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December 2018
Have you seen this image before? It is a quick visual to re-mind us about what Christmas is all about.
It is not about Santa in a red suit and beard. It is not about cookies and milk and reindeer. Christmas is all about the gift of God for us in Christ Jesus.
That gift had a purpose and a plan for our lives. It is im-portant for us to remember that it was God’s plan, at the fullness of time, to send forth His Son to be our Savior. Jesus, God’s greatest gift, was sent to die for us. It is a hum-bling reminder when we see this image of the Christmas wreath… that it is pointing forward to the crown of thorns.
Once again, we will focus on our sanctuary Christmas tree, and the brand new Chrismons (Christ Monogram). Chrismons are Christmas tree decorations that are designed using Chris-tian symbols; symbols that tell the story of Jesus.
This year the Chrismons will include symbols that trace the journey of Jesus from His crucifixion to His resurrection. We will focus on four of the Chrismons this year for our Advent theme. We hope you will join us as we journey through Advent, looking forward to the Christmas cele-bration.
In Christ,
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your Light we see light. Psalm 36:9
Trinity Torch Inside this issue:
Birthdays 7
Calendars 8
Family Life 6
J.O.Y. Club 3
Ladies Aid 5
Library News 3
New Member 6
Parish Ed/Bible Class 2
Principle’s Corner 3
Sunday School 4
TRIP 5
Walther 6
Youth Board 6
DECEMBER 2018
LUTHER’S SMALL CATECHISM THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.
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Parish Education – Bible Study Schedule December 2018 - Please check over the many Bible Classes and TLC Bible Groups available throughout the week. All nine Bible Studies continue in December. If you have questions or desire more information, you may contact the class leader or DCE Rob Grady – 708-839-1200 ext. 6. All studies are weekly unless other-wise noted.
Sunday Morning
Adult and Youth Bible Studies – 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
The Adult Group is held in the Church Library. This study will be the An-swers in Genesis curriculum.
Small Group TLC meets in the lower level of school, “What on Earth Am I Here For”.
High School Youth Bible Class meets in the school conference room with Pastor Bob.
Sunday School for Three-Year-Old through Grade 8 currently meets in the church basement.
Tuesday Evening
Join us as we begin the study “Proclaiming Heroes of Faith” in the school conference room at 7:00 p.m. This class meets weekly and is facilitated by Rob Grady.
Wednesday Morning
Men’s Bible Class meets weekly at 6:30 a.m. in the Church Library. Facilitated by Roy Carr (630-323-3688) we will begin a new study of Francis Chan’s book “Forgotten God”.
Wednesday Morning TLC
We will begin our study on Romans Part 2 on December 12 at 10:30 a.m., in the Church Library. We meet the second and fourth Wednesday and any fifth Wednesday.
Thursday Afternoon
Ladies’ Bible Class meets weekly at 1:00 p.m. in the home of Susie Carr (630-323-3688).
Thursday Evening TLC
TLC Bible Study Group meets the second and fourth Thursday (December 13). The class is led by Sharon Wendte (630-455-1775).
Friday Evening TLC
TLC Bible Study Group meets in member homes, and is led by Cliff Gustafson (815-372-9937). We continue our study on Prayer.
Human Care The Human Care committee is looking for members with any ideas/suggestions to move this committee forward.
Anyone interested can email Deb Hardtke at [email protected].
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High Honor Roll
4th Grade—Youyin Hung
5th Grade— Gaby Vasquez, Brianne Workman
6th Grade—Heather Stephens
8th Grade -Haley Dahlstrand, David Ernst,
Max Stephens
Honor Roll
3rd Grade—Addison Tabor
4th Grade—Hayden Blalock, Kermina Botros, Lilliana Cyphers-Sepulveda, Sophie Halpin,
Quinn Murray, Christian Nelson, Cole Perakis
5th Grade— Hope Bassali, Aiden Hodor, John Perakis
6th Grade—Medus Bytautas, Aryanna Elizondo
8th Grade - Matthew Gerhardt, Ryan Murray, Daniel Selle, Alex Vasquez
Principal’s Page
Psalm 46: "God is our refuge and strength."
Greetings in the name of our Lord!
The first quarter has ended at Trinity Lutheran School. Our students worked very hard and the Lord has blessed them with, incredible, intelligence! As you can see many of our third through eighth grade students were rewarded with Honor Roll or even High Honor Roll. Keep up the good work, student! I can't wait to see our lists grow!
In His Service, Andy DeWitt
2018-2019 1st Quarter
High Honor Roll All A’s (in all subjects) Honor Roll All A’s and B’s and 1 C (in all subjects) No D’s, F’s, or I’s in any subject
Join us on Thursday, December 20 at 11:30 a.m. In the church basement. The meal will be ca-tered. Please bring a $3.00 gift
for crazy bunco.
Contact Joyce Tomes at 630-257-2927 or Donna Halla at 708-839-0551 if you have any questions.
Library News Days and month are always filled with appointments and activities. We’re asking a lot of you when we suggest taking time to read.
So… for our busy December, how about watch-ing holiday themed CD’s? Here are titles of some Family ones we’re setting out: Christmas Shoes, Christmas Blessings, Christmas Choir, The Crippled Lamb, Christmas with a Capital C.
There’ll also be these VeggieTales for Chil-dren: The Star of Christmas, Merry Larry & True Light of Christmas, Little Drummer Boy, Saint Nicholas—Joyful Giving.
For our “readers” we will set out the follow-ing books: “Windows on Christmas” by Bill Crowder. He takes a fresh look at the events from the perspective of six different people. “Because of Christmas” is Max Lucado’s way of showing us the promises of Christmas: a lifetime of hope and a Savior in heaven!
Doesn’t this fill you with joy and peace?
Elaine Rall, Library Representative
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Sunday School
Sunday school students will be singing at beginning of 11 am ser-vice on December 16th. “What Child is This?” is the song we have decided to sing. Music has been handed out and all are en-couraged to learn all 3 verses. There are multiple ways to hear the old familiar song including YouTube.
We are not meeting during the Christmas nor New Year week-ends (December 23 & 30). Classes will resume January 6. Happy New Year to all.
Your servant in Christ, Karla O’Shea
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Holiday Greetings from the Ladies Aid of Trinity
Our ladies are planning their tables for our Fourth Annual Advent Tea on Monday, December 10 at 6:30 p.m. On this night, tables are beautifully set, the homemade dishes and desserts are yummy, the room is decorated with lights and a tree, and if all goes as planned, we end the evening singing Christ-mas carols. It is a night to remember! We hope to fill all available seats.
If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Sheri Abernathy 630-243-8960 or Judy Gustafson 815-372-9937.
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS WORSHIP
Our Wednesday, Midweek Advent services will focus on different Chrismons.
December 5, 12 and 19 at 10AM & 7PM
Trinity Lutheran School Christmas Service, Sunday, December 16 at 1:30PM
in the Rall Memorial Gymnasium
Contemporary Candlelight Christmas Worship with Holy Communion, Monday,
December 24 at 4:30PM
Traditional Candlelight Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24 at 6:30PM with Holy Communion and 10PM (No Communion)
Traditional Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25 at 10AM
TRIP Program
The next gift card order will go in on Friday, December 17, and will be available the following Friday. Paper copy forms are available in the school lobby and in the church narthex by the flower chart. Drop off the order forms in the school office.
For questions, please call Michele Geaschel 708-839-1444. Trip ordering is also available online, where there are hun-dreds more merchants and monetary increments.
Start thinking of Christmas gifts and places you like to shop for the holidays.
GIFT CARDS ARE SOLD EACH WEEK IN THE NARTHEX. IF YOU DON’T SEE CARDS YOU WOULD LIKE, WE CAN ORDER THEM.
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YOUTH NEWS! YOUTH NEWS! YOUTH NEWS! YOUTH NEWS! YOUTH NEWS! YOUTH NEWS!
GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING!! Watch Fast Directory, the Torch, the announcement page on Sunday mornings, and your monthly newsletter for information regarding Open Youth Room. Open Youth Room is held from 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Youth Room. The refrigerator is full and the fellowship is always waiting! Friends are always welcome! Hope to see you all there for a lot of fun!
Thank you to everyone who plucked a feather from Tom Turkey again this year. With your help the youth were able to fill nine baskets for members of our church and school who are in need at this time. The baskets were filled to the brim with enough food to give each family a Thanksgiving dinner with all of the trimmings. The names of the families were kept anonymous and were distributed to each family through our Tabitha Fund Program. The youth are continually reminded through their service to the community and Trinity of the many blessings they re-ceive on a daily basis. We thank God for each youth who take time out of their busy schedules to serve.
IT’S BACK!!!! Winter Retreat…mark those calendars for the weekend of January 2-4 2019. Don’t miss out on this fabulous opportunity! You have all been earning money in your accounts by working several events and should have enough money to cover the cost! You will enjoy various outdoor winter activities, Bible study, games, music, and much more! Spaces are filling up fast!
The youth will be having their annual pizza sale immediately following the Christmas holiday. The pizzas are from Little Caesar’s company and are delicious. This is the one fundraiser where each youth gets the full return on their individual sales. The order forms will be sent out during Christmas break. We are asking that each youth group member to sell six items. Any Trinity members who would like to purchase pizzas may do so by seeing a youth group member or Mr. Grady. Thank you for your support!
Information regarding the 2019 Mission Trip will be forthcoming after the first of the year. The Senior Youth are headed to Minnesota for the National Youth Gathering. The middle school Youth are headed to Wisconsin. Please see Mr. Grady if you have any questions on the trips.
Remember Youth Bible Class on Sunday morning at church and school. Bible class is held every week and begins at 9:45 a.m.
Christmas Blessings!
The Board of Youth Ministry
Walther Christian Academy will have their first placement test on Saturday, December 8th at 9:00 a.m.
Please register in advance at https://bit.ly/2pTyF5X or call Alma Calleros at 708-344-0404 ext. 245.
The Board of Family Life invites you to a Family Movie Night featuring “Christopher Robin”
The program will be shown in the church library area beginning at
7:00 p.m. on December 14.
Refreshments will be provided by the Board of Family Life.
Feel free to bring sleeping bags and you can still wear your PJ’s.
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OFFICE HOURS Church Office Hours
Monday—Thursday 8am-3pm School Office Hours
Monday—Thursday 8am-3:30pm
In an emergency, contact Pastor Bob
(708)846--4170/call or text
Pastor Emeritus Albrecht
(815) 293-0934 / home
(815) 531-7590 / cell
www.tlbr.org
www.mytls.org
TRINIT Y LUTHERAN CHURCH &
SCHOOL OFFICE
11503 German Church Road
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Church: (708)839-1200 School: (708)839-1444 Fax: (708)839-8503
December Birthdays 1 Julio Salverredy
2 Joann Kopping
Marilyn Rampage
4 Pamela Cook
Joshua Koshiol
Joshua Steffen
Mark Tiedt
Sharon Zalewski
5 Tessa Francis
Jackson Rockrohr
Emma Schiller
6 Jerry Morgan
7 Melanie Carli
Arnie Mueller
8 Phil Abraham
Joshua Kania
9 Eric Kluge
Julia Ward
11 Kevin Murray
Dawn Socha
Kellan Tyree
12 Abby Collins
Ryan Salverredy
13 Amari Alexander
Ryan Dierberg
13 Mark Murray
Helen Voelz
14 Erika Aluzas
Lisa Elizondo
Anand Lyall
15 Isabella Torres
16 Isiah Lashley
Katie Lund
17 Matthew Hruska
Jonathon Rossi Jr
18 Wayne Pahr
Holly Randolph
Susan Villarreal
Lauren Wolf
19 Kylie Autullo
Bradley Bohac
Eric Michaelsen
Cyndi Moloney
20 Quinn Murray
21 Haylee Brania Carole Killalea
Carrisa Korres
Joshua Rodriguez
23 Marcia Behrens
Ella Noetzel
24 Jeffrey McClain Lisa Workman
25 Ethan Grady
26 Brett Benes
26 Tyler Lambert
Carol Malina
Sharon Marwitz
Jackson Trtan
27 Jeanne Collins
Toby Huff
28 Robert Sass
Benjamin Vie
29 Susan Carr
Donna Mersch
Betty Pastori
30 Aaron Wendte
Kristy Wunglueck
Brianna Zausa
31 Jan Baranek
Jeremiah Cermak
Annette Simon
Trinity Members Respond Generously By Rev. Mark Bussert, Director of Stewardship
Results from Trinity’s Fall Stewardship Emphasis, “Live Free,” are completed, and once again our people have shown their de-votion to the Lord and to Trinity’s ministries.
108 households submitted Faith Commitment cards on September 30 (and fol-lowing weeks), totaling more than $440,000 for the coming year. That is an aver-age of $4,300 per household, almost $85 per week. 37 Faith Commitments (36%) showed an increase over previous giving.
Typically, the amount pledged through our Fall Emphasis are about 56% of the total amount given for the year. If that is true for 2019 (it has varied anywhere between 53% and 62%), offerings will be about $790,000, approximately 5% more than this year.
Thank you to all our faithful contributors for returning offerings to the Lord, and
thank You to God for the abundance He gives us which enables us to spread the Gospel in our community and around the world!
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