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Trinity Lutheran Church 6215 196th St. SW Lynnwood, WA 98036 425-778-2159 trinitylutheranchurch.com Pointe of Grace Lutheran Church 5425 Harbour Pointe Blvd. Mukilteo, WA 98275 425-263-8730 pointeofgrace.org A Reconciling in Christ congregation August 20, 2017 Lectionary 20 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Transition Team Nominations Submit your nominations/applications today! Download the form from our website: trinitylutheranchurch.com/transition and send it to Pastor Burchfield ([email protected]) or deposit it in the box on the welcome counter in the narthex at Trinity. We will vote on and affirm this team at a Congregational Meeting & Potluck on Sunday, September 10 at Noon. Who We Are At the council/staff retreat two weekends ago, much of our day was spent evaluating who we are as a church. Who is Trinity? What do we stand for? Where are we going? Out of those conversations, and affirmed at the following council meeting (on August 8), we adopted an ‘Interim Mission Statement’ to help guide us through this time of transition. As Pastor Red put it, this is a living statement. We will continue to grow as a congregation. We will continue to do the hard work of introspection as we look toward the future. And we will continue to evaluate our mission and vision, to refine and focus our sense of identity. I’m hopeful for this future. I see how we already live faithfully. I feel how we love boldly. And I am witness to the ways in which we serve joyfully. Blessings & Peace, Josh Judd-Herzfeldt, Communication Coordinator Mission & Vision Together in Jesus Christ, we are freed by grace to live faithfully, love boldly, and serve joyfully. So that the world experiences the difference God’s grace and love in Christ makes for all people and creation. Together in Jesus Christ, we are freed by grace to live faithfully, love boldly, and serve joyfully.
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Trinity Lutheran Church 6215 196th St. SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036 425-778-2159
trinitylutheranchurch.com
Pointe of Grace Lutheran Church 5425 Harbour Pointe Blvd.
Mukilteo, WA 98275 425-263-8730
pointeofgrace.org
A Reconciling in Christ congregation
August 20, 2017 Lectionary 20
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Transition Team Nominations
Submit your nominations/applications today! Download the form from our website:
trinitylutheranchurch.com/transition and send it to Pastor Burchfield ([email protected])
or deposit it in the box on the welcome counter in the narthex at Trinity.
We will vote on and affirm this team at a Congregational Meeting & Potluck on Sunday,
September 10 at Noon.
Who We Are At the council/staff retreat two weekends ago, much of our day was spent evaluating who we are as a church. Who is Trinity? What do we stand for? Where are we going? Out of those conversations, and affirmed at the following council meeting (on August 8), we adopted an ‘Interim Mission Statement’ to help guide us through this time of transition. As Pastor Red put it, this is a living statement. We will continue to grow as a congregation. We will continue to do the hard work of introspection as we look toward the future. And we will continue to evaluate our mission and vision, to refine and focus our sense of identity.
I’m hopeful for this future. I see how we already live faithfully. I feel how we love boldly. And I am witness to the ways in which we serve joyfully.
Blessings & Peace, Josh Judd-Herzfeldt, Communication Coordinator
Mission & Vision Together in Jesus Christ, we are freed by grace to live faithfully, love boldly, and serve joyfully.
So that the world experiences the difference God’s grace and love in Christ makes for all people and creation.
Together in Jesus Christ, we are freed by grace
to live faithfully, love boldly, and serve joyfully.
News & Announcements
Join Aged to Perfection at the AquaSox Saturday, August 26 at 7:05 PM Tickets are $10 if you meet us there, and $11 if you would like to park at Trinity and hitch a ride in the van. Food is on your own. Sign up by contacting Marlene Kristensen or Rudy Schleusner (at Trinity), Mary Roper (at Pointe of Grace), or by calling the church office so we know how many tickets to purchase.
Read and Respond: ELCA Social Message on Human Rights The draft of a social message on human rights is now available for viewing and response on the ELCA website, http://ELCA.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Messages. Reviewing the draft gives you a chance to weigh in on the development of this important document. After reading the message, there are two ways to respond: Fill out the online response form found on the same webpage, or email comments to [email protected]. Both will be shared with the staff and consulting group that are preparing this message. The comment period closes Aug. 31.
Help With Neighborhood Youth Alliance More adult volunteers are needed Saturday mornings to help with the Neighborhood Youth Alliance. With questions or to express interest, please contact Marilyn Hall ([email protected]).
Special Congregation Meeting & Potluck Sunday, September 10, Noon at Trinity Mark your calendar for this special meeting and meal. We will elect the Transition Team, which is an important part of the interim process, and the next step toward an eventual pastoral call. All are welcome, please bring a dish to share.. If you have any questions about the interim process, please speak to Pr. Burchfield ([email protected]).
Adult Education/Faith Formation Planning Thursday, September 7, 7 PM at Trinity Anyone interested in being a part of the discussion for the 2017/18 year of adult faith formation offerings is invited to attend the meeting on Thursday, September 7, 7:00 PM at Trinity. We will be planning Sunday morning adult classes and Communiversity courses.
Affirmation Orientation Monday, September 18, 7 PM at Trinity Affirmation Orientation for all incoming 7th graders or starting 8th graders is Monday, September 18, 7 PM Trinity’s multipurpose room. Parents and students are encouraged to come together.
Faith Action Network Northwest WA Cluster Gathering Wednesday, September 27, 7 PM at Trinity The Northwest WA Cluster will meet to discuss advocacy in our faith communities, hear about FAN's work, and build relationships for future endeavors!
Sing with David Cherwien and the National Lutheran Choir September 29 at St. Mark’s An opportunity for the first 150 singers who sign up. Must attend at least one of the following prep rehearsals, both held at Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church:
Tuesday, 19 September, 7-9 PM Sunday, 24 September, 1:30-3:30 PM
There will also be a rehearsal with NLC the night of the concert at St. Mark’s, 5:45 PM.
To sing, you must sign up – take a minute to do it now – by responding with your name, congregation, and voice part via email at [email protected]. Your gift of song is a cherished gift.
Service Opportunities Inventory Garages—we need some people to go
through our garages and inventory what is in there. (2-3 hour commitment)
Monday Reception—we hope to open the church office on Mondays and need people to answer phones
and sit at the desk in 3 to 4 hour shifts.
Sunday Footprints Coordinator and Resource Manager – these positions help support teachers and
assistants for Footprints Sunday School. Job descriptions on our website:
(trinitylutheranchurch.com/children)
Contact our Administrator, Lynn Landers, if you are interested or want more information.
In Our World
A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Unti
Friends,
I am sitting on the shore of Lake Chelan enjoying some vacation time with Kim and our four girls. I continue to wake up each morning wondering what turbulent news is going to greet me. The challenge is I could be writing a daily Pastoral Letter in response to these times.
It should go without saying that we in the church must come out four square against all forms of hate, bigotry, racism, and nationalism regardless of who is being targeted. The truth is we are all children of God. This is deeply embedded in our Christian bones.
These times are making it abundantly clear that we have a long way to go in both understanding our participation in the evil that we are experiencing and what our responses might look like.
Fellow Bishop Julian Gordy from the Southeastern Synod has spent his entire pastoral ministry trying to pull the bandaid off of racism and to expose the work of confession and reconciliation that we all need to be involved in.
Listen to his words in a recent post to his fellow bishops:
"Racism is and has always been present everywhere in this country. In the past, it was covered up in some places more than it was in the South, and it certainly wasn't as ugly or as blatant as it was here in the days of segregation. White supremacy is the original sin of America. It explains our history. It explains our treatment of the native populations of this continent and of the waves of immigrants who have come here as well as it explains slavery and Jim Crow. Thinking that we all need to "go down South" to address racism may show an inattentiveness to how white supremacy and privilege are affecting us and our own communities.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified and is currently following white supremacist and other hate groups. They exist in every state except Hawaii and Alaska. And while such groups have proliferated in the South in the past 15 years, there are far more of them in California than in Tennessee and Mississippi combined, more in New York than in Georgia, more in Michigan than in Alabama. (Here's the SPLC's interactive map: splcenter.org/hate-map).
“My point is not to deny the reality and the ugliness of what has happened and is still happening in the South, but to say, as Stokley Carmichael said to Will Campbell, the problem is closer to home than you think (my paraphrase)."
Yes, it is alive and well right here in Northwest Washington.
It is why your Synod Council and Roster have participated in Anti - Racism Training. It is why Sunitha Mortha was chosen as our Churchwide speaker for Synod Assembly a year ago. It the reason behind the Synod's support of Kids and Race and Neighbors in Faith. All these efforts are designed to open the eyes and ears of God's people that we might genuinely love all of our neighbors.
Personally, I believe the most important thing that every person in the pew can do is to meet your neighbors who are currently strangers. Design a block party, have them over for a snack and drinks, or just knock on their door and introduce yourself. Kim and I have had a welcome sign in our yard and this summer it has created many conversations.
Friends, this may be a hot political issue but more importantly to me it is a hot values issue for those of us who know Jesus as Lord and rabbi.
May our hearts and actions reflect the one who died to reconcile the world.
Kirby Unti Bishop of the Northwest Washington Synod
Additional Resources
ELCA statement on confronting racism and anti-Semitism: elca.org/News-and-Events/7896
Statement and resources from Faith Action Network: fanwa.org/protesting-hatred.
ELCA social statement on Race, Ethnicity and Culture: elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Race-Ethnicity-and-Culture
Trinity/Pointe of Grace: facebook.com/tl.pog Trinity Lutheran Preschool: facebook.com/tlp.lynnwood
Harbour Pointe Christian Preschool: facebook.com/HarbourPointeChristianPreschool
Faith Formation
Footprints Sunday School & Children’s Music
Kick-off September 24, with regular classes for ages 4—8th grade starting on October 1.
For Teachers Teacher orientation (required) will be offered twice Sunday
morning, September 17 at 9 & 11:30 AM. A third opportunity will be offered on Tuesday, September
26 at 6:30 PM.
A Teacher Training/Enrichment night with Nanette Erban (Trinity CDC Director) will be held in September, date TBD.
Footprints Volunteers Needed We need to fill volunteer positions for Sunday mornings:
Footprints Coordinator and Resource Manager(s).
These positions support the dedicated teachers and assistants that teach children each Sunday at Trinity.
Job descriptions can be found online: trinitylutheranchurch.com/children.
Speak to David Greenlee ([email protected]) with questions.
Summer Youth Nights {SYN} are over but NET begins September 10 and ZOE
returns September 25. See below.
Affirmation Orientation for all incoming 7th graders or starting 8th graders is
Monday, September 18, 7 PM Trinity’s multipurpose room. Parents and students are
encouraged to come together.
Middle school nights, ZOE, begins Monday, September 25 at 7 PM and runs
through Christmas.
NET, for high school students in grades 9-12, begins September 10 and meets each
week from 6—8 PM at Trinity.
Trinity Sundays, Ongoing at 9 AM Join in a discussion of the days lessons in room 203.
Wednesday Morning Adult Bible Study, 9:30 AM: a continuing study of the upcoming Sunday's readings.
Pointe of Grace
Wednesday Morning Women's Bible Study, 10 AM
Adult Education/Faith Formation Planning meeting for the 2017/18 Trinity program year on Thursday, September 7, 7 PM at Trinity.
Online Picture Directory trinitylutheranchurch.com/member-directory
Off-Site Worship Schedule
Date Location Leader Music Leader
August 20 Fairwinds John Judd Juna Davies
August 23 Manor Care John Judd Liz Gimmestad
August 27 Fairwinds Ron Blake EdnaMae Olufson-Smith
August 30 Manor Care Rudy Schleusner Judy Schleusner
Daily Bible Readings (link) Sunday, August 20 – Lectionary 20, Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 | Psalm 67 | Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 | Matthew 15:21-28 Monday, August 21 --------------------------------------------- 2 Kings 5:1-14 Tuesday, August 2 ---------------------------------------------- Isaiah 43:8-13 Wednesday, August 23 -------------------------------------- Matthew 8:1-13 Thursday, August 24 ------------------------------------- 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 Friday, August 25 ------------------------------------- 2 Corinthians 10:12-18 Saturday, August 26 ----------------------------------------------- Psalm 138 Sunday, August 27 – Lectionary 21, Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Isaiah 51:1-6 | Psalm 138 | Romans 12:1-8 | Matthew 16:13-20
Faith Formation
Godly Play at Pointe of Grace Beginning in September, Sunday School at Pointe of Grace will take the form of Godly Play,
a Montessori-based curriculum centered around biblical storytelling that supports the spirituality of children.
To help create the wooden figurines, contact Colleen Nollette (425-308-5390).
To help in the classroom, contact Laura Crawford (425-349-3703).
For more information or with questions, contact Pastor Joan Beck ([email protected])
Trinity Office Hours: Closed Monday; Tues-Thurs 8 AM—3 PM; Fri 8 AM—1 PM
Pointe of Grace Office Hours: Closed Monday; Tues & Thurs 10 AM—2 PM; Wed 1 PM—4 PM; Closed Friday
Calendar
Sunday, August 20 Trinity 7:45, 9 & 10:30 AM – Worship 9 AM Adult Education
Pointe of Grace 9:30 AM Worship
Off-Site 7 PM Worship at Fairwinds
Monday, August 21 Trinity 7 PM Stephen Minister
Supervision
Tuesday, August 22 7 PM Neighbors in Need Board
Pointe of Grace 9:30 AM MTL Summer
Off-Site 7 PM Nasby ChristCare
Wednesday, August 23 Trinity 9 AM Prayer Group 9:30 AM Bible Study
Pointe of Grace 10 AM Women's Bible Study
Off-Site
2:30 PM Worship at Manor Care
Thursday, August 24 Trinity 1:30 PM Space for Grace
Friday, August 25 Trinity
Saturday, August 26 Trinity 8 AM Neighborhood Youth
Alliance 8:15 AM Neighbors In Need
Off-Site 7:05 PM Aged to Perfection at
AquaSox Game
Contact Us Trinity: 425-778-2159
Trinity extensions:
General/Kelly Apling ................. 2200 Norma Aamodt-Nelson ............ 2203 Pastor Burchfield .......................... 2204 David Greenlee .............................. 2231 Debbie Jeske .................................. 2225 Josh Judd-Herzfeldt ....................... 2215 Lynn Landers ................................. 2205 June Lee .......................................... 2223
Pointe of Grace: 425-263-8730
Pastors Joan & John Beck
Harbour Pointe Christian Preschool: Kim Kusilek, 425-353-7457
Trinity Lutheran Preschool: Kris Dudak, 425-771-8433
Trinity Child Development Center: Nanette Erban, 425-771-5393
What’s Happening Submissions: [email protected]
Calendar & Contact Info Updates: [email protected]
Admin & Financial Matters: Lynn Landers—
