Peace Council

Derek Getz, Chair PO Box 214 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2445 getzderek@[Link] Linda Buchite 701 2nd Street Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2555 [Link]@[Link] Tom Perry PO Box 159 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2342 [Link]@[Link] Terry Volker 17239 US Hwy 59 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-2424 mvolker@[Link] Patricia Schack 20815 180th Ave Barrett, MN 56311 218-685-5478 schack@[Link] Diane Puchalski 22785 Co Rd 21 Barrett, MN 56311 320-528-6208 puc@[Link] Craig Schroeder 23877 Co Rd 21 Elbow Lake, MN 56531 218-685-6277 [Link]@[Link] Jennifer McLaughlin 11254 Co Rd 2 Barrett, MN 56311 320-986-2139 mikejen@[Link] Youth Representative Koel Seifert

Peace Lutheran Church

February 2012
FEBRUARY SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS
We will be wrapping up our Queen Esther Rotation on February 5 th and decorating Valentine cupcakes on February 12th to be delivered to the Barrett Care Center and Rolling Hills Residence. Our Last Supper Rotation begins February 19th and continues through March 11th. Our Community Service Project to be held on March 18th will be delivering muffins to the Group Home and homebound. If you know someone who would like a visit from our Sunday School, please let us know and well put them on our list. Our Worship Servers for February 26th are Ryleigh and Alliah Johnson and Kode and Kore Seifert. Our last Rotation of the year will be Fruit of the Spirit (March 25 th through April 22nd). There will be no Sunday School on Easter Sunday, April 8th. The Sunday School students will once again hand out palm leaves on Palm Sunday, April 1st. We always welcome visitors in our classrooms. If you didnt get a chance to attend our Open House, feel free to stop by any Sunday for a visit. If you have suggestions or concerns, dont hesitate to call or email. Joyce Hanson, Director Peace Sunday School Home phone: 320-528-2354; Cell: 320-304-0727) Email address: baskets @[Link]

Today and everyday, Lutheran World Relief Quilts and Kits are given to families throughout the world, a helping hand, a sign of comfort and hope for the future. The requests are on the rise. Quilts and Kits are urgently needed!!!!! WELCA and the Quilters have decided to create a way you can help. This is an optional project. Our plan for the LWR Kit Project is as follows: personal care, fabric, school and baby care kits. You can form your own groups; who and how many is your choice. Choose any of the 4 kits to put together. Make as many or few as you want. These kits will be delivered along with the quilts to Osakis in October. The lists and instructions are on the following pages.

Pens and pencils, a toothbrush, a quilt ordinary items we take for granted become treasures in the hands of their recipients. The items you send will be cherished and used by people who take nothing for granted, for whom even a simple bar of new soap is special. Your gifts of time and resources toward making LWR Quilts and Kits are beautiful expressions of Gods love and grace to those in greatest need. Thank you for your partnership in putting them together

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Sun Mon Tue

Wed

2:10pm Release Time 3:30-5:30pm Confirmation

Thu

Mens Breakfast 6:30am

Fri

Faithful Folders 10:00am

Sat

Sunday School 9:15am 10:30am Worship

12:00pm WELCA 2:10pm Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm Confirmation 6:00pm Council

Mens Breakfast 6:30am

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Faithful Folders 10:00am

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Sunday School 9:15am 10:30am Worship

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Valentines Day

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9:00am Ever-Blessed Quilters

9:00am Ever-Blessed Quilters

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Mens Breakfast 6:30am

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Faithful Folders 10:00am

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Sunday School 9:15am 9:40am Mens Choir 10:30am Worship

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Presidents Day No School

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8am 2:30pm 7th 8th Grade Retreat @ Peace

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Ash Wednesday

2:10pm Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm Confirmation 6:30pm Lent Worship

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Mens Breakfast 6:30am

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Faithful Folders 10:00am

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Sunday School 9:15am 10:30am Worship

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2:10pm Release Time 3:30pm-5:30pm Confirmation 5:30 pm

Lent Supper 6:30pm Worship

Serving in February
Servers 2/5 Wayne & Betty DeClercq Mike & Jennifer McLaughlin 2/12 Ron & Kay Johnson Doug Ostenson 2/19 Ron & Gaylene Hanson Jeff & Cheri Lang 2/26 Chad & Gwen Rollofson Ron & Patricia Schack Ushers 2/5 Wayne & Betty DeClercq Mike & Jennifer McLaughlin 2/12 Ron & Kay Johnson Doug Ostenson 2/19 Ron & Gaylene Hanson Jeff & Cheri Lang 2/26 Chad & Gwen Rollofson Ron & Patricia Schack
Work Group # 2 Leaders Sharolyn & Jim Johnson Kay & Ron Johnson Altar Guild Karen Ellis Pat Ronhovde

Readers
2/5 Jennifer McLaughlin 2/12 Kathy Dahl 2/19 Tim Buchite 2/26 Ardis Paulson

YOUTH WORSHIP LEADERSHIP

2/5 Daryn Gisi 2/12 Mary Ann Thompson 2/19 Daryn Gisi 2/26 Abby Oberg

RELEASE TIME VOLUNTEERS

If you are unable to be a helper on your Sunday, please call one of your work group leaders and he or she will help you find a replacement. Thank you.

2/1 Sandy Perry 2/8 Deanne Frarck 2/15 Sara Getz 2/22 Pat Ronhovde 2/29 Jan Vipond

Stewardship of the Good News

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,* and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of * the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2)
As we prepare for another new season, the season of Lent, I have been struggling on how to approach this time treasured season with new eyes of faith, so that I can deepen in that faith. Lent is a time racked with traditions; giving up vices, adding new virtues, Midweek Church services, even $2 filet-o-fish sandwiches. Somehow I feel like I know this season to well to let God further make and mold me through it. That being said, I found an article written by a Pastor at a Prison, which just might help me see Lent in a more helpful way this year:

Prison is always Lent; the barbed wire is reminiscent of a crown of thorns, the armed towers the cross. Everything surrounding a man in prison reminds him how much he has screwed up and how much control the state has over any given man. A man realizes how little he has control over his environment in prison; he is told when to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, whether he can have medical attention, where he can go of course, and if under death penalty when to stop breathing. The prison context always lifts up faith and forgiveness from any text we read, regardless of the season. Its that trust thing again. Faith is always a risk and requires trust, and of course my guys have broken trust left and right in their lives as well as being on the receiving end of a lot of broken promises. Through forgiveness they can begin again to build trust with others, knowing God has forgiven them and trusts them when society will not.
What if this year Lent becomes a place where we can truly hear that message of forgiveness, through any text we read? What if we try to push off all those broken promises we have made and start fresh with the Promise that God is here for us? What if this lent we forgive, once for all, those who have sinned against us, so that their sin no longer holds us back? What if we look to Jesus this Lent, the perfecter of our faith, and lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, in order that we can run the race that is set before us? I dont know the answers to those questions, and I acknowledge that these things are much more complicated that they may seem, but I would love to begin to find the answers with you, this Lent.
~Matthew Rose, Pastor

Peace Church Council Minutes December 14, 2011

Meeting called to order by Derek Getz Members Present: Derek Getz, Patricia Schack, Diane Puchalski, Tom Perry, Kim Lang, Sandy Kashmark, Nancy Waugh and Pr. Matthew Rose Members Absent: Alayna McLaughlin, Craig Schroeder and Jennifer McLaughlin Secretarys Report: Motion to approve Diane, 2nd Nancy. Treasurers Report: Motion to approve Kim, 2nd Diane. The council decided to give Sandy Perry an increase in wages. The council then budgeted for an increase in wages. We need to have a separate breakdown of the Thrivent funds for the budget for the annual meeting. Motion was made by Kim, 2nd Tom. Pastors Report: Pastor Matthew got out and visited everyone. There currently are 19 kids at Release time. Pastor Matthew is going to change his schedule a little bit. Call the office to find out the new hours. He wants the council to do a review of him in the next 6 months. Old Business: The council decided to designate the fourth Sunday to give the coffee money to the Sunday school, without having the Sunday school families serve. The Council appointed Chuck Olson, Jeff Dreier, and Dick Puchalski to audit the Church books. They are to coordinate with Sandy Kashmark. The audit committee will hold a 3 year term. Anyone that is drawing a salary is covered under the workmens Comp Insurance. The signs for the church are up on highway 55. New Business: A motion to approve the revisions to the constitution was made by Kim, Nancy 2nd. The annual meeting will be held the 4th Sunday in January (1/22/12). A potluck lunch will be served after the meeting. The council will set up and clean up. The small vacuum needs to be replaced. Diane will ask the Altar Guild to replace it. The Sunday school teachers will have a meeting set for the beginning of the year to discuss the future of the program. We have decided not to purchase the dumpster and will go with the new garbage service. Motion to adjourn was made by Kim, 2nd Tom. Patricia Schack, Secretary

Lent 2012 Questions God Asks Us

Our Lenten Series this year is centered around the Questions that God Asks Us, and is based off a book by the same name written by Trevor Hudson. As we try to lay aside all that holds us back, the Sin that clings so closely to each and every one of us, we are called to listen to the short, but anything but simple, questions that God asked our ancestors in the faith, and now ask us. God has a way of stripping back all of our excuses, and breaking through all of our walls with the truth that comes in the asking of the Questions God Asks Us. February 22 Ash Wednesday What Are You Doing Here? February 29 Where Are You? March 7 What Is Your Name? March 14 What Is That In Your Hand? March 21 What Are You Looking For? March 28 Who Do You Say That I Am? April 5 Maundy Thursday Do You Understand What I Have Done For You? (with First Communion) April 6 Good Friday April 8 Easter During Lent we will be having supper at 5:30pm followed by worship at 6:30pm. (N0 Supper Ash Wednesday) We will have a sign up sheet on the kitchen counter at church for volunteers to furnish soup and bread and serve.

LUTHER CREST HAPPENINGS

February 17th & 18th

7-9 Grade Winter Youth Retreat

February 14th
A Valentines Day event for Couples

April 27th-April 29th God Spa

Womens Retreat For more information about any of the retreats, you can call their staff at 320-846-2431 or send an email to lcbc@[Link] or check out the bulletin board out by Pastor Matthews office. Summer 2012 Middle of the Wheel Where do we find HOPE in a BROKEN WORLD? The 2012 Summer Theme, Middle of the Wheel, will focus on this question. Through our daily themes, we will learn to keep Christ, who is our hope through uncertainty and fear, and our light in the darkness, as the center our lives. Luther Crest Bible Camp 2012 Summer Schedule is posted on the bulletin board by Pastor Matthews office. Check it out and talk with Pastor Matthew if you have any questions.

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH PO Box 206 Barrett MN 56311

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Rev. Matthew Rose, Pastor revmatthew@[Link] cell phone: 218-770-8470 Office: 320-528-2536 email: peacelca@[Link]

Lent 2012 Ash Wednesday, February 22nd, 6:30pm Worship (NO SUPPER) February 29th, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm March 7th, Lent Supper 5:30pm,Worship 6:30pm March 14th, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm March 21st, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm March 28th, Lent Supper 5:30pm, Worship 6:30pm April 5th, Maundy Thursday, Worship at 6:30pm April 6th, Good Friday, Worship at 6:30pm April 8th, Easter, Worship at 10:30am