Faith Lutheran Church -LCMS

Church Calendar

                            Sunday           9:00am Bible Class

                                     10:00am   Worship w/ H.C.

              Monday          6:00pm  Free Weekly Fit Club

                    Wednesday     8:30am  Strong For Life

                       Thursday        7:00pm  Brotherhood

                    Friday             8:30am  Strong For Life

                            Sunday            9:00am Bible Class

                                        10:00am Worship w/ H.C.

Time to think about Christmas and decorating the church.  Last year we had a wonderful committee of 3-4 people/couples who decorated the church for Christmas.  Looking for volunteers for this year’s committee.  If willing please see head Elder John Holtz.

Plan on celebrating the 50^th Anniversary of the Ordination of Bob Backhus on Sunday September the 1^st at 9:00am

The Shumway Community Service has been changes to September 22^nd.  Bible Class at Faith will be at 8:00am and worship at 9:00am that Sunday.  Pastor Rensner will be leading the Community Service in the Kluthe Building at 10:30am.

If you have a summer project around your house that needs done but you are unable to do it ….Let Chairman Meier know so the church family can help.

Since 2014 Faith has collected $1000.00 dollars for the Beecher City Schools through the plastic bag collection.  Keep them coming.  Thank you to Merilyn Foster for her faithfulness to this mission.

If you have any Biblical materials that you are not using please bring them to the church and we will see that they get to Love Packages.

On the Table in the Narthex are copies of the Council Minutes and Financial report as well as the July  Calendar.  Please take a copy if you are interested.

Sunday School Offering –Something new.  The total Sunday School offering collected during the entire month will go to the designated mission.  The mission for August is the Family Life Pregnancy Center.

Strong For Life exercise program meets Wednesdays at 8:30am, and Fridays 8:30am.  Please join us.

Blood Pressure – Every 2^nd Sunday of the month after church Deb Schultz will be available to take your blood pressure.  Have your blood pressure taken! 

Plastic Bag Collection – Bring your plastic “Walmart” type bags to church and they will be recycled for cash to help support the Beecher City Schools.   

Keep it coming – The Council voted that all the loose change placed in the offering plate each week will now go to the LWML Mites Projects. 

The Lutheran Hour is available on local radio at the following times:

WCRA     Effingham    100.5 FM    Sun     9:30AM

WCRA     Effingham    1090 AM     Sun    9:30 AM

WPMB    Effingham    104.7 FM    Sun    12:03 PM

Life Quote

August 18 “Marriage and family, sexuality and procreation reflect the grace of God in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:31). Therefore, sexuality sought outside of marriage or exercised exclusively to gratify self and flesh’s appetites cheaply imitates, poorly substitutes for, and only incompletely apprehends the fullness of God’s blessing for it. Celebrating and engaging in the blessings of chastity, modesty, and even celibacy best protect and prepare the heart patiently awaiting His vocation to marriage. And taking one’s place within the Christian fellowship, whether as spouse or single, leaves nothing lacking (Mark 10:29-30).” Rev. Michael W. Salemink, executive director of Lutherans For Life – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • www.lutheransforlife.org

Prayer List

   Sarah Brackney, Nick, and Lilly, Velma Kirchhofer,  Roumaine Dammermann, Our country, those being persecuted for their faith. 

Those serving in the military – Zane Brandt, Jackson Lagerhausen, Jackson Bales. Seth Lagerhausen,  Preston Ward, Kyle Durbin