The Newsletter of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

420 Main Street, PO Box 15, McAlisterville, PA 17049-0015

(717) 463-3428 · e-mail TLCHURCH17049@gmail.com

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TRINITY TIDINGS Partner Congregation: Reed Memorial Lutheran Church, Liberia

Staff

The Rev. Erin Bovendam, Pastor

Thad Swinehart, Director of

Youth Ministries

Jean Barnard, Choir Director

Doris Watts, Organist

Betty Lou Naylor,

Parish Secretary

Colene Yakamook, Director

Sonbeam Early Learning Center

(717) 463-9571

Officers

President, Kirk Freed

Vice President, David L. Aldinger, III

Secretary, Charles Rishel

Cheryl Wilson, Treasurer

Betty Ryan, Asst. Treasurer

Congregation Council

David L. Aldinger, III

Cathy Barnes

Dawn Clouser

Kirk Freed

Clarice Pellman

Charles Rishel

Audie Truitt

Ted Wilson

Jeff Yetter

Proclaiming “Jesus is Lord,”

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran

Church, endeavors to grow and

build itself up in Christ’s love,

as each member, using God-given

talents and resources, works to

reflect God’s grace,

to each other and the world.

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All Saints Sunday 9:00 AM, Sunday, November 5th

(Daylight Savings Time Ends!) This Sunday, we’ll focus on what worship means, we’ll remember that we have

been made saints with Christ through our baptism, and we will

honor our loved ones, who have died in the faith.

TALC Youth Group Shopping for Christmas Angels 2:00-6:00 PM Sunday, November 12th

6th-12th grade youth meet at Trinity to head to Lewistown to go Christmas

shopping for children who are in need in our county.

After shopping, they’ll head back to church for pizza and gift-wrapping.

Advent Intergenerational Night 4:00-5:30 PM, Sunday, November 12th

Lost Creek Presbyterian Church This ministry event is for single adults of any age, couples, families, children with

grandparents and grandparents with children. We’ll learn about Advent, which is the

season of hope, we’ll make a home advent wreath for use in December, and learn

what the wreath means, we’ll each receive an Advent home devotion booklet and cal-

endar, and we’ll have a time of fellowship and a light meal. **Bring a can of food for

the food pantry. Sign up with the Trinity church office by November 5th to attend.

Holiday Bazaar 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Saturday, November 18th

Social Hall, Trinity Lutheran Church

Annual Ministry Budget Meeting Following Worship on Sunday, November 19th

At this meeting, we will review and vote to approve our ministry budget for

2018, with a focus on supporting the ministries God has placed

before us for the next year.

4:004:00--5:30 PM5:30 PM

Sunday, November 12, 2017Sunday, November 12, 2017

at Lost Creek Presbyterian Churchat Lost Creek Presbyterian Church

*A combined ministry of McAlisterville

United Methodist, Trinity Lutheran

and Lost Creek Presbyterian Churches

Advent is a season in the church year that consists of the four weeks before Christmas. It is a time of hope and

waiting: waiting to celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas, but also waiting for when Christ will come again.

So, November may seem a little early to be focusing on Advent, but this year, we are having a special night to help

us get ready when Advent comes. See details below. I hope you will join us for this night of fellowship and

preparation for Advent.

Who is welcome?

Single adults of any age

Parents or Guardians with Children and Older Youth

Children and Youth may bring grandparents

Grandparents may bring grandchildren

Couples

Friends are welcome

What’s it about?

Make an Advent Wreath to use at home and learn

what the Advent Wreath means

Receive a devotional book for all ages, to be used

once a week for Advent, that goes along with the

scriptures we’ll be reading in worship. There are also

optional pictures for those who like to color, like the

one above

Receive an Advent calendar to help you mark the

days of Advent waiting and hope, as we near

Christmas

Enjoy supper and fellowship

Be sent out to live out faith in your home and

community

Advent Wreath we’ll be making

RSVP no later than November 5th

E-mail: tlchurch17049@gmail.com°

Call: 717-463-3428

Sign up on the sign-up sheet at your church, or

Message Trinity Lutheran Church on Facebook

PASTOR ERIN’S PAGE

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Camp Mt. Luther Fundraiser 3

Financial Page 6

Food Prep. for the Bazaar 10

November Calendar 11

Pastor’s Erin’s Page 2

Schedule of Helpers 4

Sonbeam Daycare News 10

Stewardship in Action 9

Trinity’s Birthdays 5

Upcoming Events 1

USS Ark 7

Inside this issue:

Evening at Shade Mountain November 3th @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Come to Shade Mountain Winery to share fellowship, entertainment, and enjoy locally produced wine, all to benefit Camp Mount Lu-ther. The event runs from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by Bernie Rich, a local musician who sings contem-porary folk music and Christian anthems. The menu will include heavy appetizers, dessert, and one glass of wine per person. SPACE IS LIMITED. Please make your reservations with the camp office at 570-922-1587 or cml@campmountluther.org. If you choose to purchase any bottles of wine that evening, a portion of the proceeds will be given to Mount Luther. We ask all participants to make a do-nation to the camp that evening, equal or greater to the food and entertainment provided.

ACOLYTES November 05 Nate Freed 12 Daniel Gutwein 19 Marley Wilson 26 Michael Prawdzik December 03 Clara Ruff 10 Lilia Haflett 17 Gannon Ryan 24 Bralynn Clouser Christmas Eve 24 Evan Clouser & Carter Freed 25 Morgan Delancey 31 Joey Prawdzik

WORSHIP ASSISTANTS November 05 Chuck Rishel & Ann Lock 12 Jessica DeLancey 19 Vince Boyer & Terri Leister 26 Clyde Kauffman December 03 Sandy Kinney 10 Brandy Ruff 17 Dane Hackenberger 24 Kris Yetter Christmas Eve 24 25 31 Katherine Kratzer

USHERS

November Brad & Patty Erickson’s Family, Greg Spancake & Matt Snyder

December Ted & Nicole Wilson, Tim Inch & Dave Smith

COMMUNION BREAD November 05 Ruth Schell 12 Ruth Schell 19 Lucille Aldinger 26 Lucille Aldinger December 03 Westover’s 10 17 24 25 31

ALTAR GUILD November Lucille Aldinger December Sandra Westover

RECORDING THE WORSHIP SERVICE November Jean Barnard December Dane Hackenberger & David Aldinger

SOCIAL TIME PROVIDERS November 05 Jean Barnard, Cathy Barnes &

Brandy Ruff 12 Clarice Pellman & Cheryl Wilson 19 Trudy Watts & Sue Leister 26 Susan Hackenberger, Ted, Nicole

& Marley Wilson December 03 Jean Fogle & Ruth Nace 10 Peggy Nipple, Dawn Clouser &

Peggy Inch 17 Terri Leister, Phyllis Weller, Bobbi

Leister & Marah Leister 24 Sharon Truitt, Kris Yetter, John &

Angela Monteleone, Mandy Haubert 31 Sonya Nace, Renee Freed, Betty

Ryan, & Robin Hack

November

& December

Schedule

of Helpers

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Trinity’s Birthday Calendars TIDINGS contains calendars listing the birthdays of members of Trinity for

November & December. We hope that you will use this calendar to greet our

members as they celebrate another year of life.

November

03 Forest Landis 03 Joanne Wright 05 Dane Hackenbeger 06 Joseph Prawdzik 06 Ruth Nace 06 Tina Ryan 06 Cheryl Walker 07 Morgan Burkepile 10 Patty Fonson 10 Andrew Smith 10 Lindsay Malone 11 Clara Fogleman 12 Brian Weiand 14 Kirk Freed 14 Layla Ruff 14 Marah Leister 17 Valerie Robinson 17 Michael Ryan 18 Corey McCartney 19 Barbara Leach 19 Cole Snyder 19 Jonathan Watts 21 Shawn Benner 24 Mitchell Hack 26 Lilia Haflett 26 Jill Hildebrand 30 Henry Mathiason

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December

02 Maranda McCleaf 04 Pastor Erin Bovendam 04 John Riggin 05 Pastor James Park Bricker 06 Taylor Cunningham 06 Tyler Cunningham 06 Judy Stayer 07 Ruth Schell 07 Sandra Westover 09 Janelle Zeiders 09 Jeff Yetter 13 Bob Spade 13 Peggy Nipple 14 Lucille Aldinger 14 Patty Erickson 15 Madyson Freed 18 Takayla Tittler 19 Elizabeth Fogleman 19 Jacqueline Weiand 20 Izabella Walker 21 Dylan Freyermuth 29 Camden Stouffer 25 Susan Hackenberger 28 Jessica DeLancey 31 Sophia Delancey

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USS ARK News of God’s People in Action from the Upper Susquehanna Synod, ELCA October, 2017

This is the text-only MS Word version. For the camera ready version, with photos and other graphics, please visit http://www.uss-elca.org/news/uss-ark. USS ARK is a publication of the Upper Susquehanna Synod, ELCA. Permission is granted to reproduce USS Ark for congregational communications. Send your mission stories and ministry ideas to Edi-tor Chad Hershberger at news@uss-elca.org.

Fifth Edition of “God’s work. Our hands.” Day Editor’s Note: The following are reports we received of congregations who held service projects as part of the ELCA’s Day of Service in September. On Sunday, September 10, St. Peter's, Kreamer (Interim Pastor Vickie Brown) showed God's Work in the community as they held their Fall Festival. The festival included free games and prizes, fire truck rides from the Kreamer fire department, a tour of the Kreamer ambulance, as well as a cake walk where more than 45 cakes were given away! All the money collected from the food stand was donated equally between the Meals for Seals and the Meals for Mustang programs. Around 100 people participated. Himmel’s, Dornsife (Pastor Jane Compton) declare they have again outdone themselves doing God’s Work! Following a meal prepared by some of their fabulous cooks, there was lots of chatter and laughter around the church as participants knotted blankets, sorted Angel’s Closet clothing and filled shoe boxes and school bags. There was an awesome group picking-up trash along Schwaben Creek Road. Their youth also did yard work for two families. Members delivered meals to shut-ins, a needy family, and Haven Ministries; visits were also made to two members. God’s Love and Cookies Reporting by Harry Deitz As part of “God’s work, Our hands” Sunday, parishioners of Grace, Shamokin (Pastor Sarah Hershberger) greeted the people who stopped in front of CVS Pharmacy. Passersby had the opportunity to also taste a va-riety of cookies, baked or purchased by the parishioners, to offer a simple reminder that God’s love is often spoken best through the little things in life such as baked goods. The idea for the unusual evangelistic project was conceived by Pastor Hershberger. In her monthly newslet-ter article, she told the congregation she had a “crazy idea.” “First, I’m going to bake a couple batches of cookies,” she wrote. “Second, I’m going to make a sign that says something about God’s love for you. And then after church on Sunday, I’m going to take these items out of my car. I’m going to set up a table some-where here in Shamokin where there’s foot traffic and offer cookies to passersby and tell them they are loved by a loving God. And that’s it.” The idea caught on. On Sunday after services at St. Paul’s, Gowen City, and Grace, she had enough freshly baked cookies to fill the back seat of her car and then some. She was joined by several the parishion-ers handing out the “goodies” to many of the folks who visited downtown Shamokin. The congregations did a similar event on October 1st as part of a public “blessing of the pets” service.

Synod Pastor Becomes U.S. Citizen Pastor Carla Volland (Evangelical, Reedsville), became one of America's newest citizens on August 4, 2017. She took her Oath of Allegiance during the naturalization ceremony at the Department of Homeland Security in Phila-delphia. The week prior, she took a civics test. Volland said, “I learned about the history and geography of the country and set-up of the U.S. government. There were 100 questions I prepared for and they asked me ten. Prior to the interview test, I was told that the interviews last between 45 minutes and two hours. I had to submit an 18-page application as well. Even though I am now an American, I still have my German accent!” Pastor Volland’s congregation celebrated this achievement with her the following Sunday by wearing red, white, and blue and waving small American flags while singing "God Bless America." The celebration continued after the morning worship service with the viewing of photos from the oath ceremony. Parishioners also decorated her house as well as the Fellowship Hall and the welcome sign in front of the church. She was presented with a red, white, and blue stole, and everyone enjoyed a patriotic-themed cake during fellowship time after church. This celebration coincidentally occurred on the same day that they blessed 40 quilts made for Lutheran World Relief and three quilts presented to recent high school graduates.

Up and Down the Valleys Another semester is underway with Protestant Campus Ministry at Bloomsburg University! Campus Pastor Jill Young and her students are settling into their new office at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, just two blocks down from Carver Hall. The church offered space after the ministry lost their on-campus office. St. James, Muncy (Pastor Bev Cotner) is our latest congregation to be featured on our website. Check our homepage at uss-elca.org for our Featured Congregation. Port Royal Lutheran Church (Pastor Charles Hershberger), once again hosted a food stand at the annual Juni-ata County Fair in early September. The fair stand is held in a building at the fairgrounds owned by the church since 1953. All proceeds from sales go to charities. It is located on Lutheran Lane! The Upper Susquehanna Synodical Women held their convention in July at Camp Mount Luther. Jodi Ellis presented a Bible study and Sandy Nelson held a workshop on her travels in Liberia. Bishop Barbara J. Collins presided at the worship service with Peggy Bohart assisting her. Churchwide Representative Dawn Smith installed the officers for the coming year: Jean Crumb, President; Peggy Bohart, Vice President; Robin Latsha, Secretary; Wendy Zajac, Treasurer; Board Members: Kathy Whitesel, Doris Mertz, Linda Leister, Anne Spicer, Janet Dietrich, and Carol Winter.

Clergy Notes: Rev. Lois Martin has resigned as intentional interim pastor of Pine Street, Danville. Synod Council extended a call to the Rev. Mark Galbraith as Intentional Interim Pastor at the Milton Parish for a one-year term beginning November 1, 2017. Rev. Jerri Carlin has been called to serve St. John’s, Lewistown. She begins October 16, 2017, and will be installed at 2:00 p.m. on November 12.

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USS ARK is a publication of the Upper Susquehanna Synod, ELCA. Permission is granted to reproduce USS Ark for

congregational communications. Send your mission stories and ministry ideas to Editor Chad Hershberger at news@uss-elca.org.

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STEWARDSHIP.. AT TRINITY We all are called to service, to witness in God’s name Our ministries are different; our purpose is the same:

To touch the lives of others with GOD’s surprising grace; So ev’ry folk and nation may feel GOD’s warm embrace.

With One Voice

Each and every Sunday morning, we are blessed with

“Social Time”.

BECAUSE OF YOU…….. many – many of you, we eat

various delicious treats, “we have great cooks!” Not only eat, we

have time to share of our love and gifts GOD has given to each.

Time shared is very precious and we need to cherish each member

of the family.

Thank you GOD, for the accomplishments of small beginnings.

Thank you for great journeys from first steps and large harvests

from tiny seeds. AMEN

God’s Love and Gifts, make us very rich children

of our heavenly Father. God’s work /Our hands.

Your Stewardship Committee

If anyone who is

not involved with

Social Time and

would like to be,

call Peggy Inch at

home. 717-463-

3526

The center is enjoying lots of a fall activities. The tod-dlers looked at the inside of a pumpkin. Preschool took nature walks and collected leaves. The babies painted paper to look like pumpkins. We had a fall costume parade on October 31st with parents and community members handing out candy to our the Sonbeam children.

We are looking forward to November. We will be closed for Thanksgiving and Black Friday so we can spend time with our families. We are thankful for all that God has given us this year.

We have a new staff member starting this month. Her name is Amber Knouse. She will be our part time School Age teacher. She will be working a split shift. She will come in every morning at 7 am and come back on T, W, & F at 3 pm. We are still looking to hire a full time older toddler teacher and a part time afternoon preschool teacher. We are currently enrolling for all age groups (6 weeks to 12 years old). Please send any inquires my way. Colene Yakamook Sonbeam ELC Director

Holiday Bazaar

Dates for Food Prep

Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1:00 pm - Cut up vegetables

Friday, Nov. 10, Make turkey pies for Congregation only

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1:00 pm - Cut up vegetables

Friday, Nov. 17, Make turkey pies for the Bazaar

Monday, Nov. 13, 1:00 pm - Making Mince Meat & Cranberry Relish

Sonbeam Early Learning Center News

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4 Sonbeam ELC Fund-raiser at BOL Restaurant, get tickets at Sonbeam office Turn clocks back

5 9 am Worship ~ Dime collection 10:15 Social Time 10:30 SS 11:30 Choir reh. Daylight Savings Time ends

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7 10:15 pm Sonbeam Chapel time 1 pm Willing Workers-cutting up vegetables for the Bazaar

8 10 am Prayer Shawl Ministry meets in the Library

9 4 pm Prayer Group meets @ Lost Creek Pres-byterian Church 7 pm Council mtg.

10 Willing Workers making turkey pies for the congregation only

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12 9 am Worship 10:15 Social Time -Blood Pressure checks 10:30 SS 11:30 Choir reh. 2-6 pm TALC Shopping for Christmas Angels 4 pm Intergenerational Advent -Prep Night @ LCP Church

13 1 pm Willing Workers making mince meat, cranberry relish

14 10:15 pm Sonbeam Chapel time

11:30 Juniata Co. Ministerium @ BOL

1 pm Willing Work-ers-cutting up vege-tables for the Bazaar

15 4:30 pm Sonbeam Board meets

16 10 am Juniata Conf. Pastor’s Mtg. at Reedsville 7 pm Nominating Comm. Meets

17 Willing Workers making turkey pies for the Bazaar

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BAZAAR

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Sunday

9 am Worship & Budget mtg.

10:15 Social Time 10:30 SS 11:30 am Choir reh.

4-6 pm Affirmation of Baptism Class meets

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26 9 am Worship 10:15 Social Time 10:30 SS 11:30 Choir reh.

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28 10:15 pm Sonbeam Chapel time

29 Pastor Erin @ Synod Candidacy Comm. Training

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