CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH

220 S. Main Street

DeForest, WI 53532

Return Service Requested

The Door Post Ask, and it will be given you;

search, and you will find;

knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Matthew 7:8

January 2019

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CONTACT US:

Phone: 846-4718 or 846-4719

Email: office@christlutherandeforest.org

PUBLICATION DATE: December 28, 2018

CHURCH COUNCIL

Mike Paulson, President Cathey LaHaye, Treasurer

Bob Henze, VP Tim Thompson, Outreach

Jen Lockman, Secretary Deb Weier, Christian Ed.

Travis Little, Property Todd Shucha, Youth

Pam Hamele, Social Ministries Bob Henze, Public Relations

Kari Capener, Fellowship David Lubick, Stewardship

CHURCH OFFICE

Mon–Thurs 9:00-3:00, Fri 9:00-12:00

PASTOR

Pastor Sue Beadle

STAFF

Deb Weier, Office

Beth Brining, Office

Alice Marohl, Office

Burgess Andruss, Maintenance

Neil McLaughlin, Choir Director

Lee Riekki, Organist

JOIN US FOR

SUNDAY WORSHIP

8:00am & 10:30am

Mona Duppen 1/1

Jackie Showers 1/4

Alice Erickson 1/11

Alice McPeek 1/11

Beverly Quartuccio 1/12

Merina Large 1/16

Roger Leonhardt 1/17

Robert Ziesch 1/20

Joan Johnson 1/25

Doris Bohage 1/30

Combined General & Building Fund

Actual Budget Actual Budget

REVENUE 38,224.71$ 33,469.26$ 362,445.93$ 334,692.60$

EXPENSES 40,876.76$ 33,469.26$ 365,265.29$ 334,692.60$

Total Net Income (Loss) (2,652.05)$ -$ (2,819.36)$ -$

November, 2018 Year to Date

FINANCIAL REPORT for November, 2018

If you have any questions, please contact Cathey LaHaye (cjlahaye@charter.net).

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Pastor Sue’s Newsletter Article

January 2019

Eternal God, you have placed us in a world of space and time, and through

the events of our lives you bless us with your love. Grant that in the new

year we may know your presence, see your love at work, and live in the

light of the event that gives us joy forever—the coming of your Son, Jesus

Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,

now and forever. Amen. (ELW p.63)

This prayer is from our hymnal for New Year’s Eve. I’ve always been in-

trigued by the sentence, “through the events of our lives you bless us with

your love.” I hope you can take some time and look back at 2018—the

good, the bad, and the ugly and see the blessings that have come from

those events that shaped us and changed us.

We often don’t like to look back at the painful memories and sometimes

we aren’t emotionally able to do that for a while, but when we can, it is

helpful to look for ways you felt blessed, for blessings that you received

from others. God wants us to know His infinite love, comfort, and courage

and He does that through others. Even during the worst times of our life,

look for the light of God. It comes in ways we may not expect or even

notice at the time, but when we look back, it’s always there.

So, as we stand at the edge of a new year, a year full of hopes and dreams,

of anticipation and anxiety, remember that God goes ahead of us. He

knows our every thought, our every need, our every longing. God does not

cause the bad things in our life and in our world to happen. God is with us

to handle whatever comes our way because He loves us and has claimed

us as His beloved child. Forever.

Yours in Christ,

Pastor Sue

For surely I know the plans I have for you,

says the LORD, plans for your welfare and

not for harm, to give you a future with

hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)

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Book Club Ladies

Christ, Coffee & Conversation

January 8, 10:00 am

Friendship room

WWW Group 2

January 8, 6:30pm

Tammy Lubick’s Home

WWW Group 3

Not meeting until March

Week of January 6

Isaiah 60:1-6

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14

Ephesians 3:1-12

Matthew 2:1-12

Week of January 13

Isaiah 43: 1-7

Psalm 29

Acts 8:14-17

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Week of January 20

Isaiah 62:1-5

Psalm 36:5-10

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

John 2:1-11

Week of January 27

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Psalm 19

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Luke 4:14-21

The sympathy of the congregation

goes out to the family of

Betty J. (Brown) Holmes

who went to be with our heavenly

Father on November 29, 2018

and Lucille Schultz

who went to be with our heavenly

Father on December 16, 2018

and Beverly Runstrom

who went to be with our heavenly

Father on December 24, 2018 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no

evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they

comfort me. Psalm 23:4

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Dine to Donate Looking for a good reason to go out to dinner?

How about having Texas Roadhouse donate 10%

of your bill back to the church. Dine with

Texas Roadhouse, 4841 Annamark Drive,

Madison, on Sundays from 11am to 9pm

(available every Sunday, every week) and they

will do just that. Show your server your

bulletin from that Sunday morning to receive

the donation. Let’s eat!!

Christ Lutheran Church Annual Meeting

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Following the 10:30 worship service

Thank you to all those who participated

in providing gifts for the Giving Tree.

We collected 80 gifts for families and

the elderly in our community. In addi-

tion, we were able to donate turkeys to

the families and residents of the

Community Center with extra money

from Thanksgiving.

Finally, thank you to the minis-

tries committee who collected the gifts

and made sure they were delivered in

time for Christmas!

Thank you!!

Thank You to everyone in our

congregation for supporting the

Social Ministries Committee in the

numerous ministries we provided in

2018. You are all very generous.

Also, thank you to all of the ladies

who help provide delicious food and

donate their time to help with

funeral lunches. You are always so

willing to help and the families are

so grateful. This would not be possi-

ble without your support.

Pam Hamele

Social Ministries Committee

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Blood Drive Thank You!!

Adult Education Beginning January 6, 2019 the Adult Education Group will begin a

six week study based on the book, I’d Like You Better if You Were

More Like Me, by John Ortberg. Considering the current divisive-

ness in our Country this seemed like an appropriate study. We are

divided on politics, religion, race, sexual orientation, level of edu-

cation, and just about anything else you can think of. This is not

healthy physically or emotionally, and it is probably breaking

God’s heart. He sent his son to teach us how to live. Jesus taught

by example. He reached out to the downtrodden, the outcast, the

loner and he expects us to do the same. He lived showing us how

to love our neighbor and he died for all God’s children. We all have the same Father

and we need to learn to love each other like the brothers and sisters we are. Come

and join us for this study and conversation. We meet upstairs in the Conference

Room from 9:20 to 10:10. That allows for time to stop in the friendship room for re-

freshments and conversation on both ends of class.

Membership Directory UpdateWe want to let all know that we

have sent in the final proof of our

Directory to have it published. We

wanted to make sure it was correct

before we had it published. We are

hoping to have copies by mid-

January.

Thanks to all who helped on this project.

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