Table of Contents

Pastors Messages /Baptisms . . . . . . .. . Page 2-3 Confirmation/ ROL. . . . …... . . . . . . . . Page 4-5 Youth Group/Attendance………... . . . . . . Page 6-7 July Memorials/JOY Club. . . . . . . . . . . Page 8-9 Picture Directory/Fall Worship /Movie ...…..… .. . Page 10-11 Jamboree/Bread Bakers Needed... . . . . . . . Page 12-13 Thank-You’s/Electronic Giving . . . . …... .. Page 14-15 Council Minutes/ Neighbors Helping Neighbors Page 16-17 IHN/Staff…………………... . . . . . Page 18-19

Christ Lutheran Church

Making Christ Known

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A Message from Pastor Steve Rally Sunday begins September 10. River of Life Sunday School plans on working its way through the Bible in a school year. This fall in Sun-day worship services we will start with Genesis and make it through Old Testament highlights before Christmas. There will be a few Sun-days outside the rotation like Rally Sunday, Reformation Sunday, All Saints, and Generosity Sunday (Stewardship). If you have longed to better understand themes in the Old Testament and the connections to the New Testament we will be reviewing almost two millennia of the history of God and His people by Christmas. Highlights will include: creation, fall, judgement, Abraham, exodus, law, Israel, prophets, and the promise of the coming Messiah.

Also this fall, we will commemorate 500 years since the Reformation. A devotion book with excerpts from Martin Luther called “Day by Day We Magnify Thee” will be available to order in the church office. There is a copy available on the table outside the office.

In a recent Living Lutheran, a survey was asked of ELCA members. More than half believed they had to do something in addition to believ-ing in order to be saved. Luther would not be happy. The theme of jus-tification by faith, not works was central to his understanding of the gospel.

I remember the first time I began to understand justification by faith. I was at an interdenominational Bible School with a Baptist teacher us-ing a book written by an Anglican who was explaining Luther’s under-standing of justification by faith in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ro-mans. It flipped my understanding of how to know that being made right with God has everything to do with trusting in his promises. It was freeing to know that I couldn’t work out my own salvation, only Jesus could do that.

Understanding that the Christian faith is a rescue religion where God does the saving, freed me up to serve. Instead of being driven by a sense of obligation to do the right thing, I was set free to love and serve out of gratefulness for what Jesus did for me. Free to love, free to live, free to serve God by serving others out of a sense of gratitude for God’s love for me set my life on an interesting journey.

My hope for you is that you grow in your faith in Christ. The world doesn’t need more religious people; it needs followers of Jesus to share the life and love they have found in Him.

Pastor Steve

PS. By now you have likely heard that while Pastor Nirmala was visit-ing her father in India as he was receiving cancer treatments, her father died. Please continue to remember the family of Pastor Apollos Peter in your prayers.

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August 6th Theodora Frances Oline Allen Parents: Marni Meta & Mitchell David Allen Sponsors: Megan Pyfferoen-Cooper, Clifton Connelly Grandparents: Ted & Martha Gehrking and Cris & Roxanne Powers

August 9th Sienna Grace Nehring Parents: Elizabeth & Timothy Nehring Sponsors: Mark & Karen Nehring, Kelly Yolch, Andy Jolivette & Kate Schreiber Grandparents: Irv & Nancy Nehring and Scott & Kristin Schreiber

August 20th Spencer Winfred Garnatz, Parents: Travis & Jen Garnatz. Sponsors: Mel & Chris Erdal and Keri & Andrew Turner.

Baptized into the family of Christ Luther-an Church

Old Testament Overview Sept 10 Mission statement/ teaching at home 17 Creation 24 Fall/flood/Babylon Oct 1 Abraham & Sarah 8 Isaac, Jacob, Israel 15 Exodus 22 Law 29 Reformation 500 Nov 5 All Saints 12 Prophets 19 Stewardship 26 Exile & Return Dec 3 John the Baptist 10 Mary and the Magnificat 17 ROL Christmas Program 10:00 24 Christmas Eve

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New Testament For All Ages

Wednesday evening at 7pm, everyone is invited to sit in on a 35 minutes lecture by Pastor Steve on the New Testament, geared for confirmation class. These talks will start on Wed, Sept 13th.

Sept. 13…….OT Highlights Intro to New Testament Sept. 20…... Birth of Jesus Sept. 27…... Wilderness Temptations Oct.. 4…….. Jesus Calls the First Disciples

Confirmation

Confirmation classes for 2017-2018 begin in September. Welcome to all incoming 1st year students and welcome back to all 2nd year students. We are looking forward to a great year of growing together in faith. This year we are studying the New Testament.

Wednesday, Aug 30, 7:00pm – Mentor meeting Wednesday, Sept 6, 7:00pm – Student/parent orientation Wednesday, Sept 13, 7:00pm – 1st regular class Saturday, Sept 16 – MANDATORY retreat for BOTH 1st and 2nd year students

We are looking for mentors for the 1st year class. Consider being a guide for our youth as they draw closer to God. Es-tablish relationships that last a lifetime and grow in your

Confirmation Retreat Eagle Bluff

All 1st and 2nd year confirmation stu-dents are required to attend this event. Mark the date on your calen-dar, September 16th, for this fabu-lous adventure! We will meet at the church at 7:30am and leave from there. Please submit a registration

form, found on the kiosk, and submit to the office along with payment of $30 for 1st year students and $40 for 2nd year students. Financial assistance available. Inquire at the church office.

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River of Life News

This year we will be going through the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation to experience a relationship with God through the eyes of ordinary Bible peo-ple. Please let Francine Kovash know if you are interested in volunteering in the classrooms! Call Francine at (507) 951-2234 or email her at fkovash@hotmail.com

ROL teacher orientation will be September 6th at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall. If you signed up to teach, watch for an email with the details. Rally Sunday for the start of ROL will be September 10th at 9:05 am. Please meet in the sanctuary and then the kids will be taken to their classrooms from there. Pick up is at 9:55 in the classrooms. ROL will run from September 10th through May 20th and is for 3 year olds through 6th grad-ers. Class schedule and registration forms can be found on the kiosk by the office. September Lessons 9/10 - Genesis 1-2:24 - God Creates Adam and Eve 9/17 - Genesis 3 - God Gives Adam and Eve a Choice to Stay Close to Him 9/24 - Genesis 6:9-9:17 - God Tells Noah to Build an Ark Thanks! Francine Kovash

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Youth Group

Please join us on Wednesday nights from 7-8pm in the Christ Lutheran Church Youth Room starting on Sep-tember 6th. Our first meeting will be a social event with snacks and soda. All high school aged youth are wel-come to attend!

For more information, contact Kristine Ihrke at 507-951-0850 ckihrke@gmail.com

Sounds Like Love Who Is Interested!!!!

Anyone interested in going to Sounds Like Love needs to fill out the forms and get them into the office with pay-ment by Sept 15. Practice will start

around the 4th of October. For more information, contact Jodi Wild at 507-624-0224 and/or jj2331140@gmail.com. Sounds Like Love will be will be November 10-12, 2017 at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, MN. It is a 3 day Christian music festival that helps high school students in grades 9-12 grow in their faith through music, and ends with a concert by the students! This year’s theme is God is on the Move.

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First Sunday Prayer Time

On the first Sunday of each month, Pastor Steve will be available for individual prayer and anointing (optional) at the altar railing. Prayers could include physical or emotional healing for yourself or loved ones. Requests at the railing will be kept confidential.

July Attendance

Worship 2017 2016 1st Sunday 160 143 2nd Sunday 149 120 Wed Service 28 3rd Sunday 156 160 Wed Service 31 4th Sunday 140 147 5th Sunday 171 169 Total Attendance 835 739

Average Weekly Attendance 167 148

August Attendance

Worship 2017 2016 1st Sunday 171 151 Wed Service 37 — 2nd Sunday 143 180 3rd Sunday 175 166 Wed Service 17 — 4th Sunday 201 177 Total Attendance 744 674

Average Weekly Attendance 186 169

Madonna Summit Service

Our next Madonna Summit Service, with communion, with Pastor Nirmala will be on Wednesday, October 4th at 2:00pm.

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July 2017 Memorials

In Memory of Linda Wolters Fellowship Hall ~ Larry & Sue Briske

Glory of God Building Fund ~ Dave & Evonne Schlobohm

Prayers For The People

Please contact the church office to include your loved ones in the prayers printed in the weekly bulletin, monthly newsletter or added to the prayer chain. All prayer chain requests are pre-ferred by email at office@clcbyron.org or call

the office at 775-6646. Please keep us updated with chang-es.

Home Visitation Ministry

Pastor Nirmala, Joan Skare and Joan Prigge are leading a home visitation ministry which may include bringing com-munion to our homebound members. If you are interested in being on the team, please contact either one of them.

PBS Reformation Special Tuesday, Sept 12th at 7pm PBS gives the Reformation television exposure when it airs “Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World”

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Praise Chimers/Good News Kids

Praise Chimers and Good News Kids Choir practices will begin on Wednesday Septem-ber 6th at 5:30(Praise Chimers) and 6:00pm (Good News Kids)

These groups are for kids in 3rd through 6th grade. We practice weekly and try to play/sing once a month in church. If you have any questions, contact Stephanie Fugleberg at 358-0101 or email her at scurly00@gmail.com. There will be no practices on Sept. 27th or Oct 4th.

J.O.Y. (Just Older Youth)

Coffee Hour ~ Monday, September 11th at 9am. Mavis Perry will be hostess. We are meeting at the church. Any one is welcome to join us! We have good chats!

J.O.Y. Club Monthly Updates Please see the JOY Club pamphlet on the kiosk for more details.

Book Lovers League

Kristie Nelson will host the September 11th Book Lover’s League meeting at 7pm. The book discussed will be Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas. Please contact Kristie at kjn0312@gmail.com if

you would like to attend the next meeting. All are wel-come! Next book club is Oct 2nd at Jill Rheingans home. Book for October is The Color of Water by James McBride.

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New Church Directory Save these Dates !

Pictures for the new directory are being taken Sept 13, 14, 15, 16. A sign-up sheet is available on Sundays in the narthex or visit the Christ Lutheran Church website to sign up directly.

http://.clcbyron.org/ppt_news/picture-directory-appointments/ Any questions contact…... Linda Danielski at lldani1@aol.com, or call 775-6068 Gayle Jaben at bikeclearlake@gmail.com LuRaye Eischens at eischens@charter.net

Garden Produce Project

The Evangelism Committee is once again sponsoring the Garden Produce Project. We’re asking for donations of extra produce to be brought to church on Sunday mornings.

Anyone can purchase from the table in exchange for a freewill offering. All donations go to the Channel One Food Shelf. Any leftover produce is also taken to Channel One. If you have questions, contact Joan Skare at 624-0330.

October Newsletter

Thanks for your help on this. Please have newsletter articles into the office by October 20th. You can email your articles to either office@clcbyron.org or clcbyron@frontier.com

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Sunday Worship & Sunday School Beginning September 10

8:00am Traditional Service 9:00am River of Life Sunday School 9:15am Luther Video beings 9/17/17 10:00am Blended Service

. 2017 Sunday Morning Treats To all the families of Christ Lutheran Church: Your help in providing Sunday morning treats is appreciated. Choose a Sunday in each of your assigned months, Contact your chair, and tell her when you will provide treats and if you are willing to be a server. We request 3 dozen cookies be provided. Leave the treats in the kitchen marked with your name. Each week we use about 15 dozen cookies.

Sept and Mar ~ LMN ~ Carol Meyer 775-6229 Deb Linbo 259-7223 Oct and Apr ~ OPQR ~ Joan Prigge 282-8475 Ardella Remold 775-2467

Movie time Sept 10th

at 2:00

A Song from the Heart – Maryann Lowery (Amy Grant) is a beautiful, blind cellist and music teacher at the Milford Conservatory of Music who enjoys her quiet, comfortable life with her friend and widowed neighbor Oliver. When world famous musician Gregory Pavan visits the Conserv-atory to record an upcoming album, he sees undiscovered talent in Maryann, promises her fame and convinces her to undergo a risky eye operation. As the two fall for each oth-er, it will take a life changing moment for Maryann to real-ize that sometimes true love is right before our eyes wait-ing to be discovered.

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In the spirit of our community’s 150 year anniversary, Christ Lutheran Church wants to foster community involvement, sharing, and communication by hosting a Byron Community Jamboree on Sunday, October 15 at 4:00 P.M. We are hop-ing members of our church will be willing to participate in the success of this first annual jamboree. “Participation” may consist of participating in a community choir, assisting in or-ganizing the event, sharing your talents, and/or helping with the set/backdrops.

The jamboree will be a family-oriented, variety show that will run for approximately ninety minutes. The program will con-sist of a variety of people or groups sharing their talents; mu-sic (vocal and/or instrumental), readings, dance, or other ap-propriate talents. This year, the theme will be Patriotic and Show Tunes.

We are planning on a free will offering that will be donated to the Byron Food Shelf. The format of the event will be as follows: 1st Half (approximately 35 minutes-----7 acts Intermission-----15-20 minutes with cookies and beverages 2nd Half (approximately 35-40 minutes)-----7 acts with Combined Choir closing the event

Auditions for the jamboree will be held at Christ Lutheran Church on Thursday, September 14 at 6:30 P.M. and on Sat-urday, September 23 at 10:00 A.M. (tentative dates) The purpose of the audition is to select the participants based on variety and appropriateness.

If you are interested in participating, providing talent, or help-ing organize or carry out the event, contact Terry Bird at email: tbird@vacava.com, or 269-6106, or call the CLC of-fice. This will be a great community event! Come join the fun!

Byron Community Jamboree

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Samaritan Bethany Report

Terry Bird is the new Christ Lutheran Board rep-resentative to Samaritan Bethany in Rochester. The Board meets once a month and is responsi-ble to provide strategic direction to Samaritan

Bethany to help ensure a continued great quality of care for the residents and long-term viability of the nursing home. Over the past months, Samaritan Bethany has held a Golf Fund raiser. This was the 11th annual event held on June 19th. Over $25,000 in profit was raised during the event, which was an increase over the $17,000+ raised last year. The funds raised in the event goes to improve the quality of life for the residents. Through this year’s event, enough mon-ey was raised to purchase the “It’s Never Too Late (iN2L.com) Package – providing user friendly technology components with applications for recreation, social connec-tion and memory care engagement. Six of the sponsoring churches had teams participating. Terry is hoping Christ Lutheran can put together a team to support next year’s event – typically held in mid-June.

Bread Bakers Needed

Welcome Our New Neighbors

Looking for bread and/or cookie bakers! The Connections Team is sharing God’s love by reaching out to new families/people in Byron with a welcome message, Christ Lutheran Church information and a loaf of bread or a batch of cookies. We will receive

a list of any newcomers to Byron and deliver a basket to them. If you see a SOLD sign go up in your neighborhood, or want to welcome someone that already lives in your neighborhood that would like some information on Christ Lutheran, contact us. If you would like to help with this pro-ject in any way, by donating baskets, delivering baskets or baking let us know. Bakers will be put on a list and called when we have a need for a loaf of bread or a batch of cookies to be made. Please call LeAnn at 507 421 5862 or email at rosebud641088@gmail.com

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Dear CLC Thanks for sending us to Camp Victory. I had a lot of fun and learned more about God. Sincerely Abby More ——————————————————————- Dear CLC Thanks for giving us money to go to Camp. I had a lot of fun doing the activities. I had a very fun time. Sincerely Ethan More —————————————————————— Christ Lutheran Church Community, thank you for inviting us to share God’s word with your children. We had a BLAST this week! You have an amazing community and we hope to continue to watch it grow. Love and Blessings Shetek Lutheran Ministries Day Camp Illana Pety and Sarah Lage

Rick Steve’s Martin Luther Videos Will be shown at 9:15 starting 9/17 in the youth room. Rick tells the story of the Reformation on location in Germany. Seven videos 30 minutes each plus discussion following.

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Electronic Giving

Its easy to set up electronic giving to Christ Lutheran Church. If you prefer to give by credit or debit card please go to clcbyron.org and follow directions after clicking on “Online Giving”. You will need to create an account with your own password. You can give from your own devices one time, weekly, or monthly. It is managed by a secure third party. If you prefer to give by EFT return the form be-low to the church office. Call the church office if you have questions. Thanks for giving to the mission of God through Christ Lutheran Church!

Church name:

Your name:

Address:

City, State, Zip:

Email address:

I would like to make the following contribution(s): Date of first contribution: ___/___/___

Frequency of contribution (check one): Weekly – Fridays Semi-monthly – 1st and 15th Monthly on the 1st Monthly on the 15th

General Operating Fund

Building Fund Other _________________ Other _________________ Total

$ ______

$ ______ $ ______ $ ______ $ ______

CHECKING / SAVINGS

Complete this section if using your checking or savings account

Please debit my (check one):

Checking account—attach voided check Savings account—attach voided deposit slip

Routing #: Account #:

Valid routing # must start with 0,1,2 or 3 I authorize the above organization to process debit entries to the above account. I understand that this authority will remain in effect until I provide reasonable notification to terminate the authorization.

Authorized signature: ______________________________________________ Date: / /

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August 15th, 2017 Council Meeting 6:30 PM

Present: Joe Biewer, Brent Hoegh, Will Holz, Randy Holz, Mark Turany, Joan

Skare, Ryan Ostreng, Pastor Steve

Mark gave devotions

Devotion schedule

September Ryan

October Stephanie

November Joe

December Joan

January Will

Approval of agenda: Ryan moves; Randy second; all in favor motion carries

Approval of minutes: Brent moves; Joan second: all in favor motion carries

Treasurers Report: July 2017 was an above average month ending nearly 5

thousand dollars in the black. Expenses exceeded income for the year.

July income:25,328.94, July expense:20,367.18, July difference:4,961.76. YTD

Budget:188,146, YTD income:171,902.01, YTD expense:174,837.27, YTD

difference:(-2,935.26). 2016 YTD difference:(-7,753.65).

Discussion items:

Pastor gave a lesson on the family tree of Christianity.

Mark stated that the intent and usage of the camera system is for the staff and

building safety and security.

Action items:

Brent moves given we have a video recording system in place that we

developed a policy for restrictive view and until such policy is in place only the

president has authority to view until policy is written: Joe seconds; all approve;

motion carries.

Mark moves to adjourn @ 7:45: Randy second; all approve; motion carries

Next meeting: Tuesday September 19th, 2017

Respectfully submitted Joe Biewer

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Lutheran Marriage Encounter Weekend Oct 13 - 15, 2017 Holiday Inn - St. Cloud, MN Apply now at GodLovesMarriage.org! Or contact Peter & Phyllis McMahon at mcmahonp@comcastnet or 763-561-1575 for more infor-mation. Weekends fill fast-don’t miss out!

Byron Neighbors Helping Neighbors The days are getting shorter and the time is now to think about outside chores that did not get finished. If you have a garage that needs cleaning out, hauling items away, get-ting ready for a garage sale, call Dorothy at Byron Neigh-bors Helping Neighbors chore services at 507-218-3275. If you are interested in being a volunteer and helping seniors and or disabled in Byron, call Dorothy for more infor-mation on how the program works.

Singers and Ringers

Anyone curious and those already playing, you are invited to come to rehearsals. Handbells~JuBELLance at 6pm on Wed. or Chancel Choir at 7pm on Wed. Contact Jane Cabaya at 775-6183 (or at the organ after services)

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Homebound, Hospital, Care Facility If you are hospitalized, homebound, or moving to a nursing home or a care fa-cility, please call the church office at 775-6646.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” —Mother Teresa

Financial Peace University What if you knew where all of your money was going each month? What if you were debt-free, investing and making wise spending decisions? With Dave Ramsey’s class Fi-nancial Peace University, you CAN take control of your money and start planning for your future. If you’re interest-ed in learning more about the class, message me! We’re offering it at Christ Lutheran Church just for you starting September 14, 2017. Please contact Colleen Wolfe at 507-254-6056 or colleen_wolfe@aol.com. Here is your link to Register and Purchase your materials. http://www.fpu.com/1044194

Family Promise (IHN) Our next host week is September 17th to the 24th. Can you help? Ask any of our coordinators or any of the volunteers. Bob & Karen Brekke 775-6339 Overall Coordinators Bob Brekke 775-6339 Driver Coordinator Elaine Meek 775-2061 Meal Coordinator Hertha Lange 775-6726 Overnight Host Coordinator

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CLC Staff

Pr. Steve Rheingans Senior Pastor Pr. Nirmala Reinschmidt Pastor Elaine Meek Administrative Assistant Sandy Erickson Administrative Assistant Jean Goodman (remote) Administrative Assistant Jane Cabaya Organist, Choir/Bells Director Sarah Palmer Praise Team Director Stephanie Fugleberg Youth Chimes Director Rose & Dave Gottschalk Custodians

Contact Information

Church Office (507) 775-6646 Church Fax (507) 775-2627 Web Site clcbyron.org Pastor Steve Email clcpastorsteve@gmail.com Pastor Nirmala Email clcreinschmidt@gmail.com Office Email office@clcbyron.org Facebook Christ Lutheran Church

2017 Church Council Members

Mark Turany President/Personnel/Stewardship Randy Holz Vice-President/Stewardship Brent Hoegh Treasurer/Endowment/Memorial/Altar Joe Biewer Secretary/Education LeAnn Bieber Connections-Evangelism Jeremy Schulz Youth Stephanie Fugleberg Worship & Music Dave Schlobohm Building & Grounds Ryan Ostreng Building & Grounds Joan Skare Connections-Evangelism Aaron Anderson Youth Will Holz Youth

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