ANNOUNCEMENTS
Week Of
July 25, 2010
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Sunday |
9:30
am -
Worship Service - New
Member Welcome |
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Wednesday |
7:00 pm - Pot Luck & Outreach Meeting |
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Saturday |
5:30 pm - Communion Worship Service |
Continuing
SHAPE: We have a great start to building a small group on Wednesday
nights that is interested in finding new and additional ways to praise and honor
God with our lives. Please come to experience what we are doing so you can know
first hand. Talk to someone who is going and find out more. Pot luck begins at
6:30 p.m. and praise begins around 7:15. It is time to take action and get into
our community. We have a wonderful connection with each other as we meet at
Crown of Life. We want to make it much easier for us to share our love for each
other with the people of our community.
We are continuing our understanding of our SHAPE
Welcome, New Members! This Sunday, July 25th, during our 9:30 a.m. worship service we will welcome the following new members into Crown of Life: Fred & Joyce Bane, Cynthia Klein, June Rosvold, Fred Rosvold, Jan & Dale VanWulfen, and Brad & Kathleen Wireman.
Children’s Church: Kids, remember to get your sheet from the usher! The focus for July is Vacation Bible School. We had a lot of fun zipping and zapping and zooming for Jesus this week at V.B.S.! And the bees taught us it is very important to BEE-lieve!
Towel Donations/Mission Project to Dominican Republic for VBS: If anyone in the congregation would like to help, bring towels (face, hand or bath size); please put them in the credenza. They do not need to be “new,” just clean. The towels will be used to help kids with disabilities.
August Crown Newsletter Deadline: Please have articles for the August Newsletter emailed or dropped off at the church office no later than noon on Monday, July 25th—thanks! Sue Diana
Thank you, ladies, for the jiggling Jello! Your pans are in the kitchen ready to be picked up.
Pop Goes The Playground: We will continue to collect returnables through July and August.
Juice Box Drive: "Thank You!" to everyone who donated juice boxes to the summer program for the Power Company Kid’s Club!
V.B.S. Table Take-Down: Gentlemen: Please help move the tables and chairs back to their normal places after church this Sunday-thanks!
Fellowship Hosts in July and August: Can you provide goodies for a Sunday in July or August? Please sign up on the bulletin board in the narthex. This is an important time for our members to sit and talk after church. It is so much better when we have goodies to munch on!
S’Kool Aide Supplies: The list of S’Kool Aide supplies is in the narthex; please grab one and go shopping! This is a project for “Gifts for all God’s Children” to provide back-to-school items to needy children. Since the credenza tubs are in full use, please put these items in the box marked “S’Kool Aide.”
"Gifts For All God's Children" Calendar Sale Fund-Raiser: There are calendars for sale in the narthex. The calendar is called “Detroit 2011 Collaboration Calendar,” and is a collection of 12 wonderful organizations that minister to others. The calendar costs $10; each organization gets $7 from each calendar it sells to put back into the work it does. Look at GFAGC in the month of November! See Judy Mann to buy a calendar.
Project Compassion Ministries is hosting their 36th Annual Block Party for residents of East Grand Boulevard Nursing Homes on Saturday, August 7th from 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Volunteers are needed for clowns, singers, choirs, musicians, dancers, people with pets, food preparers, food servers and visitors. To volunteer call 313-897-7470 or 800-626-9622 or email ProjCompassion@aol.com. Students serving at this event can earn up to 2 1/2 hours of Community Service Credit. See the poster on bulletin board.
C
hurch Extension Fund—Providing Financial Resources for You and Your Congregation. For more than 100 years, the Church Extension has helped families wisely invest their money in a wide variety of financial savings products while funding affordable loans to Lutheran congregations across the Michigan District. Visit them online www.mi-cef.org or call 800-242-3944.Lutheran Travel has a tour to Colorado and the Rocky Mountains planned for August 14-22 by motorcoach departing from Peace, Warren. En route hotel stops will be made in Davenport, Iowa and Kearney, Nebraska, then four nights at the Drury Inn at Pike’s Peak doing excursions from there to the U.S. Air Force Academy, the Royal Gorge, the Garden of the Gods, historic Manitou Springs, the U. S. Olympic training Center and much more. 8 breakfasts and 6 dinners are included in the terrific price of $750. Limited space is still available. For more information or to receive a flyer call Joanne Werner at 584-759-4539 or e-mail her at jwerner2008@wowway.com.
Project Compassion Ministries 22nd Annual Golf Benefit will be held on Monday, August 16th at Whispering Willows Golf Course, located at 20500 Newburgh Road in Livonia. Registration begins at 8 a.m. There will be an 18-hole Scramble, followed by a hot buffet, prizes and an auction. All proceeds benefit nursing home residents through Project Compassion Ministries. Registration is $115; students $75 and dinner only is $30. See the poster on bulletin board.
Charity Motors: If you have an extra vehicle you have been considering donating, please call Charity Motors, Inc. Car Donation Program and tell them you want to donate your vehicle and designate the proceeds to Crown of Life. You will receive a tax deduction while helping the church! Call Charity Motors at 313-933-4000.
Prayer Board: We now have a “Prayer Board” in the hallway. Already there are names of some special people that some of us have been praying for on the Prayer Chain and in Bible Study for some time. We know the power of prayer and would like everyone to include these individuals in their prayers as well; stop by the board and take a look. If you have someone you would like to include, put their name on a prayer reminder tag and include them on the board.
We mail out the Crown newsletter each month. If you would prefer to have your newsletter emailed to you as a pdf, please call the church office on a Monday or Tuesday and talk to Sue Diana, or email the church at crownoflifelcms@aol.com.
Compassion Fund Donations: If you would like to make a donation to the Compassion Fund, there are envelopes available on the cabinet in the narthex for this purpose. Put your cash or check (mark “Compassion Fund” in memo area) in the envelope, fill out the front and drop it in the collection plate. The wooden box on the credenza is to be used for requests from the compassion fund. There are 3" x 5" cards that can be completed with your name and request and slipped into the slot on top of the box.
Name Tags: There are name tags for our members on the racks in the narthex by the doors to the sanctuary. Please pick up your name tag and wear it during the service and return it to the table after the service. If you can’t find your name tag, contact the church office and one will be made for you.
Leader Dogs for the Blind: We are fortunate to have this wonderful organization right in our community! They need to bring in more puppies to meet their training needs; therefore, they need more puppy raisers. Presently they have a wide range of puppies available, ranging in age from seven weeks to several months. This can be a great experience; if you are interested, call Samantha Ziegenmeyer at 248-650-7114.
Good Shepherd Lutheran School has an active “Boxtops for Education” program that we have been sending our boxtop labels to (these are the labels you see on cereal boxtops, etc.) If you have “Boxtop for Education” labels to contribute, please put them in the same container on the credenza in the narthex that is used for the “Labels for Education” (from soup can labels) and they will be sent on to Good Shepherd Lutheran School to assist their program.
Thrivent/Habitat For Humanity Build in Mexico: Date: October 9-17, 2010 Location: Puerta Vallarta. “Doing God’s work while strengthening your relationship with God.” For information call Leader Eydie Yemmans, member of King of Kings in Lake Orion, at 248-373-6606, or email her at pjsgram00@yahoo.com. One of our members, Jan VanWolfen, went with Eydie in 2008 and is going again this year. Jerry and Edwina Griem went with Eydie to a Baton Rouge Build.
Trinity, Rochester, MN offers its TLCare ministry to out of town medical guests at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. They strive to serve people in many ways such as prayer support, a homemade meal, a visit from one of their caring members, free parking, a comfortable place to go between appointments, and more. An apartment at no cost within walking distance of the Mayo Clinic is also available on a first-come, first-served basis for LCMS congregation members. For more information contact Jennifer at (507) 292-0439 or jen@trinitylutheranchurch.org.
Did you know that if you want to listen to the radio broadcast "The Lutheran Hour," you can listen to it at any time on any day on the internet? Go to www.lhm.org, hit the link "The Lutheran Hour, then hit "Sermon Archive" and you can hear the message, even going back a month or more for previous broadcasts.
Interchurch Women has representatives from nine churches and is open to all women and churches in the Rochester area. Meetings rotate monthly among host churches from September through May and are held the first Monday of each month. There is a brief business meeting and guest speaker followed by a potluck luncheon. The group is on break for the summer and will resume meeting in September. For more info on Interchurch Women, please speak with Joan at 248-879-8268.
Recycle! With all the extra ads we receive in our papers every week, we should have a bag or two to put into the paper recycle bin. Help fill it up! But remember- NO CARDBOARD OF ANY KIND, and NO PHONE BOOKS.
Minute Prayers are a wonderful tool to put God on your mind. Please take a moment to reflect on them each day.
You can also sign up for Minute Prayers on Twitter at www.twitter.com/minuteprayers.“Michigan In Touch” is available in the narthex, along with copies of the “Portals of Prayer” and “Our Daily Bread." The Meyer Minute can be sent to you via email; just go to daleameyer.com and sign up.
If you
are going out of town and want to find a local L.C.M.S. church to attend in your
destination area, click on the link below:
L.C.M.S.
Congregation Locator
Have you ever had a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod question, but didn't know where to look for the answer? The L.C.M.S. website has a great "Frequently Asked Questions" area that gives you answers and also lets you email questions if you can't find the info you're looking for. Take a look at FAQ.
Lutheran Special Education Ministries has a mission to enable children with special learning needs to receive a Christian Education. When we save and bring our Campbell product labels into church we are helping this organization to obtain teaching materials and supplies. There is a container on the table in the narthex to collect these labels, and a sheet listing the accepted labels that you can take home. There are also information sheets on the cabinet in the narthex showing the different labels that can earn free supplies for this organization. Bring in the ENTIRE LABEL for our collection as the information we need to send in from the labels has changed! AND: For all Prego and V8 products we are now required to turn in the lids instead of labels. Collect your lids in a small sandwich bag, mark on the bag which product the lids are from and deposit it in the drawer in the narthex. Keep these labels and lids coming—they are sent in 2 or 3 times a year and are greatly appreciated!
If you are faced with the challenge of care giving for an older adult and would love some respite, please call the Older Persons’ Commission Adult Day Services Program. Activities are planned throughout the day to promote socialization, exercise, and mental stimulation in a beautiful and caring environment. For information call 248-608-0261.
Crown Of Life Lutheran Church
2975 Dutton Road
Rochester Hills, MI 48306
Phone:
248-652-7720
Fax: 248-652-1387
e-mail
us at:
crownoflifelcms@aol.com