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Redeemer Happenings
                 June 2019

    A Tale of Three Churches
  Redeemer          Three Lutheran Churches in
                Saskatoon will celebrate significant
                anniversaries this year - Redeemer
                  celebrates 60 years, Augustana
                   celebrates 90 years and Zion
                       celebrates 100 years.
                Full details of the events are available on
                the church websites:
                redeemersaskatoon.ca
                augustanasaskatoon.net
    Zion        zionsaskatoon.com
                Here is a brief summary of the Sunday
                services:
                Redeemer - Sunday, June 16, 2019,
                10:00am A Celebration Service will be
                held with shared memories of the past
                60 years. Cake and fellowship to follow.
                Augustana - Sunday, June 23, 2019,
  Augustana
                10:30am A Celebration Service will be
                held. Guest Preacher will be Bishop Sid
                Haugen. The service will use the Hosanna
                Jazz Liturgy.
                Zion - Sunday, June 30, 2019, 10:00am
                Festival worship followed by a light lunch
                and birthday cake.
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Older but Wiser
                         LutheranS
                   June Lunch
                   Thursday,
                   June 13 -12 noon
About 25 years ago, Loraine Schultz’s daughter
Marla invited Bill and Loraine to visit Nepal       Join us on Sunday, June 2nd at 3:00pm as
while she was there. They went with some anxi-      we welcome the LCBI choir in concert
ety as it was not their custom to travel in third
world countries. However, they went and came        featuring our own Elsa Graupe. Refresh-
away with an appreciation of life in Nepal and a    ments and fellowship will follow the con-
special appreciation of how privileged we are to
live in a free country like Canada.                 cert.
The entire family returned 10 years ago and
Marla, her husband JP and 2 young girls have
just come back after spending the month of
March in the villages. Loraine and Marla will
share their experiences in being connected to       Worship Teams
the people in Naudanda, Nepal.

Come out to our final OWLS Luncheon before          June                Team Galatians
we break for the summer. We will be BBQing          July                Team Ephesians
and there is no charge! Please phone the            August              Team Philippians
church office to RSVP by Tuesday, June 11.
                                                    September           Team Romans
                                                    October             Team Corinthians
                                                    November            Team Galatians

                          Council Corner
                          As part of a commitment we made a year ago we plan on continuing to
                          provide updates to the congregation in a variety of ways throughout
                          2019. One of those ways is to continue to make available the Leader-
                          ship team minutes once they are approved. To help with knowing who
to ask questions, in this newsletter and placed in the place of welcome, we are also including a
point of contacts list which includes the responsible leadership team members, staff members
and some of our volunteer points of contact. Although we may list one or two points of con-
tact there are numerous very active volunteers that make sure everything comes together at
Redeemer. Please accept any errors and omissions as just that and do let us know if we missed
anything you feel is important. Within the next month we will be trying to find time to hold an
information session focused on an update on where we are with progress against our vision
including an update on how things have progressed with our sister Lutheran ELCIC churches in
Saskatoon.
Our next key congregational activity is the 60th Anniversary of Redeemer. Special thanks to or-
ganizers, Ed Miller, Arlene Schmalz, Margaret Lissel and Ed & Gwen Herman. I am sure this
event will be a fitting celebration of the great community we have at Redeemer. Something
you hopefully don’t notice is that we are upgrading some of our computer hardware and soft-
ware. Special thanks to Tim Akre who has kept all of our equipment running for years and to
Rod Carter who has been lending his talents to the upgrades over the past couple of months.
Brett Wilson on behalf of your Leadership Team
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Points of Contact
                                                                                              Vision / Capability Priority
                                                                                          Key Tasks - Leadership Volunteers

   Vision;
  Capability              Subset                                 Key Tasks that support                              Leadership Liaison   Point of Contact
   Priority
   Worship     Service Planning        Worship Teams – Ushers, Greeters, Readers, Communion Assistants
                                                                                                                                              Ed Miller
               Service Planning        PowerPoint                                                                                          Wendy Erickson
               Service Planning
                                       Communion                                                                                           Joel Nostbakken
               Service Planning        Sound                                                                          Joel Nostbakken;        Tim Akre
               Service Planning                                                                                        Bryce MacEwan
                                       Coordinate Sunday bulletin preparation and communicate the service,
                                                                                                                                                Becky
                                       bulletin, announcements and readings to staff and volunteers
               Service Planning        Encourage youth, lay people in services
               Service Planning        Service style: Music selection and delivery covered by Pastor; Admin                                    Pastor
                                       Assistant to make the contacts
  Christian    Children                Sunday School as part of Worship Service
                                                                                                                      Rhonda Bhouris;
  Education                                                                                                                                  Deb Voigts;
                                                                                                                    Charlene Neumeyer;
                                                                                                                                           coordination of
                                                                                                                       Lisa Sparrow-
                                                                                                                                             Volunteers
                                                                                                                       Moellenbeck
               Youth                   CLAY                                                                            Lavina Carter        Marlo Wilson
               Adult                   Bible study
                                                                                                                      Rhonda Bhouris;
                                                                                                                    Charlene Neumeyer;
                                                                                                                                              Ed Miller
                                                                                                                       Lisa Sparrow-
                                                                                                                       Moellenbeck
               Confirmation (Shared    City-wide
                                                                                                                           Pastor         Parent as required
               Service)
Community life Congregational groups   RLC Circles; Men's Breakfast, FELLOWSHIP ACTIVITIES, etc (see version 1
                                                                                                                       Lavina Carter           various
                                       of Community Life Playbook at RLC)
               Garage Sale             Annual event
                                                                                                                    Charlene Neumeyer            n/a
               60th Anniversary        2019 key activity                                                                                   Ed Miller; Gwen
                                                                                                                      Arlene Schmaltz     Herman; Margaret
                                                                                                                                               Lissel
               Fall Supper             Annual event                                                                           TBD
               Potluck Meals           Continue to provide monthly meals                                                                    Deb Voigts;
                                                                                                                              n/a
                                                                                                                                             volunteers
               Visitation              Continue to provide visitations by pastor and volunteers                                            Becky Wilson;
                                                                                                                           Pastor
                                                                                                                                           Bernie Karstad
               Mission                 Continue to provide special mission projects (e.g. Food bank, refugees,             Pastor;
                                                                                                                                          Staff; Volunteers
                                       CLWR)                                                                          Joel Nostbakken
               Vacation Bible School   • Timeline: Planning starts January-February, along with the pastor(s), in
                                       areas of curriculum/resource selection and calendaring.
                                       • Planning and recruiting team members also inclusive of preparations of                           Marlo Wilson and
                                       resources and providing training/equipping for each team member prior           Lavina Carter       Lavina Carter
                                       to VBS.                                                                                             coordinators

               Connectivity with       various actions based on databased information
                                                                                                                       Brett Wilson;
               Families                                                                                                                     Becky Wilson
                                                                                                                    Bruce Grahn; Pastor

               Collaboration           Actively pursue combining with other Lutheran churches; Open the              Pastor Trent; Brett Pastor Trent; Brett
                                       church facility for more community use during the week                       Wilson; Paul Deason;    Wilson; Paul
                                                                                                                        Bruce Grahn      Deason; Gretchen
                                                                                                                                           Roesler; Bruce
                                                                                                                                               Grahn

   Lutheran    Janitorial              Cleans the church                                                              Ron Litzenberger       Deb Voigts
 Churches in
  Saskatoon
 Operations    Rental Property         Manages rental property                                                        Joel Nostbakken        Deb Voigts
               Repairs; Maintenance    Church Maintenance                                                             Joel Nostbakken      Deb Voigts; Tim
                                                                                                                                                Akre
               IT Support              Infrastructure                                                                   Brett Wilson         Deb Voigts
               Staff                   See Job descriptions (Bookkeeper, Administrative Assistant, Facilities &      Brett Wilson; Ron          n/a
                                       Volunteer Coordinator)                                                       Litzenberger; Bruce
                                                                                                                           Grahn
               Information Sessions    3-4 times per year provide information on various activities in the church       Brett Wilson;   Council members;
                                                                                                                        Bruce Grahn        volunteers

               Policy                  Update, create policies as needed                                               Zane Hansen;
                                                                                                                     Ron Litzenberger;
                                                                                                                       Lisa Sparrow-
                                                                                                                       Moellenbeck
               Stewardship             Committee see terms of reference                                              Ron Litzenberger        Ed Miller
               Committees              Nominations Committee                                                           Brett Wilson;       Wendy Hansen
                                                                                                                       Bruce Grahn

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Registration for Redeemer VBS 2019 is open but filling fast!

                           This year Redeemer’s VBS will go To Mars and Beyond on July 15 -
                           July 19, 2019, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

                           Registration Forms are available at
                           www.redeemersaskatoon.ca. Feel free to share it with family and
                           friends. If you have any questions, contact us at
                           redeemervbs@sasktel.net or 306-374-7585.

Ways for YOU to help make our VBS successful!

   1. Donate Items      There is a list of wanted items on the board in the Place of Welcome
      which will be updated regularly.

Things that will be used as décor      Things that will be used with no hopes of being
and returned to you (label with your   returned
name)
Rope lights (any colour)               2 L pop bottles or milk jugs (rinsed)
Small lights (fairy lights)            Small, clear plastic bottles with lids (water bottles)
Black tarps/sheets                     Metal rings and tops from canning jars
*Any space themed items*               Metal lids from frozen juice concentrate
                                       250-500 ml clear glass jars
                                       Shop vac – broken/unusable
                                       Aluminum tape
                                       Flexible dryer vent hose

   2. Volunteer For the week of VBS or a few days of it
                For preparations leading up to VBS
                For the community evening on Thursday July 18th

Please see Lavina Carter or Marlo Wilson or leave a message at the church office if you are
able to assist in any way!

Next VBS Prep Days: Thursday June 6th at 9:30am , Tues. June 11th at 6:30pm,

The excitement is starting to soar for To Mars & Beyond VBS where we will Explore Where
God’s Power Can Take You!

Lavina and Marlo
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Women’s Ministry
                                       Women’s Ministry News – June 2019
                           Our mission is to encourage growth and development of women through
                            faithful service in Christ, regular study of scripture and faith in action.

The Women’s Ministry prayer chain is a prayer support for the members of our congregation. Any pray-
er requests can be forwarded to Pastor Trent or the office, and they are forwarded to the women of the
prayer chain. Previously, the prayer chain has always been contacted by phone, but we have now ex-
panded that to include the option to be contacted by email as well. If you would like to join the prayer
chain, let Becky at the office know, and she can add you as a prayer chain contact.

Thank you to those who have supported the Women’s Ministry “No Bake Sale.” If you haven’t already,
please consider donating. The money collected will support several worthwhile causes within and out-
side our church.

Upcoming Events:
1. Gather Magazine Renewals Due June 2nd
2. Let-Us-Eat Salad Supper Women’s Nite Out– Tuesday, June 4th at 6:00 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge -
   Bring your favourite salad to share (Hannah Circle hosting/ Ruth Circle Clean-up)
3. CLWR Packing Day – June 18th at 2pm (All the Beautiful Quilts and We Care Bags containing various
   kits will be sent on their way to new homes!)
Bible Study for the month of June (from Gather June 2019 magazine p.22): For Just Such a Time as This:
Ester the Queen: Voices in the King’s Court.
All women are welcome to come to any of our monthly Bible Studies. For more information, please call
Becky at the church office.
Summer Bible Studies:
Augustana Lutheran Church at 1201 Broadway Avenue will be hosting the July Bible Study on Monday,
July 15th at 7:00 p.m. Pastor Marilyn Fowlie-Neufeld is the guest speaker.
Redeemer will be hosting the August Bible Study on Tuesday, August 20 th at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor
Heather Anderson leading us.
Hope you can take in both events and join us for some fellowship and refreshments with women from
other congregations this summer. It is always great to see old friends and to make some new ones too!
Hannah Circle                Thursday, June 6, 2:00 pm @ Jeannine Smith’s, 202 1st St. E.
Rebekah Circle               Tuesday, June 18, 2:00 pm @ the church
Ruth Circle                  Thursday, June 20, 7:00 pm @ Lavina Carter’s
Mary Magdalene Circle        Tuesday, June 25, 2:00 pm in the Fireside Lounge

                                              Saturday, June 15
                                              8:00am Grainfield’s Restaurant in
                                              Grosvenor Park Mall
                                              All men are welcome!
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STEWARDSHIP IS ...
…A FAITH ISSUE
"Stewardship, including financial stewardship, is essentially a faith issue… God calls us stewards as his
beloved children, and promises his love and acceptance of us forever. Having incorporated us into his fam-
ily, then God invites us to work in the world to foster God's purposes. Part of that call is to acknowledge in
our hearts and lives that our very being and everything we have belongs to God, and we are caretakers
using ourselves for his Kingdom."
Dr. William O. Avery, "Y2K, A Report Card on Stewardship", Faith in Action, (Winter 1999), p. 13

…BETWEEN GOD AND US
"Stewardship is a relational issue between God and us. We may have a good relationship (like Zacchaeus in Luke 19) or we may
have a bad relationship (like the rich ruler in Luke 18). Our stewardship is how we live in that relationship between God and us. More-
over, God invites us to consider money and possessions in the same way we are to consider everything else: as belonging to God
who has entrusted them into our hands. The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much
of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.
Dr. William O. Avery, "Y2K, A Report Card on Stewardship", Faith in Action, (Winter 1999), p. 13

…LIVING IN COVENANT
"The Christian who sees his or her primary identity as a steward living in covenant with the living God will not have to struggle too
much with stewardship as an abstract concept. When we realize that to be a steward is far more than to wonder about how much
money to give to the church, that is the beginning of our journey as stewards. "
Ronald E. Vallet, The Steward Living in Covenant (Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2001), p. 1

…GOOD NEWS
"How we use and manage God's gifts affects far more than our economic life. We are stewards in our use of God's creation, in our
personal relationships, in our political and ecclesial institutions, in our work, and in our use of time. Indeed, we are stewards of the
gospel itself—the good news entrusted to all of us in the church."
Bruce C. Birch, in his Foreword to The Steward Living in Covenant by Ronald E. Vallet, p. xii

…A JOYFUL ACCEPTANCE
"Our religion is not a struggle to develop our own spiritual resources in order to rise to his (God's) level. It is a joyful acceptance of the
divine resources to which we have access because he has descended to our level… The keynote of this Christ centered theology is
grace… We do not have to bargain with God: if I do this for you, will you do this for me? We do not have to buy his favour. It is he who
has already bought us with a price… He has already given us the status of sons."
T. A. Kantonen, A Theology for Christian Stewardship (Philadelphia, Muhlenberg Press, 1956), p8 - 9

…A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
"God invites us to develop into stewards. As stewards we accept the mantle of leadership and do so in every aspect of life. One of the
main problems in today's church is that too many laity are content to remain as children of God and disciples rather than assume the
responsibility of stewardship leadership. You become a steward when you recognize that you are responsible for some thing you do
not own and you act on that recognition…
What the Christian Church needs today is for laity to take their proper place as stewards throughout their lives. Our society needs laity
to accept the challenge of living as leaders—taking active responsibility in their lives as co-workers with God in God's plan for this
world."
William O Avery, A History of Stewardship (Chicago, Lutheran Laity Movement for Stewardship 1995), pp. 34 - 35

…A REASON TO REJOICE
"…loving God, loving people, reaching out."
Herb Miller in his foreword to Eugene Grimm's Generous People (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1992) p 7

"We believe, teach and confess that everything we have is a gift from God entrusted to our nurture and care and that the
Christian life is a life of stewardship."
"We, as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, will celebrate and rejoice in the gifts which God has given us to carry
out our mission in the world today. Where we see need we will take action. We will use our gifts deliberately to be the people
of God for others."
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Sunday                   Monday          Tuesday              Wednesday                   Thursday                   Friday              Saturday
                                                                                                                                           1
                                                                                                                                           1:30 pm AA [Hall]

2                          3              4                        5                     6                             7                   8
10:00 am Worship                          9:00 am Quilters         9:30 am Tai Chi       9:00 am Quilters              8:00 pm AA [Hall]   1:30 pm AA [Hall]
3:00 pm LCBI Choir                        5:30 pm Leadership Team 6:15 pm Weight         9:30 am VBS Prep
        Concert                                   meeting                  Watchers      2:00 pm Hannah Circle
                                          6:00 pm Let-Us Eat Salad                       7:00 pm Stephen Ministry Peer
                                                  Supper                                         Supervision
                                                                                         7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]

9                           10            11                       12                    13                            14                  15
10:00 am Worship                          6:30 pm VBS Prep         9:30 am Tai Chi       12:00 pm Senior Lunch         8:00 pm AA [Hall]   8:00 am Men's Prayer
1:00 pm KInasao SIT                                                6:15 pm Weight        7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]                                    Breakfast
        training / Fireside                                                Watchers                                                        1:30 pm AA [Hall]
        Rm & Hall

16                         17             18                       19                    20                            21                  22
10:00 am RLC 60th                         9:00 am Quilters         9:30 am Tai Chi       7:00 pm Ruth Circle @ Lavina 8:00 pm AA [Hall]    1:30 pm AA [Hall]
        Anniversary                       2:00 pm Rebekah Circle   1:00 pm ICHM Lunch            Carter's
        Worship &                                                          Fireside Rm   7:00 pm Stephen Ministry Peer
        Celebration                                                6:15 pm Weight                Supervision
                                                                           Watchers      7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]

23                         24             25                     26                      27                            28                  29
10:00 am Worship                          2:00 pm Mary Magdalene 9:30 am Tai Chi         7:30 pm Al Anon [Hall]        8:00 pm AA [Hall]   1:30 pm AA [Hall]
                                                  Circle         6:15 pm Weight
                                                                         Watchers

30
10:00 am Worship
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Redeemer Lutheran Church                  Redeemer Lutheran Church Offers:

812 Preston Avenue                        •   A dynamic, multi-generational worship opportunity at
Saskatoon SK                                  10:00am on Sundays.
S7H 2V2                                   •   A vibrant and diverse community of believers who want to
Phone: 306-374-7585                           welcome you
E-mail: redeemer.luth.stoon@sasktel.net
                                          •   Confirmation
                                          •   Women’s Ministry – fostering friendship and Bible Study
    We’re on the web!                     •   Senior Lunches monthly September - June
  redeemersaskatoon.ca                    •   An exciting and community-wide Vacation Bible School
                                          •   Ongoing support and spiritual care for people in need
   A Community of                         •   Exciting ways to put faith in motion through missionary and
     Life & Love,                             charitable activities
                                          •   Many opportunities for fun and fellowship
   Hope & Healing

                                                  Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you
                                                  want to be important, wonderful. If you want to
                                                  be recognized, wonderful. If you want to be
                                                  great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is
                                                  greatest among you shall be your servant.
                                                  That’s your new definition of greatness. And this
                                                  morning, the thing that I like about it, by giving
        that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Because
        everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You
        don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have
        to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s
        theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of ther-
        modynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.
        A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
        Martin Luther King Jr.
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