Week of Feb 20-26

COR Update

Pastor's Message

This week, we start the church season of Lent. Lent is a time to remember who we are in God, repent (which simply means turn around or correct our course), and return to our original blessing — the way God created us.

I hope you’ll make time to join us in worship on Ash Wednesday, March 1: Our service times are at noon and 7 p.m. If you’re wondering about bringing children, consider this: Do your children make mistakes? Do they need help starting over, remembering they are loved, and being reconciled? I think children do, and as we find our own way, we model the way of following Christ in front of our children and teenagers. By the teenage and young adult years, as you probably know, our kids watch us as much, or even more than, they listen to us.

Lent is also a time when many Christians traditionally take on an intentional spiritual practice. We may do less of something harmful to our spiritual lives (complain less, eat less of a certain food) or we may do more of something helpful to our spiritual lives (pray more, worship more, give more, be more grateful).    As you are considering what your Lenten practice may be, I share this list, collected from my own life and our church’s ministry staff:

One of the best ways to go deep with God is to practice daily prayer.  Because people differ, and our lives change, I find that we tend to not do the same thing for a lifetime, but find new resources and fine tune our practice. Here are a few options for you to try:

 
Online resources for observing Lent:
  • I love this practical site: livingcompass.org/lent.iml - (also app) - Daily meditations from a pastor/therapist with a focus on spiritual wellness and life balance.  

  • Susan Daniels shared this daily devotion from our own Bishop Paul Erickson.  DailyDevotions

  • I am currently listening to these prayers as I commute.I like that I can listen to music and scripture reading, ponder wise questions leading me into prayer. - http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/home/ Rooted in the Jesuit tradition, with cool British accents.(I confess, I’m an anglophile.)  

  • Matt Stein enjoys these reflections from a pastor:.  https://revkerry.com/

  • Tiffany Kollmeyer is reading the Bible in the company of other women here: www.shereadstruth.com  (also an app) - More contemporary, even Evangelical.  

  • Pr. Liz reads God Pause daily reflections from Luther Seminary you can get on their web site or receive by email. She also likes Unfolding Light: Daily Reflections by Lutheran pastor and poet Steve Garnaas-Holmes.

Are you just learning to pray? Here are some tips: Choose something that interests you. Choose a time, day and method that may work for you (print, app, recording).Jesus said, “When you pray, go in your closet,” and I take that to mean, find a quiet time and place to pray. And be gentle with yourself: It takes time to develop a daily habit. We all miss days and make mistakes, and feel closer or farther from God.So be gentle and persist:I suspect that’s why Lent lasts 40 days. One good starting point is d365.A site and app is www.d365.org/todaysdevotion/.
 
We hope that many of you will take time to connect with others in worship.  A life-changing commitment you could make, is to be in weekend worship, as often as possible. God taught us, “remember the sabbath, and keep it holy.”  Taking a day on the weekend for worship and rest, will change your life.
 
Our brief weekly Wednesday service at 7 p.m. is an opportunity to live through Lent with others. After worship, there is a wonderful opportunity to go deeper in your faith in the company of others. Susan Daniels will be leading a short catechism class for adults. The teachers of our youth have said that teaching confirmation has been an incredible opportunity to go deeper in their own faith. Consider this five-week commitment an opportunity to study the basics of our faith.

I hope you’ll live into the season of Lent both alone and with your faith community.

 
                                                Love and prayers,   Pastor Paula
Worship
Our Faith Community
Ash Wednesday Spaghetti Dinner  

Join us for a delicious spaghetti dinner before the evening Ash Wednesday worship service on Wednesday, March 1. The family-friendly meal is hosted by the FYI youth group and begins at 6 p.m. We look forward to seeing you there!


Lenten Soup And Sandwich Supper
 
 
A lenten soup and sandwich supper will be served before each Wednesday service beginning March 8. We will serve a variety of soups, sandwiches, breads/crackers and cookies. This year, the confirmation and choir children will also be included.
 
Serving will begin at 6:15 p.m., with children joining at 6:30 p.m. Clean- up will be completed before the 7:00 service time.
 
Sign-up sheets will be posted in the Welcome Center. Please sign up !
 
Miss the annual meeting?  Pick up an annual report on the gathering table and learn what we discussed. Want to talk about it? Contact Council President Randy Kohn at (262) 853-1842 or Pastor Paula Harris at (262) 691-7700.

Martin Luther Quote of the Week


Financial Update for January 2017

January 2017:
Budgeted Income      $37,117
Actual Income          $38,949
Actual Expenses        -40,521
Deficit                          -1,572

Come Talk With The Transition Team About Our Church
 
The Cottage Meetings were a success: We had about 50 people attend the five gatherings. So what will the Transition Team be doing with the feedback from all these meetings?
 
  1. We will be meeting as a group in February and with the Church Council and Staff Support Team in March to discuss the information we learned from church members and from our self-study.
  2. We will use this information to create a document that details what our church’s future should look like—including the programs we want to focus on and the staff we need.
  3. Once this process is done, our church will assemble a call committee, which will put together an ELCA Ministry Profile to send to the Greater Milwaukee Synod. The Synod will then begin the search for qualified senior pastor candidates.
 
One big focus for the Transition Team is understanding (and helping the congregation understand) what it means to shift from a pastor-based church to a program-based church. In the former, the pastor is at the center of all the church’s ministries, and in the latter, the church’s mission and vision are at the center. The pastor empowers and supports congregation members as they carry out the mission and vision.
 
Do you have more questions about the process? Send an e-mail to transition@sharefollowserve.com and we’ll get back to you right away.

SOPHIA will be showing the award-winning film “Living on One Dollar” with a discussion to follow.

“Living on One Dollar” follows the journey of four friends as they set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. They battle hunger, parasites, and extreme financial stress as they attempt to survive life on the edge. An unimaginable reality for most young Americans, the challenges they face are real and plague more than 1.1 billion people around the world. While the friends quickly learn there are no easy answers to ending extreme poverty, the generosity and strength of Rosa, a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman, and Chino, a 12-year-old boy, give them resilient hope that there are effective ways to make a difference.
 
The movie will be shown on Monday, Feb 27 from 7-8 p.m. in the sanctuary. Please consider attending and encouraging anyone you know who may be interested to join us.
 

A Little Luther at Lent
 
ELCA Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has charged the church in this 500th year of the Reformation to spend some time studying Luther's Small Catechism. The Small Catechism has been reprinted in a pocket-sized anniversary edition, complete with illustrations. There is also a mobile app version. (Did you know that the Small Catechism is also contained in our ELW Hymnal?)

 I invite you to join me in a short study of the Small Catechism on Wednesday evenings following our Lenten worship services. We will meet from 7:45 to 8:15 p.m. beginning March 8 to discuss, review and explore what Luther had to say about the key principles of our faith. The revised anniversary edition can be ordered for the bargain price of $2, or you can download the mobile app for free. Please let me know if you would like to order the print version. I hope you will join me in this engaging study. 
Susan Daniels, Deacon.

Church Council Open Position - Fellowship

Church of the Resurrection
Fellowship Team
Summary
The Fellowship Team strives to bring members of this church together and be hospitable to guests. This team has oversight and support from the Church Council.   

There are several functions of this team throughout the year:   
Rally Day                                                     New Hire Reception
Pie Social                                                     KICK
Mother’s Day/Father’s Day events        Creative Fellowship
Sunday Morning Fellowship                   Men’s Group
New Members Brunch                             Funerals
Dartball                                                       Special Needs
Softball                                                        Prayer Shawls
Golf

Organization and Accountability
The Fellowship Team is comprised of 4-5 persons. One of those persons, identified as the chairperson, shall facilitate ongoing team collaboration. The team shall meet on a semi-routine basis (recommend 4-8 meetings throughout the year) depending on the tasks and needs required. The Church Council may charge this Fellowship Team with specific objectives and shall hold this team accountable for carrying out those objectives within an agreed-upon timeline.

Identifying Those With Gifts for This Ministry
Potential members of this Fellowship Team shall be: Hospitable,  Creative, Enthusiastic, Interested in interacting with people, Organized, Willing to attend/work events, Like to cook.  If you’d like to know more, or to nominate someone to chair, please contact Pastor Liz Rossing.
We’re on the move…
 
Starting in Lent, we’ll move our sanctuary and worship space around in a few ways. Pastors and lay ministers will have a seat up front; I (Pastor Paula) can lead you better, and love you better, if I can see you. Families will have an optional area to the right, with long rows of chairs for large families and optional space around the kid table, or in front (where the kids can really see) or in back (if you prefer). Folks using equipment (wheelchairs, walkers) have open areas right in the center. The music team has an area all together, bells are still up front because they are both musical and visual, and the choir is nearer to the congregation to support congregational singing. The baptismal font, as you may notice, is near the altar and near the people. Both near the entrance (we enter the church through baptism) and the front (our baptism empowers our ministry as Christians) are good places.  It won’t be perfect; we may need to tweak it, but please give it a try and let’s debrief after we see how it works together.

If you can help, we’ll make the move Sunday, Feb. 26, after the 10 a.m. service. 

Along with moving around the sanctuary a little, I’m moving around the service a little. Every pastor does things a bit differently. The first change is that we will have announcements at the end. I’m not convinced that announcements are the best way to enter into worship. They really invite us into the life of the community here, so we’ll try them after worship for a while. 

This means that our prayer concerns — the people we have on our hearts — will be heard in our prayer time (in the middle of the service). Although I pray for you all regularly and carry home the prayer list for my daily prayers, one pastor can’t carry all of our prayer concerns. The whole community can. Pastors certainly have a role in carrying our hurts and worries, but we all have a part. “Sharing one another’s burdens” is the way the Bible puts it.  So we will model this by sharing our names in prayer, and having the lay minister say “Lord, in your mercy” and we all respond, “Hear our prayer.” 

In general, the Lutheran Book of Worship allows the assisting minister to share a lot more of the worship leadership than we currently practice. So you’ll also find one pastor focusing on preaching, another pastor focusing on presiding, and the lay assisting minister helping her lead a lot more prayers.
Fifteen Questions

The ELCA is asking each congregation to comment about various areas of congregational vitality. Our pastors asked these 15 questions at all three services, and these were the responses:

Pastoral Emergency?  
Church office (M-Th 9am - 4pm, Fri 9am -1pm) 262-691-7700
Evenings- Call a Pastor
Pastor Paula Harris cell 608-345-6479 (off Fri)  
Pastor Liz Rossing cell 706-218-0420 (off Mon)
This Week's Events
Monday February 27
7:00 p.m. Sophia Movie Night

Tuesday February 28
6:30 p.m. Transition Team Meeting
7:00 p.m. Dart Ball - Away

Wednesday March 1
12:00 p.m.  Ash Wednesday Worship Service
6:00 p.m.   Spaghetti Dinner FYI
7:00 p.m.   Ash Wednesday Worship Service

Thursday March 2
6:30 a.m.  Bible Class at This Great Coffee Place

Saturday March 4
5:00 p.m. Worship with Holy Communion

Sunday March 5
8:30 a.m.   Worship with Holy Communion
10:00 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion
                     Sunday School
11:15 a.m.  VBS Planning Meeting
4:00 p.m.  Seven Last Words of Christ Concert at
                   Shattuck Hall - Carroll University
We Pray For:


Prayers for our country, those serving in the armed forces, and our leaders

- Michael, Sue Hader’s Grandson
- Jeanne Kunath,
- Mickey, Dee Morris' daughter
- Ellen, Susan Daniel's cousin
- Erik Kotajarvi, Sherri Bruss brother
- Mahrya Draheim
- Don Schaf
- Dennis Kuehn
- Tom Peterson, friend of Jackie Siegl
- Nathaniel, friend of René Ohm
- Arlene Dunn, sister in law of Dunn's'
- Melissa, friend of Salstroms
- Amber Ove
- Bill Bravener, friend of Matt Stein & Susan Daniels
- Jim Norton, Kay Richardson's daughter-in-law's father
- Debbie Perrigo, Will's sister-in-law
- Dee Morris
- Barb
- Michelle
- LeAnn
- Wenslaff Family
- Betty Rooney, Colleen Rooney's mother
- Jackie Lloyd
- Ruben Zoroghlian
- Paul Boghossian
- Olivia Hautula, Jesse Niederbaumer's cousins daughter
- Scott, Susan Daniel's cousin
- Amy, friend of Palovcsik
- Megan, friend of Palovcsik
- Jim Klink
- Gary Lloyd
- Julie, friend of Phil Salstrom's
- Baby James, Jim & Susan Daniels' grandson
- Wayne Higgins, Ann-Marie Bergman's dad
- Shirley, Gail Wojtkunski's mom
- Khloe, friend of Bob Kunath
- The Family of Paul Stein

Our friends in El Salvador
- Luciano
- Rosa
- Candida
Birthdays This Week:


2/27
Patskowski, Amy

2/28
Brunner, Jake

3/1
Ehrengren, Camden

3/2
Bergman, Sarah
Gardner, Erica
Klockow, Luke
Klockow, Noah
Sauer, Lisa

3/3
Kehoss, Teagan

3/4
Susitti, CJ

3/5
Chladil, Beth
Nelson, Benjamin
Patskowski, Lola
Thurow, Curt
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Church of the Resurrection
W287 N3700 North Shore Drive
Pewaukee, WI 53072

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