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August 2019 A publication of Our Redeemer Church, Garden Grove, California

OUR REDEEMER CHURCH, ELCA 12301 Magnolia Street

Garden Grove, Calif. 92841 Phone: (714) 539-9541 FAX: (714) 539-7672

Preschool: (714) 539-6643 Email:

[email protected] www.orcgg.org

WORSHIP SCHEDULE: 8:30 am Traditional Worship

10 am Prayer & Praise Worship Sunday School: 10:15 am Adult Education: 10 am Nursery Care is provided

OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Thur: 8:30 am-2:30 pm

Fri: Closed

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Total cost per person: Family Max. Amounts:

Tent $100 Tent $240 Cabin $140 Cabin $380 Luther Glen $200 (if single in a Luther Glen $465 Luther Glen room, $20 extra) (family max. is three or more members) Includes two nights, six full meals, wine & cheese parties, s’mores, snacks, and all activities.

Some of the activities available: Large swimming pool (lifeguards) Twice daily devotions Outdoor stone labyrinth Campfires & s’mores Archery range Sunday evening worship Hiking trails with beautiful views Evening wine and cheese parties (kids with the camp counselors in the Lodge) Crafts for children and adults Shopping in Oak Glen Group hike Sunday (optional) Visiting the many apple ranches Group Lessons

Registration and information forms available online at www.orcgg (under MORE, then EVENTS). Forms are also available in the narthex and in the church office.

Dear Friends: Have you noticed the stained glass windows that adorn our welcome center? Gus Sauter created each of the panels that are just below the roof line. The panels include religious symbols for baptism, communion, and the Bible. Somehow, there was a panel of Noah’s ark with a giraffe on the adjoining panel (thank you Gus for the honor).

Over the summer we have added gates to the entrance of the patio area and around the pool area that have helped to secure the church property. Now our pre-schoolers can move from their classrooms to the playground in totally secured grounds. We have already seen the decrease in people sleeping on the grounds, carousing during the day, and leaving trash behind. It has made our pre-school families especially happy. With the new income from the Sunnyside mortuary, the church is looking into replacing some of our aging roofs. Endter Hall is 30 years old and still has the original roof. As we look into the roof, we are also looking into the possibility of placing solar panels on the roof to reduce electricity rates far into the future. After further study is made, the council will decide whether or not pursue the project and bring it to the congregation. Another new development has been an outreach to St. Olaf Lutheran Church to discuss possible joint ministry. They have an interim pastor and no longer have the assets to call a full-time pastor. We are in the early stages of exploring how we might work together as partners in ministry. Whether we share staff, explore a 2 point perish, explore merger or some other avenue will depend on talks that develop between the two church councils and then the congregations. Ali Aust is our new office manager. She is adapting well, and is going to be a wonderful addition to our staff. Speaking of additions to the staff, Jennifer Matas Garcia will be our new intern. She is getting married on August 11th and then she will start work here on September 1. Her first duty will be to attend the congregational camp-out over the Labor Day weekend and to lead the devotions at the two evening campfire gatherings. There is still time to sign up for the camp-out and get to know our intern right from the start. Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes this past month. I continue to love the work I am doing at Our Redeemer and am truly blessed to have such a supportive congregation and staff. In Christ, Pastor Brian

In Christ.

Pastor Brian

Reflections from the Pastor by Pastor Brian Taylor

Redeemer Reflections

August 2019

Brown Bag Bible Study Tuesdays, 12 pm

in Choir Room

Led by Pastor Brian

Men’s Group Thursdays, 6 am

in Endter Hall

Led by Lynn Badertscher

Join one of the four women’s circles at ORC for Bible study, fellowship & sharing!

For more information, please contact a circle Leader. Visitors and new members are always welcome.

Young At Heart

Next meeting September 16

Grace

No Meetings

July, & August *Susan Kent - Leader

714-454-8545 Cell

714-842-9867 Hm

New Faith No Meetings

July, & August *Val Fleming- Leader

714-539-9428

Sincerity July 22 @ 1 pm

@ A. Agosta house *Yvonne Bischof– Leader

714-539-0942

Michelle Timothy - Leader

New Joy

August 20 @ 7 pm

@ Karen Gustafson’s house *Karen Gustafson - Leader

562-429-1272

Our book circle meets the 4th Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. for fellowship and discussion of a variety of

literature, current and classic, fiction and non-fiction. All avid readers at ORC and their friends are invited to join

us. Call Ron Stearns at (714) 891-9462 for more infor-mation.

Up-coming selections include:

Aug. 23 Beowulf, Anonymous Epic

Sept. 27 The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

Oct. 25 Death of an Expert Witness, by P.D. James

Dec. 7 Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens

There are greater crimes than burning books; one of those is not reading them.”

August 2019


MEN’S FELLOWSHIP SPRING GOLF OUTING 2019

The Men’s Fellowship of OUR REDEEMER hosted another exciting member-friend Golf Outing on Saturday, June 15th at David L. Baker Golf Course. We had 41 players on 10 teams including 6 family groups, 7 women and 25 friends of members. We had 9 new players for this tournament. The weather was good and everyone seemed to enjoy the golf and socializing. There are pictures in Endter Hall lobby. The Course was in excellent condition for good scoring with the team of Pastor Brian, Pastor Greg, Pastor Mike and Jerry Engelhardt leading the way with a score of 55. The team of Lenny LaVache, Anker Jacobson, Corey Pierce and Chloe Pierce tied the team of Tim Venard, John Venard, Greg Vieta and Angelina Allen for second place. It’s noteworthy that each of the second place teams had a young teenage girl on their team. There were three additional teams at 60 and under. Lots of prizes were available for all with many local restaurants providing complimentary meal certificates. We were blessed with two complimentary dinner/show tickets from Medieval Times, which we raffled off. We raised $200.00 from the raffle to give to the Men’s Fellowship to help support their Compassion children. Garrett Mathany wound up with the tickets for his son! Everyone was a winner this day. There were some newcomers this year which is an encouraging outreach. We hope to see them again and others at our next tournament for another day of fun.

-Gus Sauter

August 2019

Sunday Cool: Our younger class is children 3 years old thru 1st

grade and our older class is 2

nd-6

th grade. Students in 7

th-8

th grade are encouraged to be helpers in Sunday Cool.

August 4

th-We will have our VBS Wrap Up-Miss Araceli and Mrs. Patty will have some fun crafts

and share a story or two from VBS. August 11

th-Mrs. Sharon will lead the opening. Miss Mary will teach about Deborah from Judges

4:1-5:31 and Mr. Will is leading the older class. August 18

th-Mrs. Sharon will lead the opening and lead the younger students teaching about Solo-

mon Building the Temple and Mr. Will is leading the older class. August 25

th-Mrs. Sharon will lead the opening and Mrs. Patty will lead the younger class learning

about how Naaman is Healed from 2 Kings 5:1-19. Mr Will is leading the older class. 9/1/19 Labor Day Holiday-Enjoy your weekend. All children will worship together with their parents! Youth: 7

th grade on up- We will be starting again soon. We have moved the youth room to North

Hall and are making plans for a new rug, new paint and curtains/blinds (still looking). We will have a post VBS event (still in the planning stages!) Come to VBS (better yet-volunteer) for more info. Child Care/Nursery: Did you know we have two wonderful ladies in the nursery! All children are welcome to come during the 8:30 am worship time-they have color pages, bible stories and more. During the 10:00 am worship time children infant through 3 are welcome to attend. They are in Room 2 in the preschool courtyard area.

Youth Director: Patty Erickson@ [email protected]

Next meeting is September 14th At 7:30 am in Endter Hall


Community Grief Support Group Loving support for those who are hurting

Mondays at 11 am

Council Room

Here to support grief or loss of any kind!

Free monthly Blood Pressure Check

Sunday, August 11th

between services on the patio. See you there!

The send-off fiesta for Char and her family was wonderful. Say a prayer for them as they begin the newest chapter of their lives back with their family in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A special thanks to those who brought food and for those that made the day special for Char.

Thrivent Members: Do you have a Thrivent Grant (or two) you would like to use at Our Redeemer? We have a couple of projects we would like to tackle. The $250 seed money would get us started towards updating the campus. Three needed upgrades that come to mind are: Update the ladies’ bathroom in the hallway (between the sanctuary and office). For this bathroom, the wallpaper must come down, new paint is needed and some knick/knacks would be awesome! We also need to update the North Hall kitchen (remove the wallpaper, paint and put in a backsplash plus much more). The third area that needs to

be addressed is Youth Room/North Hall-new curtains/drapes are needed and a new rug for the North Side seating area. That is a start, but there is much more to be done around the church. If you have any questions-please contact Patty Erickson or Pastor Brian.

August Worship Assistants If you cannot serve as scheduled, please arrange for a substitute.

August Birthdays

August Anniversaries

OUR REDEEMER STAFF Senior Pastor

Brian S. Taylor [email protected]

Church Administrator Ali Aust

[email protected]

Director of Music Ann Badertscher

Organist John Glessner

Children’s Choir Director Sharon Edmondson

Bookkeeper Kim Radcliff

Youth Director Patty Erickson

[email protected]

Preschool Director Cindy Myers

Preschool@ourredeemer gardengrove.org

Facilities Manager Jim Huffman

August 2019

Reflections is a

publication of Our

Redeemer Church.

Deadline for

submissions is noon

on the 15th of each

month.

Sunday Reflections deadline is

9 am Wednesday

morning for the

following Sunday’s

bulletin.

Please email your

submissions to

Ali Aust at

[email protected].

Articles may be edited

for content and space.

*PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE AT (714)539-9541 OR EMAIL: [email protected] TO VOLUNTEER FOR ONE THE EMPTY SLOTS ABOVE. THANK YOU!

8:30 am 10:00 am

Council Persons of the Month

Gus Sauter Joyce Wallace

Ushers Tom & Leslie Roedl, Larry

Collier and Edmund Channita Sherwood Witt and

Eve Knowlton

Communion Assistants

8/11 Becky Vinson 8/25 Becky Vinson

Altar Guild Terry Dickman Marilyn Witt and

Val Fleming

Soundboard/AV Robyn Guillory

Lectors 8:30 am 8/4 Anita Griswold 8/11 Tina R. Ray

8/18 Cathy Seabourne 8/25 Chris Erickson


Would you like to work on learning how to best express your love to your spouse and have your spouse learn how to best express their love to you? Pastor Brian and Wendy will host a 6 session overview of the book: The 5 love languages on the following dates: Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28, Oct. 5 & 12. Each session will present an overview of one of the languages of love. By the end of the sessions, you will be able to discern what love language best speaks to you and to your spouse. The sessions will run 30 minutes each. Babysitting

will be provided for couples who sign up ahead of time. Each session is on a Saturday evening beginning at 5p.m. Babysitting will be provided until 8p.m. so couples can plan an evening out after the 30 minute session. The couples will receive homework each session so they can practice one of the love languages for an entire week. At the last session we will take a test to determine our primary love language and celebrate with a meal together. The cost is $50 for babysitting for the entire 6 sessions (a great deal!!!), $15 for a copy of the book, The 5 love languages, and everyone will pick up the cost for their meal on the last session together. Sign up at the church office or call Pastor Brian with questions at (714) 539-9541.

Backpacks for Success! will provide 3,000 students in underserved and disadvantaged Orange County School Districts with fully supplied backpacks from donor businesses and organizations. Eligible K-12 students will receive a filled backpack with age appropriate supplies. Backpacks and supplies will be distributed in June through August from our 2 Family Resource Centers and our 25 partners!

Please visit https://www.capoc.org/backpack/

to learn how you can help!

https://www.capoc.org/backpack/

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