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September 2016 September 2016 September 2016 …….

Thank you to the Pastors who will be preaching at First

Lutheran in the upcoming months:

Sunday, September 4

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, September 11

Pastor Denis Meyer

Sunday, September 18

Pastor Greg Tennermann

Sunday, September 25

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, October 2

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, October 9

Deacon Duane Keeler

Sunday, October 16

Pastor Paul Rees-Rohrbacher

Sunday, October 23

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, October 30

(Reformation Sunday)

Pastor Greg Tennermann

Sunday, November 6

(All Saints’ Sunday)

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, November 13

Pastor Dan Hahn

Sunday, November 20

(Christ the King)

Pastor John Medwid

Sunday, November 27

(Advent I)

Pastor Greg Tennermann

The The The First WordFirst WordFirst Word

of events marking the 500th anniversary (October

31, 1517) of Luther defiantly nailing a copy of his

95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle

church.

Finally, I humbly ask for your prayers and support, as

well as I pray for the guiding hand of the Holy Spirit, as I

serve as Acting Council President.

Timothy J. Eskeli

From the President’s Desk

As many may know, Cara Brousseau

resigned as Church Council President

effective August 1st

. In addition, effective

August 1st,

the Church Council appointed me

as Acting Church Council President. I want

to thank Cara for her service as Council

President and her leadership thru a difficult

time in the Congregation. I have been

amazed and impressed by Cara’s deep

affection for our Congregation.

In the coming months I look forward to:

· Working with the Congregation and the

Church Council as we go through the

process of calling a new Pastor and

charting the future course for First

Lutheran. I would note that later in this

newsletter is an article on the Church

Council’s efforts to secure a permanent

pastor. The article updates where we

are currently in the process, where the

process is headed and the expected time

frame for calling a new “term” pastor.

· Working with Pastor Tennermann in his

role as Interim Pastor. Since his coming

on board in May, Pastor Tennermann

has provided us with leadership during

the banner burning incident and has

provided sage guidance to the Church

Council and has conducted two adult

forums that I hope were meaningful and

helpful to the Congregation.

· The upcoming fall liturgical season

which has the makings of being very

busy, beginning with “Rally Sunday” and

“Gods Work/Our Hands” on September

11th

, continuing with our annual German

“Wurst Festival" in October and the start

Pr Tennermann is offering

another adult forum!

It will be held after worship on

Sunday, September 18th

, 11:15 a.m.

in the library. Refreshments will be

served.

This forum will last about 45 minutes and the topic will

be: developing better communication and trying to work

for future growth.

Please sign up on the sheet outside Pastor's office. We

look forward to seeing you there! We need you to

participate!

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Pastoral Vacancy Update

As previously discussed when a pastoral vacancy

occurs there are three options for providing for the

needs of a congregation until a permanent pastor is

called. The choices are:

· Ministry in Transition: A pastor (from another

church) and two lay people work together as the

congregation undergoes the call process.

· Intentional Pastor: A pastor is assigned to a

congregation for up to 18 months while the

congregation goes through a discernment and call

process.

· Term Call: A congregation goes through the call

process and a Pastor is call for an agreed to set

term—usually 2-3 years. Under the Term Call

process the congregation prepares a Ministry Site

Profile and establishes a call committee to interview

and recommend a prospective pastor. The call

committee’s recommendation would need both the

Church Council’s and Congregation’s approval.

Additionally after the term has ended, the Term

Pastor can be called for a permanent position.

With the resignation of Pastor Allie this spring, the

Church Council decided to pursue the Term Call option,

with the belief that this option was the fastest way to

move forward as a congregation. Additionally, in the

interim, the Council decided to appoint Pastor

Tennermann to serve a “Pastoral Leadership in

Transition” (PLT). The PLT provides pastoral coverage

until one of the options mentioned above is put into

place.

Over the summer the Church Council has been

working on preparing the Mission Site profile. Our

intention is to present a “draft” of the site profile to the

Congregation in the next couple of weeks, seek

Congregational input and hopefully publish it by the end

of September, beginning of October. At that point a call

committee will be established and a hopefully by

December/January a call can be issued.

I ask that the congregation continue to hold the

Church Council, Pastor Tennermann and each other in

our prayers as we proceed through this time of

transition.

Timothy J. Eskeli, President

Council Meeting Highlights July and August 2016

· Council accepted the resignation letter, with regret,

of Cara Brousseau as Council President. Tim Eskeli

will be President Pro-tem until the next

congregational meeting in December. He will assume

all duties of the president.

· Pastor Tennermann will hold 3 forums. July 24,

August 14 and September 18. These forums will

focus on First Lutheran’s future: “Learning to Walk

Together.”

· 2017 will be the 500th

Anniversary of the

Reformation. It was suggested that we celebrate this

in some way.

· Ministry Site Profile: Judy and Tim are working on

this with the input of council.

· The MSP will be handed out to the Congregation in

September for their ideas. Then once the MSP is

finished we hope to have this sent to Synod by the

end of September.

· Council will also form a Call committee of 6 members

in September, so they will be ready once Synod gives

us a candidate’s name. The committee will hopefully

be comprised of members from all voting age groups

in the congregation.

· Tim is meeting with the Damien Center once a

month so we can be aware of what is going in the

building being we have no Pastor in the building on a

regular basis.

· Locks in the building had to be changed due to keys

being stolen. So doors will not open with old keys.

· Congregational Life: Kim is planning activities for

members to get to know each other and First’s

history at the monthly dinners. October 23rd

is the

October Fest, November 20th

theme is Faith in Our

Church and December 18th

is the Christmas Dinner.

· Treasurer’s Report: The budget is status quo. We

have needed to sell more stocks to help cash flow.

Due to not having a pastor we are somewhat under

budget with our expenses.

· September 11th

is the opening of Sunday School. It is

also “God’s Work Our Hands” Sunday. We will honor

our first responders at the firehouse on Western and

Washington Ave with cards and lunches.

Sandy O’Connor, Council Secretary

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Roberta Rowland-Raybold, Director of Music

My mother often quoted Galatians 6:9: “And let us

not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall

reap, if we faint not.” She had more serious

responsibilities than anyone I have ever known, but she

was faithful and never fainted at the tasks at hand. She

was a wonderful example to me. Sometimes we

become weary, but I hope that the summer has given

you time to relax a bit and look forward to a new season

at First Lutheran Church.

During summer worship we have enjoyed some

guest musicians, talented folks from our own

congregation, and our summer pick-up choir. We will

enjoy the summer choir once more on September 11th

,

so if you have enjoyed our easy anthems, join us on that

Sunday at 9:15 to learn a quick, easy, fun anthem. My

thanks to each of you who helped make our summer

music program so inspirational.

Chancel Choir will begin fall rehearsals on Thursday,

September 8, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library. We will

welcome new members who would like to try us out

this year. Watch for announcement in the October

newsletter for a special Saturday morning Choir Retreat

at which we will begin preparation for Advent and

Christmas music. Childrens’ Intergenerational Choir

will resume this fall and will be preparing music for

special occasions in the church year. This has been a

new and great blessing to our congregation.

We have two special groups that will be starting in

October, Choir Chimes (The Chancel Ringers) and XYZ

Choir (Xtra Years of Zest). Be on the lookout for

information on both of these new groups.

If you are looking for an autumn day that will be

really special, mark Saturday, September 10 on your

calendars. This is the 6th

Annual Stockade Art Show in

the historic Stockade District. St. George’s Episcopal

Church opens the doors of its historic old church and

presents half-hour organ recitals from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

I have been invited to be one of the presenters and have

decided on a “jazzy repertoire!” So, spend the day

viewing beautiful, creative works of art along the streets

of the Stockade, and stop in at St. George’s for a relaxing

few minutes of music.

Sunday, September 25 at 4:00 will be the final

seasonal concert at the Old Palatine Church in St.

Johnsville, NY. This early fall program is a variety show,

with young people and adults from the Mohawk Valley

who have great talent to share. If you have wanted to

visit the historic site, this would be a lovely Sunday

afternoon drive.

In music . . . . .Peace, Roberta

FLC Community Dinners The September Community Dinner will be held on Monday, September 26

th, at 6:00, in Wittenberg Hall. After a successful

summer of picnics, it is time to move indoors. We have averaged about 90 people in the summer and 89 for the year. A few

people from the dinners have attended our church regularly this year. The Damien Center staff and volunteers have assisted us

with many of these dinners and some of their clients have become regular attendees. At the end of each dinner, neighbors and

members are invited to take free food home that we have purchased or received from the Regional Food Bank, as well as

clothing provided by the Damien Center thrift shop. We would like to have more FLC members involved with distributing flyers

to our neighbors, sorting clothing, set-up, serving and clean-up, as well as visiting with our neighbors during the dinners. YOU

ARE ALL INVITED TO ATTEND THIS FREE EVENT.

It takes many people to make dinners like this a success, and they all deserve our thanks.

· Liz Peters is fantastic at food ordering and purchasing. She and Chuck have made countless trips to the Regional Food

Bank, supplemented by shopping at several of our local supermarkets.

· Alex Nagy is available for dinners, helping us at every turn with all of the practical aspects of running a dinner. Some of

our guests have helped him break down the tables after the dinners.

· Lisa Rittberger, Sandy O’Connor, Clara DeMarco, Liz Peters and Janice Logan organized and prepared the summer

dinners.

· Colin McKnight, Pastor Greg Tennermann, Carol and Ed Engelhardt, Kim Paonessa, Sue Harper, Chuck Peters, Barbara

McGuinness, Sara Carlson, Daniel Washington, Wayne Senitta, John Lasher, Trevor Cody, Raoull DePass, Claire Brockley,

Andre Akins, Kevin Taft, Ariayna Taliafero, Megan Bouyea and family have all assisted with various aspects of making

the dinners enjoyable for everyone. (If I missed anyone’s name, please let me know.)

We thank you, one and all!

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Luther Movie & Pot-Luck

Dinner Pastor Dave Preisinger pastor of Holy

Spirit Lutheran said that during this

program year they will hold monthly

events on various topics, Immigration,

racism, Luther (500th

Anniversary).

Pastor Dave and the members of Holy

Spirit are inviting members of the other Cluster churches to

participate in these special events.

The first of these is a Potluck dinner/Movie night on

October 5th. We will begin with a meal (potluck) at 6 PM.

Following dinner we will watch the movie together. This is

the story of Martin Luther and the Protestant reformation

which started October 31, 1517, five hundred years ago next

year.

If you would like to come to this dinner/movie event,

please sign up on the bulletin board across from the pastor’s

office. You may also call the church office to sign up.

Homeless Action Center Sandwiches

Throughout the year, twice a month, we have been

providing the Homeless Action Center (HAC) with 50

sandwiches, which are distributed to homeless people

throughout the city by the HAC van. The staff and clients of

HAC are very grateful for the sandwiches that our church

provides.

Over the summer, individuals signed up to make these

sandwiches. Thank you for your participation in this

important outreach program: Sara and Judy Carlson, Carol

and Ed Engelhardt, Judy and Joan Greenwood, Barbara

McGuinness, June and Cliff Danielson, Barbara Mojeca

(twice) and Janice Logan. Many thanks also to Liz Peters for

purchasing some of the supplies.

Once again, we need volunteers to make sandwiches in

the fall. Please sign up on the sheet on the bulletin board

across from the pastor’s office. We are thankful for your

dedication to feeding the homeless.

God’s Work – Our Hands 2016

This year's God's Work - Our Hands project will take

place on Sunday, September 11th. The ELCA has suggested

that, since the day falls on September 11th

, we might do

something to demonstrate our gratitude toward our first

responders. We will benefit our local fire station, by

providing lunch for them (and their colleagues who are on

subsequent shifts) and the children will make them cards,

thanking them for their service. This can involve everyone,

including our Sunday School children. The fire company said

they could give a tour of the station, if they aren’t on a call at

the time. If you have any questions, please contact Janice

Logan at 437-1121 or jlogan6@nycap.rr.com. There is a sign-

up sheet to bring food on the bulletin board across from the

Pastor’s office. Join us for an hour or two of fellowship,

work and fun, utilizing our hands to accomplish God's work

in our community.

Albany CROP Walk 2016

The final report of the 2016 Albany CROP Walk brings

good news! The total raised was $85,843.75 this year,

pushing the cumulative total since 1981 to over two million

dollars. First Lutheran provided 22 walkers and contributed

$1,045 toward the total. 25% of the money raised returns to

our local food pantries and soup kitchens, while the rest is

used for hunger relief and development projects around the

world. Thank you to all who walked and contributed to this

vital program!

Kids Free Summer Lunch Program

This summer, the Capital Area Council of Churches

offered free lunches to children in Albany from June 28th

through August 11th. Two vans delivered lunches on the

streets of Arbor Hill and the South End. The vans delivered

up to 200 meals per day. First Lutheran Church was a

permanent site where neighborhood children and teens

could also come for a lunch. We served 3-11 lunches each

day. All lunches were made by the Senior Services program.

At the heart of the FLC portion of this program were the

volunteers who distributed the lunches from 11:30 to 12:30

by the picnic tables. Without them, this endeavor couldn't

have happened. We want to thank each and every one of

them. The volunteers are listed below by their home

churches:

• First Lutheran Church

Sue Harper, Janice Logan, Sandy O'Connor,

Dee Morton and Nancy Wilson. Also Alex

Nagy and Kevin Taft for setting up for the

lunches.

• First United Universalist Society of Albany -

Astrid Petterson

• Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit

Pastor Dave Preisinger

• St. John Lutheran Church

Heta, Ralf and Sade Miller, Karen Lapierre,

Paula Schwab, Jerry Schwab

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John Macholz was elected as Bishop of Upstate New York

Synod in June 2014. He previously served congregations in

Rochester, NY and Troy, NY. John earned a Bachelor of Arts

from Concordia College in Bronxville and a Master of

Divinity from Christ Seminary-Seminex in St. Louis.

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will be received!will be received!will be received!

Drivers Needed!

Our transportation team is in search

of more drivers to pick up and drop

off members of FLC that can’t get to

church any other way.

Depending on the number of volunteers we have will

determine the commitment that will be required. If we

have a total of eight drivers, each person on the team

would only drive six times a year! Since we do not have

a van anymore, you will be using your own vehicle to

transport.

Please speak to Julie in the church office about your

interest in this vital ministry at First Lutheran.

Congratulations to Lisa (Peters) &

Sean Bohley on the birth of their first

son Evan Charles Bohley on 9/8/16,

weighing 7lbs 9ozs and 21 inches

long.

Evan’s grandparents are Liz and Chuck Peters and his

auntie and uncle are Melissa (Peters) and Joe Mosseau

9/11/2016

Gods Work Our

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Serving in September Serving in September Serving in September Please let Julie know of any schedule changes that you make between yourselves so that the Sunday bulletin will be as accurate

as possible. Many thanks.

Date of

Worship

Assisting

Ministers Lectors

Communion

Assistants Ushers Counters Altar Guild

Fellowship

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Michael Casler Cliff

Danielson

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Judy Greenwood

Liz Peters

Paul Hyde

Megan

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Karen Moore

Joyce Aiello

Joe Markowski

Bob & Jan

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Michael Casler

Paul Hyde

Sydney Mack

Ingrid Erling-

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Tim Eskeli

Joe Markowski

Sue Harper

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Barbara

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Paul Hyde

Abby Brousseau

Ed & Carol

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Janice Logan

Colin McKnight

Clara DeMarco

Judy Carlson

Kim Paonessa Paul Hyde

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Judy

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Paul Hyde

Amelia Erling-

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Joe Markowski

Karen Moore

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Tim Eskeli

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The Memorial Flowers in September are given to the Glory of God and ...The Memorial Flowers in September are given to the Glory of God and ...The Memorial Flowers in September are given to the Glory of God and ... September 4 In loving memory of Herbert Harseim, Jr., by the family; and in celebration of my Mom, Mona McKittrick,

the first person I ever loved by Jeannie Polonski.

September 11 In loving memory of her husband Albert and loved ones by Marcia Hoyt and children; and in loving memory

of Lucille Gavryck “always in our hearts” by her daughter Karen and Andrew Amerling

September 18 In loving memory of George C. and Dorothy Mills by the family; and in memory of her father Francis Logan

and loved ones by Sandy and Neil O'Connor

September 25 In loving memory of Cecil B. and Helen S. Stowell by William Stowell and Carolyn Stowell Harden and family;

and in loving memory of her father, Ronald Moras and their grandparents Mrs. Clara Loomis and Chester

Siskowski, by Jean and Tim Eskeli.

Any new requests, questions or changes call Liz Peters, 869-0387 or email: mommy5853@aol.com

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