Farewell Reflection – Interim Pastor Lori Eickmann Inside This Issue

Reflection cont. 2

Interim Ministry Update 2

Thank you 3

Save the Date & Prayer Requests 4

The Messenger Our Redeemerʼs Lutheran Church

609 Southwood Drive So. San Francisco, CA 94080

September 2012

Mt. Cross Cont. 7

Backpack Drive 8

The Lutheran Update 3

Continues page 2

Green Team Town Meeting & Olive Oils 5

Mt. Cross Adventure. 6

You know the saying: If you want to make God laugh, tell him/her your plans for the future! Last month, I wrote about the next steps in our ministry together, now that the call committee is at work on the Ministry Site Profile. I was expecting that we would enter Advent preparing for Christmas and also anticipating the arrival of your new pastor sometime early next year. But it seems the Spirit has something else in mind for us. Sometime in September I will be leaving you to begin an intentional interim process at another congregation. I have no doubt you will be close to calling your new pastor after the first of the year – it’s just that I won’t be here when that happens. But (as an angel might tell us!) fear not; all is held in God’s hands….

All my hope on God is founded who will all my trust renew,

who through change and chance will guide me, only good and only true.

God unknown, God alone, call my heart to be thine own. (ELW 757)

So why am I leaving sooner than expected? Bottom line: there is a shortage of trained, certified interim pastors in this synod. Now that we have completed the specific work we came together to do, I need to go do that work with another congregation. An interim pastor helps a congregation ask: Where has this congregation been, what are our present realities,

Music forum and New Sat. morning class 9

Community Lunch 10

Birthdays 11

Reflection – Continued

Interim Ministry Update – Pastor Lori

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As most of you know by now, I will be leaving you later this month to begin interim work with another congregation. As I write this, my exit date is not decided because the call committee and I are working to ensure that I can offer some feedback on a rough draft of the Ministry Site Profile (MSP). Even if I were staying with you until your new pastor is called, we are at a point in the cycle of interim ministry in which I would be less involved. Rev. Katy Grindberg, the synod staff person who is working with the call committee, will continue to advise the call committee concerning the MSP, the interview process, and the call process. The synod will also be your resource for a temporary pastor. Your council will work with the synod to find someone to walk with you on this next part of the journey. Meanwhile, I trust that you all will continue everything we’ve been working on, and build on your strengths of caring for those in need and creating social events to deepen relationships. Blessings to each of you in all you do!

and where is Christ leading us next? A temporary pastor (what some have called a vacancy pastor) serves a congregation when a self-study process is not needed, such as when the called pastor goes on a three-month sabbatical or a six-week medical leave. A temporary pastor can serve you well until your new pastor is called. (In fact, my first experience in ministry was as a temporary pastor!) God has something in store for you, for this temporary pastor, for the permanent pastor you will call, and for the congregation to which he or she will bid farewell to begin ministry with you. Imagine: all those endings and beginnings! All those Spirit moments! All for the growth of Christ’s dominion – and we get to be part of that! I want to thank every participant at Our Redeemer’s for all the hard work you have done in the past year. You have shown great commitment in showing up to the meetings and workshops as we’ve worked to name and heal divisions, to make some plans for future ministries, and – through it all – to keep listening to God’s call to this faith community. I have enjoyed getting to know you and worshiping with you. I will miss you, and I won’t forget you. Each congregation I serve teaches me in some way, and reveals Christ’s heart to me in some way; and in that way, you help me serve the next congregation. Together or apart, we are still one in Christ. May God bless you as you continue life together and anticipate each new day – every one of which may bring a chance to laugh with God over surprises wrapped in grace.

Still from earth to God eternal sacrifice of praise be done, High above all praises praising for the gifts of God’s own Son.

Christ doth call one and all: ye who follow shall not fall. (ELW 757)

Thank You Notes

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Submit your thank you messages by sending them to James at Office@ourredeemerslutheran.org.

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Dear Family, Friends, and Strangers who know my Friends and Family -- Well, thank you! Honestly, I wish I could offer each and every one of you receiving this mass-email a far more personal "thanks" because I truly believe that everyone deserves it. Some of you are family members whom I still owe a "thank you" card from my wedding 5 years ago, and others are people I don't even know but nevertheless deserve at least a letter for supporting me this deployment or any other. I believe that’s what every box, letter, or prayer is -- support. I didn't join the Army for the care packages or the attention; I joined to "support" something I believe in whatever way I could (turns out "Combat Arms" is different from "Combat Support," but who knew..). I likewise realize that you folks don't send a box or a prayer for the "thank you," but to show support, and that really means a lot to me. Whatever the reason or whoever you are in relation to me, you supported me during these difficult times deployed, and that deserves more than a mass email. This will have to do however, because it takes 2 months for a letter to reach you from me (versus the 2 weeks it takes me to get them from you), and writing 30 letters doing proper justice to you all cuts into my sleep time! I don't have a lot of that! So please accept this apology/ thank you email. I wish it was a card or something more tangible, but it is sincere and hopefully articulated as such. I'm one of the luckiest soldiers I know and that’s thanks to a great REAL-LIFE social network of family, friends, and fellow Americans who are well worth fighting for. Thanks again, Scouts Out! -SSG Wright, Dylan E. (Pastor Lori and Steve’s son)

Save the Dates!

Claudia Anderson (Schizophrenia & anxiety) Hall-Hanly Family (mourning the passing of Frank Hanly) Jean Achter ( Claudia’s sister who has liver cancer) Claude Chirolo (Mel Chirolo’s brother, cancer) Denelle Crespo (16 year-old teenage girl; gradually loosing her eye sight; cause unknown; family friend of Judie & Tom Oliver) US military members serving overseas, and all people whose lives are impacted by war. Family and friends of Jeanette Cool friend, Tomas Rashid Ryan Tylor, David, & Diane Flynn Ann Johnson (sister-in-law of Walter Johnson) Mike Lewis (the Quades’ son-in-law; cystic fibrosis) Merellas Family (mourning the passing of Betty Merellas) Niel Nielson (Parkinson’s) Sindy Olsen (mother-in-law of Beverly Boblitt’s grandson Devin; inoperable brain tumors) Dennis Quade (Parkinson’s) Jay Sage (Will & Steve Kongle’s grandfather; multiple medical problems) Sauer Family Anna Van Nuys (wife of John Lutz’ father; cancer) Amodeo Family Harper Mettenbrink Bishop Mark Holmerud Julia Meldrum (Undergoing brain surgery) Holstrom Family (mourning the passing of Tom Holstrom) Call Committee: Barbara, Walter, Judie, Mel, Fran, and Bill

If you wish to Add or Remove names please call the office 650-583-5622

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* Community Lunch Sept. 15. Set-up and food prep begins at 10:30 a.m, lunch is from 12:00

*Rediscovering Feminine Images of God in Scripture (and in the Judeo-Christian Tradition)

Saturday, Sept. 8 from 9 to noon Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church

The Green Team Town Meeting – Jeanette Cool After worship on August 5, 2012, around 15 people gathered to discuss recommendations to ORLC regarding ongoing greening solutions and progress. The following were highlights: • It was agreed that the Green Team will remove many of the superfluous waste cans throughout the church and consolidate putting cans where necessary. • All trash receptacles through ORLC will be unlined, keeping plastic bag liners out of the environment, with exception of the small compost bucket in kitchen, and one receptacle designated especially for food scraps during the community lunch. Each of these two is lined with a GMO free completely compostable bag. • All new receptacles are marked with the SSF Scavenger directions for proper recycling: 1) paper only, 2) containers only, 3) other items that cannot be recycled/composted • Two blue containers for recycling in the parking lots also will have new instructional stickers placed on the lids. • The Green Team will inform the cleaning service of the new cans and recommendations. • The Green Team is researching the greenest products for other tasks in the kitchen and once a source is discussed and approved, The Green Team will take responsibility for ordering products as they are needed.

Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church is selling Extra Virgin Olive Oil for a really great price of $10.00. Contact Jeanette Cool if you wish to buy some of this oil, which would make great gifts for people for holidays or even birthdays. To get more information on the oil and other fair trade products please feel free to check out their website - http://www.lwrcoffee.com/

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After three years of going to Mt. Cross, you’d think I would be tired of it. However, no experience is ever the same way twice at Mt. cross. Each year has counselors, cabin mates, and fun times! Mt. Cross really is great. Though everyday is a new one, they all have the same basic schedule. We get up around 8:00 a.m. we then proceed to a healthy, tasty breakfast. After that, we do “morning pleasures”, which is when we clean our cabin and our assigned area. My cabin’s assigned area was the girls’ bathroom nearest to our cabin. To make it more interesting, there is a “cabin fairy’ who inspects the areas we were to clean. At dinner the cleanest cabins announced. After morning pleasures we go to alpha where we sing songs praising God, read a verse from the bible, and watch a by skit put on by the counselors that has to do with the verse. Next, we do bible encounter, which is a bible lesson with your cabin. Then, we go to camper’s choice. That’s when the counselors have a meeting and the campers get to choose if they want to go to the field and play vigorous games, or stay on the patio and play small, group games (I always chose the latter). Next, we eat lunch. After that we have four-hour long blocks to do four activities. For example, swimming, going to the creek, archery, T.I.P (tea initiative prom), fort building, arts and crafts, and cooking. Then, we eat dinner. After that, we all play the all-camp game. Next, we go to the trading post where we can buy snack. Then, we go to campfire, which is where we sing more songs praising God and listen to a personal story from a counselor having to do with that day’s lesson. After that, we go back to our cabins and are asleep by 10:00 P.M. (lights out). On Wednesdays and Thursdays that schedule varies a little. On Wednesdays, instead of going to campfire, we go to the field for prayer on the cross. During prayer on the cross, there are small boxes filled with sand with candles in them lined up in the shape of a cross. Everyone sits in a huge circle around that cross. We all sing songs and go to the boxes to pray. Here and there a counselor will say a verse from the bible. The whole ordeal is very emotional and many people end up crying. On Thursdays we do something much less emotional: the quest for the golden key. At the beginning of the day, each cabin gets a key. Throughout the day, if your cabin does something good, designated counselors will give you more keys. At the end of the day there are boxes with pictures of keys on them. You have to use the first key to find your cabins assigned box. Inside the box is candy. There is also the cookout day, the campout day, the girls’ night swim, and the boys’ night swim, but those are not always on the same day. On one of the days (if you are twelve or older), you get to do something that was new to me this year. It’s something exciting and maybe even scary. It’s the high ropes. You wear a harness and a helmet, climb a tree using staples (it’s kind of like rock climbing, but easier), and you make you way across an obstacle course about two stories high! It sounds hard and terrifying, and at first it is, but in the end it’s tons of fun. There’s also something called the giants ladder. It’s basically a giant ladder that you climb with the help of a partner. Another new thing I got to do was go to the beach. We stayed there for four hours. It seemed like too much time at first, but once it was over, we wished we could stay longer. That’s basically how we felt on Friday, too. We wished we could stay longer. There are still the new experiences of next year to look forward to. There are also the memories we made to hang on to. Mt. Cross really is great.

Mt. Cross Adventure – Caitlyn Johnson

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If you have already read my sisterʼs paper on her week at Mt. Cross, you know that campers have a busy daily schedule filled with exciting activities one after another. They play exhausting games of tag, sing songs around the campfire, and have fun learning about God, among many other things. Her week was almost the exact opposite of mine.

My week was spent at the beach every single day. The majority of our time was spent just lying on towels and watching the sky and the pelicans flying over the ocean waves and the little bugs in the sand. We spent several hours a day like that, doing close to nothing. It seems like the last thing that we would want to do at summer camp, but it was nice to just relax and talk and laugh. Sometimes one of us would relax too much and actually fall asleep in the warm afternoon sun. There was not one of us who stayed awake all seven days at the beach. But not our entire week was spent just doing nothing. It was a very exciting week as well. We went to a variety of beaches throughout the week. One had some tide pools that you could walk through and one could see a variety of sea life among the rocks, such as anemones and starfish. As we went along, we came to a break in the rocks that stopped us from continuing. We had to climb across the rocks rock-climber style unless we wanted to get wet in the waves below. Naturally, I was a little hesitant, but with a little help from my camp friends, we all helped each other get across safely.

That was probably the least of our adventures throughout the week. As part of Beach Camp, we had the thrilling opportunity to go kayaking in the ocean as well as surfing. Kayaking was fun and relaxing. We went in pairs and saw a lot of wildlife, including seals and adorable sea otters lying in the kelp. We started at the wharf, got our paddles caught in the kelp, and then reached a rock that served as a sea lion hangout called “Sea Lion Rock”, before heading back.

The next morning had even more adventures in store. We were lucky enough to get private surfing lessons. It was very difficult to get the hang of things, like paddling and getting past the first few waves (which was far from easy with the waves pummeling you down into the sand). But once we did, quite a few of us managed to catch a wave standing up. I, unfortunately, did not manage to do so, but nonetheless, I still had a wonderful time between riding the waves kneeling on my board, watching the others, and also seeing dolphins not farther than ten feet away!

Between all our exciting times at the beach, being Beach Camp, we didnʼt camp in cabins like the other Mt. Cross campers did. We slept in tents and also cooked our own food over a campfire. We also didnʼt join the others at campfire to sing with them. We had our own private campfires singing songs praising God and just talking, which were a lot more friendly and personal. Being so personal, we learned a lot about each other and felt a lot closer as a group.

At the end of the week, I had a horrible sunburn from lying on the beach, but I had a wonderful week that was full of new experiences that I wonʼt soon forget. I also learned a lot and Iʼm sure that Iʼll continue to learn because of my time at Mt. Cross.

Mt. Cross Adventure cont. – Chelsea Johnson

Backpack-School Supply Drive Barbara Irli – Social Concerns Committee

                     On  behalf  of  our  Social  Concerns  Committee  I  would  like  to  thank  all  members  and  friends  of  Our  Redeemer’s  that  so  generously  donated  to  our  Backpack-­‐School  Supply  Drive  this  year.    Walter  Cassidy,  Donna  Triggas  and  myself  shopped  at  Target  and  Staples  for  the  best  prices  we  had  seen.    Let  me  tell  you  that  Donna  Triggas  is  always  out  for  the  best  of  the  church.  While  Walter  and  I  waited  at  Target  she  asked  for  the  Manager  as  they  charged  us  $19.99  Instead  of  $12.99  on  one  backpack.    After  one  trip  by  the  Manager  and  a  second  trip  with  Donna  and  the  Manager  we  got  the  $12.99.    Atta  girl  Donna!!    The  following  day  Walter  and  I  delivered  37  backpacks  and  supplies  to  North  Peninsula  Neighborhood  Services  Center  where  we  were  greeted  with  open  arms.                                                                                                                            

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Thank you to everyone who attended the music forum. After Jeanette and I explained how the worship music is chosen – including that the ELCA manual Sundays and Seasons is useful in suggesting hymns and special music to fit with the liturgical season – we asked people to share what they like and would like to see changed concerning music at ORLC. The responses centered on two areas – the second of which led to an interesting discussion about what is central to us as Christians: Hymns and liturgy. People generally like hymns and liturgies once they know them – so it was decided that when there is new music on a particular Sunday, Jeanette will teach it prior to worship. If there are lots of new hymns planned or a new liturgy, a special teaching session could be scheduled, perhaps after worship. People also said they like hearing the choir, a mix of upbeat and quiet music, silence before worship (to prepare for worship), Spirituals, Taize and “jazzy” music during communion. Patriotic music. Some people said they want patriotic music in church on certain national holidays, and others said patriotic music is for civic events, not for church. These feelings can be generational and/or based on family traditions, political and religious views, military service or life experience. Sundays and Seasons does not make suggestions for patriotic songs on July 4th or other holidays. The ELCA does not encourage nor ban patriotic songs. Those present agreed: as Christians, our allegiance is to Christ above all. Worship is focused on God alone. The question was asked: If we had patriotic songs and an American flag in the church, and the words “In God We Trust” on our money, and then we woke up one day and all of that was gone, would the world be a more just place or a less just place? In other words, would hungry people be better served if certain songs and words or flags are present or not present in church? Would more homebound people be visited one way or the other? Those present agreed that how we live our lives as Christians is not dependent on these things being present or not being present. So another question was asked: How do we “let go”? How do we let go of our need to focus on “things of this world” rather than on “divine things”? We’re still working on that one.

A music forum & an unexpected discussion on the flag and justice – Pastor Lori

Saturday morning class by Pastor Lori: Feminine Images of God in the Bible Have you ever heard of The Nursing Madonna? Who is Sophia and what is her relationship to Jesus? Is calling God “Mother” as well as “Father” heresy? Explore these and other questions through:

Rediscovering Feminine Images of God in Scripture (and in the Judeo-Christian Tradition)

Saturday, Sept. 8 from 9 to noon Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church

Invite a friend! Sign up soon – we need a count so we’ll have enough snacks.

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August Community Lunch - Judie Oliver We had 39 guests at our August lunch and served fabulous boneless, skinless chicken thighs that Fran made. Her secret sauce included capers that give it that gourmet touch! Everyone loved it. Thanks to Diana and Audrey for making awesome peach cobbler and to Pastor Lori and Steve for providing the peaches from their trees. Jo’s sister Marie was visiting and we put her to work washing dishes (I hope she’ll come back again). Thank you all for your help and dedication. I really appreciate it and I know our guests do too. Before each lunch, I always say a prayer - one that everyone enjoys the meal and two that I’ll have some inspiration to write about. Both prayers were answered this month. One because Fran prepared the main course and two by a six year old little girl who wrote the following message on a prayer request card: Dear God, I’m so happy when I saw your face in the sky smiling, saying ‘hi’ to me. Your beard is so white, so is your hair. Also, thank you St. Nino and my guardian angel for playing with me in the park last week. I had fun playing with both of you on monkey bar, balance beam, slide and especially Hide and Seek and Who Am I game. I went back twice this week but you are not there. I wish you will be there the next time I go to the park. My mom said, thank you very much for all the blessings and graces you are giving us, God. Thank you, she said for guidance and helping us with our problem. She said, please forgive us with all our sin. Please continue to be merciful to us, to be generous and forgiveful. Mom said help us not to lose our house. Also help grandma and grandpa, my mom and me to be healthy all the time. Love … And that, my friends, makes all the work and preparation worthwhile. This note written by a little six year old, touched my heart and I hope it touches you too. The next luncheon is scheduled for Saturday, September 15, 2012. Set-up and food prep begins at 10:30 a.m., lunch is from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., with clean-up starting at 12:00. The menu will be Lasagna, Fresh Vegetables, Caesar Salad, Garlic Bread, Cheese Cake, Coffee/Tea or Lemonade. I would also like to remind everyone that if you are traveling please save the shampoo and soap from the hotel. Our supplies are dwindling so any extra toiletries (toothbrushes, shampoo, soap, etc) would be greatly appreciated. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. You can contact me via email at judieoliver@yahoo.com or phone 650-488-0704. Peace - Judie Oliver

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Our Redeemerʼs Lutheran Church 609 Southwood Drive So. San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: 650-583-5622 Worship: Sunday 10:30am Interim Pastor Lori Eickmann Music Director Jeanette Cool Council President Helen Greenstrand Vice President Bill Zemke Secretary Jeanette Cool Treasurer Patty Banegas Financial Secretary Claudia Quade

Birthdays For The Month

September 10 | Jesse Lynch 13 | Kathy Repp 18 | Donna Triggas 19 | Susie Jacobs 21 | Sally Lutz 26 | Jeanette Cool