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Looking forward to October 31, 2021
 Sunday Bible study 9am
Sunday worship service 10am
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
Weekly Update

This Sunday we will celebrate Reformation. Afterwards we will have an outdoor chili potluck and watch a Seahawks game at 1pm. 

A word about Bible study: Our regular Bible studies (Sunday 9am, Tuesday 10am) are your best opportunities each week to learn from your fellow church members and encourage each other. Every week we have excellent insights and encouragements from so many mature Christian members. You also get to interact with other members much more and therefore get to know each other much better than if you only see each other in worship. I am concerned that a lot of our members are missing out on an easy way to greatly increase their spiritual growth. 

HERE IS A DEVOTIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO KEEP YOUR "GOD-LIVED-LIFE" COMMITMENT. 

Our YouTube channel is the new place to watch our services. 
We will post some Bible studies there, but because not everyone has a microphone it is not an ideal listening experience. 

Here are detailed, step-by-step instructions for accessing our weekly worship online. If you need help, you can have Pastor West or an elder visit you and help you set it up. Please don't give up! It works very easily once you get a YouTube account and subscribe. 

Oct 31
Cleaners: 
Mowers: Clinton Dewey, Leslie Twenge
Acolyte: Ella Diaz
Ushers: Jim Nollmeyer, Steve Schultz
AV: Laura West
 
SPECIAL DATES TO SAVE

10/29   Tent or treat event 
10/31   Reformation, Chili after church outside
11/2     Bible study cancelled for one week only
11/7     Daylight savings time ends
11/10   Veterans Day chapel at 9am
11/16   Burden bearing small group
11/25   Thanksgiving Day worship
12/1     First Advent service

BIBLE STUDY/SMALL GROUP REGULAR SCHEDULE
SUNDAY 9AM - currently James
TUESDAY 10AM Thru-the-Bible - cancelled this week due to tooth extraction
Let me know if there's another time/venue you would like me to consider starting. The Monday night study will be open for enrollment again in January. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS 

TWO UPCOMING BIG VOTERS MEETINGS
We will have two voters meetings after worship Nov. 7 and Nov 14. We need two meetings because we would like to approve property/facility purchases for The Vine and the school and the calling of two more teachers for the school next year, all of which require two meetings. The meeting on Nov. 7 will focus on these issues, and the meeting on Nov. 14 will contain other reports. 

MR BIEBERT CALL
Mr. Biebert has received a call to serve as principal and teach 7th-8th grades at Trinity in Belle Plain, MN.  Please keep him and Kayla in your prayers as he deliberates and give him feedback if the Lord so moves you. 
 
TENT OR TREAT TODAY
TODAY Friday, October 29th, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, the school is holding its first annual TENT or Treat - formerly Trunk or Treat!  It should be a lot of fun. 

CHILI MEAL SUNDAY
Sunday after church there will be a chili potluck outside for the St. Matthew church and school families.  Participants can bring chili and stay to watch the Seahawks game at 1 on a big screen if they so choose.  Everyone is invited! 

VETERANS DAY CHAPEL, 11/10
On Wednesday, November 10th, we will have a special Veterans Day chapel at 9:00 am. All are invited to attend, especially veterans. 
 
BURDEN BEARING SMALL GROUP SCHEDULED 11/16
Our next meeting will be 11/16 at 6:30pm. 

CHRISTMAS CAROLING IN IDAHO 11/27
The Vine will be caroling at New Leaf Nursery on Saturday November 27th (time TBD).  All are invited to join in the festivities.  Please email Christine Slater at pinkcamomommy@gmail.com to be emailed the music.  We will be singing well known Christian Christmas Carols.  Adults and children are all welcome.  

ADVENT SERVICES starting 12/1
We will have three Advent services this year, Dec. 1, 8, and 15. We will have a 3:45pm and a 6:30pm service. 

CHIEFS GAME 12/4
The info for our first Chief's game is attached below. Note that proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test is required for attendance. 

A GOD-LIVED LIFE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM
Oct 17 - A Life Lived for Others - current.
Dec 5 - A Life of Hospitality
Jan 8 - A Shrewdly Lived Life
You will find personal commitment cards with explanations in your mailbox at church. 
PRAYER CONCERNS:
  • Continue to pray for our home-bound members: Maria Baerman, Carol Taylor, Carole Boyette, Christine Glardon, Chuck and Jean Johnson, Beverly Van Epps, and Louise Scherschel.  
  • Dave Sauer's recovery from foot surgery
  • Dale Thaemert beginning chemotherapy
  • The Vine's offer on a building in Hayden
  • The school's plans to add a portable and expand next year
  • All the people in your life who need prayer
BIBLE VERSE of the week

“The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

- Exodus 34:6-7
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