Fairmont Evangelical Covenant Church

FAIRMONT EVANGELICAL

COVENANT CHURCH MISSION

STATEMENT

We, the Fairmont Evangelical Covenant Church,

are a Praying, Bible-Based God-Fearing,

Christ-Centered, Spirit-Alive Congregation.

We love the Lord Jesus Christ

and desire to serve Him, one another,

our community, and the world.

In obedience to His Word, we seek to fulfill

our calling, each sharing our spiritual gifts.

We have been called and commissioned

by faith in Christ to minister to and pray

for all to know the Lord.

To that end may God, our Father,

be given all the glory!

Church Phone 507-235-6407 Church E-Mail

office@fairmontcovenant.com Church Website

www.fairmontcovenant.com Church Address

901 Woodland Ave. PO. Box 443

Church Office Hours Mon. 9-1 Tues. 9-3 Wed. 9-3 Thurs. 9-3

Office will be closed for the lunch hour

11:45 am to 12:45 pm

Welcome To Worship. We’re Glad You’re Here! Sunday, August 18th, 2019

Welcome Opening Song “My Lighthouse” Call to Worship Opening Prayer Praise Song “You Are My Vision” Offering Offertory Beth Shieber & Lilly Smart Praise Songs “Boldly I Approach Your Throne” “My Chains Are Gone” Mission Trip Report Sheila Zuehlke Sacred Steps “Praise You With the Dance by Casting Crowns Kids Message Summer Camp in Review Congregational Prayer Closing Song “This Little Light of Mine” Benediction

THIS WEEK IN OUR CHURCH

Today, Sunday, August 18 9:00 am Worship 10:30 am Coffee Time (Malo Group Serves) 12:00 pm Church on Channel 12 Monday, August 19 Tuesday, August 20 6:30 pm Elders Wednesday, August 21 9:30 am Staff Meeting 4:00 pm Sacred Steps 5:30 pm Music 6:00 pm Hunger for Healing in the Library 6:30 pm Bible Study at Wallace’s 7:00 pm Music

Thursday, July August 22 6:30 pm Meyer Bible Study 7:00 pm Prison Ministry

Friday, August 23 10:00 am Women’s Bible Study in Library Saturday, August 24 5:00 pm Church Picnic

Next Sunday, August 25 9:00 am Worship 10:30 am Coffee Time (Hines Group Serves) 12:00 pm Church on Channel 12

FOR YOUR PRAYERS Our Community

1st Covenant Church—Worthington St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

Gideon’s

Serving Our World Francisco & Stephanie Ramos Daron & Kristen Jagodzinske

(Kitsap County, WA) Jeff & Angie Martin (UPBC Mission's) Jim & Gloria Senenfelder Mourning

Glory’s Ministry Rachel Hart—Linwood Covenant Church

Kyle & Matilda Tromanhauser—Converge Munich Germany

Say Special Prayers for those Serving Our Country

Parker Hahn (Bob & Kathy Lake’s son-law)

Nathan Lake (Bob & Kathy Lake’s son) David Hoppe

(Roger & Gretchen Hoppe’s grandson) Mark Knobel (Jan Olson’s grandson)

Our Vision Statement

We aspire to be a spirit-alive, multigenerational church family that embraces and nurtures authentic,

Christ-centered relationships and shares the unconditional, life-changing love of Christ with our

community and the world.

Prayer Requests Many, many prayers have been answered through our prayer chain. We care and are waiting to help you! Please call Dorothy Deguise at 238-1371 to get prayer chain start-ed. On the weekend please call pastor Dan at home 399-2134.

On-line giving to the church is now available on our church website fair-montcovenant.com. Or by scanning on the QR Code.

GIVING REPORT General Budget 2019 Weekly Need $3680.92 Received Aug. 11th $2248.05

Happy Birthday Teresa Wojtanowicz Aug. 18 Lathan Rogge Aug. 21 Nola Jongberg Aug. 24 Happy Anniversary Joel & Sheila Zuehlke Aug. 10 Jeremy & Erin Hinkle Aug.15 Jonathan & Lisa Dorow Aug. 15 Brooks & Sarah Rohman Aug. 21 Doug & Dawn Willner Aug. 21 John & Georgie Pfaffinger Aug. 29

NEWS FLASH Only 3 months to go be-fore our Operation Christmas Child Shoe-Box Packing Party November 3rd!! We will need the following items in order to pack the boxes: *WOW (main) gifts for Boys 2-14 *WOW (main) gifts for Girls 2-14 *Clothing items for boys and Girls *75 Coloring Books *75 Boxes of Crayons *Toothbrushes *Hair Brushes *Bars of Soap *Wash Cloths *School supplies—notebook, pens, pencils, eras-ers, etc. *Filler Gifts—ie. Small cars, jump ropes, et. Thank you for your continued support of this program.

We are in need of standard shoe boxes for our Operation Christmas Packing Party. If you have any please drop them off at the church office.

Effective July 9th, 2019 Donations such as: fur-niture/electronics, library books, etc. given to the church must now contact the church office before leaving it. Several individuals worked hard to clean up/toss things to get ready for the church celebration. Let’s keep it

this way.

Prayer Teams are available during the worship service. They are located in the back of the Sanctuary

Pastor Dan will be out of the office Monday, August 19th—Monday, Sept. 2nd. Communion will be on Sunday, Sept. 8th.

Greeting From Lake Beauty Summer Camp Update

Our summer camp season has all but come to a close. We have had almost 1.300 campers walk through our gates this year, with many of them mak-ing life-changing decisions. Our speakers have helped challenge the group, our summer staff have continue to pour out to them, and our full-time staff seeing how God’s Kingdom has grown. It has been one of the best times in my life being able to walk alongside the 32 guys/gals who have answered God’s call to be here this year. They have worked tirelessly, served over-abundantly, and have showcased what it means to be, “the salt and light” consistently. I am excited for the culture that has been created and to start moving towards the off-season and planning for summer 2020 already. Brian Alnes—Executive Director

UPCOMING EVENTS Sunday, Sept. 1st—Noisy Offering

Communion will be held on Sunday, Sept. 8th Sept. 15th—Sunday School Carnival Kick-Off

Sunday, Sept. 22nd.—1st day of Sunday School

Prayer Shawl Group get together Saturday August 24th from 9:30 - 11:00 AM. If you knit, crochet or want to learn, come! Bring a project to work on. Contact Gretchen Hoppe if you have questions.

Church Family Picnic Saturday, Aug. 24th

5:00 pm Please bring a dish

to share. Hot dogs & brats

Provided!! Maynard and Mary Jagodzinske Farm

1476 130th Ave. Welcome, MN

Prayer Requests This can be used to share with the body a prayer request, a word from the Lord, a word of en-couragement, or other news you would like the congregation to be praying about. (births, deaths, celebrations) Fill out this sheet and place it in the offering. Half sheets available from ushers or can be found in back of the church ________________________________________________________________________________

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SOME OF OUR CHURCH

LEADERSHIP

Senior Pastor Dan Wheeler

399-2134 Church Secretary

Barb Smith Bookkeeper

Harriet Tromanhauser Church Chair Curt Howard Vice Chair

Larry Peterson Council Secretary

Sheila Zuehlke Financial Secretary

Roger Bloomgren Worship Chair

Cathy Meyer Christian Ed. Chair

Jenni Diegnau Fellowship Chair Cathie Gladfelter

Evangelism Chair Debra Engman

Stewardship Chair Georgie Pfaffinger Properties Chair Kyle Koerselman

Elders Craig Diegnau

Kurt Hines Maynard Jagodzinske

Prayer Chain Coordinator

Dorothy Deguise 399-6588

Barb Smith Church Custodian Dick Tromanhauser

Advocacy for Victims of Abuse Georgie Pfaffinger

507-301-5592

HAVE HAPPINESS? PART 2

Love is what brings happiness. Unfortunately, we lack love and therefore

we can not have happiness or bring happiness to others. We live doing

what we want and what we get is momentary satisfaction, not happiness.

If what we want is of selfish, greed, jealousy, hatred favoritism, prejudice,

we end up hurting others. Because we all do it so we all suffer. To stop

suffering and have happiness, we have to forget ourselves and come to

God for love. Forgetting ourselves seems like a big loss but is truly a

great gain. Forgetting ourselves means we are not going to do what we

want if it is of selfishness, greed, jealousy, hatred, favoritism, prejudice

and therefore we do no hurt others. Forgetting ourselves gets rid of all

the times we think of ourselves, of what we want, of how others have

hurt us which take us away from reality, make our minds tired, make us

suffer. Forgetting ourselves alone doesn’t bring us happiness but is a

necessary step. The next step to happiness is love. We can get love from

thinking about God. When we think about God, we know and feel love

and when we ask for love, God then gives us love. If we don’t think

about God, we are not going to k ow or feel love. When we forget our-

selves and have love from God, it’s like we lose ourselves but gain far

much better, happy selves.