Update on volunteers needed to sell "The Story"

Thank you Linda Callies!


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From: Linda C <lindacallies@centurylink.net>
Date: 11/25/2013 1:37 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: revklaus@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: volunteers needed to sell "The Story"

 

I need a few volunteers to sell The Story after Saturday service and after late service this Sunday.  
 
And then also for all three services on the following dates and times.
 
Please let me know your willingness to help and when!!
 
Sat, Dec. 7 
 
Sun, Dec 8
8:30 Linda Callies
 
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Sat. Dec. 14
 
Sun, Dec 15
8:30- Linda Callies

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Sat, Dec 21
 
Sun, Dec 22-
8:30-
 
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Sat. Dec 28-
 
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8:30
 
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volunteers needed to sell "The Story"

I need a few volunteers to sell The Story after Saturday service and after late service this Sunday. 
 
And then also for all three services on the following dates and times.
 
Please let me know your willingness to help and when!!
 
Sat, Dec. 7
 
Sun, Dec 8
8:30
 
11
 
 
Sat. Dec. 14
 
Sun, Dec 15
8:30-
 
11-
 
 
Sat, Dec 21
 
Sun, Dec 22-
8:30-
 
11-
 
 
Sat. Dec 28-
 
Sun. Dec 29-
8:30
 
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Operation Backpack: Squeezable Jelly for December

Now that they have all the peanut butter they need for a while let's do jelly!  Please bring squeezable jelly to church for the month of December to help out Operation Backpack!!

Sermon hymn, Sermon, and Choir singing "Give Thanks"

In case you missed worship yesterday, here is the sermon hymn "When I behold Jesus Christ", the sermon, and the choir singing "Give Thanks" 
 
Enjoy!
 
 
http://youtu.be/t-jlAEkyvdo

Daily Devotion: Mon., Nov. 25, 2013

 
DEVOTION:  Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.  Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.  Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you.   Acts 13:39-40
 
What do you want people to know about you?  Do you want them to know what you like and don't like?  Do you want them to know that you are a nice person and that you care about them?  Do you want them to know who your family is?  Do you care if people know anything about you at all?  What about Jesus?  Do you want them to know about Jesus in you?  Do you care if people know whether or not you are a Christian? 

Do you want them to know Jesus for themselves?  Do you care?  Sometimes we get too inwardly focused.  We want what we want and we want it now.  We are no different than a two year old throwing a tantrum.  We want people to know all about us without telling them one thing about Jesus in us.  Does that do any good?  Will that matter in the life to come?
 
This Thanksgiving week God wants you to think about doing things and saying things for your friends and family that will make a difference in their eternal life, because you want them to know that "through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you."
 
Let us pray: Lord God, help me not to be shallow and self centered in my thinking, acting and speaking.  Help me instead to think of the salvation and eternal life of others since I am already saved.  Amen.
 

 

 


 
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THURSDAY'S QUIZ: What did Peter say to the beggar when the beggar asked him for money at the temple gate called Beautiful? Silver and gold I don't have, but what I do have I give to you.  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."  
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MONDAY'S QUIZ:  Who went with Paul on his first missionary journey?
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CALENDAR
Mon- Confirmation 5-6:15
Tues- QUilters 9-2; Bible Study 11:30-12:15
Wed- Thanksgiving Eve worship 7pm
Thurs- Thanksgiving
Fri- GIVING FRIDAY (Instead of amassing more junk for yourself think about giving some of it away.)
Sat- worship 5pm
Sun- ADVENT BEGINS with worship 8:30 and 11; Sunday school and adult Bible class 9:45
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GIVING TREE IS UP!!
There are 18 families who need help this Christmas.  57 kids need gifts!  Come to church this Wednesday or this weekend and take an ornament or two!
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THE STORY: AN EXCITING NEW EXPERIENCE FOR OUR WHOLE CONGREGATION!!
What is it?  THE STORY is a book compiled and written by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee, which takes sections of the Bible and divides it up into 31 chapters and adds commentary and study notes to it.  The best way to describe it is to call it a Reader's Digest condensed version of the Bible.  It is not split up into chapters and verses but reads more like a novel, and it doesn't include every bit of the Bible, but most of the main sections and stories.  
 
How will it work?  As a family and as individual members of the congregation you will each get a copy of the book.  There are different versions for adults, teens, older elementary age and younger children.  You will get these and read chapter 1 before January 5.  Each week we will go through a chapter of the book in every part of the church's life: in Worship, Bible Studies, Confirmation and in the Home for personal devotions. 
 
Why are we doing this? This is a great opportunity for all of us to read through the Bible TOGETHER in 31 weeks and for us to all literally be on the same page.  The materials are excellent.  It is a fantastic way for us to grow together as a church and or us to reach out to the community with the Gospel! 
 
What about special weeks like Holy Week and Easter?  We will take several weeks off throughout these eight months, one for Life Sunday in January, one for Easter and another two or three when I am going to be gone for Spring Break and other vacations. A specific schedule will be coming out in the next week or so.  
 
How do we get the books?  Each adult will be asked to buy a book for $6.  A table will be set up in the narthex to buy them before and after services for the next several weeks or you can call Marilyn in the office at 456-2888 to purchase your during the week.  
 
What about the kids?  All children will receive a copy that is age appropriate courtesy of the Janet Wagner fund.  There will be a table set up for the next several weeks for adults to buy books.  Kids will get theirs in Sunday school . 
 
What kind of help is needed to make this a success?  We have several volunteers already to sell books, but could use a few more to sell before and after services until everyone who wants a copy of the book has one.    I would also like someone, a man or a woman, who would be willing to lead a study of it during the week. 
 
Can I order books for family members who are not members?  There will also be an order form for those of you who want to buy books for your children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends.  PLEASE NOTE THAT PRICES WILL FLUCTUATE ON FUTURE ORDERS DUE TO PRICE CHANGES WITH BOOK DISTRIBUTORS AND PUBLISHING HOUSES.
 
Where can I go to get more info?  Please go to www.thestory.com for more info.
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THANKSGIVING EVE WORSHIP AT 7PM WEDNESDAY
There will be no Thanksgiving Day worship.
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ST. JOHN'S WILL HELP OPERATION BACKPACK WITH PEANUT BUTTER
You may have read in the Warrenton Record that Operation Backpack is in desperate need of food items. 
 
Operation Backpack is a program that provides food for needy children on weekends.  Most of these kids are able to get reduced or free breakfast and lunch at school daily, but since there is no school on weekends they often don't have enough food to make it through the weekend.   The food gets brought to a central location and then disbursed to the most needy of children in our area schools.  It is done discreetly without any other kids knowing about it. 
 
A few Warrenton area churches have teamed up to provide the food.  Each church is taking a different food item (kind of like we used to do for the Ditty bags for soldiers). 
 
St. John's is in charge of peanut butter. 
 
Please bring jars of peanut butter to church within the next two weeks so we can get them to the kids who need them asap.  Any jars of peanut butter will do as long as they can comfortably fit in a backpack
 
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ALL LADIES CHRISTMAS PARTY, MONDAY, DEC. 2, 6pm at BREWSKIES.

There is a choice of two entrees, apple smoked pork loin or chicken marsala.  Sign up sheet is in the narthex  Cost is $18.  Bring a $10 wrapped gift to exchange.

 

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PRAYER REQUESTS:
For WILMA WEIGLE as she is hospitalized with extremely slow sodium levels which causes very erratic blood pressure and other complications.  

For NANCY SPINIOLAS as she is recovering well at St. Luke's rehab.

 

For JOYCE PIETZSCHKE who is recovering from a fractured shoulder.

 

For LISA RAUSCH'S FRIEND, ISABELLE, who is dealing with severe illness.

 

For LIL WINTER who is still dealing with pain in her foot after foot surgery.

For, PATTY, a friend of Denise Schlesselmann, who has recently been diagnosed with breast caner.
For JENNIFER, daughter of John and Mary Jo Fahrni, who is recovering from a double mastectomy due to breast cancer. 

For STEPHEN DELANEY a friend of the Fahrnis, who is dealing with lung cancer. 

 

PRAYERS FOR OUR SERVICEMEN
CALEB FIGURA- Army national Guard- just completed basic training.
 
Danny Dreyer-  Army- 2nd Lieutenant- Ranger, GERMANY
 
Sam Hargrove- Army- 2 Lieutenant- Ft Rucker, Alabama, will be going through helicopter flight school and other training
 
David Mincemeyer- Army- Army Specialist- Ft. Carson, CO
 
Jon Rahn- Navy- Hawaii, not sure of his rank at this time
 
David Tate- Air Force- 2nd Lieutenant- Jacksonville, Florida
 
Alex Walters- Navy- E4- Guam
 
Ryan Woolf- Air Force- Airman 1st Class- Buckley Air Force Base, near Denver, CO
 
 
If there are more out there that I just don't know about, please let me know, and I will include him/her on the list. 
 
Also, if you would like your family member or friend included in this list, please reply to this email with all the information!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Update on Jonas

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Posted 6 hours ago

This week has been a long wait but the decision-making process isn't really over yet. I always hesitate posting when we are in a holding pattern, but let me take a moment to give you a little insight into the stops and starts on the road of pediatric cancer treatment.

This is a generalization and, of course, there are lots of deviations off this basic path, but it basically looks like this: When a child is diagnosed with cancer they are immediately given the "standard course of care" for that particular cancer. In the case of Ewings sarcoma, the standard is to remove the tumor and or the affected bone/tissue and then to proceed with five specific chemotherapy drugs that have been designed best to work against Ewings. If surgery is not an option, they can choose to radiate, which is what we did for Jonas. Hopefully this does the job. If not, or if a patient relapses, they have are given a control phase, which is what Jonas had in the spring, to try to put the cancer back into remission. When that doesn't work, there are a series of options: Clinical trials and stem cell transplant. Clinical trials are just that: trials. A study of a particular protocal that has shown good results in the lab (possibly in rats, etc) that needs to be tested on a specific group of individuals to see if it does indeed work in humans. Essentially you are a guinea pig, but often times they produce very beneficial outcomes. Not all trials are offered at all hospitals. Some hospitals only offer two or three trials at a time. And not every patient fits the criteria for each study. Once a patient is in the clinical trial phase of their cancer, parents have to become vigilent researchers of the latest and most effective options. It is up to the parent to search for the most promising trials, no matter where in the country they are being offered. We were offered a clinical trial at Children's Mercy in June but after much investigation we determined that the particular drug they were testing was not what we wanted for our son. It's part of the reason that we sent out for second opinions and began searching for a trial like the one that is now being offered.

When last I wrote, we had hoped to be on a flight to North Carolina this weekend to jump right in. When we heard from our team there on Wednesday of this week we found out that we might not need to fly to NC to begin this clinical trial because it is also being offered here in Kansas City at Children's Mercy! This was exciting news! Unfortunately the excitement was short lived as we were informed by Children's Mercy that they would not let us enroll in the study here because we had gone to recieve treatment elsewhere and that they do not take patients back. You can only image our surprise and how that does not sound like it is in the best interest of the patient. And with a basic understanding of how many parents take their cancer kids to other hospitals for procedures and trials that are not offered at their hometown hospital (much like the proton therapy we found at MD Anderson that kept Jonas from being so damaged and disfigured), we are stymied to even think that this might happen to other kids in this situation. It just seems highly unethical. We have had our ups and downs with our hospitals and doctors but I am very careful to always give them the benefit of the doubt... and try to never put in print publically our grievances with them. But this is really rubbing me the wrong way. As you can imagine, we are trying to keep as much of this out of Jonas's head as possible, but he too wants to know what the hold up is and it has him tied up in knots. He knows more than anyone that every day is precious.

We have begun working with a patient advocate to get this resolved at CM and should find out more on Monday. If it does not play out the way we want to, there are other hospitals in the country offering this same trial as near as St. Louis that would surely take him. He is a prime candidate for the criteria they are recruiting. That is why I have had a hard time getting back to our friends who have been offering to help with meals and travel arrangements. Thank you Greg Short and Doug Laird for being patient with us about the flights.

And to Amy Westacott, Megan Web, Stacy James, Kelly Collins, Patty Voss, Becky Morales and all our friends at Woodland Elementary thank you for keeping your eye on little Blaire and your plans to make her feel like family through the upcoming hoiday. She complains of "feeling shaky" more than usual lately and I know that alot of that is her inability to express her emotional stress. We appreciate your kindness.

Last night Jonas and I got the opportunity to go out for some major stress relief, Jim Gaffigan live at the Midland! Sometimes laughter really is the best medicine! Jonas has a delightful sense of humor and I treasure our special date night. Comedy has always been the one thing that has kept us in good spirits. On most of our many, many, many drives to the hospital, when the mood would be grim, Jonas would type his favorite comedians names into Pandora on his iPad and we end up laughing all the way to the chemotherapy infusion bed. Jim Gaffigan is one of his most favorites. Thank you Jackie and Jerry Martin for the show tickets. We had a great time in true Jonas style!

Tomorrow, Sunday, Jonas is going to try to take in a Chiefs game! Thank you Ken, Kim and Josh Hill. He is really jazzed about it and I hope it all goes well. We are planning to bundle that guy up and send him with all sorts of warmers. He has so little body fat right now, I'm curious to see how this works out. Nonetheless, Go Chiefs!

And last but not least, this past week the black and gold choir once again performed Fight the Fight. They did a superb job! Thank you Holly Dahn and PLMS students! Here is the link to see the performance. I love the choral version just as much. Don't you? Watch and see! http://youtu.be/HWgg9dRrh2U

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Posted 31 minutes ago

by Kim Hill

Stay strong and keep fighting. We are praying for you. Josh is excited about tomorrow.
Kim

Posted 1 hour ago

by Heather Theiss

I've heard and experienced a lot of bad stories about hospitals, but that takes the cake. You've done an amazing job searching for the best options for Jonas. I continue to keep you in my thoughts.

Posted 4 hours ago

by WENDIE TRENT

I cannot even fathom all that you are going thru and have gone through...and then for CM to do this...doesn't really surprise me after all of our hospital doings lately and they are just a mere fraction of what you are trying to wade through - my heart goes out to you. Keep after the advocate at CM - they were a BIG help to us with Christina's ordeal there and got things resolved fairly quickly... So happy you two had a good night out and could laugh and enjoy spending time together! Jonas is ALWAYS in my thoughts LOVE YOU ALL!

Posted 6 hours ago

by stephanie nolte

Dearest Kristin: I love you sooooo very much. I pray for you and Jonas all the time. There is just not a day that goes by without taking time to ask God for guidance and support for the both of you. I hope that you will find it in your heart to come be with us on Thanksgiving with Dad. You can always stay here. I would like that very much.
As far as Mercy in KC not allowing you the opportunity to do chemo there I am appauled to say the least. I think you need to seek legal advice. Just my opinion. I hope that you already have.
Will always be here if you need anything. Anything at all you got it..... Baby.
You are my oldest Baby sister. And you are special. Greatest mother I know. give Jonas my love. Hope to see you all soon.

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