St. Thomas Lutheran Church Newsletter
Date: September 2019
Pastor: The Rev. Larry Hagerty Address: 215 St. Thomas Church Rd. Chapin, SC 29036 Office: 803-345-2993 Web: www.StThomas-Lutheran.org E-mail (church office): [email protected]
E-mail (Pastor): [email protected]
From the desk of Pastor Hagerty…
In Sunday worship, we have been following our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has been on His way to Jerusalem and the cross. Our gospel lessons continue to tell the travel narrative from St. Luke’s Gospel. Jesus and his teachings may afflict the comfortable parts of our lives, while comforting our afflictions. We look ahead for more of the same in September as we hear the Word from chapters 14 through 16 of Luke.
We look forward to Hotdogs for Heroes on Sunday, September 8th when our youth will honor first responders from our congregation and our surrounding community. We will have one service at 10:30 am, followed by a hotdog luncheon in our parish hall.
Our Sunday School and Confirmation Classes for the fall will begin on Sunday, September 15th at 9:15 am. We will have some refreshments to kick off the fall season.
Our Christian Education will feature Pastor’s Class on “Meeting God in Prayer” on Tues-days at 10:30 am, beginning on September 3rd. The Women’s Bible Study will resume on Mondays at 6:30 pm, beginning on September 9th.They will study the Book of Esther.
It would not be September without our Homecoming Service on the fourth Sunday. We will have a covered dish luncheon following the one service at 10:30 am Sunday, Septem-ber 22nd. Our guest preacher will be Pastor Karen Young.
See you at church!
Pastor
Save the Date: October 20, 2019 our annual Trunk or Treat/Fall Festival from 5 -
7pm at our picnic shelter. We will need volunteers for trunks and setup/clean up.
Please look for sign up sheets in the narthex and weekly bulletin for more infor-
mation or ask Beth Ervin. Thanks!!
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Church Council Minutes
August 11, 2019
Called to order: at 11:37 am by Lyn Odom
Opening prayer: Pastor Hagerty
Check Roll: Pastor Hagerty, Lyn Odom, Debbie
Morell, Tracey Hagerty, Donall Stoudemire,
Ginny Lindler, Lee Wessinger, Martha Der-
rick, Alice Lindler, Lib Derrick, and Fred
Falls.
Excused absence: Connie Steele
July 14, 2019 Council minutes: Submitted, re-
viewed and approved.
REPORTS:
Pastor’s Report: Pastor submitted a written
report which was also printed in the August
newsletter. Highlights of activities in our con-
gregation since our last council meeting of July
14th were reported. GraceWorks began on the
afternoon of July 14th, where 80 youth and 20
adults from 15 Lutheran congregations wor-
shipped, learned, and served among 20 agen-
cies in and around Columbia that help the poor
and needy. Beth Ervin did a great job schedul-
ing the GraceWorks service projects. Pastor
and Alexander Ervin served. Our YAH peach
run was a success. We thank Rev. Jim Nichols
for presiding and preaching at the funeral of
Miriam Bickley while pastor was in Canada on
vacation. We also thank Ginny for meeting
with the family along with Pastor Jim to plan
the hymns and scriptures that were used at the
service. The rest of the highlights and upcom-
ing events listed in Pastor’s report will be cov-
ered in other reports.
Memorial Fund Report: There was $650.16
received in July. No disbursements were made.
The balance at the end of July was $9,909.07.
CHURCH COUNCIL
President Lyn Odom
Vice President Fred Falls
Secretary Connie Steele Youth and Children’s
Ministry Alice Lindler
Christian Education Debbie Morrell Tracey Hagerty
Worship and Music
Lib Derrick Ginny Lindler Property
Martha Derrick Donall Stoudemire
Evangelism and
Outreach Ministry
Lee Wessinger
Finance and
Stewardship Fred Falls
Cemetery Donall Stoudemire
STAFF
Pastor The Rev. Larry Hagerty
Director of Music Ginny Lindler Organist Marie Stoudemire Administrative
Assistant Sharon Dickert
Sexton James Eskew
LEADERS
Treasurer Alicia Amick
Memorial Fund
Treasurer
Anne Shealy Recording Treasurer
Alicia Amick
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Treasurer’s Report: We received $21,306.00
in current fund income in July. Current fund
expenses for June were $18,702.02. Year-to-
date, our actual income has exceeded our actu-
al expenses by $6,817. Our current fund in-
come is $10,497 higher than at this time last
year, which has enabled us to have a balanced
budget.
Outreach & Evangelism: The committee did
not meet in July. Our upcoming outreach ef-
fort, “Hotdogs for Heroes,” will be held on
September 8th and was initiated by the Youth
Committee and the Worship and Music com-
mittee. Our outreach effort with GraceWorks
was reported by Pastor.
Property: Donall reported that the pressure
relief valve is leaking on the well. David
Bouknight will come out and look at the equip-
ment and give us an estimate. The ceiling tiles
need repair and an anonymous person offered
to pay for the repairs. We will have a painter
come out and give us an estimate. Martha and
Fred have agreed to take over the job that
Ricky Waites had been doing of adding salt to
our water treatment system. We thanked Ricky
for a job well done.
Christian Education Report: Tracey reported
that Sunday School Rally Day has been moved
to September 15th, due to Hotdogs for Heroes
being held on September 8th. We will have a
celebration during the Sunday School hour,
rather than having a luncheon afterwards. Pas-
tor reported that confirmation class will resume
on September 15th, as well as our regular Sun-
day School classes.
Worship and Music: Lib handed out the
minutes from the Worship and Music commit-
tee meeting of August 5th, as well as comments
made during the open forums. Discussion fol-
lowed regarding the committee’s recommenda-
tion to develop a contemporary service, which
would be more casual and be held once per
month. It would last for a six month trial peri-
od. This contemporary service would include
no robes being worn and have contemporary
music. The goal is to draw more people to
worship. This would start no earlier than Octo-
ber, considering the Hotdogs for Heroes ser-
vice is on September 8th and Homecoming will
be on September 22nd. Ginny and Lib will have
the Worship and Music committee meet again
prior to the September council meeting, the
date to be announced, to discuss some ques-
tions presented at Council. The guest preacher
for Homecoming is being finalized by the
Worship and Music committee. WELCA will
meet on August 28th to discuss decorations for
Homecoming.
Youth Report: Alice repor ted that the Youth committee met on Sunday, July 21st. The youth and children will lead our one worship service on Sunday, September 8th. We will invite any first responder and his/her family to join our congregation for this service and be honored for their dedication to the safety of our com-munity. This includes both current and retired Police, Fire, EMS, SRO, DNR, and Volun-teers. The worship service will begin at 10:30 a.m. Lunch consisting of hotdogs and all of the trimmings will follow the service. Cards will be made for our first responders by our chil-dren and youth during the Sunday School hour on August 25th and September 1st. Signup sheets are in the narthex for donations and to volunteer to help out with the meal.
Ginny thanked Alice for all that she is doing to give opportunities for the youth.
Cemetery Report: No repor t.
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Stewardship & Finance Report: Fred is
working on setting up a Stewardship and
Finance committee meeting. Items that will
be on the agenda are the 2020 budget, the
audit committee, and updating the church
insurance. We may need people with a
strong financial background to serve on the
audit committee.
Old Business:
1) Deb Morell purchased some Blink-XT
cameras and donated them to the church.
She dropped them off at the church for
Lyn to look at. They work via WiFi. Lyn
will lead the effort to get them operation-
al and figure out how we can use cloud
storage of the camera footage. This will
help our security around the church.
2) We will continue to explore ways to im-
prove the speed and efficiency of Sha-
ron’s current computer by having a
knowledgeable IT person scrub the com-
puter and eliminate unwanted files and
programs. We all agreed to obtain an
external hard drive to back-up the data
on Sharon’s computer. Connie has one
that she will donate to the church. We
also agreed to establish a protocol to
back-up and periodically clean the
church computer system. Pastor agreed
to speak to Christy Brasington for her
advice and Donall agreed to ask an IT
person that he knows for his recommen-
dation.
3) We have had success in reducing our newsletter mailing costs. More people have opted out of having their newsletter
mailed to them and will access it online and/or pick up a copy in the narthex. We reduced our mailing from 143 copies to below 80 copies. Sharon can place the stamps on the newsletters and bring them to the White Rock Post Office. The mini-mum cost of mailing a flat is one dollar ($1.00) per piece. This is true whether it is 12 pages or up to 20 pages, using a booklet form with legal sized paper.
4) We will present the approved sexton’s job description and contract to Mr. Eskew. He has had shoulder surgery, which has caused a delay.
5) Alice asked about the Staff Support Committee and the starting date. We de-cided to make the starting date Septem-ber 1st. Beth Bedenbaugh has a one year term and Roger Edwards has a two year term.
6) A church member is willing to donate three signs to hang below our church signs at the crossroads and on Highway 76 which will list our Sunday worship times. We agreed to hold off until we confirm what our worship times will be, as we move forward.
7) The Farming Church visioning process is
on hold. We had only 15 people attend
the listening groups. We had a goal of
hearing from 40 people, which would be
half of our average worship attendance.
We will resume the Farming Church pro-
cess pending getting some advice from
Dr. Mark Tidsworth.
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New Business:
1) Tracey presented an article entitled:
“U.S. Church Membership Down Sharp-
ly in Past Two Decades.” In the past
twenty years, church membership and
attendance has dropped across the board
of all generations. Fred mentioned that
the graphs of ELCA churches have near-
ly all shown a downward trend. On the
plus side, we have lots of new homes
being built around Saint Thomas and
our location is an advantage. Pastor not-
ed that several people talked to the two
women who were guests in our worship
today.
2) Lyn Odom began a twenty-minute dis-
cussion of activities and declarations
that took place at the ELCA Churchwide
Assembly in Milwaukee from August
5th through August 11th. Since the as-
sembly just ended, we await the SC
Synod response to congregations like
ours, as to how these actions affect us.
There was wide agreement among
Council that we are not in favor of
our church getting too political, as this
could cause division and have a negative
effect on our evangelism efforts.
Meeting was adjourned at 12:57 pm and we
closed with the Lord’s Prayer.
Respectfully submitted,
Pastor Hagerty and Connie Steele
Homecoming will be held on September 22nd and a covered-dish luncheon will follow in the Parish Hall after the one worship service at 10:30 am. Members of St. Thomas are asked to bring a covered dish to share.
Update on Churchwide Assembly
Since the council meeting, Pastor
Hagerty forwarded an email statement
by our SC Synod Bishop Herman Yoos
on Wednesday, August 14th, regarding
the ELCA Churchwide assembly.
Bishop Yoos made it clear that the
ELCA is not encouraging any congre-
gation to break the law, as it was false-
ly reported by the media. In addition,
no congregation will have anything im-
posed on them by the ELCA.
God’s Peace,
Pastor
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Pastor’s Report
Upcoming Events in September
1. Pastor’s Class on “Meeting God in Prayer” begins on Tuesday, September 3rd at 10:30 AM.
2. The Lutheran Men in Mission will meet on September 4th at 5:30 PM.
3. Hotdogs for Heroes will take place on Sunday, September 8th with one service at 10:30 am, (See page 7.)
4. WELCA Heartland Fall Meeting will meet at St. Luke’s, Prosperity at 3 PM on Sunday, September 8th
5. The Women’s Bible Study will begin on Monday, September 9th at 6:30 pm.
6. Game Nights will take place on Thursday September 12th and 26th at 6:00 PM and will begin with covered dish meals.
7. The Fall Sunday School curriculum
and Confirmation will begin on Sep-tember 15th and continue on Sundays at 9:15 AM.
8. Church Council will meet on Sun-day, September 15th at 11:40 AM.
9. The Young at Heart Fish Fry will take place on Tuesday, September 17th at 11:30 am.
10. Homecoming will take place on Sun-day, September 22nd. There will be one service at 10:30 AM followed by a covered dish meal in the parish hall.
11. The Youth/KICS will go bowling af-ter the Homecoming lunch and are all encouraged to invite a friend
August Highlights
1. Pastor returned from vacation on
Monday, August 5th.
2. The Worship and Music Committee
held their regular quarterly meeting on
Monday, August 5th at 6:30 pm.
2. The Lutheran Men in Mission met on
Wednesday, August 7th at 5:30 pm.
3. Game Nights were held on Thursday,
August 8th and 22nd at 6:00 pm.
4. Fellowship Breakfasts took place on August 8th and 22nd at Palmetto Roads
at 8:30 am.
5. Church Council met on Sunday,
August 11th after the late service.
6. Feeding the Homeless took place on August 18th at 1:00 pm at Finlay Park
in Columbia
7. Young at Heart had an indoor picnic
on Tuesday, August 20th at 11:30 am.
8. Pastor’s Bible Study completed their study of the Book of Acts during the month of August. The class met on
Tuesdays at 10:30 am.
9. Pastoral Care in August included providing 4 shut-in visits with Holy Communion, two hospital visits, and 4
counseling sessions.
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2 Christina Bickley
Thomas Ervin
3 Michael McCaslin
5 Earline Derrick
7 Trish Edwards
Michael Harvey
Michael Rowland
10 Millette Mullins
Molly Slice
12 Tim Slice
Ella Stoudemire
12 Tom Johnson
13 Margaret Brasington
C.J. Lindler
Janet Tapp
16 Bennie Derrick
Mike Edens
17 Elise Harvey
19 Pam Meetze
23 Betty Rowland
Woody Woodham
24 Marie Stoudemire
Natasha Stoudemire
28 Evelyn Evans
2/1951 Pete & Shirley Petersen
3/1966 Joe & Margaret Epting
11/1993 Woody & Cindy Woodham
26/1987 Andy & Debbie Rennhack
26/1965 Albert & Marie Stoudemire
28/2002 Lyn & Sue Odom
The Youth of St. Thomas Lutheran Church invite you to join us for worship service followed by a hotdog lunch to honor our Heroes.
We invite any first responder and his/her family to join our congregation for this service and be hon-ored for your dedication to the safety of our community.
This includes both current and retired Police, Fire, EMS, SRO, DNR, and Volunteers. Worship service will begin at 10:30 a.m.
Lunch consisting of hotdogs and all of the trimmings will follow the service. Please RSVP to [email protected] by September 5, 2019 with your name and the number
of people who will attend. St. Thomas Lutheran Church is at 215 St. Thomas Church Road, Chapin.
We look forward to honoring you on this special day.
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WELCA NEWS ♦ Betty Koon, Debbie Rennhack and Beth Ervin attended the 32nd annual WELCA
Convention at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Lexington in June. The theme was “Grace in Community”. Our keynote speaker was Jen Thompson from Light-house for Life and Convention Chaplain Rev Ginger Litman Koon. The convention project was Lighthouse for Life Freedom Bags and “Thank you for your service” cards for our military. St. Thomas donated 5 completed Freedom Bags. The conven-tion donated over 400 bags to Lighthouse for Life!! Our convention members signed hundreds of cards to be sent to our military. A total of $9.000 in checks and gift cards were also donated to Lighthouse for Life.
♦ Heartland Fall Meeting will be Sunday, Sept. 8, 3 PM, St. Luke's Prosper ity ♦ WELCA will be decorating tables for Homecoming this year. We look forward to see-
ing old and new faces! ♦ We will be cutting pound cakes again for the HUB Thanksgiving meal in November.
We will need 11 cakes. Please look for the sign up sheet in the Narthex in early No-vember.
♦ We will be putting together the Angel Tree again this year. Anne Orange is our coor-dinator for this project. Look for information and details in October’s newsletter and the Angel Tree in early November. We appreciate your generosity!!
♦ WeCare Donations: 88 lbs ♦ We will meet again in November 25th at 7pm in parish building: we will be cutting
cakes and electing officers for 2020. Please join us!! ♦ Come be a part of WELCA:
Purpose Statement: As a community of women created in the image of God,
Called to discipleship in Jesus Christ,
And empowered by the Holy Spirit,
We commit ourselves to grow in faith,
Affirm our gifts,
Support one another in our callings,
Engage in ministry and action,
And promote healing and wholeness in the
Church, the society, and the world.
Thanks! Beth Ervin
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Christian Education
Now, through September 1st, we will offer a One Room Sunday School for children ages 3 to 12. using the Deep Blue curriculum from Cokesbury. We will meet every Sunday at 9:15 AM. Regular
classes start on September 15th.
Our confirmation class for 6th through 9th grade is taking a summer break and will resume on September 15th. The class uses the “Here We Stand” curriculum
from Augsburg Fortress.
The adult class will continue throughout the summer
and use the Augsburg Adult Bible Studies.
Women's Bible Study will resume on Monday, September 9th, at 6:30 p.m. We will be studying the book of Esther. Please sign-up in the Narthex by September 1st to reserve your book. I am look-ing forward to this time of faith - filled conversations as we study His Word. Questions - Call Ginny Lindler
Beginning on Tuesday, September 3rd, Pastor will begin the class entitled: “Meeting God in Prayer” at 10:30 am. Among the questions we will discuss:
• What is prayer? • What does scripture have to say about it? • Why do we pray?
We start off with a five minute video clip to engage in an intimate conversation with some teachers of the church as they share their biblical understanding of prayer, their own stories of prayer and point to the promises of God who meets us in prayer.
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Please join us on Tuesday, September 17th at 11:30 am for our Annual Fish Fry and Fellowship! More details in upcom-ing bulletins. Please RSVP to Sharon by September 15th.
GAME NIGHTS
Game Night will be held Thursdays,
September 12th & 26th in the Par-ish Hall. The covered dish meal be-gins at 6:00 pm. Come join us for lots of fun and fellowship!
FELLOWSHIP BREAKFAST
We will meet at Palmetto Roads in Hilton on Thursdays, September 12th & 26th. Everyone is invited to come share in this Dutch Treat time of good food and fellowship.
We extend our condolences to:
Bennie Derrick on the death of his brother in law,
Jim Cheesman.
Roberta Eskew on the death of her brother
MEMORIALS Given to the glory of God and in memory of:
Miriam Bickley by James & Edith Wessinger, Mike & Ina Edens, Carl
David & Janice Lindler, Betty Hicks, Gary & Gwyne Bedenbaugh,
Brenda Smith & Grady Lindler, Paul & Cheryl (Weed) Lundy, Hal &
Kay Bickley, Joe & Jean Ann Rauch, Epting’s Landing, Margaret Epting, Rose Bickley,
Ronnie & Ginny Lindler, Bill & Melverta Sandel, Deb Morell
Frances Derrick by Rayleen Hollis
Warren Sandel by Dennis Lindler
St. Thomas, Your expression of sympathy will always be remembered.
Thank you very much for providing our family with a meal after the funeral for Miriam. That was very nice and we appreciate the support.
With love, The Bickley Family
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A Record of Our Faithfulness
Through 8/25/2019
2019 Budgeted income $ 222,251
2019 Monthly need $ 18,521
2019 Monthly avg income $ 18,657
Jan thru August income $ 149,258
2019 Attendance:
8:00 AM worship average 20
10:30 AM worship average 59
Special service average 97
2019 overall worship average 81
The Joy of Giving
As autumn draws near, it’s a great time to reflect on how God has blessed you. Please consider those blessings when mak-ing your faithful and joyful response to God’s grace through your monetary gifts to Saint Thomas. Let’s see if we can finish the year with a balanced current fund budget!
With your continued sacrificial help, our congregation can continue to make an im-pact for the sake of God’s kingdom. Thank you!
In Christ,
Pastor
The St Thomas LMM will meet in the Parish Hall on
Wednesday, September 4th and October 2nd at 5:30 pm.
HAPPY 75th ANNIVERSARY to Heifer International!
Started by Dan West after the Spanish Civil War with the idea of “not a cup, but a cow” to help the refugees. His idea bloomed into a way to help people through gifts of animals, plants and educating them to better living skills. This organization has helped many people in many countries to make a better life for their families!
Better education, better housing, better medical care and better ways of working to-gether make for a better world. ~ Lib
WE CARE NEEDS YOU!!!
September Pantry Needs
Cereal, corn muffin mix, soup (all flavors and sizes), jam/jelly, canned fruit, chili beans,
pancake mix/syrup, instant potatoes, Vienna sausages, and salmon
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WE REMEMBER IN PRAYER
If you have a name which you would like to have listed, please indicate by filling out a pew card or by calling the church office. Names will then remain on the prayer list for four weeks, unless we are notified to extend the time. Thank you.
• STLC, Staff, Pastor & their families
• SC Synod, Bishop, Staff & their families
• Annette Falls (overlapping auto immune disease)
• Debbie Wise (health is-sues / cancer treatments / daughter of Rose Bickley)
• Lucas Powell (recovery from chemotherapy and radiation treatments)
• Lynnox Givins (3 year old girl in ICU in Greenville / foster child of Alicia Amick’s niece)
• Rev. Beverly Aurand (breast cancer / radiation treatments)
• Thomas Jaco (2 year old child with eye cancer is in remission / child of a friend of Margaret Epting)
• Oscar Rabon (recovery at home from hip surgery)
• Toni Kleckley (health issues / recovery from knee surgery)
• Bernie Hoefer (staying at Carolina Gardens in Lexington, room 318 / cerebellar ataxia / balance issues)
• Nancy Shealy Dimaccio (cancer / recovery from surgery on August 14th / classmate of Margaret Epting)
• Andrew Connelly (recovery at home with therapy from auto accident of December 5th / former organist at St. Thomas / will have to have surgery)
• Hope Grasso (granddaughter of Rev. Lynne O’Shea / pre-mature baby at home now)
• Mitchell Fleck (recovery from surgery / hospitaliza-tion in Louisville, KY / son of Cheryl Kolb)
• Holly Wessinger (recovery from thyroid surgery of July 2nd)
• Larry Monts (recovery from stroke at the LMC Long Term Care in Lexington)
• Jackson Shealy (recovery from brain surgery of July 5th / 10 year old grandson of Anne Shealy)
• Judy Swygert (recovery from hip surgery of July 24th)
• Family of Miriam Bickley (who died on July 26th)
• Jim Eskew (recovery from shoulder surgery on August 6th / our church sexton)
• Rev. Jim Nichols (recovery from back surgery of August 9th)
• Sadie Waites (health is-sues / wife of Christopher Waites son and daughter-in-law of Tracy and Allen Lindler.)
• Family of Ken Webb (who died on July 20th / son of the late Rev. Ken & Betty Webb)
• All those affected by the shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH
• The families of Jim Cheesman (brother in law of Bennie Derrick who died on August 7th)
• Jeannine Olson (knee surgery complications / upcoming second surgery)
• Natalie Zuspan (pneumonia and hospitali-zation / niece of Pastor and Tracey Hagerty)
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Date Flowers Greeter Lay Reader
10:30 am
Acolyte/Crucifer
10:30 am
1 Debbie Morell
Lynn Rennebaum
Fred Falls
Andrew Lindler
8 Richard Lindler
Lynn Rennebaum
Beth Ervin
Meshack Lameck
15 Edith Wessinger
Lynn Rennebaum
Debbie Rennhack
McKenzie Metts
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Homecoming Mary Joyce
Shealy Lynn
Rennebaum Debbie Morell
C: Grace Derrick A: Alexander Ervin A: Sara Elizabeth W.
29 Rennhack Family
Lynn Rennebaum
Janet Tapp
Karen Lameck
Early Ushers: O’Neal Bickley & Albert Stoudemire
Late Ushers: Capt-Rick Rennebaum, Lynn Rennebaum, Lyn Odom, Sue Odom
Altar Guild: Betty Koon, Debbie Rennhack, Betty Wessinger, Martha Derrick,
Roger & Trish Edwards
Keepers of the Keys / Offering Courier: Debbie Morell
Nursery Keeper: On-call list
Funeral Crucifers: Harr ison Bedenbaugh, Fred Falls
2019 Flower Chart is Posted! Our flower chart is posted on the Cry Room door and we do have
open dates. If you would like to put flowers in the church in honor or memory of someone, please sign up on the calendar for your special date and PLEASE indicate one or two flower bouquets beside your
name. Thanks!
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Pastor
The Rev. Larry Hagerty
Director of Music
Ginny Lindler
Organist
Marie Stoudemire
Administrative Assistant
Sharon Dickert
Council President
Lyn Odom
Council Vice President
Fred Falls
Council Secretary
Connie Steele
Treasurer
Alicia Amick
Memorial Fund Treasurer
Anne Shealy
Recording Treasurer
Alicia Amick
Church Office Hours
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Pastor’s Availability Tuesday through Sunday 8 AM to 9 PM
Feel free to call Pastor’s cell: 673-6507
to talk or to make an appointment
Church Phone: (803) 345-2993
Office email: [email protected]
Pastor’s email: [email protected]
Web: www.StThomas-Lutheran.org
In Case of Emergency, Call Any Time:
Pastor Hagerty Cell 673-6507
Lyn Odom
Cell 414-9464
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SUNDAY SCHEDULE
Worship Services: 8 am & 10:30 am
On September 1st, 15th, and 29th
Children’s One Room Sunday School
meets at 9:15 am.
Adult Sunday School at 9:15 am
Sun Mon Tue Wed
1 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
2 Happy Labor Day
Church Office Closed
3 Fitness Works 9:00 am
Pastor’s Class 10:30 am “Meeting God in Prayer”
4 Lutheran Men in Mission share-a-meal 5:30 pm
Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
8 Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Hotdogs for Heroes lunch following the one worship Service at 10:30 am
WELCA Heartland Fall meeting
at St. Luke’s at 3 :00 pm
9 Women’s Bible Study book of Esther 6:30 pm
10 Fitness Works 9:00 am
Pastor’s Class 10:30 am “Meeting God in Prayer”
11 Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
15 Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Church Council 11:40 am
Feeding the homeless 1 pm
16 Women’s Bible Study book of Esther 6:30 pm
17 Fitness Works 9:00 am Young at Heart annual Fish Fry 11:30 am
18 Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
22 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Homecoming (one service 10:30 am)
Youth Bowling follows at AMF Columbia
23 Women’s Bible Study book of Esther 6:30 pm
24 Fitness Works 9:00 am
Pastor’s Class 10:30 am “Meeting God in Prayer”
25 Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
29 Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Change for Change 10:30 am
30 Women’s Bible Study book of Esther 6:30 pm
October 1
Pastor’s Class 10:30 am “Meeting God in Prayer” ++++++++++++++++++ Neighborhood Watch Meeting at 6:30 pm
October 2
Lutheran Men in Mission share-a-meal 5:30 pm Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
September 2019
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Offered Every Sunday
Thu Fri Sat
Lutheran Men in Mission meal 5:30 pm
Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
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6 Fitness Works 9:00 am
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Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm 12 Fellowship Breakfast 8:30 am at Palmetto Roads
Game Night STLC 6 pm
with covered dish
13 Fitness Works 9:00 am
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Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm 19
20 Fitness Works 9:00 am
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Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
26 Fellowship Breakfast 8:30 am at Palmetto Roads
Game Night STLC 6 pm
with covered dish
27 Fitness Works 9:00 am
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Lutheran Men in Mission meal 5:30 pm
Adult Choir Practice 6:30 pm
October 3 October 4 Fitness Works 9:00 am
October 5
September 2019
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