For the Week Beginning January 21, 2022
Third Sunday after Epiphany
THE WEEK AT REFORMATION
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Service of Holy Communion
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. Facebook Live Service of the Word
Wednesday: 10 a.m. Morning Eucharist followed by Prayer Ministry
Wednesday: 7 p.m. Evening Prayer service on Facebook live followed by a study
Altar Flowers lend beauty to our worship experience and are a loving way to remember or honor a loved one or mark a special occasion. Please consider sponsoring an arrangement, or two, of flowers to celebrate a special occasion or remember a loved one. You may also sponsor the bulletin in honor or in memory of a special occasion or loved one. The Altar flower and bulletin sponsor chart is now posted on the board heading into the Narthex from the gathering area.
The cost for flowers is $30.00; bulletin sponsorship is $30.00. Don’t forget to take your flowers home with you after the worship service on Sunday. Thank you
CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
Our 2022 business congregational meeting will be held on Sunday, January 30th immediately after worship. We must have 40 members attending to have a quorum. We will review and recap 2021 and vote on our 2022 budget.
Please plan to attend this important meeting as we review 2021 and vote on our 2022 budget. We will run this meeting as a hybrid from the great room so it will be in person and online.
The Annual Report Booklet will be available in the gathering area this Sunday. It will also be posted to our website before the end of this weekend.
Pray with the whole church each day at noon!
www.njsynod.org/virtual-church-resources
Norma Beaty, Robert Coles, Connie, Edward Bale, Margaret Dix, Rosemary Howell, Royce Howell, Jonathan, Michael, Rose, Lisa & family, Trina, Heather Lombardo, Dan Nilsson, Beth Nilsson, Jeff Reis, Peter Repak, Penny Shermer, Diane Smith
Christian Sympathy to the family and friends of Caridad Arce and Miguel Arce
PRAYER LIST UPDATE: If you have someone in need of prayers, please let us know via either Pastor Matt or the church office and we will be sure to add them to our list above. If you have good news to share on recovery of anyone on our prayer list, please let the office or Pastor Matt know. We’ll gladly share the good news!!
PICTURES THIS WEEK
Family Church Experience
Children’s Sermon
Thank you Nulle Family for assisting!
2021 COMMITTEE CHAIRS
All 2021 Committee chairs should be scheduling a meeting during January to elect a new chairperson and to plan their 2022 schedule. You can our dial-pad account to schedule the meeting by reaching out to Pastor Matt.
“SOUPER” BOWL OF CARING
A favorite event will continue this year!! Debbie & Edie will be making soup to sell for a donation to support our hunger ministries. A preorder form is going out this morning via google forms and our google group mailing list!!
And, please start saving your loose change for a “noisy” offering collection by our SCS students on Sunday, 2/13.
THRIVENT CHOICE DOLLARS
Did you know Thrivent also has a program called Choice Dollars? Another way Thrivent gives back is based on your product with them where you can earn “Choice Dollars”. These dollars can then be donated to the charity of your choice (i.e. Reformation!). Your account is credited with these “Choice Dollars” every quarter and they need to be donated by March of the following year. You can go in and donate the dollars quarterly or once a year but please donate them!! If you don’t donate them, they will go away. Thrivent will donate them to a charity on their list. They must donate a percentage of their profit to the community to maintain their non-profit status. Need help? Ask Debbie Keszler or Sue Homza!!
THRIVENT ACTION TEAMS
Let’s start 2022 planning how we can make full use of all that Thrivent has to offer us!! For those of you who have a product through Thrivent Financial (life insurance, investments, long term care insurance, etc.) you have two (yes 2) Thrivent Action Team events you can take advantage of. Exactly what does that mean? It means Thrivent will GIVE you two $250 gift cards to kick start two projects (yes 2 –that’s $500). If you don’t have a product and might be interested, John Seifert is our Thrivent representative and the office can put you in touch with him.
The projects can vary – education, fundraising, or service to the community. Right now Judy Mischler is kicking off a fundraising appeal to get a new Christmas tree for the Narthex. That tree is probably 40+ years old and in sad shape. With your help, Judy is going to help us get a new tree!!
Thrivent Action Teams were used to purchase supplies to refurbish the pews, to cover costs of the dinner dance to begin the new flooring fundraiser, to cover costs for paint for the great room and kitchen, food drives for the pantry, racks and hangers for the clothes closet, support for our VBS program, to help our SCS program especially when we had to go virtual, our Advent wreath making events, our virtual cookie making last year, our “souper” bowl of caring event, our bread baking event, Advent devotionals, Lenten devotionals, and so much more………
So what projects do you want to see accomplished in 2022? Perhaps painting the choir room, new window treatments in fellowship hall, new grocery carts for the pantry, our souper bowl of caring event to support hunger ministries, a fundraiser to finally be able to replace the windows in the SCS wing. Just put your thinking caps on and look around the church building (inside and out) for ways we can make use of our available Thrivent Action Team Community Impact Cards!! If we all work together, we have the potential to access $12,500 via Thrivent Action Teams (and that’s only a best guess, it could be more)!! That’s amazing – let’s see how close we can come!! If you have questions, reach out to Deb Keszler or Sue Homza.
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