Mess iah Mes s enger

Messiah Lutheran Church

November, 2016

Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rev. Susanne Smith Youth Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelly Benz Organist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hal Morton Choir Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gloria DeVilbiss Administrator/Bookkeeper . . . . . . . . . .Dennis Wohlers Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Toni Landon Facilities . . . . . . Jerry & Kay Claussen, & Matt Mitchell Nursery Attendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashley Gerst Preschool Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margie Gerst, Director Aubrey Gerst, Deb Jensen, Krystal Klein 2016 Council Members: Joel Hanger-president, Mark Smith-vice-president, Steve Sanders-treasurer, Joanne Mohr-secretary, Deb Brinkley, Joy Shah, Christa Ruther, Carm McBeth, Dan Wiedemeier, Judy Stewart, Marcia Taeger, Rich Miller, Roger Hatteberg, John Larson

Inside this issue:

November Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Preschool News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Youth Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

From the Pastor’s Desk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Scheduled to Serve,

Birthdays & Anniversaries . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Staff and Council Members at Messiah

THANKSGIVING EVE Wednesday, November 23rd

at Messiah

Supper at 6:00 p.m.

Worship at 7:00 p.m.

TAKE AWAY HUNGER GREATER BURLINGTON is planning for their annual NEW-TO-YOU CHRISTMAS SALE on Saturday, November 12th in the social hall from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. You’ll be able to shop at your leisure for wonderful good used Christmas items, toys, re-gifted items all at bargain prices and delicious baked goods. Donations will be accepted through Sunday, November 6th. We are especially needy of good used toys for our toy store. Please place your donations under the coat rack by the women’s restroom. Your delicious baked goods can be brought to Messiah on Friday afternoon, November 11th or by 8 a.m. the day of the sale. Anyone wishing to help set up during the week of the sale will be greatly appreciated. Thanks to all for your donations and support in this “Take Away Hunger” fundraiser.

MONA ASH, FROM BRIDGES OUT OF POVERTY, is looking for members who will sponsor a meal for 30 people during the next 18 weeks of “Getting Ahead” classes. These classes are the follow-up to the initial Bridges out of Poverty curriculum, and help cement the changes begun in the Bridges classes. Your support and investment in these members of the Burlington community is much needed and ap-preciated. Mona can be reached at 319-759-4057.

LUTHERAN DISASTER RELIEF is at work in Haiti following hurricane Matthew. For the first time, Lutheran Disaster Relief is also working in Cuba. At risk are 1.4 million people who have been displaced by the hurricane. Our gifts to the ELCA will support the work of Lutheran Disaster Relief.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL/ADULT FORUM November 6: Conrad Gerst presents: “I am an

Apostolic Christian” November 13-December 18: Joel Hanger pre-

sents: Lutheran Men in Mission Bible study

WORSHIP AND CELEBRATION

ALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY We celebrate All Saints’ Day on Sunday, November 6. Bring a candle to worship to light in honor or in memory of someone important to your life. Our saints watch over us in this life and from the great vantage of the next. We will salute them and bless them, even as they continue to bless us!

CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION LUNCH Sunday, November 6, the Lotegeluaki family invites you to lunch at noon in the social hall in honor of our con-firmands.

PIZZA PARTY Because Pastor Susanne won a drawing at the October Kiwanis meeting, Messiah will have a pizza party for 3rd Wednesday supper, November 16. Come at 6pm for pizza, and stay to sing Holden Evening Prayer at 7pm.

THE DYSART FAMILY will be performing at Bethany Lutheran Church (2501 Madison Ave.) on November 19th at 5:30 p.m. Potluck to follow after concert. GET YOUR WEEKLY CHURCH NEWS / UPDATES We now email weekly church updates to Messiah’s congregation. If you are not already receiving these updates and would like to be added to the email list, please email a request to Toni at messiah2411@gmail.com.

COMMUNITY AND CARE

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ends Sunday, November 6th. Don’t forget to turn your clocks back. THE BURLINGTON HOMELESS SHELTER will have their annual fundraising Soup Supper on November 17, 2016 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at The Drake. The ticket price is $25.00 a piece and includes a choice of soups provided by The Drake, beverage, dessert provided by The Ivy Bake Shoppe (Martha Wolf), and a one of a kind ceramic dessert plate made by SCC art professor, John Bybee. Tick-ets will be available for purchase after November 1, 2016 from either Char Blodgett (754-6791) or Ernie Voigt (753-0093). Payments by check should be made out to Burlington Homeless Shelter.

SERVICE AND WITNESS

TAK MEALS DELIVERED Thursday morning, October 20th, our Iowa Take Away Hunger director, Don Fields, loaded 213,840 meals on truck for Convoy of Hope. These meals will be sent into Haiti and South Carolina. All these meals were packaged by volunteers here in the state of Iowa that continu-ally work to change the statistics in global hunger. In 2015, Take Away Hunger teams produced nearly 3,000,000 meals that were shipped into 7 different countries and also distributed over 200,000 here in Iowa. TAKE AWAY HUNGER will be packaging on Satur-day, November 19 with Messiah scheduled for 11 a.m. Please sign the sheet in the narthex if you plan on helping. Thanks so much for your support. ATTENTION ALTAR GUILD: Bi-annual cleaning is coming up soon - Saturday, November 19th at 10:00 a.m. We need as many hands as possible to make light work to clean brass and silver. No need to be a member of Altar Guild to help. Thanks to all mem-bers who help.

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Messiah Preschool 3, 4 & 5-Year-old Sessions

SHAPING FUTURES THROUGH FAITH BASED EDUCATION

Messiah Preschool News Greetings from the children’s wing in the church. Our classes have been very busy with all our community friends that come to visit us. The firefighters and paramedics came to help us get to know them and learn some very important fire safety rules and to share their fire trucks and ambulances with us. Be sure to check your own fire/smoke alarms for working batteries. Don Myatt and the Noon Lions Club did their annual eye exams and Tammy from the WIC program came to do her annual dental screenings. Miss Pat has come to read to us from the Burlington Public Library and Pastor Susanne has come to share stories of how much Jesus loves us. Ms. Frances from Starr’s Cave has come to teach us about our changing season and this month will come to talk about hibernation with us. We will end our month just as busy as the beginning was as we had conferences on Friday and Sat- urday and on Sunday we shared in the Trunk - or - Treat fun with the children’s ministry at Messiah. It was an awesome experience seeing so many families participate this year. The day was beautiful and you missed seeing so many cute hooligans marching from car to car spreading joy in the day! We will have had some Halloween fun parties in our rooms at the end of October for the kids to sing and recite our fun poems and songs and listen to some exciting stories.

Our next project is the HELP US FILL THE CART for our Sharing and Caring curric-ulum. The children and their families will bring canned and boxed foods in to help fill the grocery cart full of good foods for those families in our community that need some help. We will talk about the first Thanksgiving and how we now celebrate the Holiday by having a special meal with our family and friends and express our thanks for the many blessings we are given daily. At the end of our food drive we will celebrate with our traditional “Tasting Party” the days before Thanksgiving so we can share a meal with our friends and teachers and give thanks for all the fun things we do each day and the many new friends we have made.

Young House Family Services is offering a FREE Parenting Class to all of our families once again

and we would like to invite any of you new, already parenting and looking for new ideas, or

“grand”parents again, to come to these classes. This is targeted to 3 and 5 year olds,

but can be adapted to all ages! There is a free support manual that goes with the

program. “Raising a Thinking Child: I Can Problem Solve!” was developed with 25

years of research. Times and location to be announced. If you are interested, you can contact

Joanie Juvinal at 319-457-1752 or Ms. Margie at 319-754-7591 ext. 2. .

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Youth News

Join us for LIFT

November 13th

5:00-6:45pm

at Trinity.

Dinner, games,

craft, Bible story,

and fun for children 3

years–6th grade.

High School Youth Group

Wednesday, Nov. 30th @ 8pm

It was so nice to see all the children dressed up for Trunk-or-Treat last month and all the congregational and preschool families that were gracious hosts and set up their trunks to pass out candy. This year’s event was by far one of our biggest with 150-170 children (We lost count of all the princesses, ghosts, and other masked trick-or-treaters!). Thank you for making this outreach ministry possible!

As we move past Halloween and look towards time together with our families during Thanksgiving and Advent, here are a couple reminders of upcoming activities.

Sunday school students are working on making placemats for Thanksgiving Eve worship. Be sure to join us November 23rd and see all their work!

Practice for the Christmas program will begin soon during Sunday school. Please make sure your child is at Sunday school so they can be a part of this time. The Christmas program will be held on December 11th during the 10:30 a.m. worship service with a simple play and music they have been working hard on with Marcia Taeger.

We will also be sponsoring Adopt-a-Family tree for Christmas. Any member that would like to be considered for adoption, please see Kelly. Names and family information (congregational or community) is kept strictly confidential. We receive families from Community Action that are unable to participate in Toys for Tots.

Blessings, Kelly

Confirmation meets weekly on

Wednesdays from 7:30-8:30pm

Meal Time Prayer

Come Lord Jesus, be our guest,

have these daily food to us be blessed.

Amen

High School Students,

Did you know:

You are welcome and

ENCOURAGED to attend

the adult Sunday class

that meets every

Sunday in the Library

from 9:15 - 10:15 a.m.

The preschool-1st grade students will be helping (and writing one of their own) with the prayers in worship on Novem-ber 6th. Learning to pray is one of our Educational Standards for this age level. a note from Kelly...

From the Pastor’s desk

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Psalm 24 begins, “The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it”. Messiah continues to grow our commitment to a holy life in God’s holy world. We continue to support our Liberian students, and we are now offering financial support to Messiah preschool students affiliated with our congregation. Our Thanksgiving Eve service, Wednesday evening, November 23, we will collect money to support the orphan school in Arusha, Tanzania, started by Messiah members Lotegeluaki Lengai and his wife, Wendy Lotegeluaki. Come for the slide show and the Tanzanian hymns!

Did you know we are also working to become a more ecologically responsible congregation? Committed to the care of God’s creation, we are making good decisions for our facility and campus. When we repaired our building four years ago, our building committee put in energy star certified windows and doors. We have replaced all the sanctuary lighting with LED bulbs, and our new sanctuary fans are energy star certified. Property committee is now waiting for a first bid on an engineering study to replace our aging boiler and energy-inefficient air conditioning systems. You might enjoy being a part of this committee!

Our landscapers have planted over a dozen trees on the Messiah campus in the last several years. Our trees are the No. 1 way we remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it for the long term. And we are now a nationally certified monarch butterfly waystation. Landscapers have been grow-ing pollinator gardens that feed butterflies, bees and helpful insects, and maintaining our walking paths for the neighbors who walk here. We will install bike racks near the west entrance next year, and property committee is considering creating a storm water retention area, called a rain garden, at the east end of the church parking lot.

Matt Mitchell uses a mulching mower to return grass clippings to the soil. Jill Fuqua collects and recycles paper, bottles and cans from the church office and kitchen. And just this fall, council authorized a Columbarium Task Force to research a proposal for a cemetery for ashes here at the church. Cremation is an increasingly popular, ecologically aware choice for our last resting places.

How else would you like to see Messiah care for the earth and for the property under our care? Come talk about it—you will please both yourself and our Creator. Pastor Susanne+

Lutheran World Relief has worked in Haiti since 1997, and since Hurricane Matthew, has launched an emergency response that will bring 7,000 people in south Haiti temporary shelter, hygiene and food, after the storm brought as much as 24 inches of rain in 24 hours. Fishing villages along the coast were destroyed, livestock drowned, and crops of banana, peanuts and sweet potato, ready for harvest, were lost.

Two weeks ago, LWR shipped 100 community water filtration units, essential for cholera prevention, and will be distributing seeds, tools, and fishing equipment. LWR has worked in Haiti since 1997 to support farmers, increase food security, strengthen agricultural cooperatives and promote reforestation in northern Haiti. To give to LWR’s relief fund, please visit lwr.org/donate/hurricane-matthew, or write a check to the church, noting “Hurricane Matthew – LWR Haiti Fund” on your check.

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Scheduled to Serve in November

8:00 SERVICE Greeter: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bonnie Kienlen Communion Assistant: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kathy Geren November 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Chicken November 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marge Classen November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Bartelt Lector: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bonnie Kienlen November 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mary Chicken November 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marge Classen November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dale Bartelt

10:30 SERVICE Refreshments: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joy Shah November 13 . . . Deb Hatteberg & Jacob Dittner Ushers: Bob Kremer (head usher), Brinkleys,

Ernie & Linda Voigt Communion Assistants: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lotegeluaki Lengai November 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Larson November 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Braden Hayes November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joanne Mohr Lector: November 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Lundgren November 13 . . . . . .Pr. Wayne Weissenbuehler November 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Larson November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judith Stewart Acolyte: November 6 . . . . Narisio and Nenyo Lotegeluaki November 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Newberry November 20 . . . . Matthew Dittner, Quinlan Kirk November 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Josie Wolter November 30 (Advent) . . Lachlan & Quinlan Kirk Torchbearers: November 20 . . . . . . Jacob Dittner, Lachlan Kirk Crucifer: November 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hunter Vargason Altar Guild: Lynn Sheagren family

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS

1 - Quinlan Kirk; Joann Schoof; Jenny Slagle 2 - Mike Dieterich; Susan Fedler; Brynlee Gittings; Bonnie Kienlen; Herb Tjaden 3 - Emily Engberg; Megan Fuqua; Kay Wischmeier 5 - Seth Bietz; Darwin Bunger; Kathryn Graupman 6 - Betsy Hysell; Lynn Ritter 7 - Tina Jones; Valerie Sirek 8 - Lucas White 11 - Ed Larson; David Rappenecker; Dalton Wyant 12 - Emily Carruthers 13 - Kim Siegle 15 - Marcia Lohmann; Chloe Siegle 16 - Carole Beck; Tina Carson; Autumn Fjeld 20 - Jessica Braun 22 - Ruth Collins 24 - Blake Ruther; Donna Williams 25 - Mary Kulp; Hunter Leibli 26 - Ainsley Fedler; Addison Gerst; Pr. Susanne Smith; Ken Waring 27 - Lois Wallman 28 - Marjorie Hawk 29 - John Larson 30 - Shane Fuqua

NOVEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

2 Dan and Gloria DeVilbiss - 1984 19 Carla and Kenneth Wills - 1982 3 Linda and Stan Stratton - 1962 24 Mark and Kim Siegle - 1990 6 Richard and Lois Bailey - 1999 24 Kevin and Brenda Wischmeier - 2007 16 Richard and Ruth Baker - 1979 25 George and Pat Crawford - 1966 19 Dan and Marcia Wiedemeier - 1988

*Let the office know if we have missed your birthday or anniversary. If you prefer not to have your name included in the birthday and anniversary lists, please let us know.

ALTAR FLOWERS FOR

NOVEMBER:

November 6 - Given in thanks and praise to all my Messiah friends that I have loved throughout my years in this church!-From Joy Shah November 13 - In memory of Teri Armitage from family November 20 - In honor of Dan and Marcia Wiedemeier’s wedding anniversary November 27 - In memory of Jones family members

Mission Statement

Welcoming all people to share in God’s blessings by strength-ening our commitment to God through prayer, fellowship and service.

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MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH 2411 West Avenue

BURLINGTON, IOWA 52601

Non-Profit Org.

U.S. POSTAGE

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Burlington, IA

52601-1598

Permit No. 360

Return Service Requested

Sunday Mornings Worship 8:00 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible Study 9:15 a.m. Worship 10:30 a.m.

Third Wednesdays Supper 6:00 p.m. Holden Evening Prayer 7:00 p.m.

NOVEMBER 2016

MESSIAH LUTHERAN

CHURCH

Phone: 319-754-7591

Fax: 319-754-7592 E-mail: messiah2411@gmail.com

www.messiahburlington.org

This month -

Weekly Bible Study - every Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. 3rd Wednesday, September 21 - Supper (6:00 p.m.), Holden Evening Prayer (7:00 p.m.) New-To-You Christmas Decoration, Toys and Bake Sale - November 12, 9:00 a.m.-

2:00 p.m. in the social hall Altar Guild Cleaning Day - November 19 Take Away Hunger packaging - Saturday, November 19th at 11 a.m. Thanksgiving Eve - November 23rd: Supper (6:00 p.m. in the social hall) & Thanksgiv-

ing Eve Worship (7:00 p.m.) Hanging of the Greens - November 27 at 4:00 p.m. Holden Evening Prayer - November 30 at 7:00 p.m.