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Prayer Requests 5

The Messenger Our Redeemerʼs Lutheran Church

609 Southwood Drive So. San Francisco, CA 94080

December 2012

Community Lunch Cont. 3

Birthdays 16

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Call Committee update 4 Save the Date 4

From the President’s Pen – Helen Greenstrand

Greetings to the members and friends of Our Redeemer’s Lutheran Church from the Church Council.

Let us embrace the future at Our Redeemers Lutheran Church with the promise of Advent, the promise of that which is to come. We have made much progress in the past year and remain steadfast in our commitment to God. As we prepare for the installation of the Church Council in 2013, we continue to build on these accomplishments. Recently the Stewardship Committee reached out to you for your financial gifts. If you have not submitted your pledge cards, please consider this promise of partnership. Your support, whether it is financial, physical or spiritual, enables ORLC to provide many needed community services and keep our congregation moving forward.

As we work together in mission, we grow closer to one another. It is within this family environment that we support one another.

There are many activities planned in December. Advent begins our liturgical year. The Advent Spiral, a tradition at ORLC for well over a decade, will open our worship service on December 2nd and the first candle of the Advent Wreath will be lit. Come help trim the tree and add a festive touch to the Sanctuary on December 3rd. In addition, you can donate a poinsettia by purchase through the church – see order form in messenger. Please join us

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Table Grace 2

If Jesus were to come 6 -8

Address correction 6

Bishop Letter 14

ORLC Christmas Tree 15

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A  Thanksgiving  Table  Grace  Before  we  eat,  we  sing  this  prayer  With  gratitude  that  we  Can  share  this  meal  with  those  we  love,  Our  friends  and  family.  Most  awesome  God,  we  sing  Your  praise  For  blessings  undeserved.  They  call  to  mind  why  we  are  fed  …  To  reach  out  and  to  serve  

Remind  us,  Lord,  of  little  things  That  make  our  lives  so  blest,  Like  lids  that  blink  and  buds  that  taste  And  sleep  when  we  are  stressed.  Most  awesome  God,  receive  our  thanks  On  this  Thanksgiving  Day  And  fill  this  home  with  joy  and  peace  In  Jesus’  name  we  pray!    By  Pastor  Greg  Asimakoupoulos  www.partialobserver.com  

for the special Christmas Eve Service spotlighting the little town of Bethlehem, with Pr. Khader Khalilia, a Lutheran pastor from Palestine.

We continue to pray for the Call Committee that God’s will be done as they receive candidates and ultimately recommend a Settle Pastor Call selection. We have been blessed with the ministry of Dawn Roginski as our guest Pastor who will continue to be with us through February 2013, upon request.

In Peace, Helen

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We will be now updating our The Lutheran subscriptions at the end of the month. If you have not already done so please tell the office if you wish to keep getting The Lutheran, if not we will be dropping your name from the list. You can call the office 650- 583-5622 or send an E-mail at OFFICE@OURREDEEMERSLUTHERAN.ORG

November Community Lunch We had 57 guests at our November lunch. We served a Thanksgiving themed meal with turkey, stuffing, Waldorf salad and pumpkin pie for dessert. We were happy to have Julie back with us. Julie has been recuperating from a hip replacement and missed the last few community lunches. True to form, Julie brought a fresh baked pumpkin pie but said she supervised the baking rather than making it herself. Welcome back, Julie – we’ve missed you and I think that’s why our numbers have been down the past few months! Before the meal, we sang a Thanksgiving Table Grace, led by Fran with Bob on the piano to the tune of America the Beautiful. The words are printed below and it’s a song I think should be sung more than once a year see page 2. It was lovely to hear the church filled with so many beautiful voices. At the end of the day, I noticed one of our regular guests putting his leftovers carefully into zip lock bags. I asked him if he’d had enough to eat and he said yes, but was saving some for the next day so he’d have something to eat. I picked up his baggies and went into the kitchen and proceeded to fill them with more turkey, dressing and salad. I then sat down with him and listened to his story. He’s in his mid-sixties and has had a battle with alcohol for a number of years. In January he had a Grand Mal seizure that may have resulted in some injuries to his ankle and knee. He has also noticed some personality changes by becoming easily agitated and impatient (I could relate to that myself). He had been staying at Safe Harbor until a few days before when he went out drinking and evidently caused a commotion sometime during the night and woke to a note pinned to his shirt saying he had to leave and not to return for 90 days which would be mid-January. He doesn’t remember what he said or to whom but has an idea and takes full responsibility for his actions and holds no hard feelings toward Safe Harbor or the manager. The only bad part he said is that it’s starting to rain but he found shelter in a doorway of a business and managed to stay somewhat dry. That night as I sat in my cozy, warm house with my cat on my lap, listening to the rain, I thought about my new friend and hoped and prayed that he had found shelter from the rain … December 1 we will be having a holiday boutique and the proceeds will benefit our Community Lunch program. For every dollar we make, Thrivent Financial will match. Our goal is $1,600.00 with matching funds for a potential of $3,200.00 to keep our lunch going. You can see and hear from the people we serve how important this is. Monetary donations can also be made but mark your check “Holiday Boutique”. The next luncheon is scheduled for Saturday, December 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 baked ham, potato casserole, salad, rolls, dessert, fresh fruit, 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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* Community Lunch Dec. 15. Set-up and food prep begins at 10:30 a.m, lunch is from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., and clean-up starts at 12:00

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The Call Committee is working to modify the MSP to incorporate the synod’s comments and will finalize the MSP after reviewing these final changes on December 5th. If anyone wishes to submit a name of a Pastor that qualifies to serve ORLC, please notify Barbara Irli by E-mail or phone. Do not go directly to the Synod. Pastor Katy has not yet started identifying potential candidates but she expects this process will begin in early January. Since we are seeking a part time pastor, she estimates that it may take more time than for a full time position. However, she is optimistic that interested candidates will be found. As always feel free to talk with any member of the Call Committee if you have any questions. Barbara Irli Call Committee Chair

CALL COMMITTEE UPDATE

* Dec. 12th: Gift Exchange 7pm

* Holiday Boutique/Bake Sale Dec 1. 9-12pm

* Dec 24. Christmas Eve Service 7pm.

* Dec. 3rd Tree Trimming 6pm As part of your Advent preparations, please join us

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) Tylor, David, & Diane Flynn Mike Lewis (the Quades’ son-in-law; cystic fibrosis) Niel Nielson (Parkinson’s) Sindy Olsen (mother-in-law of Beverly Boblitt’s grandson Devin; inoperable brain tumors) Dennis Quade (Parkinson’s) Anna Van Nuys (wife of John Lutz’ father; cancer) Bishop Mark Holmerud Julia Meldrum (chemotherapy for a brain tumor) Call Committee: Barbara, Walter, Judie, Mel, Fran, and Bill Julie Lutz Ohlsen Family (mourning the passing of Derick Ohlsen) US military members serving overseas, and all people whose lives are impacted by war.

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

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Ruth Hall-Hanly 1580 Geary Road #219 Walnut Creek, CA. 94597

Correction on the street name from Deary Road to Geary Road!

'If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed' by Phoebe Greenwood, Bethlehem, Palestine

If Joseph and Mary were making their way to Bethlehem today, the Christmas story would be a little different, says Father Ibrahim Shomali, a parish priest in the town. The couple would struggle to get into the city, let alone find a hotel room.

"If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed," says the priest of Bethlehem's Beit Jala parish. "He would either have to be born at a checkpoint or at the separation wall. Mary and Joseph would have needed Israeli permission – or to have been tourists.

"This really is the big problem for Palestinians in Bethlehem: what will happen when they close us off completely?"

Bethlehem is the heart of Christian Palestine and it swells with pride every Christmas.

Manger Square is transformed into a grotto of lights and stalls crowned by a towering Christmas tree. Strings of illuminated angels, stars and bells festoon the streets. But just a few minutes' drive to the north, the festive atmosphere stops abruptly.

A strip of Israeli settlements built on 18 sq km of what was once northern Bethlehem threatens to cut the city off from its historic twin, Jerusalem. To the Israeli authorities, these have been neighborhoods of Jerusalem since 1967. One of the settlements, Har Homa, is built on land where angels are said to have announced the birth of Christ to local shepherds. A narrow corridor of land between Har Homa and another settlement, Gilo, still connects Bethlehem to Jerusalem but the construction of Givat Hamatos, a new settlement announced in October 2011, will fill this in a matter of years.

The European Union and United Nations routinely denounce Israel's unilateral settlement expansion, but European concern is not slowing Israel's progress. Last year, 500 new units were approved for Har Homa and a further 348 in Betar Illit, on Bethlehem's western boundary. An additional 267 units were sanctioned for settlements running up to the edge of the city's southern suburbs, where the Ministry of Defense also gave settlers permission to start a farm on Palestinian land. This is in addition to the 6,782 new apartments already slated for Har Homa, Gilo and Givat Hamatos.

In the short term, the closure won't make a big difference to everyday life in Bethlehem: the separation wall already prevents Palestinians from entering Jerusalem from the town without an Israeli permit.

But this ring of settlements will permanently change the geography of the biblical landscape: if a peace agreement razes the separation wall, the two cities will remain divided.

Israeli activist Hargit Ofram, director of Peace Now, reads a clear political intention in Israel's plans: "These efforts are being made to prevent a possible two-state solution because in order for that to work, you would need a viable Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.

"If that capital is going to be surrounded by settlements, Israel would have to remove them. The more Israel is building, the higher the price of a Palestinian state is becoming."

A coalition of 20 rights organizations including Oxfam and Amnesty International warned that the number of Palestinian homes demolished in the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israeli authorities had doubled in the past year.

Under the terms of the Oslo Accords, 13% of Bethlehem now falls within Areas A and B controlled by the Palestinian Authority. This area houses 87.6% of the Palestinian population. The rest falls in Area C, where Israel controls who builds what.

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The al-Makour valley is Bethlehem's last green space and one of few areas left for urban expansion. It is in Area C and overlooked by Gilo checkpoint at one end and Har Homa settlement on the other. Israel's separation wall is slated to run through the middle of the valley. No Palestinian has been given a permit to build here since 1967.

Despite Israel's building restrictions, Miranda Nasry Qasasfeh spent every weekend of the past year renovating a stone storehouse owned by her husband's family for 150 years. She built a new iron roof and had planted almond, plum and eskadinia trees, which were about to bear their first fruit. Hers was one of four Palestinian structures in al-Makour demolished on 12 December, 2011. Most of the trees were uprooted.

Qasasfeh's 75-year-old father rushed to the site of the demolition, where he found his daughter in deep distress. Hours later, he suffered a stroke and is now paralyzed down his left side.

But despite the destruction of her property, Miranda Qasasfeh still has hope that the political situation will change. "I keep telling my children, planting it in their minds, there is nowhere else in the world like this. We cannot leave." She adds: "And we have Christmas. For a few days at least we can forget, or try to forget, what is happening here."

Father Shomali's outlook is more glum: "When I look down my church register, many of the historic family names from the area have already gone. In 20 years, I think we will have no more Christians in Bethlehem."

Dr. Jad Isaac, an expert in Bethlehem's demographics and a consultant to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, says aside from the physical restrictions on development, Bethlehem's economy is being strangled by the loss of land and restrictions on Palestinian movement.

With work in Jerusalem now impossible to all but the 6,000 granted permits to work inside Israel, unemployment in Bethlehem sits at 23%, poverty levels simmer at 18%. Many have little option but to work illegally for £25 a day building the nearby settlements. Dr. Isaac's forecast is bleak.

"The little town of Bethlehem? It will soon be the little ghetto surrounded in all directions by Israeli settlements," he predicts. "We've already passed the stage where Bethlehem can be saved. Frankly, that's why I don't celebrate Christmas any more."

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The Advent Spiral submitted by Jeanette Cool

The first light of Advent is the light of stone–. Stones that live in crystals, seashells, and bones. The second light of Advent is the light of plants– Plants that reach up to the sun and in the breezes dance. The third light of Advent is the light of beasts– All await the birth, from the greatest and in least. The fourth light of Advent is the light of humankind– The light of hope that we may learn to love and understand.

The spiral has found its way into the art of almost all cultures from ancient primitive rock carvings on all continents to today's corporate logos.

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They show up in Celtic art, and Native America petro glyphs

Arabic architecture Japanese rock gardens

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Hindu spiritual texts, Australian aboriginal paintings and African art.

In nature, spirals are hurricanes, tornadoes, seeds in a sunflower, the growing tips of ferns, a nautilus shell and the helix shape of the DNA molecule

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Here are some of the meanings that have been attributed to the spiral:

• Carl Jung said that the spiral is an archetypal symbol that represents cosmic force:

• In ancient Britain, the spiral seems to have been associated with the feminine as the doorway to life.

• The spiral has been associated with the cycles of times, the seasons, and the cycle of birth,

growth, death, and then rebirth.

• The spiral is also considered a symbol of the spiritual journey or representing the evolutionary process of learning and growing.

• The spiral stands for coming into being.

No religious or political group has claimed exclusive rights to the spiral. It remains non-sectarian, or maybe pan-sectarian. It belongs to everyone and excludes no one. As a universal symbol the Spiral/Labyrinth appears throughout history dating some 4500 years

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Many kinds of spiral walks: some of the earliest forms of modified spirals are also known’s as labyrinths found in Greece dating back to 2500-2000 B.C. E. Early Christian labyrinths date back to 4th century in a basilica in Algeria. There is a labyrinth laid into the cathedral floor at Chartres, France in the 13th century. Best known in the Bay Area is the labyrinth anyone can walk in Grace Cathedral in San Francisco

Since 1995, ORLC has opened the Season of Advent with the children walking the Advent Spiral, spiraling in to the candle at the center of the Spiral, bringing increasing light as each child’s candle is lit. When Christmas arrives, a turning point is reached. “The light increases, days grow longer and nature reawakens. So the birth of the light at Christmas time has been celebrated since the times when the light became the symbol of revelation in the world and man.” Rudolf Steiner Utilizing the anthroposophical associations from Rudolf Steiner of the German Waldorf School, the Advent Spiral symbolizes finding light in the darkness. Walking the spiral carries the image that every human being must make -- a journey to an inner place where we can find a light to carry back into the world to help us in our own journey.

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Dear Mr. President, In September of last year, I wrote to you about the pending Palestinian application for admission as a Member State of the United Nations. Informed by our Church’s relationship with our Christian companions in the region, I remain committed to seeking a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians. With the present Palestinian effort to seek observer state status in the United Nations, the U.S. has another opportunity to demonstrate its support for self-determination and freedom. The U.S. should support these announced plans by the Palestinians when they come before the General Assembly later this month. Over the past year, we have witnessed efforts to restart talks with the objective of achieving a two-state solution. We have also witnessed worrying developments on the ground, which have inhibited those efforts, mainly the continuing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and the increased displacement of Palestinians from their homes and villages. U.S. support for observer state status at the UN for the Palestinians would be an important signal to the parties that reaching a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement, where both communities may live in peace and security is still the fervent goal of our government. Advocating for observer state status for the Palestinians does not preclude the necessity for returning to confidence-building measures and negotiations that support a just peace. We should support both paths. It is my hope the U.S. will act in its own best interest as well as the interest of all people in the region by supporting observer state status for Palestine in the General Assembly. Thank you for your consideration. My prayers are with you and all who work for peace with justice for both peoples. In God’s grace, The Rev. Mark S. Hanson Presiding Bishop Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Our presiding Bishop Rev Mark Hanson, has sent a letter to president Barack Obama asking that the US support Palestine's bid to upgrade its status. The US did not support this bid but 139 countries did.

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Our Redeemerʼs Lutheran Church 609 Southwood Drive So. San Francisco, CA 94080 Phone: 650-583-5622 Worship: Sunday 10:30am Guest Pastor Dawn Roginski 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

December 2 | Caitlyn Johnson 2 | Marci Rohrer 10 | Kristen Lutz 17 | Darlene Marsh 23 | Sandy Burke 25 | Cindy Bivens