail Intern John at internjohn@lcrracine.org or via phone at 262-748-5055.

All other questions can be sent to the Church office at office@lcraracine.org

 
You are all in our prayers!
 
 -Intern John

“Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.”
-Proverbs 22:6 (NRSV)

If you have questions or concerns, contact the office at office@lcrracine.org

Many blessings in this New Year and into this season of Epiphany. This is a great time to open our eyes, hearts and lives to see the epiphany moments and rejoice with great joy!  It is also a period to remind ourselves the gift of what Epiphany is all about: Epiphany – the manifestation/appearance of Christ to the Gentiles and a moment of sudden revelation or insight.

The wise one’s were the first people to worship Jesus as Lord. But because it took time to travel back in Jesus’ day – no GPS systems, no cars, plus – the journey was maybe 500 miles or more, it was amazing that the wise one’s kept committed to searching after the Christ child, and following the prophecies from the Hebrew Scriptures. Now, when the magi saw Jesus, they worshiped Him and they brought precious gifts with them for the child, who they recognized as a king appointed not by people or family name, but by God. They had an epiphany, or a sudden insight into the true nature…..and they realized that they were in the presence of God.

Now, the wise one’s were Gentiles, but they were on the lookout for God, searching for God in Scripture, listening for God in the words of the prophets, and watching for signs of God’s revelation on earth. And through Christ, they were able to become God’s people as well. In doing so, becoming God’s people, uncovered something that was there all along, but was hiding. It wasn’t so obvious. It took a second look. The magi realized that Jesus was their king, too — it was a life-changing epiphany. 

I believe we have had some Epiphany – ministry changing moments this past year at LCR as well; a new pastoral intern, sharing $6,667.29 with Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin (which included an endowment match), our city water utility line conversation (sale of land easement & now ongoing project in the nature preserve area), our very 1^st successful 5-week Neighborhood  Camp summer program. Now we are working on an epiphany (guiding light forward) for our staffing plan into the future, especially since Dori announced her retirement and will be leaving us in May of 2020 and Intern John has been approved for ordination and will have the opportunity to interview with congregations sometime in April.  At this point, Intern John will be staying on as a Pastoral Intern until he is called to serve as a pastor at a congregation or we determine that we will be filling our next staffing position going forward.

The council leadership and I, invite you to take time to look up and see the stars, look out for where God is leading us next, rejoice exceedingly with great joy …because we are doing amazing things in the name of Jesus.

    Grace & Peace – Pastor Karen Pahl

November 15, 2019

Thank you, brothers and sisters in Christ at Resurrection, for your warm welcome and the opportunities we had to share with you. We were so happy to see you face-to-face and have good conversations with many of you.

May God bless you with a joyous Advent and Christmas season.

Mary

Mary and Tom Holman

October 16, 2019

Thank you for your prayers! We’re halfway through our time in Nigeria, and the work is going well. The Waja team is on track to complete 1 Corinthians and the L team is making good progress with the detailed work of checking the parallel passages in Matthew with those in Mark and Luke. Angela, the young woman who came with us, is learning a lot and even making some good contributions.

I have a prayer request for the Waja team. Keeping their computers charged is a big challenge because of the lack of electricity in their area. Because of this, they have not met their goals for this first year of their three-year project. Please pray that they would find a satisfactory solution so that they can complete their work in good time.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Blessings in Christ,

Mary

Mary and Tom Holman

We look forward to starting our series on “Cheerful Giving” Sunday, September 29^th with weekly reflections on God’s Word, hearing stories from members of LCR and exploring our new mission for the future. 

This will be a great time to incorporate our new mission: We share the Resurrection by: Loving Jesus, Changing Lives and Reaching out to Serve into our sermon series, so we can explore what God has in store for LCR. The one thing we do know is that the mission cannot happen without all of us…as the hands and feet of Christ, cheerfully giving and being faithful stewards of what God has first given to us.

Don’t forget to join us for our One Service Sunday at 9:30am on October 20, 2019 as we share our financial commitments during worship. Bishop Paul Erickson will be joining us for the day and sharing the message with LCR. After worship we will enjoy a potluck meal  in our fellowship hall for a time of conversation and fellowship together.

Let’s join along in prayerfully exploring this series and commit ourselves to moving forward and giving thanks for our life, LCR family, ministry and mission.

Greetings LCR Members,

The council announced to all of you in October 2019 that we were forming an Exploratory Team to prayerfully take time to review various pieces of information. This information is what we have gathered about our current Mission at LCR, the prior ministry site profile, and the roles and responsibilities of our current staffing. This will help us to understand what our options are to replace Dori after she retires in the Spring and incorporate the pastoral intern responsibilities as well. These transitions in staffing give us an opportunity to re-evaluate what our needs are as we vision for the future at LCR.

Since this announcement, I have heard some questions and thought it would be beneficial to share some the current information about the steps we are working through, the status of the process, and timing of the next steps.

What are the steps we are taking to determine the staffing needs?

*Note: this is a very stressful time for Intern John and his family. Please keep them in your thoughts & Prayers. They have many decisions ahead that they need to prayerfully make for their family and future.

What if you have additional questions?

Please feel free to call or email me.

Email: abaumga08@yahoo.com

Mobile Phone: (262) 770-7107

Grace and Peace to you,

Tony Baumgardt,

Congregational President