FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH

120 Faith Drive, Columbus WI 53925

Evangelical Lutheran Church

in America – ELCA

South-Central Synod of Wisconsin

FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH

120 Faith Drive Columbus, WI 53925

920-623-3610

Email: faith@faithcolumbuswi.org

Pastor Bob’s “open”:

pastor@faithcolumbuswi.org

Pastor Bob’s “private”:

rvmoberg@faithcolumbuswi.org

Pastor Lisa’s “open”:

nelsonkosky@gmail.com

Website: www.faithcolumbuswi.org

Robert V. Moberg, Pastor

920-623-4390

Lisa L. Nelson, Assistant Pastor

608-834-8412

Sandra Schieble, CRPM

608-712-2910

Ruth Nordal, Administrative Assistant

920-210-3234

Wendy Corlett, Treasurer

920-210-2940

CHURCH COUNCIL

Jeanne Miller 920-326-3111

President

Tisha Kurth 920-763-2800

V. President

Worship/Multimedia Committee Liaison

Jim Schieble 920-763-3433

Secretary

Staff Support Committee Liaison

Jennifer Herzberg 920-484-3849

Social Ministry Committee Liaison

Eric Hoffmann 608-843-9958

Finance Committee Liaison

Tom Mitchell 608-609-1766

Stewardship Committee Liaison

Todd Morris 920-623-1978

Youth/Property Committee Liaison

Bev O’Brion 920-484-3473

Evangelism Committee Liaison

Lisa Sebranek 920- 623-5112

Education Committee Liaison

MESSAGE FROM PASTOR BOB

Dear Friends in Faith,

Last month (I’m writing in July) Lynne and I celebrated our 40th Wedding Anni-versary. We were married on June 14, 1974, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Virginia, Minnesota; the congregation both Lynne & I grew up in.

I remember the big party we had for my parents’ 40th anniversary. We decided to have it then because my Dad had early signs of dementia and we weren’t sure if we’d be able to celebrate a 50th anniversary with them.

Thinking of that makes me feel my age, I’ll tell you. On the other hand, my par-ents were considerably older when they got married than Lynne & I were. We hope to have more than a few good years together yet!

AND – we are happy to report – we WANT to have many years together yet!

If you listen to what people say about marriage these days, you would get the impression that 40 year marriages like ours are almost as antique and vanishing as dial telephones!

Everywhere you hear the statistic repeated as if it were established fact that “half of all American marriages end in divorce”!

The only thing is: it’s fiction. A tragically discouraging urban legend.

The “rumor” seems to be based on a misreading of statistics from the late 1970s and early 1980s when divorce rates peaked. In 1981, for example, there were 2.4 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces. At first glance, that would seem like a 50-percent divorce rate.

However, those 1.2 million divorces came out of a national pool of 54 million marriages that already existed, most of which would never see divorce.

Divorce rates are hard to calculate, partly because the government stopped keeping detailed statistics on divorce in 1996. What all experts do agree on is that, after more than a century of rising divorce rates in the United States, the rates abruptly stopped going up around 1980.

It’s true that divorce rates are higher than they used to be. Researchers give rates all the way from less than 10% to more than 40%

The bottom line is that marriage is still what it's always been: a commitment between two people who choose to remain faithful to each other. And they don't need to feel doomed because of scary statistics — least of all ones that are urban myths.

Weddings in the church always point us to the example of God’s relationship to us. God has made an unshakable and trustworthy commitment to us. Trust is the foundation of all relationships.

Sometimes trust is irreparably broken and marriages end. But, if trust can be

maintained, all the blessings of long marriages are available. Living daily experi-

encing God’s faithfulness to us can help.

Peace,

Pr. Bob Moberg

2 August 20142

FROM BISHOP MARY FROILAND

(from The South–Central Synod’s July E-Magazine)

Just What I’ve Been Thinkin’ About . . . This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming god-ly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming…. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal but it is the right road.

This quote from Martin Luther reminds us that life is a journey, not a destination; a process, not completion.

Recently, I learned of the unexpected death of a member of the con-gregation I last served. I had grown close to this man and his family over the last couple of years as he struggled with serious health issues. Even though I am no longer this fami-ly’s pastor, I grieve for their loss and hold them close in prayer. I am grateful for the journey we shared for a while.

As we walk through this life we are blessed to be accompanied along the way by differ-ent people for varying lengths of time. Each of these companions on the way brings their own unique and special gifts to us during the time we share, just as they leave a little of themselves with us and take a little bit of us with them when our paths diverge.

People enter and leave our lives at various points along our life’s journey, but the God in whose hands all of life is held, is ever at our side – walking life’s path with each person, accompanying, guiding, at times carrying, but never letting us go alone. As we enter and leave one another’s lives, we entrust ourselves and those we love to the grace and care of God.

Throughout our lives we say goodbye to people who have grown dear to us and at the same time we welcome new companions. I am honored and privileged to walk this road for a while with each of you.

God’s peace,

Bishop Mary Froiland

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Photos of “Wisconsin Paths”

by Rev. Mary Kay Baum

August 2014 3

COUNCIL HI-LIGHTS

July 8, 2014

Pastor Bob shared publications from the synod and Bishop Mary regard-ing discernment on social issues affecting the church. He asked council members to study them for discussion at future meetings.

The Evangelism Committee has completed a promotional brochure for Faith that has gone to the printer. Funds for the printing came from Faith Projects.

Discussed how to provide congregational opportunities sharing infor-mation about the proposed sale of the parsonage.

Jim Schieble Council Secretary

On the Lighter Side. . .

When God sends you help, don’t ask questions.

She hurried to the pharmacy to get medi-cation, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside.

The woman found an old rusty coat hang-er left on the ground. She looked at it and said, “I don’t know how to use this.” She bowed her head and asked God to send her some HELP. Within 5 minutes a beat-up old motorcycle pulled up, driven by a bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag. He got off his cycle and asked if he could help.

She said: “Yes, my daughter is sick. I’ve locked my keys in my car. I must get home. Please, can you use the hanger to unlock my car?”

He said, “Sure.” He walked over to the car, and in less than a minute the car was open.

She hugged the man and through tears said, “Thank you so much! You are a very nice man.”

The man replied, “Lady, I am NOT a nice man. I just got out of PRISON yesterday; I was in prison for car theft.”

The woman hugged the man again sob-bing. “Oh, thank you God! You even sent me a Professional!”

Is GOD great or what!?!

Thanks to . . .

-Dianne Patrick, Sue Mathwich, Sally Price, Jodi Smith, Jennifer Edwards and Betty Rahn for helping assemble the July NEWSLETTER.

-Sally Price, Diane Patrick, Donna Hankes, Scott Mathwich, Bev O'Brion, Jennifer Herzberg, Betty Baxter, and DeAnn Gaska. Your time spent check-ing in our members for their photo directory sessions was greatly appre-ciated!

JUNE TREASURER’S REPORT

GENERAL FUND

Beginning Balance $ 2,983.79

Deposit in Transit $ 510.00

Transfer to/from Savings $ -

Current Month Receipts $ 17,089.05

Disbursements $ (19,483.16)

BALANCE $ 1,099.68

Think Scrip for School and Sports School is just around the corner. That means school supplies, fall fash-

ion, and all the latest gear is needed to get our kids ready to succeed!

Scrip is ready to meet the challenge, and every Scrip purchase will help

Faith. It is a WIN-WIN! Need some ideas? Scrip has Walmart, Shopko,

Target, Staples, Kohl’s, Old Navy, RadioShack, Gap, Lands’ End, Eddie

Bauer, Aeropostale, iTunes, jcpenney, Best Buy and lots more!

And don’t forget the sports. Plan ahead before the trip to the sporting

goods store, and purchase your Scrip. Every purchase of Scrip helps

Faith’s ministries. Run to buy your Scrip for Dick’s Sporting Goods, REI,

Cabela’s, Target, Dunham’s Sports, Under Armour, Shopko, Nike, adid-

as, MC Sports, Gander Mountain, Amazon.com and many more! And if

you are at the store, and forgot your scrip, you can buy and use in-

stantly from your smart phone. Just talk to Troy to get it set up.

For every purchase of Scrip, Faith retains a small percent of the pur-

chase that helps support our ministries. And those small percentage

gifts to Faith are tax deductible at the end of the year. It only makes

sense to use Scrip for all your purchases. For more information, includ-

ing how to buy Scrip online, contact Troy Tadych (troy@tadych.us,

920.623.9514), or click over to our website

(http://faithcolumbuswi.org/church-news#scrip).

Eric and Jenny An-thon, Bill and Linda Bussian, Bill and Trina Byrne, Pat and Wendy Corlett, Gene and

Connie Frey, Donna Hankes, Fred and Pat Hurckman, Christi Jurger-son, Pete and Judy Kaland, Dawn Kaminski, David and Lori Kikkert, Tom and Renee Meister, Joel and Luanne Miller, Tim and Kristie Rozinski, Steve and Judy Rubert, Jim and Sandra Schieble, Eric and Heather Schultz, Carl and Beth Simons, Jim and Jodi Smith, Kim Steers, Rick and Sandy Tjugum, Linda Ulmer.

Celebrate your special

day!

THE RED TENTERS’

BOOKCLUB

For our August selec-tion we are reading Obituary Writer by Ann Hood. We will meet on Thursday, August 28, 7pm at the home of Emma Jones. New members are always wel-come to join us. .

The Overnight Confirmation Re-

treat for all confirmands being

confirmed on Sunday, October

19, 2014 is set for August 22-

23 at Lutherdale Bible Camp,

Elkhorn, WI. Plan to leave Faith

at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 22

and return around 3:30 p.m. on

Saturday, August 23. Remember

to bring money for your Friday

evening meal in Whitewater,

towels, toiletry items, sleeping

bag, pillow, and anything else you

will need to stay over at the

camp. Most important! Remem-

ber to bring your Bible, a pen,

the final draft of your Statement

of Faith, PLUS the names and

addresses of your baptismal

sponsors. Don’t forget some

‘soda money’ and ‘munchies’ for

Friday evening. If you have not

done so, your retreat payment of

$45.00 is due to Ruth by Sunday,

August 3.

Confirmation

Retreat

Vacation

Bible School

Attention..

VBS IS

CANCELLED…

Attention! Please note that VBS has been canceled due to low registration. We are sad to announce this cancellation, but look forward to trying again next summer.

Congratulations

to Marissa and Adam Aeschlimann on the birth of their daugh-ter, Flynn Kay Ann

born Thursday, July 10 at Meriter Hospital in Madison. Grandpar-ents are Paul and Barb Bergum .

For all those Spaghetti Supper watch-

ers, the date is October 11. Please

keep the date open for volunteering,

making bars and cookies, Pumpkin

Patch donations, or anything else you

would like to do to help. But espe-

cially please keep it open to come

and EAT! Thank you!

4 August 2014

Heigh ho! Heigh ho! It’s

off to camp we go!

Lutherdale Bible Camp:

Claire Walz

Have a great time!

Friesland Community

Men’s Chorus

On June 22nd the Evangelism Com-mittee presented the Friesland Com-

munity Men’s Chorus concert.

It was a delightful afternoon and there were 156 attendees. The Evan-gelism Committee furnished a nice lunch for the Chorus and their spous-es. All the food was donated by the

Committee.

It would not have been accom-

plished without the help of members

of Faith. We especially want to thank

Denny Langfeldt, Jim Schieble, Erin

Bussian, Dennis Sampolinski, Rod Pat-

rick, Rod Schubert and Merlyn Lienke

for hauling the risers from the high

school and helping with the setup and

returning the risers to the high school

on Monday morning. After the con-

cert Sue and Scott Mathwich, John and

Norri Brozek and Tim Meeusen and

others mentioned above helped take

down the risers and clean up the area.

Also to Peter Kaland for helping with

the sound system and taking the stool

(that a chorus member left behind) to

Pardeeville for their next concert.

We also want to thank Pastor Bob for

participating in the service.

The offering received was $655.00

and we sent to a check of $300 to the

Chorus for appreciation of their fine

concert.

Thank you to all who attended.

OOPS! We forgot to include the

enclosed envelope in the giving

statements. If you would like to

use it to catch up on your giving

or simply to give more, please feel

free. And thanks for using your

own stamp. God’s blessing on

your summer! Pr, Lisa.

Televised

Service

Times

Digital channel 980

Cable channel 98

Faith’s worship services are aired on the following days

and times:

Monday @ 9:00am

Tuesday @ 9:00am

Wednesday @ 9:00am

Thursday @ 9:00am

Friday @ 9:00am

There's going to be lots of excitement happening in

August-September!

Confirmation Orientation for parents and students in grades 6, 7 and 8 on August 27 from 5:45-7:00pm.

September 7 is Rally Sun-day.

Attention Sun-day school staff! The full Sunday school staff will be installed on Sept. 7 at the 8:00 service.

September 14 is Backpack Blessing Sunday. Bring you backpacks and briefcases

and place them in front of the altar before worship. We will be blessing them during both worship ser-vices. Third graders will have a Bible Class with Pr. Lisa at 9:20 and then receive their Bibles at the 10:30 ser-vice.

August 2014 5

August

Birthday’s Jim Agnew, Peggy Ag-new, Jarod Alvarez, Bob Ayer, Presley Beck, McKenzye Bruss, Amber Bussian, Trina Byrne, Meredithe Campbell, Eric Carney, Karen Deck-er, Gary Ducat, Stephanie Dykstra, Sandra Ebert, Megan Ferrera, Emily Fritz, Esther Gaumitz, Abby Half-mann, Martin Halfmann, Kristen Hart, Dick Hartl, Sue Hewitt, Bill Hoene, John Hood III, Fred Hurck-man, David Jakel, JoAnn Johnson, Breanna Kelly, Josh Kirchberg, Ja-mine Kurth, Retta Kurth, Tisha Kurth, Wilhelmina Mickelson, Colleen Mil-ler, Luanne Miller, MaKayla Mitchell, Lynne Moberg, Caroline Morris, Jo-seph Morris, Bill Murray Jr., Cindy Nickell, Noelle Niehoff, Pia Penzotti, Zachary Rohrbeck, Michael Rowe, Lyle Sampson, Brody Scheeler, Con-nie Schultz, Heather Schultz, Holly Schuster, Lillian Schuster Noah Se-branek, Debbie Talg, Reta Thies, Darlene Tjugum, Jan Ulrich, Teegan Weidemann, Tanner Wescott, Karin Westlake.

third Grade Bibles

Third grade students will receive their Bibles

on September 14 during the 10:30 service. There will be a two part in-troduction for third graders AND their parents on Saturday, September 6, 9-10:15 and Sunday, September 14 dur-ing the Sunday school hour which begins at 9:20am.

Attention all Sunday school families!

Sunday School be-gins September 7th at 9:20am (between the services). Please

complete and return a registration form to the church office by August 31st. Thank you to the many wonderful peo-ple who have volunteered to teach Sun-day school this year! We still have a need for teachers and assistants. If you are interested in helping contact Melo-dy Tadych (623-9514) or (melodytadych@gmail.com). Please consider helping in this very rewarding opportunity to serve our church by spreading the Word of God to children!

PASTORAL ACTS

June 29, 2014

Mayson Carter Freeman

Parent: Mitchell Freeman

July 20, 2014

Liam Steven Schiesl Parents: Richard and Nicole

Schiesl

This ‘n That The "Fur, Fin & Feathers" committee thanks the volunteers that helped with the July 4 parade food stand fundraiser, for the community fellowship event that will be held on Thursday, October 23. The Labyrinth & Prayer Garden com-mittee thanks those who donated their "Jung Dollar" coupons. We saved $33 for maintenance supplies. We pur-chased three sizes of chunk bark mulch for the Living Cross planter and Laby-rinth planters and tree disk landscaping.

August

1 Kelli Campbell

2 Roger Westphal

3 Hannah Fox

5 David Utz

6 Bethany Patrick

Gavin Bruss

7 Deborah Severson

8 Ted Miller

9 Abigail Fox

Grady Ganta

10 Tisha Kurth

Larry Haseman

Pr. Lisa Nelson

11 Norri Brozek

Chris Roelke

13 Dana Kelly

14 Jim Agnew

17 Hunter Hurckman

18 Scott Vick

19 Emma Baxter

Blake Kurth

Cade Kurth

Liam Thelen

20 Shavlik Schultz

Gary Ducat

21 Mitchell Freeman

22 Kelsey Dauman

Melissa Miller

Don Link

Kailey Schroud

Mary Larson

23 Jordyn Jansen

26 Jason Gaska

27 Teegan Weidemann

Emily Anthon

28 Megan Meister

Dustin Miller

29 Jessica Gaska

6 August 2014

Friesland Men’s Choir

Sunday, June 22.

The following Evangelism Committee members prepared and served the

chorus members a delicious meal following the concert: Marcia McMullen,

Judy Kaland, Joyce Lienke, Linda Huebner, Pat Schellin and Sally Price.

30 Danielle Wolf

Karin Westlake

Rachel Paul

Connor Graffin, Wilhelmina Mickel-son, Jacob Peterson, Lucas Simons, Rick Tjugum

address change Jamie Knudson

299 Arbor Vitae Drive

Marshall WI 53559-9238

Dan and Janelle Cashmore

13859 W La Salle PL

Lakewood CO 80228-4741

August 2014 7

Fourth of July - 3 FFF’s @ Faith Food Stand Fundraiser

Update from the Finance Committee: We met financial obligations in June without using the line of credit. June is the one of our higher

expense months due to insurance premiums. Premiums are about $2400 every six months. After June payroll was made and bills paid, we

have $1000 remaining in our savings account. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for your blessings, and guide us for the upcoming summer

months when giving is down.

2014 2013

Needed Monthly Giving Needed Monthly Giving

January $19,290 $12,509.62 $18,252 $15,677.72

February $19,290 $14,551.92 $18,252 $16,324.32

March $19,290 $16,202.12 $18,252 $15,422.75

April $19,290 $25,154.03 $18,252 $22,814.66

May $19,290 $13,847.81 $18,252 $14,337.58

June $19,290 $17,089.05 $18,252 $14,927.20

July $19,290 $18,252 $15,173.20

August $19,290 $18,252 $13,655.62

September $19,290 $18,252 $16,766.44

October $19,290 $18,252 $14,609.04

November $19,290 $18,252 $16,923.74

December $19,290 $18,252 $29,303.98

Average Monthly Giving $16,559.09 $17,161.35

THE AUGUST

NEWSLETTER Faith...Serving God...Serving People

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

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AS MEMBERS OF FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH WE PROMISE:

To attend services regularly.

To support the congregation financially.

To live responsibly as a Christian witness.

To become as involved as possible in the total life and work of the congregation.

And this we promise to do by the help of God.

MISSION STATEMENT

Joyfully recognizing God’s commitment and faithfulness to us, FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH exists to serve God through serving God’s people. We eagerly work towards the realization of God’s Kingdom by:

Offering praise-filled worship to God.

Nurturing individual spiritual growth.

Fostering an environment of caring and acceptance.

Reaching out to serve the needs of our community.

God’s love stirs us to touch others with the same love we have received—and invites them to share our life of praise and service.

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA) Columbus, Wisconsin

FAITH’S TOP PRIORITY VISIONING GOALS:

Equip all our members for lifelong spiritual growth and ministry.

Continue and build upon our tradition of being an

accepting congregation that welcomes and serves all.

Adopted March 2010

We’re on the web:

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