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OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES PRAYER LIST Jim Tittel Barbara Trinca Virginia Cusmano Irany Jung Paul Miklas, Jr. Rachel Dias Ron Diaz Priscilla Miklas Andrea Cipala Natalie Kril Ken Balla Phyllis Vozar Karl SchifBauer Helen Killian Tami Triplett Betty Wasilak Ellen Golias Barbara McGarry Genevieve Weber Walter Miklas Ed Sheehan John Hacik Mildred Miklas IN A HOSPITAL/NURSING FACILITY Ella Wagner Genesis (Westfield) Al Flood Sunrise (Westfield) FRIENDS OF OUR CONGREGATION Elsie Vermilyea (Mitch Bobyack’s mother-in-law) Sean McGuirk (friend of Friedman Family) Kaleb Schwarz (Ed & Ethel Musto”s great-grandson) Stacy Baumgart (Margaret Baumgart daughter-in-law) Loiva and Fernando Wolff Monteiro (Doris Dias aunt and cousin in Brazil) Nancy Staugatis (Christopher & Karen Smith’s cousin) Dwight Kempf (Friend of Harmons) Ann Gryziek (Friend of Gerda Sadlers) Logan Sossman (Roberta Frimpter son-in-law) William Hancock (Friend of Horner Family) Eileen Borwski ( Sister of Teddy Mihovich) Olivia Sawyer (2 1/2 year old student of Ashley Rumzie with Lukemia) Ray Calvo (Friend of Jim and Joan Pignataro) Elan Alexander (Friend of the Dias Family) Rev. Kurt Steinbrueck, Wesley Chapel, FL Rev. Dr. Carl Krueger (shoulder surgery) Rev. Al Vomhof (Hospice) WEDDINGS Oct. 08 21 st anniversary Randy & Susan Sadlon Oct 16 44 th Anniversary Robert & Karen Tuder Oct 17 24 th Anniversary Paul & Cathrin Tajkowski Oct. 19 30 th Anniversary Michael & Susan Boyne Oct 21 9 th Anniversary Chris & Hope Alfieri Oct 21 54 th Anniversary Walter & Mildred Miklas Oct 26 2 nd Anniversary Douglas & Dana Combs Oct. 28 26 th Anniversary Karl & Noreen Schiffbauer BAPTISMS Karen Balla Cathy Friedman Jamie Hovick Sophie Vakalis Mildred Kubik Stephen Boyne Lorenz Hanke Alexander Vacula Karl Schiffbauer P.J. Miklas Arlene Goodman Barbara Ann Baumgart Kevin Goodman Kenneth Rumzie Paul Bataille Jr Keith Balla Ellen Golias Helen Matviyetz Isabella Semmens BAPTISMS Meredith Friedman Caitlyn Schaefer Marquis Freeman Aaron Bauer Vincent Spino Kathryn Dexter Jaclyn Milano Jason Current Vanessa Vickers Mitchell Bobyack David Antolick Jacqueline Kirk BIRTHDAYS 1 st Chris Alfieri 3 rd David Antolick Daniel Lyman 4 th Brian Semmens 5 th Cassandra Horner 6 th P.J. Miklas 7 th Diana Roncaioli 9 th Jennifer Perlee Barbara Spino 10 th Helen Matviyetz 11 th Bryan Felter 12 th Mitchell Bobyack Kevin Rumzie 13 th Phil Hovick 15 th Leah Mallardi 16 th Oda Daniels 17 th Jane Condon Kristen Tuder 21 st Joseph McKenney 22 nd Brooklyn Balla Joseph Daniel 25 th Marcelo Dias Robert Heeren 26 th Ashley Current Julianne Sitler 27 th Geoffrey Cleveland 28 th Douglas Combs 29 th Robert Vermilyer 30 th Gerry Kirk Jacob Alfieri

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OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES

PRAYER LIST

Jim Tittel

Barbara Trinca

Virginia Cusmano

Irany Jung

Paul Miklas, Jr.

Rachel Dias

Ron Diaz

Priscilla Miklas

Andrea Cipala

Natalie Kril

Ken Balla

Phyllis Vozar

Karl SchifBauer

Helen Killian

Tami Triplett

Betty Wasilak

Ellen Golias

Barbara McGarry

Genevieve Weber

Walter Miklas

Ed Sheehan

John Hacik

Mildred Miklas

IN A HOSPITAL/NURSING FACILITY

Ella Wagner – Genesis (Westfield)

Al Flood – Sunrise (Westfield)

FRIENDS OF OUR CONGREGATION

Elsie Vermilyea (Mitch Bobyack’s mother-in-law)

Sean McGuirk (friend of Friedman Family)

Kaleb Schwarz (Ed & Ethel Musto”s great-grandson)

Stacy Baumgart (Margaret Baumgart daughter-in-law)

Loiva and Fernando Wolff Monteiro (Doris Dias aunt and cousin in Brazil)

Nancy Staugatis (Christopher & Karen Smith’s cousin)

Dwight Kempf (Friend of Harmons)

Ann Gryziek (Friend of Gerda Sadlers)

Logan Sossman (Roberta Frimpter son-in-law)

William Hancock (Friend of Horner Family)

Eileen Borwski ( Sister of Teddy Mihovich)

Olivia Sawyer (2 1/2 year old student of Ashley Rumzie with Lukemia)

Ray Calvo (Friend of Jim and Joan Pignataro)

Elan Alexander (Friend of the Dias Family)

Rev. Kurt Steinbrueck, Wesley Chapel, FL

Rev. Dr. Carl Krueger (shoulder surgery)

Rev. Al Vomhof (Hospice)

WEDDINGS

Oct. 08 – 21st anniversary

Randy & Susan Sadlon

Oct 16 – 44th Anniversary

Robert & Karen Tuder

Oct 17 – 24th Anniversary

Paul & Cathrin Tajkowski

Oct. 19 – 30th Anniversary

Michael & Susan Boyne

Oct 21 – 9th Anniversary

Chris & Hope Alfieri

Oct 21 – 54th Anniversary

Walter & Mildred Miklas Oct 26 – 2

nd Anniversary

Douglas & Dana Combs

Oct. 28 – 26th Anniversary

Karl & Noreen Schiffbauer

BAPTISMS Karen Balla Cathy Friedman Jamie Hovick Sophie Vakalis Mildred Kubik Stephen Boyne Lorenz Hanke Alexander Vacula Karl Schiffbauer P.J. Miklas Arlene Goodman Barbara Ann Baumgart Kevin Goodman Kenneth Rumzie Paul Bataille Jr Keith Balla Ellen Golias Helen Matviyetz Isabella Semmens

BAPTISMS Meredith Friedman Caitlyn Schaefer Marquis Freeman Aaron Bauer Vincent Spino Kathryn Dexter Jaclyn Milano Jason Current Vanessa Vickers Mitchell Bobyack David Antolick Jacqueline Kirk BIRTHDAYS 1

st Chris Alfieri

3rd

David Antolick Daniel Lyman 4

th Brian Semmens

5th Cassandra Horner

6th P.J. Miklas

7th Diana Roncaioli

9th Jennifer Perlee

Barbara Spino 10

th Helen Matviyetz

11th Bryan Felter

12th Mitchell Bobyack

Kevin Rumzie 13

th Phil Hovick

15th Leah Mallardi

16th Oda Daniels

17th Jane Condon

Kristen Tuder 21

st Joseph McKenney

22nd

Brooklyn Balla Joseph Daniel 25

th Marcelo Dias

Robert Heeren 26

th Ashley Current

Julianne Sitler 27

th Geoffrey Cleveland

28th Douglas Combs

29th Robert Vermilyer

30th Gerry Kirk

Jacob Alfieri

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SUNDAY SERVICE ASSISTANTS

Date Assist As 8:00 AM Service 10:30 AM Service Oct 04

Greeter

Lector

Ethel & Ed Musto

Ed Musto

Oct 11

Greeter

Lector

RoseAnn & Rich

McKenney Rich McKenney

Oct 18

Greeter

Lector

Doyle & Diane Boese

Doyle Boese

Oct 25

Greeter

Lector

Don Williams

Altar Guild Schedule:

Carla Wolf

Donna Roncaioli and

Jackie Duffy

Communion Assistant:

Doyle Boese

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The Call Committee has completed 4 of the 5

scheduled congregational meetings. One member

requested a phone meeting due to health issues,

which was completed.

Once the documents are approved by the

congregation they will be sent to Pastor Kruger as he

begins the process of matching potential Pastors to

our needs.

I want to thank the congregation for their attendance

at the meetings and offering their opinions and

changes to the Congregational C-Set and other

documents.

Rich McKenney

Call Committee Chair

Rally Day

Bar-Be-Que

Due to

weather

Has been

changed to

Sunday,

October 11th

At 12:00pm

Repta Fellowship Hall

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Name: ____________________________________________

# of Adults: ________________________________

# of Children: ___________________________

Please place in Envelope of

Luther League Bulletin

Board

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Zion Lutheran

Church Luther League

Luther League Meeting to

Discuss the Events for 2015 – 2016

Sunday, October 4th 10:00am

Vicar’s Office

Open to All Youth 6th Grade and Up

“Fight the Good Fight of Faith” 1 Timothy 6:12

The SELC District Luther League seeks to encourage and enable teenagers and young adults to grow in

Christ and bring others to Him.

Zion Lutheran Church

Luther League

Fall Clothing Drive

Now – October 18th Please Drop Clothes off in

Fellowship Hall

“Fight the Good Fight of Faith” 1 Timothy 6:12

The SELC District Luther League seeks to encourage and enable

teenagers and young adults to grow in Christ and bring others to

Him.

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October 2015

October 4

"Title: Fight for the One Next to You"

Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz

Who's fighting for you? Who are you fighting for?

(Hebrews 2:14-18) October 11

"Clearing the Clutter"

Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz

Is there room in your life for that which is truly meaningful, important, and precious?

(Mark 10:17-22) October 18

"Someone Up There Must Like Me"

Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz

Faith in Jesus means you can live knowing that Someone "up there" really, really loves you

(Mark 10:23-31) October 25

"Reformation Freedom, Reformation Faith "

Lutheran Hour Speaker: Rev. Gregory Seltz

People have risked and even sacrificed their lives so that we could come to know the joy of God's forgiving love for us in Jesus.

(Romans 1:16-17)

FREE Gift when you bring this flyer and perform

one of the following: Vocal, Musical Instrument, Poem, Short Skit, or Comedy routines– All Ages

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The reason we come to Church on Sunday morning, as opposed to Sunday afternoon or Monday evening, is because it is the first day of the week. The first thing you do this week, before you do anything else, is come to Church. You begin your week with the Word of God, Prayer, and the Holy Communion. You give the first seventh, off the top, of your time to the Lord. He blesses that time. In that time, He forgives your sins, cleanses, and purifies you. He then sends you out into the world, into the week, as His in all your days and hours and life.

This is also the reason we pray before we eat. We want to establish that food is a gift from God and that He provides for us through it. Before we eat, we pray. This also blesses the food and makes it holy food because you are holy people.

Nonetheless, we have a tendency to compartmentalize our lives, to separate the spiritual and the secular, to put on different masks at work, with our friends, or at home. This is a fantasy. We are who we are wherever we are. We are the baptized and we never go anywhere alone. Everything we do is spiritual — including our use of time and food and money.

Now, you have a Christian duty to support the Church, to give of your time, money, and abilities so that the Ministry would be conducted among us and that the Gospel would be preached beyond us. How much you are to give is not dictated in the New Testament, unless it is everything. But how you are to give is clear. It is sacrificial, generous, first fruits, and proportional. You are to give a percentage offering—not an amount, but a percentage.

In the Old Testament ten percent was the norm. It’s hard to imagine that St. Paul was thinking that “being generous” would be anything less than this. But whatever it is, the point is to set your offerings in comparison to your total income. That is what makes it a sacrifice, a spiritual gift. How much of what the Lord provides do you return?

Next, it is to be first-fruits giving. It comes off the top. You write the check, or pay your offering, before you pay any of your bills. It is your first obligation and sets your priorities. You don’t pay your other bills and then give the leftovers to the Church. You make your offering first, in accordance with whatever promised percentage you made. This is not only first fruits, it is also sacrificial.

And you can always give more. Start with your commitment, with your percentage-based, first-fruits weekly offering, then as you have leftovers, give them out as it pleases you. But start with the Biblical model or percentage, first fruits.

That is how money is to be used and given by Christians. It is to be pressed into the service of the Gospel. It is not actually that hard. Start where you are and work toward greater faithfulness. Start now. Just take what you give now and figure out the percentage of your income and commit to keep that pledge for the year. Over time you can increase that commitment, that percentage. As your income fluctuates, going up or down, so will your offering amount. Set the percentage, then take that out of your check first each week. Make it a priority. It is the most important thing you do with your money. It is a spiritual exercise.

It will feel a little scary at first. Just do it. Take the risk. Set the money aside for the Lord and trust that He will provide. And over time you will find that you really can give more than 1% or even 10%, and even do so without regret. This kind of Biblical, disciplined, first fruit giving takes the unease out of it. It creates cheerful givers because when they drop the offering in the plate, they are already committed. They decided beforehand what to give. They don’t think about it. They are glad to fulfill their promise and to be in God’s house where He receives them according to grace.

Blessings on your stewardship journey!

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New mission journal focuses on

Reformation

on September 23, 2015 in NEW THIS WEEK, REPORTER, RESOURCES

The new issue of the Journal of Lutheran

Mission —highlighting the 500th anniversary

of the Lutheran Reformation in 2017 — is

comprised of papers presented at the

second International Conference on

Confessional Leadership (ICCL) this past

spring in Wittenberg, Germany.

The articles mainly focus on the theme of

the ICCL: “Celebrating the Reformation

Rightly: Remembrance, Repentance,

Rejoicing.”

This September issue of the journal includes

works from church leaders from several

continents who unpack why the Reformation

still matters to the Lutheran Church in their respective regions. Other topics

range from explaining declines in American Lutheranism to discussing

whether or not there is truly a cause for celebrating in 2017.

“A goal of the conference was to help prepare world Lutheranism for the

celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. The papers

presented in this journal are to contribute to that anniversary celebration,”

LCMS President Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison notes in the journal’s opening

letter.

“The Lord has blessed us greatly. Confessional Lutheranism is here for this

moment to be Lutheran and to take the confession of the Lutheran church into

the world.”

This issue and back issues of the Journal of Lutheran Mission are available

for download atblogs.lcms.org/category/journal-of-lutheran-mission.

Also, readers are encouraged to “like” the Journal of Lutheran

Mission on Facebook.

Posted Sept. 23, 2015

MISSION, REFORMATION 2017

Reporter Online is the Web version of Reporter, the official newspaper of

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Content is prepared by LCMS

Communications.

Ideas Have Consequences on September 21, 2015 in LUTHERAN WITNESS, WEB-EXCLUSIVE

STORIES!0 by Jason Braaten

We’ve all heard them: those off-hand remarks from men and woman that are meant to be funny, but that really just shed the worst possible light on their spouse and marriage. “Marriage is just a fancy word for an adoption of an overgrown male child.” “The old ball and chain is calling again.” And when these statements come out of the mouths of Christians, it is even worse. Not only does it shed the worst light on marriage, but it goes against what God says about that institution. St. Paul summarizes marriage in this way: “This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church” (Eph. 5:32). Elsewhere our Lord describes His own ministry, death, resurrection and coming again in glory to marriage (Matt. 25:19:1–10). And in the Revelation of St. John, the multitudes in heaven proclaim: “Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready . . . Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb” (Rev. 19:7, 9). Christian marriage should look like Christ’s loving relationship to His bride, the Church. In other words, marriage between a husband and wife is intended to give us a flesh-and-blood picture and proclamation of the marriage of Christ to His bride. The very essence of marriage bears witness to Jesus and His Church. As husbands and wives together, we are walking, talking, living witnesses of Jesus and the Church. When Christians adopt or mimic the culture’s way of speaking about marriage, they give a false impression of what marriage is and is intended by God to be. We teach and reinforce to one another that marriage is something to be avoided and dreaded instead of a great and honorable estate, which God Himself has instituted and blessed, and by which He gives us a picture of the very communion of Christ and the Church (Lutheran Service Book: Agenda, 65). Ideas have consequences. And bad ideas have bad consequences. Let our teaching and confession about marriage—how we speak to others about our spouse—reflect that of God’s Word and not of the world.

The Rev. Jason Braaten is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church,

Tuscola, Ill.

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Mission Friends

Welcome! Mission Friends is an online program of the LCMS that promotes

our international mission work among the Synod’s children. Although written

for children in the fourth grade, the coloring sheets, country information

pages, recipes and fun facts about missions can be easily adapted for younger

or older children. This FREE program is made up of online and reproducible

activities with information about each of our five world regions.

Starting June 15, materials for the countries of Latin America will be

available. Materials for the other four regions — Africa, Eurasia, Southern Asia

and Oceania, and Asia Pacific — will become available on a quarterly basis.

What are the goals of Mission Friends?

The program seeks to create a culture of missions within the LCMS

through an exploration of the mission work in each region and country.

The program seeks to plant the seed of mission work as a future

vocation.

The program seeks to teach the faith by showing what Lutherans

around the world believe, teach and confess.

The program seeks to bring children, parents and teachers to an

understanding of who their neighbors are and how they can serve them.

The program seeks to encourage children, parents and teachers to

pray for the mission work of the LCMS and to support that work financially.

Rural & Small Town Mission Newsletter | September 2015

I’ve got the first tomatoes

ripening on my backyard tomato

plants (don't ask, I was way late

getting them planted), and we are

excited. My daughter asked if we

would have enough tomatoes to

make our own spaghetti sauce

again, like we had in the past.

Sadly, that’s not going to happen

this year for various reasons, but it

did bring to mind the vast

amounts of tomatoes we have

canned and all the folks who will

be cranking up their pressure -

cookers, as we transition into Fall.

A pressure-cooker can be a

good analogy for ministry too. As

internal and external forces bring

pressure upon our congregations

and ministries, it often seems like

it is just too much for us to handle:

depleted budgets, difficult

members, lack of support and

workers, apathy, envy, ever

increasing hostility toward the

message of Christ and His church,

not to mention all of the sad and

horrifying headlines we've been

bombarded with as of late. Too

much you might say, what good

can we possibly we be doing? How

can we make it through?

I’ve got the first tomatoes

ripening on my backyard tomato

plants (don't ask, I was way late

getting them planted), and we are

excited.

My daughter asked if we would

have enough tomatoes to make our

own spaghetti sauce again, like we

had in the past. Sadly, that’s not

going to happen this year for

various reasons, but it did bring to

mind the vast amounts of

tomatoes we have canned and all

the folks who will be cranking up

their pressure -cookers, as we

transition into Fall.

A pressure-cooker can be a

good analogy for ministry too. As

internal and external forces bring

pressure upon our congregations

and ministries, it often seems like

it is just too much for us to handle:

depleted budgets, difficult

members, lack of support and

workers, apathy, envy, ever

increasing hostility toward the

message of Christ and His church,

not to mention all of the sad and

horrifying headlines we've been

bombarded with as of late. Too

much you might say, what good

can we possibly we be doing? How

can we make it through?

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SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

01 02 03

**Postponed due to

Weather*****

3rd

LWML Zone Rally

Day – Galloway, NJ

04 05 06 07 08 09 10

8:00am Communion

9:00 am – 1st Luther

League Meeting

9:15am Sunday School

Adult Bible Study

8th

grade Confirmation

10:30am Worship

Pastor Away at SELC Board Meeting – Holy Cross, Alsip IL*

7:30 pm LWIM

Meeting

7:30 PM Adult Choir

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

8:00am Worship

9:15am Sunday School

Adult Bible Study

8th

grade Confirmation

10:30am Communion

12:00 noon Rally BBQ

7:30 pm Elders Meeting

6:30 pm – Hand chime

and Youth Choir

7:30 PM Adult Choir

7:30 pm Confirmation Class

7:30 pm

Bell Choir Rehearsal

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

8:00am Communion

9:15am Sunday School

Adult Bible Study

8th

grade Confirmation

10:30am Worship

11:30 Voter’s Meet.

7:00 pm

Church Council

Banner Group

6:30 pm – Hand chime

and Youth Choir

7:30 PM Adult Choir

7:30 pm Confirmation Class

7:30 PM Bell Choir Rehearsal

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

8:00am Worship

9:15am Sunday School/

Adult Bible Study

10:30am Communion/

Confirmation

7:30 PM Adult Choir

7:30 pm Confirmation

Class

REFORMATION

DAY