“SHARING THE GOOD NEWS”

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH

Sunday, Oct 1st – Robert

Zientek to perform

Tuesday, Oct 3rd – Mary Martha class @ 2 pm

Wednesday, Oct 4th – All committees’ mtg @ 7 pm

Friday, Oct 6th – “Meet & Greet” pastoral candidate @ 6 pm

Sunday, Oct 8th – Congregational meeting for vote on pastoral candidate

Sunday, Oct 8th – J.O.L.T. meeting 5-8 pm

Tuesday, Oct 10th – 4H Club meeting @ 7 pm

Thursday, Oct 12th – Ruth Circle meeting @ 7 pm

Friday, Oct 14th – B.B.M. Octoberfest

Wednesday, Oct 18th – Church council @ 6 pm

Sunday, Oct 22nd – Pr. Lawrence Bade presiding; Robert Zientek to perform

Sunday, Oct 22nd – J.O.L.T. meeting 5-8 pm

Saturday, Oct 28th – F.L.C. in use; Beverly Roehling

Sunday, Oct 29th – Pr. Lawrence Bade presiding; Polka Sunday; Reformation Sunday with “Reformation Walk & Lunch”

Tuesday, Oct 31st – Bluebonnet Club @ 11 am

There was no Church Council

meeting held in September

due to fair week.

Argent Court

George Rhodes

Brenham Nursing & Rehab

Darlene Gaskamp

Focus Care of Brenham

Sybil Kumaga

Dorothy Tockhorn

Homebound

Henry & Laverne Ganske

Bradley Grimm & parents

Josephine Helm

Viola Koehn

Joyce Meyer

L.W. Miller

Burney & Edna Schramme

Glenn Schroeder

Al Stoddard

Mary Tockhorn

Zion Lutheran

Church 1800 FM 2679

Brenham, Texas

Pastor: Jill Vivroux Cell Phone (830) 358-8656

Church Phone (979) 836-7909

Email Address:

zionsville1800@gmail.com

zionsvillelutheranchurch.org

Pastoral Candidate

Pastor Katrina Walther was

raised in the Washington and

Austin County area. She earned

her undergraduate degrees in

English and Biology from

Texas Lutheran University in

Seguin. It was at TLU that she

met Carl Walther—they were

married just two months before

Katrina graduated from

university. Katrina worked as a

teacher at a small private school

for a time after graduation, and

it was there that she began to

discern a call to ministry. Carl

and Katrina relocated to the

Austin area, where Katrina

attended the Lutheran Seminary

Program of the Southwest. She

received her Masters of Divinity

and was ordained in 2010. Her

first call as an ordained minister

was to Our Saviour’s Lutheran

Church of Sunnyside,

Washington. After seven years

in Washington state, Katrina

and Carl and their daughters,

Laura and Heather, are looking

forward to returning to Texas,

and particularly to the Brenham

area.

“I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all

of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the

one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.”

Philippians 1:3-6

As I reflect back on these past months of joining in the ministry of Christ with you, the good people of Zion, I

am filled with great gratitude and joy. In these months you have helped me to see what can happen when the

church is open to God’s Holy Spirit. It has been a beautiful sight to see the many ways you have reflected

God’s love in the various ministries that you embrace at Zion.

This is a time of excitement for you at Zion as you embark on a new chapter of your ministry and life in Christ.

In the presence of change and unknowns, there is the potential for fear to creep in, but know this, God is at work

here at Zion and is doing a new thing.

Knowing God’s presence always brings hope and it is this hope that will overcome all fear. It is my prayer that

you will embrace the days ahead knowing that God has been and continues to be at work here at Zion. Trust in

God’s loving presence knowing that the good work that has been started will continue in this new chapter of

ministry.

You have given me first hand experience of the many ways in which God is working here and I am so very

thankful for this opportunity to join you in ministry. You will forever be in my prayers of thanksgiving for the

great joy that you bring to this community.

May you continue to live into the future of your call to be the church with great hope and joy!

In God’s peace and love,

Pastor Jill

Hymn and Beer Fest 2017

Looking for a Sunday Funday? Mark your calendars for this year’s Hymn and

Beer Fest at the Brazos Valley Brewery, November 5th from 4-7 PM. Allison and

her gang will be there to ensure the evening is filled with awesome music. This

year we will be raising funds for the Austin County Miracle League. Tickets are

sold at $20, which includes entrance, a glass and two beer tokens. Brazos Valley

Brewery is located at 201 W. 1st St, Brenham.

All I can say is WOW!! What a busy September 2017 it has been. Starting with Hurricane Harvey; what a destruction he did. Thousands and thousands of homes flooded, people rescued by boats and a lot of prayers going to God – asking for guidance, safety and what now? I know there were several people from Zion that gave a helping hand; whether it was a monetary donation or going to work with your hands. I traveled with Pastor Ken Weiss and Pastor Parnell to Conroe to help muck out a home. There had been 14 feet of water in this home and it belonged to a family whose daughter was fighting several diseases and was on oxygen. It broke our hearts because she lost all of her possessions. Her air tanks, clothes, bed, dresser and pictures were all gone. But she was safe and that is the main thing. My prayers go out to this family. Then we traveled to Katy, Texas with God’s work, Our Hands and teamed up with people from all over. Next we traveled to homes to help move furniture out, packed up to help move or whatever the people needed. It was a heart-warming day to help out our neighbors in need. What a day our youth had on Sunday, September 10th! Gods work… Our Hands Confirmation Team had the pleasure of helping play baseball at the Miracle League in Bellville. What a great day for a game of baseball. Even our own Will Larkin did an outstanding job! Will we are so proud of you! And way to go Confirmation Class; you all Rock! And then it was Washington County Fair week! What a long, long week that has been; so many activities, so many awards and lots and lots of hours of ha-a-a-a-rd work. Hats off to all the volunteers that helped with the fair activities and to our youth who participated in showing an animal, country creations, hay hauling contest, greased pig contest, Ag Olympics, Queen contest, Little Miss & Mr. Contest, the fair parade and much, much more. Here is a list of our youth that participated and if I missed your name let me know so I can add you next month. Sandy Supak Brazos Supak Cooper Hodde Branden Roehling Dawson Draehn

Jill Rosenbaum Carmen Niemeyer Gavin Blum Cara Davis Leah Blum

Youth News

Carsyn Hodde Gunther Niemeyer Kaeden Pieper Reid Bentke

Laura Zibilski Calley McGinley Shane Hahn

Congratulations on all your winnings and participation! See you at the 150th Washington County Fair in 2018! Confirmation Class! Just a note to say way to Go!! Four hours of confirmation class the day after the fair and some softball games. You guys rock. Next time will not be so long. J.O.L.T – October 8th – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM J.O.L.T. – October 22nd – 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Join our Confirmation Class of Sunday – October 29th as they portray the people in Martin Luther’s Life. A Reformation Walk stepping back 150 years in one day.

Meet at the City Gates and travel thru time. Visit Luther’s Birthplace and meet Hans and Margaret Luther,

The Schoolhouse and learn a little German with Ursula Cotta then off to Indulgence Sale and meet the famous John Tetzel

Visit the Wittenberg Café and let our servants share their pretzels with you, then off to

Castle Church where you will meet young Martin Luther and read his 95 Theses and you can even write your own and nail it to the door

Visit Wartburg Castle and meet Frederick the Wise. Here you will learn about the young Luther translating the Bible into German.

The Fish Merchant – you will meet Leonard Kopp and friend of Martin Luther

Then the Luther House. This is where you will meet Luther and Katie Luther. Here you will visit with them in their garden as they share their story.

Then off to the music room with the Church Cantor. Listen to some of the hymns that Luther wrote. Then off to…

The Print Shop and meet Hans Lufft. Here is where you will help in the Luther Seal.

Once you finished here you are welcome to join in some music and enjoy a Sausage (brat), Sauerkraut, potatoes and homemade dinner with dessert. Tickets are now on sale - see one of our confirmation students for tickets $5/each. There will also be a raffle to raise funds to support Zion’s youth trip to the 2018 ELCA Youth Gathering in Houston, TX.

Hope to see you at the Walk of Reformation. Blessings to you all,

Mrs. Cindy Youth Director

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they have the

heart”

To the ladies that make desserts and serve meals for Burton Bridge Ministry at UCC Burton; just want to let you know that your volunteer efforts are greatly appreciated here in the church. You have taken time from the “busy-ness” of your own schedule to participate in a ministry opportunity for Zion. Please know that we are very grateful and understand that God Himself sees and rewards those who diligently work for Him with little or no regard for earthly recognition.

Questions: 1. For how many days and nights did it rain in the story of the flood? 2. What was special about Jesus’ mother? 3. Who gave gifts to Jesus when he was a young child? 4. What happened to Jonah after he was thrown overboard? 5. In whose image was man created?

1. Forty (Gen 7:12) 2. She was a virgin (Matt 1:23) 3. Wise men/magi (Matt 2:7-10) 4. He was swallowed by a great fish (Jon 1:17) 5. God’s (Gen 1:27)

Our thoughts and prayers

during the past month of

September have gone out

to:

Family of Larry Schulz

Earl Blum

Clay Boeker

Marchel Brennan

Chuck Cargill

Emily Conner

Luther & Evelyn Draehn

Lily Faist

Anne Frank

Leslie Gilbert

Roy Hardan

John Hardin

Debra Harrison

Ryan Hegefeld

Emily Hendricks

Frances & Leon Konieczny

Wanda Kramer

Jerry Kunkel

Gracy Lange

Veradell Lehde

Sue Maass

Marvin Marburger

Ben Marek

Heather Meyer

L.W. Miller

Betty Pelkemeyer

Kyla Pietch

Ralph Poehlmann

Steven Ramirez

Jannet Rosenbaum

Tammy Rosenbaum

Blaine Runge

Ervin Schulz

Kyee Koehn Shaver

Russell Sommer

Catherine Stein

Al Stoddard

Jimmie Tiemann

Sue Vierus

Doris Voelkel

Gary Wagner

Robert Wagner

Sandy Winkelmann

Lisa Wise

We are pleased to let you know that a deposit has been made to Zion thru Thrivent

on behalf of:

Allyne Emshoff

James Meyer M/M James Vaughn

Kenneth Schiller Jennifer Grimm

M/M Doyle Reeves

Allen Neumann

M/M Charles Rauch

Larry Schulz M/M James Vaughn

M/M Donnie Lyles

Lauren Rupe M/M Charles Rauch

M/M Leroy Hodde

Katherine Borroni

M/M John Forys

Mervin Lee Maass M/M Leroy Hodde

Mildred Pelkemeyer Ruth Maass

Date Worship Sunday

School

9/03 170 35

9/10 141 39

9/17 153 34

9/24 117 25

Date Regular Memorial

9/03 6583.00 0

9/10 5441.00 50.00

9/17 4028.00 0

9/24 2057.00 20.00

Cleo Jaeger 1-Oct

David Reynolds 3-Oct

Gary Rosenbaum 5-Oct

Aubert Jaeger 6-Oct

Nikki King 6-Oct

Sean Rosenbaum 6-Oct

Walter Rodenbeck 7-Oct

Ryan Rodenbeck 8-Oct

Megan Weirich 8-Oct

Roy Boehnemann 9-Oct

Gary Wagner 9-Oct

Matt Zibilski 9-Oct

Bobbi Jo Supak 10-Oct

Karon Vaughn 10-Oct

Laura Zibilski 10-Oct

Neal Pieper 11-Oct

Tyler Ramirez 13-Oct

Nickolas Neumann 15-Oct

Jennifer Lorenz 16-Oct

Kara Meyer 18-Oct

Randi Emshoff 20-Oct

Edna Roehling 21-Oct

Sandra Blum 22-Oct

Beverly Koehler 22-Oct

Arabella Maitland 22-Oct

Kade Rau 22-Oct

Betty Wiesepape 22-Oct

Jean Winters 22-Oct

Kay Larson/Engeling 26-Oct

LaVerna Schiller 26-Oct

Beth Eckelhoff 28-Oct

Rod Vincent 29-Oct

Emily Maass 30-Oct

Joyce Meyer 30-Oct

Birdie Sommerfeld 30-Oct

Ryan Weirich 30-Oct

Raymond Blum 31-Oct

Bernadine Blum 1-Oct

Erna Seilheimer 1-Oct

Carol Ann Spreen 1-Oct

Karley Lorenz 2-Oct

Carsyn Hodde 7-Oct

Howard Wilson 7-Oct

Rachel Parker 8-Oct

Theresa Rodenbeck 8-Oct

Sara Ramirez 10-Oct

Earl Rosenbaum 10-Oct

Walline Lorenz 14-Oct

Scott Rybarski 14-Oct

Alice Studhalter 16-Oct

Mary Tockhorn 16-Oct

Coy Gurka 17-Oct

Shane Hahn 17-Oct

Betty Pelkemeyer 17-Oct

Fred Rau 17-Oct

Ricky Bosse 18-Oct

David Lange 18-Oct

James Pelkemeyer 19-Oct

Shannon Winkelmann 19-Oct

Gary Dannhaus 20-Oct

Weldon Krinke 22-Oct

Kay Nell Glaesmann 23-Oct

Dane Rau 23-Oct

Karina Engeling 24-Oct

Harper Cmajdalka 25-Oct

Kyla Cmajdalka 26-Oct

Tucker Gurka 26-Oct

Allison K. Crowson 27-Oct

Lisa Draehn 27-Oct

Gertrude Krinke 27-Oct

Myles Niemeyer 27-Oct

Ashley Gaskamp 28-Oct

Gladys Ordner 28-Oct

Madalyn Pieper 28-Oct

Leah Hardy 30-Oct

Allen Neumann 31-Oct

Steven & Liz Capan 4-Oct

Gary & Rocksann Marburger 10-Oct

Jonathan & Jane Little 11-Oct

Randy & Debbie Hodde 14-Oct

Jim & Mary Ann Meals 14-Oct

Craig & Lisa Conner 19-Oct

Ryan & Melissa Raley 19-Oct

Alton & Erna Seilheimer 20-Oct

David & Sandra Blum 24-Oct

Gene & JoAnn Draehn 26-Oct

Jeff & Marla Maitland 27-Oct

David & Lisa Draehn 28-Oct

Neal & Kristy Pieper 28-Oct

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Zion Lutheran Youth Organization

Adam’s Angels Ministry gratefully acknowledges your recent donation n the amount of $93.17.

The love and generosity that prompted this gift is greatly appreciated. Please know that you have made a difference in the lives of families dealing with childhood cancer.

Thanks for blessing our organization

The Board of Adam’s Angels Ministry &

The Culliver Family

Praise be to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all of our troubles,

so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort that we ourselves have received from God. II Corinthians 1:3-5

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IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, WIEDEVILLE WOMEN OF THE ELCA

invite you to attend the

BRAZOS CLUSTER WOMEN OF THE ELCA FALL HAPPENING

Saturday, October 21, 2017

at Immanuel Lutheran Church

4529 Wiedeville Road Brenham, TX 77833

Registration: 8:30 am Program: 9:00 am

Theme: Spreading God’s Word Theme Verse: “But the word of the Lord endures forever.

That word is the good news that was announced to you.” 1 Peter 1:25

PRESENTATION: BIBLES FOR AFRICA

Guest Speaker: Marilyn Snell of College Station, Texas Representative for Spirit Renewal Ministries/Bibles for Africa

Physical Offering: Non-perishable food/canned goods for Bread Partners Regular Offering: Bibles for Africa

Non-Profit Organization

PAID

Brenham, Texas PERMIT NO 3

Zion Lutheran Church 1800 FM 2679

Brenham, TX 77833 Phone: 979-836-7909

www.zionsvillelutheranchurch.org Email: zionsville1800@gmail.com

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