Atonement Lutheran Church Newsletter - The Messenger

The Messenger is published weekly, except for holiday weeks and an abbreviated schedule over the summer. If you prefer a copy of the Messenger that you can print, click on the link below:

Print version of this issue
Messenger Archives

June 30, 2009 - Volume 30, #27

• Save a Tree, Save a Stamp, Save some Money!

  Have you signed up to get the Messenger Online?

  To sign up for electronic "delivery" complete the online form at: http://www.alcsyracuse.org/mailinglist.php

  ---

• Summer Messenger Schedule - Next Messenger will be 7/13

  As it was last year, the Messenger will be printed every other week during the months of July and August. Each issue will have the weekly events and assisting schedules for two weeks. If something critical arises and we need to get the word out, we will publish a "special" issue.

  The planned publication dates are: July 13, July 27, August 10, and August 24. The regular weekly schedule resumes with the September 7 issue.

  ---

• in Observation of Independence Day...
  
  ...The church office will be closed Friday July 3rd.
   

  ---

• 

  Literacy and Head Start

  Do you know someone who could use a little one-on-one help with their reading skills? Do they need to develop reading skills?

  Receive one-on-one help with reading and go at your own pace.

  Contact the Family Worker of Head Start, Andrea Bernard, right here at Atonement. 701-1867

  Details:

  • Once a week, each Wednesday, July 1-August 6
  • 5:00-7:00pm with dinner at 5:00.
   

  ---

• Word [WURD] of the Week
  

  preacher -- [pree-cher] a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel; a person who preaches (like you).

  One of my professors at seminary addressed us as preachers - he was not my preaching professor either. Not all of us in the classroom are going to become pastors - there are many other degree options in seminary. I have to confess that it took me a while to get past the “preachers are pastors” mentality. Truthfully, if preaching the gospel were left only to pastors, we'd be in a world of hurt.

  You're a preacher. You don't need a pulpit to preach. You don't need to wear a robe to preach. You don't even need words to preach. We all know the good news when we hear it and see it and live it. And when we forget the good news, well, that's when we need those around us to remind us of that good news - to speak it to us, to live it for us so that we might be reminded of this powerful good news that cannot be contained.

   

  ---

• July Anniversaries
    3  Donald & Nancy Hamilton (1965)
    8  Carl & Elizabeth Morgan (2000)
    9  Horst & Linda Koslowsky (1982) and Jennifer & Andrew Hazeltine (2005)
  11  Susan & Timothy Marshall (1998)
  13  Steve & Lynn Strumlok (1974) and Thomas & Susan Johnson (2002)
  16  Scott & Patricia Wells (1994)
  27  Lisa & Scott Kniffin (1996)
  28  Brent & Katie Rodgers (2002)
  31  Michele & Edward Curtis (1998) and Kimberly & Scott Kennedy (1999)

  ---

• July Birthdays
    2  Scott Kennedy, William Anson
    3  John Geis, Sean Walsh, Sirena Morgan, Ashlynn Houghton
    7  Laura Hurley
    9  Barbara Nelson, Michael Strumlok, Erik Young
  10  Robert Keil, Terry Gore, Theresa Rice
  11  Allyson Fox, Ivy Casler
  12  Caleb Hillman
  13  Steven Galaska, Tyler Carry, Matthew Cox, Tracy Rosenbarker, Jay Stone
  14  Marissa Smith, Nancy Walsh, Willie Monds, Shirley Marshall,
  15  Michael Smith, Sabrina Rehm
  16  Signe Nelson, Rhiannon Randall
  17  Tamara Springer
  18  Fredrick Hill, Jr., Clara Doerle, Jackie Koslowsky
  19  Evan Loehr, Adlai (Bill) Wheeless
  21  Mark Huston, Sr.
  22  James Christensen, Morgan Mrozek, Ashley Casler
  23  Elizabeth Russell, Zachary Riker
  24  Linda J. Galaska, Michele Lindor
  25  Ernst Hantke, D. Nicole Fatherly, Evan Mrozek
  26  William Hanlon, Michelle Knaack, Charles LaDuca
  28  Janet Holmgren
  29  Cherrae Lynch
  30  Alexandreah Kennedy, Kathy Cavallo, Cale Schad Samantha Kluhiewicz
  31  Christine Gaetz Bauer

  ---

• Don't Feed the Actors!
  

  July 10 & 11 - 8pm - all tickets $12

  Reservations:
  315-492-9766
  reservations@appleseedproductions.org

  Buy Tickets Online: www.appleseedproductions.org

  This production is made posible in part with funds from Onondaga County and the Cultural Resrouces Council, a Regional Art Council.