Sunday, August 11th City Park

11:00 - 2:00pm

Worship at 9:00am at church and then come for a fun day

at the park. There will be food and activities for the kids.

Don’t miss out on this special time to fellowship with your

church family!

See back cover for more details.

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From the rafters to the floor, our sanctuary

literally shook as the children from our

church and our community sang of their

love for Jesus at this year’s Vacation Bible

School Day Camp. It was an action-packed

week, allowing children to make new

friends, of all ages, and enjoy old ones.

Totally led by our talented Fortune Lake

counselors; Lillian, Ryan, Claudia, Kevin and

Hoku, our days were filled with fun, learning,

sharing, singing and games. Each day started

and ended with Chapel time -- highlighting

daily themes, scripture, and songs. Our

leaders guided us through small group Bible

studies, taught us daily arts and crafts, and

kept us moving with a wide variety of super-

fun activities. We are very fortunate to have

had these talented young folks come to OSL

to guide us through our week of VBS. We

want to give special thanks to:

All of you, at OSL, for supporting this

program with your prayers and finan-

cially, in the church budget

Christina Maki, for again coordinating

this year’s VBS Day Camp Debbie Sleik & Thrivent for supporting

this ministry with an Action Team Grant

the generous folks who provided special

meals and fellowship for the counselors

Sandy and Jim Meier for housing, feeding

and supporting the counselors

Breitung Township Schools’ Meet Up

and Eat Up lunch program, providing

delicious hot lunches and snacks

the Lydia Circle, for help with advertis-

ing

Joy Nasi for handling registrations daily

and all the countless behind the scene

things that makes VBS run smoothly

Larry Nasi for fixing our emergency

urinal situation!

and to the many others who helped and

participated in so many ways.

* * * * * * * * *

To all of the sweet people who hosted the

Fortune Lake Staff for a meal and those

who provided a meal or a gift certificate or

treats for them. Please know how much

they and we appreciated it all!! Everyone

enjoyed it.

The Fortune Lake Staff said the children at

OSL are awesome and well educated in the

knowledge of Christ - Great job everyone!

Love, Jim & Sandy Meier

Sunday, August 25th 10:15am

Confirmation Orientation for all sixth

graders and their parents will be held on

Sunday, August 25th at 10:15am. We will

meet in The Gathering Room. This is an

important meeting for both students and

parents to attend. We will share the vision

and expectations of the Confirmation

program, go over a tentative schedule,

complete registrations and answer your

questions.

Families with sixth graders will be receiving

a letter in the mail with a registration form

the week of August 12th. If you have a

sixth grader and do not receive a letter,

please contact the church office.

We look forward to a great year together!

The Truth Project Bible Study

Monday, September 9th 1:00pm - Gathering Room

The Truth Project is a DVD-based small

group curriculum comprised of 13 one-

hour lessons taught by Dr. Del Tackett.

Each lesson discusses in great detail the

relevance and importance of living the

Christian worldview in daily life. As it has

been throughout history, God continues to

call ordinary people to make an eternal dif-

ference in our world. There are no books

for this study. Everyone is welcome.

Ashley & Ava Weecks

Ashley is a nurse at DCHS. She enjoys

horses, outdoor activities like winter ski-

ing and camping along with spending time

with family and friends.

Ava is going into 7th grade. She enjoys

horse back riding, cross country skiing,

gymnastics, swimming, crafts and spending

time with her family and friends.

Action

Approve using money from our Desig-nated Mission Fund, not to exceed

$8,600 for the purchase of 4 computers,

a server and 2 monitors.

Approve purchasing & installation of the

above equipment from Teck Solutions

and Bruce Buckman assist with training.

Approve keeping the Welcome Coordi-

nator’s salary the same for the summer

months.

Approved these items from First Fruits:

$300 monthly to Alpha Omega House

$250 to the VA for phone cards

$1,000 to the NALC Seminary Fund

$1,000 to NALC Disaster Relief Fund

$1,000 for missionary support for

Stephen Katterhenrich, NAKC with

Wycliffe bible Translators in Tanzania

$3,000 for Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp

$1,000 from Hunger Funds for the ISD

Backpack Program, Marci Veale

Increase the organist fees for weddings

to $150 or $200 if accompanying a

soloist.

Informational

Bell Tower donation - $5,000 Sound Technician Team - Radio broad-

cast garbled. Tech needed for 8/3/19

wedding & 7/27/19 wedding (only if weather is bad).

Security Update - Office had first training

Church Picnic Planning Committee updates VBS - Fortune Lake, July 20 - 25th Church Picnic - Sunday, August 11th at

City Park Pastoral Acts for June

Esther Bible Study Tuesday, Sept. 10th

5:15pm

The Old Testament

story of Esther is a

profile in courage and

contains many modern

parallels for today's overloaded & stressed

woman. Esther, while a queen, lived as an

outsider in a hostile environment. Women

will learn strong lessons of faith, provi-

dence, and hope to equip them to live

courageously "for such a time as this."

Study books are $18. Please call the church

office by Sunday, August 1st to register.

U.P. Wide Ultreya Picnic Sunday, August 18th

3 - 5pm Eastern St. Paul’s Catholic Church

202 W. Case St - Negaunee MI

Bring a lawn chair and your own soft drinks.

Food will be provided.

Our Ultreya has been asked to supply

desserts. Contact Lisa Nelson for dessert

sign-up, at 774-8550.

Music Worship Witness Sharing

Come share in the fun and renew friend-

ships with your brothers and sisters in

Christ.

1 Matt Gibson

2 Gerry Pirkola

3 Cassidy Peterson 4 Alexandra Ohlsen

5 Kay Groeneveld

6 Valerie Caylor

Joanne Klefstad

7 Gregg Hasenjaeger

Tom Swartout

8 Lynn Stone

Charlotte Tomasi

Kimberly Usitalo

Tori Walters

9 Trevor Ohlsen

David Shogren

Autumn Sleik

Galen Sleik

10 Connor Watts

11 Delta Anderson

Joy Bortolini

Vicki Faust

Bobbie Samme’

13 Cris Hamlin

Susan McBride

Elizabeth Minkler

14 Gabe LaFave

Dorothy Peterson

15 Aubree Burby

Cali Trepp

16 Ruth Camp

Hailey Greenleaf

17 Rachel Cevigney

John Kelm

18 Tom Grenfell

Keyoni Smith

19 Connor Erickson

Rhonda Watt

21 Kurt Rosenthal

22 Jim Chartier

Kellie Klossner

Aubrie Lorenzoni

23 Hannah Gareau

Brenda Kelly

Carter LaFave

Jaylynn Marchetti

Kyle McNelis

Inez Riverside

Addyson Shogren Melissa Gazza

24 Greg Jarski

Jared Johnson

Jerold Swartout

25 Geri Anderson

Justin Cowen

Larry Nasi

Ed Simbob 27 Tom Bates

Tanner Veale

29 Lisa Hosking

Doug Karttunen

30 Alyssa Pontti

31 Erika Rahoi

Charlene Williams

Sunday School

Rally Day – September 8th 9:40 am-10:40am

Saturday, August 3rd

3-8:30pm

PRAISE-FEST is a free, family-friendly day of

praise & worship on August 3rd from 3-

9pm. It will be held outdoors at R Cabins,

one mile north of Channing, MI (N12178 on

M95). Throughout the day worship with

those listed in the schedule. Note that for

this event our Praise Team will be a reunion

of current and original members, and will

lead worship at 7:45pm. Please bring your

own food, drinks and lawn chairs; parking is

available along the highway. Join with those

from various communities and enjoy a day of

uplifting music!

Hospice Quilters are looking for donations

of trinkets, doodads and gizmos. These

items are used to make Fidget Mats for

patients with dementia. Each mat uses 12 sensory items such as: parts from leather

purses, neckties, jewelry, ribbons, buttons,

belts, embroidered patches - anything safe,

clean and easily sewn down tight. Even small

pocket watches, stuffed toys and medals

work. Please drop off in the church office.

Every 5 year anniversary, beginning with

the 10th will be included in the Carillon.

15 Years - August 21st

Jason & Bridget Raiche

45 Years - August 24th

John & Kathy Kelm

50 years - August 30th

Michael & Colleen Holmes

We Welcome into our Church Family through the

Sacrament of Holy Baptism:

Ashley & Ava Weecks

Thank you’s Received:

Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center Wycliff Bible Translators

** Damian & Tania Taff on the death of his

mother, Rose Fontecchio.

** Bobbie Samme on the death of her

mother, Gloria McCauslin.

** Kent & Kristine Schroeder & family on

the death of his father, Wayne

Schroeder.

** Dr. Toby & Michelle Carlson on the

death of his mother, Viva Carlson.

Financial Report Attendance

July 7 161

June Receipts $30,410.62 July 14 181

June Expenditures $36,625.32 July 21 168

($6,214.70) July 28 138

Monthly Benevolence $300.00 Alpha Omega Local

Disbursed $1,065.36 AGAPE Fund

Congratulations to:

** Zachary & Gina Wollner on the birth of

son, Weston Lawrence and to proud

grandparents, Larry & Cheryl Smith.

** Jon & Ingrid Bechard on the birth of

son, Declan Harold and to proud grand-

parents, Steve & Vicki Faust.

** Jon & Raquel (Boone) Reed on their

recent marriage.

Annual Garden Party Salad Luncheon

Thursday, August 15th 11:30am - 1:00pm

St. Mary Catholic Church Hall Norway

Featuring a Build Your Own Salad Bar, com-

plete with meats, cheeses & assorted top-

pings. Salads of all types - Fresh Garden

salads, potato salads, pasta salads, fruit

salads, Jello salads & more.

Dessert Bar and beverages included.

Cost is $10, children 5 and under free.

Everyone is welcome!

The Shepherd’s Preschool will hold their

orientation on Wednesday, August 21st.

3 & 4 year olds will come at 5:00pm and

4 & 5 year olds will follow at 6:00pm.

Preschool will begin on Tuesday,

September 3rd. There are still two open-

ings in our 4 &5 year old class.

The Shepherd’s Preschool is seeking applicants for

a Teacher/Director

This is a 23 hr/week position,

36 weeks per school year,

teaching Preschool (ages 3/4) 2 mornings

and Pre-Kindergarten (ages 4/5)

3 mornings per week.

Applicants must meet state Early Childhood/Child Development qualifications.

Submit Letter of Application, Resume and

Transcript of courses to:

The Shepherd’s Preschool Board

Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church

1210 S. Kimberly Ave

Iron Mountain, MI 49801

or email to

shepherdspreschool@gmail.com

Please submit by Saturday,

August 3rd

This month for LWR we will collect nail

clippers with file attached (no toenail

clippers) and large toothed combs (no picks).

Please drop off in the church office.

Habitat for Humanity The 4th Annual Run for the Walls 5K race

will be held Saturday, August 10th. It begins

and ends at Lodal Park in Kingsford. The

race course goes past 5 Habitat homes.

Preregistration is $20 and ends August 2nd.

Race day registration is $25. All pre-

registrants receive a race t-shirt. Race day

registrants receive a t-shirt as long as sup-

plies last. Registration runs from 8:00-

9:15am with the race starting at 9:30am.

Entry forms are on their website at

www.habitatmr.com.

Pastor’s Link

In Jonathan Fisk’s book “Broken”, he defines

the 'Theology of prosperity' as: “The belief

that the way God feels about you is meas-

ured by how good our life is right now. The

"Prosperity gospel", then, is nothing more

than the worship of health and wealth.”

Most of us are familiar with the old funda-

mentalist health, wealth, success religion that

has been around for ages. It is a direct de-

scendant of the Pharisees. In this day and age

it can mainly be found on the TV. It is the

idea that God wants to bless you with mate-

rial wealth IF you have enough faith. And

how do we prove our faith? Of course, by

sending more money to the televangel-

ist. And if you do not have health and pros-

perity, then it is because YOU do not have

enough faith.

Now we may feel that because we are

solid Lutherans we are aware of this false

'works righteousness' teaching and thus we

are less susceptible to it. Yet we may be

more vulnerable to it than we realize. And

this is nothing new. In Jesus day it was a

commonly held belief by the religious lead-

ers that if you were healthy and wealthy

then you were obviously blessed by God.

Therefore the disciples were stunned

when Jesus stated; "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle

than a rich man to enter the Kingdom

of heaven.”

This throws the false 'prosperity gospel'

right out the window. Yet it seems to return

and persist somehow, implying that if you

were poor, or sick or afflicted in some way,

that you were under God’s judgment – that

you were 'steeped in sin'. This is witnessed

too in the Pharisees view of the man born blind. "Was it he, or his parents that sinned

for him to have been born blind?" Jesus an-

swers, "Neither".

Many different false theologies, false philoso-

phies and false teachings have come and

gone with the same basic idea that success

equals being blessed by God. That if things

are going well for you, then obviously God is

“smiling” upon you, blessing your efforts and

if not, well you better do something to fix it

and get it right because it is obviously your

fault. And many Christians struggle with this

understanding, wondering whether God

truly loves them or not. In contrast, Fisk

states in his book: "Against this sandy land

where storms will come and blow, authen-

tic Christianity stands firm as a house built

on the bedrock of Jesus Christ. This world

and all its decay, rot and love of money can-

not touch it, because it cannot understand

or surrender to Jesus Christ." Jesus Christ is

risen and He is the true treasure, kept in

heaven for you and for all people. In this

world we will face both hunger and plenty,

and BOTH will harm the body eventually,

but neither of them can touch the soul kept

safe in Christ. Christianity has never budged

from this truth because Christianity is not

about this world, it is about Jesus Christ and

the Kingdom of God.

Do you want to know how God feels about

you right now? Do you want an answer un-

touched by the sands of time and undimin-

ished by our greedy attempts to build

heaven out of this hell? Then believe His

words: "For God sent his Son into the

world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through

Him." THAT is how God feels about you.

Through baptism you have been buried and

raised with Jesus the Son of God. Against all

of these fanatical lies about earthly wealth

being a blessing, God your Father has lifted

up the cross of Jesus. It is at the foot of that

cross that this world is turned on its

greedy, cursed, decaying head. It is there

that death is life; it is there that weakness is

strength; it is there that poverty is wealth

and affliction is prosperity. Jesus mocks

prosperity when He says; "Man shall not

live by bread alone, but by every Word

that proceeds from the mouth of God."

He left this world to His apostles with the

commission not to conquer the world, but

to preach that He has already conquered it

through the cross. No matter how big we

build our barns, we can only eat our bread

today. The secret of Christian contentment

is realizing that there will come a tomor-

row when we do not eat here at all, a

tomorrow when we shall dine in paradise.

That is having an eternal perspective. This

world will not last, it cannot last. We do

not find God either 'in' or 'of ‘ this world;

rather, through the action of the Holy

Spirit, Jesus finds us amid the greed and the

mud and the ashes. And He lifts us up in

His Name. Amen.

In Christ - Pastor Paul

Senior Pastor - Rev. Paul Strom Church Phone: 774.2733

Phone: 906.398.7430 Church Fax: 774.4069

Email: pastorpaul@oslfamily.org Email: connect@oslfamily.org

Website: oslfamily.org

Church Picnic Sunday, August 11th

11:00am - 2:00pm - City Park

Brats, burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, beans,

chips and beverage will be provided.

Please bring a salad of some type or dessert to share.

There are wooden benches for seating or

you may bring your own chairs.

Suggested donation will be $3 per person or $10 per family to help cover cost of food and Pavilion rental.

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