Al l Saints Lutheran Church

Please join us for

KICK-OFF SUNDAY , SEPT .

Special points of inter-

est:

• Meet Pastor Naomi

Garber

• Potluck pictures

• Confirmation start dates

• Looking to volunteer?

• God’s Work, Our Hands

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Voices 2

News & Notes 3

In Thanksgiving 4

Volunteer Opportunities 5

To Know 6

In the Community 7

Save the Date! 8

AUGUST 15 , 2017 “To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

“For I know the plans I have for you,

declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. “ Jeremiah 29:11

Potluck MealPotluck MealPotluck MealPotluck Meal

Come and share food and fellowship at the potluck meal beginning at noon. Bring an

item to share! Last name starting with:

A-J Dessert

K-Q Veggies or fruit

R-Z Salad or pasta dish

* Grilled brats, hot dogs and beverages will be provided.

Blessing of the BackpacksBlessing of the BackpacksBlessing of the BackpacksBlessing of the Backpacks

Sunday, August 27th

8:30 & 10:45 a.m. worship services

The Blessings of the Backpacks is a longstanding tradition at All Saints. The start of the school year is an important time for our returning stu-dents and we as a congregation enjoy praying with them and for them as a reminder that God goes with them wherever they go. Remind your kids (and adults!) to bring their backpacks to worship to participate in this special blessing. Briefcases, satchels, laptop bags, etc. for the

adults are welcome as well!

GamesGamesGamesGames The event will end with group board games and

outdoor activities.

Hope to see you there!Hope to see you there!Hope to see you there!Hope to see you there!

Gather for WorshipGather for WorshipGather for WorshipGather for Worship

8:30 a.m.— Classic worship

10:45 a.m.— New Song worship

First Day of Sunday School!First Day of Sunday School!First Day of Sunday School!First Day of Sunday School! Sunday School (4K through high school) will meet in their classrooms for their first day of

class. Class meets from 9:40-10:30.

Interested in helping?Interested in helping?Interested in helping?Interested in helping?

Please come to a

planning meeting on

Sunday, August 20th

10 am—West Lobby

Who am I?Who am I?Who am I?Who am I?

I am very thankful for the gift of serving you as your interim pastor. I am convinced we are called to be together for this season in the life of All Saints and in my story as a pastor. Together we will dis-cover more about our God, our faith, our church, and each other. Some of you know some things

about me but I thought as an introduction, I would provide you a few tidbits about me.

* I was conceived a Lutheran….I had no choice but be a Lutheran. My father is a Lutheran

pastor, continues to be actively serving three rural churches at the age of 81.

* I grew up in west-central Minnesota.

* I am a recovering church organist (remember when you are in recovery you are making a

commitment to never do it again!).

* My husband, Greg, and I have been married for 35 years.

* I was ordained in 2000 following a career in strategic planning in healthcare.

* I prefer to be called either Pastor Naomi or Naomi.

* I have served God’s people in Menomonee Falls, Eastern North Dakota, Janesville, and Rich-

land Center.

* We have one daughter who lives in Scotland with our four grandchildren (12, 9, 8, and 6).

And yes, Scotland is a beautiful place primarily because of the wee ones who live there!

* I love to garden and be outside.

* I have a needle in my hands every day---knitting needle, stitching needle, quilting needle.

* I love to read and read a wide variety of genres.

* I love to cook and bake.

* My favorite color is green…followed closely by yellow and coral/orange.

* I try my very best to be physically fit. So, I walk most days and have a personal trainer who

attempts to keep me on the right path.

* LuLu is our beloved Bassett Hound…and yes, she is a character and full of life!

* God’s greatest gift to me is the gift of ministry! I cannot imagine doing anything else.

If you have questions about me, ask. If you have suggestions for me, share them. If you would like to

have coffee, a Blizzard/Concrete Mixer, lunch, or dinner, call.

Let us explore together while we share this time God has given us to be together.

~ Pastor Naomi Garber

Voices . . . “To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

• Newsletter Newsletter Newsletter Newsletter articles are typically due the first Monday of the month to Heather in the church office at of-fice@allsaints-madison.org. The September due date is Tuesday, September 5th due to the Labor Day

holiday. Items are subject to editing due to space availability.

• If you would prefer to receive your newsletter electronically through email rather than through mail, please

send your email address to: office@allsaints-madison.org.

• Congregation Council Meeting Approved Minutes Congregation Council Meeting Approved Minutes Congregation Council Meeting Approved Minutes Congregation Council Meeting Approved Minutes copies are available in the church office.

• For a calendar of church eventscalendar of church eventscalendar of church eventscalendar of church events, please visit: www.allsaints-madison.org.

MEET OUR NEW INTER IM PASTOR , PA STOR NAOM I GARBER

TH INGS TO KNOW

Al l Saints ’ News & Notes. . .

A.D. meets on Sunday mornings in Fellowship Hall from 9:45-10:30 a.m. between first and second service. All

are welcome, all the time, for one or all of the series offered. Upcoming topics include:

Aug. 20: Sunday School information session for parents

Aug. 27: Coffee and Q & A with Council

Sept. 3: Labor Day weekend—Fellowship Time

Sept 10: Fall Kickoff and the start of Sunday School! Registration will continue in Fellowship Hall. Pot-

luck luncheon begins at noon.

Healing prayers for those hospitalized, home or recovering… Dianne, sister of Carol Eisele and Ruth Thickpenny, sister-in-law of Dave and Margie Rem.

Prayers for Pastor Rich and his family as they mourn the death of his father, Ken Johnson. May the hope and promise of the resurrection surround them with comfort.

Prayers for continued guidance on the call process and the next step with Pastor Naomi Garber. Prayers that we continue to grow in our faith as a congregation.

Prayers of thankfulness for our Sunday School teachers, that they may continue on their journey to know, follow and share Jesus with our children. Prayers that others will come forward to assist and support this important ministry.

We pray for continued support and blessing of the Good Neighbors Personal Essentials Pantry, (GNPEP) and donations and volunteers continue in in summer months…

Prayers for or our synod staff, continued wisdom and refreshment, as we walk and work together in sharing the Gospel…Bishop Mary Froiland, Pastor Erik Jelinek, Pastor Steve Kottke, Vicki Hanrahan, Linda Freitag, Rebecca Johnson, and Robin Cherwinka, Synod Vice President.

ADULT D I S CU S S ION : A .D.

The All Saints Property Team is coordinating a cleanup day to prepare the church and grounds for Fall Kick-off in September. Your help is needed with washing windows (inside and out), weeding flower and rock beds, trimming bushes, pruning trees, spreading mulch, and hauling away de-bris. A pizza lunch is included for our volunteers!

Date: Saturday, August 19 (Rain date, August 26)

Time: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm

Contacts: Steve Timm (bimgolieck@yahoo.com), Mike Barakat

(Michael.r.barakat@gmail.com) or Jerry Sieling (jerry.sieling@gmail.com).

“To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

C LEANUP DAY FOR FALL K I CK -OFF , SATURDAY , AUG . 1 9TH

Much thanks to all who helped make our combined worship and potluck a huge success. Combined wor-ship happens once a year. This annual event combines both services into one allowing families and friends to worship as a congregation. A potluck brunch followed the service. Special thanks goes out to Karin Hanson, Rita Olin, Nancy Pokorney, Margie Rem and Kervin and Famatta Soko for their assistance with organization, setup and cleanup and to all who contributed to make

this a success.

Thank youThank youThank youThank you for your prayers and financial giving to and through All Saints. General Fund offerings through July, 2017:

2017 Actual Giving 2017 General Fund Budget General Fund $143,529.85 $148,917.00 Actual Giving since Fall, 2104 Three-Year Faith Promises Building Fund $373,518.02 $388,592.00

COMB INED WORSH IP & POTLUCK

THANK YOU FOR YOUR F INANC IAL SUPPORT !

Thank you for your faithful attendance during our transition period this summer. A drop in attend-ance was anticipated due to Pastor Rich retiring the first week of June and supply pastors filling in until an interim began. Attendance has dropped slightly compared to last year. We are thankful for our time with Pastor Naomi Garber and this opportunity to stretch and learn with her as we choose a

new pastor. We look forward to seeing you at services!

2016 2017 Change +(-)

Attendance for: July 2 74 95 21

July 9 126 111 (15)

July 16 159 102 (57)

July 23 139 91 (48)

July 30 115 101 (14)

In Thanksgiving . . . “To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR FA ITHFUL ATTENDANCE !

Volunteer Opportuni t ies . .

ST I L L LOOK ING FOR TEACHERS !

“To catch the reader's attention, place an interesting sentence

or quote from the story here.”

“To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

Are you interested in connecting with our youngest members? Do you feel the need to pass along your love of Jesus to the next generation? Please consider joining our Sun day School team! For our 2017-18 Sunday School year, we are developing teams of teachers so we are able to have more members participate in the joy of teaching. Benefits of this schedule include:

• Getting to know more members of our congregation; • Giving our children access to more members of our congregation; • Allowing our congregation to grow together through our children’s ministry; • Committing to teach only once a month; and most importantly: • Allows you to pass along your love of Jesus to our youngest members. Please prayerfully consider joining our team. We supply easy to follow lessons and crafts and you supply the love and commitment. Please contact: Heather Quartaro (4K-6th grade — hkquartaro@gmail.com) or Jen Barakat (7th-12th grade — jenbarakat@allsaints-madison.org) for more information.

LOOKING FOR TEAM MEMBERS AT 1 0 : 45 SERV ICE ! The 10:45 am Service Teams are looking for new people/families to join their teams. We have five teams for the second service and every team could use another family or two to join them in assisting with various roles

during the service.

Service Teams are responsible for handing out bulletins, passing offering trays and Hand of Friendship folders, assisting with communion, facilitating the readings, and cleaning the sanctuary, sacristy and Fellowship Hall

after the services.

If you’ve been looking for a way to get involved in Sunday morning worship joining a Service Team is a great first step! You do not need to be a member of All Saints to join a Service Team, no experience is necessary and train-

ing will be provided. For more information, please contact Ministry Coordinator Jen Barakat at:

jenbarakat@allsaints-madison.org, or call (608) 276-7729, ext 103.

PRO JECT ION IST S NEEDED !

IN NEED OF S IGN CHANGERS !

Are you tech savvy? All Saints is seeking volunteers to help with projection during the 10:45 service. No expe-rience is necessary and on-the-job training is available! Projectionists assist with advancing the slides through the service while monitoring and adjusting the pulpit and cordless microphones to ensure adequate sound. It is most helpful if the projectionist can join New Song during practice between services (10:00-10:30 a.m.) to run through slides with the band. We are seeking help for one Sunday a month, but can offer more weeks if desired. This role is a great way to be directly involved with leading worship. For questions, or to sign up,

please contact Ministry Coordinator Jen Barakat at jenbarakat@allsaints-madison.org.

All Saints purchased and installed a sign in 2016 to reach out to our community with a message and invite them to join us at worship! We are seeking individuals to change the message each week. This is an fun, easy and rewarding job. Messages are picked in ad-

vance. Please contact Ministry Coordinator Jen Barakat if interested.

The annual information session for all Sunday School teachers is Tuesday, August 15th from 6:30-7:30 in Fellowship Hall. At this meeting we will discuss classrooms and curriculum, review Parish Protection Plan with Julie Ahnen, fill out paperwork for background checks, and get discipline tips from Doug Stampfli of Love and Log-ic along with a Q&A. Not signed up, but interested in learning more? Please con-tact Jen Barakat with questions.

Our church treasurer, Michelle Slawny, is finishing her three-year term as treasurer at the end of this year. We are starting to speak with mission partners about who might be interested in serving the church in this role. At All Saints, the responsibili-ties of Treasurer are less than you might see at other churches because we have volunteer counters, a church secretary and a bookkeeper. Average time commit-ments of the treasurer start at approximately three hours a month with additional

time necessary at the end of the year. Tasks include:

• Meeting with the bookkeeper (Margie Rem) monthly to run the monthly reports;

• Attending the Church Council meeting the third Monday of each month; .

• Preparing the church budget;

• Completing an end-of-year questionnaire for the ELCA Synod office;

• Assisting mission partners who want to make a stock donation, providing infor-mation to them about the church’s investment account and then selling the in-

vestments and having the proceeds sent to the church checking account.

Please contact Michelle Slawny if you would like to learn more about this important

role at All Saints at slawny@tds.net.

To Know . . .

Confirmation is a faith formation ministry at All Saints for youth in the 7th and 8th grade. It is a pastoral and educational ministry that leads to learning and involvement. In short, it is an avenue for youth to say yes, to God’s great and grand YES in Holy Baptism! Sign up at pastor@allsaints-madison.org.

A first session for parent(s) only is Wednesday, September 20th 7:00-8:00 p.m. - Fellowship Hall

Confirmation Group for youth starts Wednesday, September 27th

7:00-8:00 p.m. - Fellowship Hall

“To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

TEACHER INFORMAT ION SE S S ION AUGU ST 1 5TH

SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET ING SUNDAY , AUG 2 0

Adult Discussion (A.D.) time on Sunday, August 20th will be dedicated to ac-cepting Sunday School registration forms, discussing ways you can get in-volved with our education program and answering any questions you may have. Sunday School coordinators, Jennifer Barakat and Heather Quartaro will be available that day. The registration forms are available in the church lobby. To receive a copy via email, contact the church office. Please fill them out and bring them with you on this day.

LOOK ING FOR A NEW CHURCH TREASURER !

CONF I RMAT ION BEG IN S WEDNE SDAY , SEP T . 2 0

In the Community. . .

On Sunday, September 17, All Saints’ congregation, as part of the Evangelical Lu-theran Church in America (ELCA), will have an opportunity to be part of the “God’s “God’s “God’s “God’s Work. Our Hands” Work. Our Hands” Work. Our Hands” Work. Our Hands” campaign. This an opportunity to perform acts of service to our community. This event will begin after worship with a sack lunch at church starting at noon. Volunteers will then proceed to McKee Farms Park for McKee Farms Park for McKee Farms Park for McKee Farms Park for clean-up, fall plant-ings and mulch.

In addition, Sunday School children are gathering supplies for Lutheran World Re-lief (LWR) school kits. Kits will be assembled on Saturday, September 23rd.

Contact Jeanie Sieling at gsieling79@gmail.com to learn more about how you can get involved or Ministry Coordinator Jen Barakat at jennifer.l.barakat@gmail.com.

Please join us in making this event a huge success!

“To Know, Follow, and Share Jesus”

LUTHERAN WORLD REL IEF SCHOOL K I T S

GOD ’ S WORK , OUR HANDS , SEPT . 1 7TH

Items needed for supply kits are: ∗ 70-sheet notebooksnotebooksnotebooksnotebooks of wide- or college-ruled paper, approximately 8” x 10 ½” ∗ 30-centimeter rulers, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other ∗ Pencil sharpeners ∗ Blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well) ∗ Unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers ∗ Black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink) ∗ Boxes of 16 or 24 crayons ∗ 2 ½” erasers ∗ Sturdy drawstring backpack-style cloth bags, approximately 14” x 17” with shoulder

straps (no standard backpacks)

Some important guidelines: ∗ Before purchasing backpacks, make sure they meet the size requirements (14” x17”). You

can download a list from our website of suppliers who have appropriate bags available for purchase in bulk.

∗ Please give new items only.

∗ Please do not donate items with any religious symbols, messages or your group’s name.

∗ Please do not donate any items decorated with a U.S. flag, patriotic or military symbols, or references to the armed forces, including camouflage.

Please place donations in the marked bin in the doorway of the 1st/2nd grade classroom. Supplies will be collected through Fall Kick-Off (September 17). Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you for helping equip kids for a successful school year all around the world!

SUPPL IE S NEEDED FOR LUTHERAN M IN I STRY

Mission partner, Kervin Soko, is active with the Lutheran World Federation’s Department of World Service supporting Liberia. The ministry recently received a donation of 25 hospital beds which will be shipped to

two medical facilities in Liberia this fall. They currently in need of donations of:

• Single sheet sets (fitted sheet, flat sheet, pillowcase);

• Towels and washcloths.

Please bring any donations to All Saints by Saturday, September 30thSaturday, September 30thSaturday, September 30thSaturday, September 30th. A collection box will be located in Fellowship Hall behind the Welcome Desk. Donations will be picked up and transferred to a collection site

in Beaver Dam, WI. Thank you for supporting this important ministry!

For a calendar of All Saints’ activities, go to:

www.allsaints-madison.org

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All Saints Lutheran Church

2951 Chapel Valley Road

Fitchburg, WI 53711-6410 (608)276-PRAY

E-mail: allsaints@allsaints-madison.org

Published Monthly

Issue No. 374

Save These Dates!

Aug. 27: Blessing of Backpacks

Sept. 4: Church office closed for Labor Day

Sept. 10: Fall Kick-Off Sunday School begins!

Sept. 17: ‘God’s Work. Our Hands’ Sept. 20: Confirmation begins! Sept. 23: Assemble LWR supply kits 9:00 am—noon Oct. 7: LWR Boxcar Loading

Church Staff

Interim Pastor??????????..Pastor Naomi Garber Phone: 701-388-4788; Email: naomic59ng@gmail.com

Congregational Council President????...Jeff Cherwinka Phone: 770-6388; E-mail: jcherwinka@psl.wisc.edu

Ministry Coordinator??????????Jennifer Barakat (Office Hours: 9:30-4:30. M-W)

Ph: 276-7729; E-mail: jenbarakat@allsaints-madison.org Congregational Care & Visitation??????.Gary Kriesel

Phone: 608-770-7547; Email: treeman77@ameritech.net Adult Choir, Joyful Noise, and Handbell Choir Director??.

Nancy Pokorney, Phone: 827-6426 New Song Director????...????.Melanie Wulfekuhle

E-mail: Melanie.wulfekuhle@gmail.com Accompanists?.??????Yana Avedyan-Lead Pianist,

Nancy Pokorney and Kristin Warner Sunday School?..??.Heather Quartaro and Jen Barakat

E-mail: hkquartaro@gmail.com Church Secretary??????????. Heather Quartaro

(Secretarial Hours: 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., M & W) Phone: 276-7729; E-mail: office@allsaints-madison.org

Childcare Staff Person.........................Chris Carollo-Zeuner (Sundays, 8:30-11:45 a.m.)

Custodian?..??????.??..?.?.??.Dennis Ahnen