July Messenger

Our “Christ Care” You are encouraged to pray for, phone, visit or send a card or note to the following. If the information has changed, please call the Church office so we can update this list.

Heritage of Huntington–Gertrude Goebel, Marie Guhl, and Maxine Stetzel

Heritage Pointe (Warren)-Myra Turner

Home- Linda Baker, Rodger Barton, Brenda Harman, Diana Mason, John Pohler, Pete Weicht (heart), Charlie and Lola Weicht, and Fred Winkelman.

Markle Health Care-Marie Rutenberg

Miller’s Merry Manor (Columbia City)-Gloria Kaylor

Miller's Merry Manor (Huntington) - Waneta Pohler

Norwood-Emily Catt, Elnora Norris (rehabilitation), and Edith White

Peabody, North Manchester-Frances Campbell

Oakbrook Village-Melba Smith

Tipton House-Myrtle Hartman

Lutheran Hospital - Roger Cuttriss

Treatments-Drew Dorsett, Jerri Hughes, Lori Johnson, Chris Morton, Andy Okuly, Gary Riggers, Carol Stonebraker, and Marcus Weekley

If the information has changed, please call the Church office so we can update this list.

Worship for Shut-ins Total Christian Television

If you cannot make it to church–watch us on TV! Fort Wayne (& NW Ohio)

WPTA-TV 21: @ 6:30 am

FiOS Cable 9: Sun @ 8:00 am

WINM-TV 63/43 Sun @ 11:30 am

Comcast 55 & FiOS 25: Sun & Mon @ 4:00 pm

Mission Envelopes

Please prayerfully consider using your mission envelopes each month. Mission envelopes are in your pledge envelope box at the beginning of each month.

Tape Ministry

If you are unable to attend the worship service because of health problems (or if you know of someone), we would be happy to drop off a tape of the service or a copy of the sermon (if you don’t have a tape player). Both come with the bulletin. Just let the church office know (or call Joan and Dave at 356-5096).

In the military

1st Lt. Anthony Rowley, husband of Toni Guhl Rowley, is serving in Afghanistan through August. Please keep him in your prayers.

NEWS AND NOTES: 

Welcome to our DCE Intern –Shay Miller

Welcome to Shay, Justin, Dylan, and Molly Miller from Seward, Nebraska.  They arrived in Huntington on June 1st.  They are living in the Church parsonage at 657 Polk St.

Organ Restoration

The Scrip program is supporting the Organ Restoration as long as needed. Our organ is in need of some major repairs that could cost as much as $100,000. It does not have to be repaired  all at one time. We can make the repairs as we have the funds. A special fund has been established. There are envelopes in the pews for this special fund. If you care to give a gift for something special this is a great need of the church.

Love Inc.-Urgent Request

Love Inc. urgently needs clothing for our Back-to-School Fair.  We served 398 kids last year from grades k-12^th.  We anticipate a similar number for this year.  We really need to start to get clothing in ASAP.  Although the Back-to School Fair doesn’t occur until July 31^st, it takes a lot of time to do all the sorting, sorting and more sorting.  We also have some volunteer groups willing to help sort but don’t have enough clothing right now to sort.  We especially need Jeans of all sizes. Please drop off you donations to Love Inc. at 715 Byron Street. Thank you.

National Offering

There will be a National Offering taken for the Synod on July 4^th and 5^th to help with Synod needs. It will be collected on the first Saturday and Sunday in July.

**CALENDAR OF DISTRICT and SYNODICAL EVENTS**  2010

July 8-10 – Black Ministry Convocation, Houston, TX

July 10-17 - LCMS Synodical Convention, Houston, TX

July 17-21 - National Youth Gathering, New Orleans, LA

July 22-25 - International LLL Convention, Omaha, NE

July 25-27 - District Administrators Conference, Brown County State Park

Thank you to Don and Cynthia Morrison (Saturday) and Jack and Ruth Guy (Sunday) for being our greeters in May.

Our greeters for June are Robert and Kristin McFarland (Saturday) and The Crider Family (Sunday).

    7/9        Norma Pohler            82

    7/11      Frances Campbell      91

Thank you so much to the members and friends of St Peter’s for all that you’ve done to prepare for our arrival and for the warm welcome.  Our family is glad to be here and we look forward getting to know you and serving together. 

-Shay Miller and family

Thank you to the persons helping with the pies and generously and successfully prepared the pies for the 4-H fair! 

-Eleanor Smith.

Independence Day July 4th

On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from Britain and Democracy was born. Every day thousands leave their homeland to come to the "land of the free and the home of the brave" so they can begin their American Dream.

The United States is truly a diverse nation made up of dynamic people. Each year on July 4, Americans celebrate that freedom and independence with barbecues, picnics, and family gatherings. Through the Internet we are learning about and communicating with people of different nations, with different languages and different races throughout the world. Bringing the world closer with understanding and knowledge can only benefit all nations.

We invite all nations to celebrate with Americans online this Fourth of July.

Happy Birthday, America!

Food and Co-op Clothing Hours at Seminary

So many of the members of your congregations are faithful donors to the seminary’s Food & Clothing Co-op and we want to make sure you all have our current hours of operation. 

CTS Food & Clothing Co-op hours:    

Portals of Prayer

We now have added a medium size of the Portals of Prayer devotional books available for you to pick up. The small and large sizes are still available also.

New Church Directory

We would like to form a committee to take on a new picture Church Directory project. We need a committee chairman and about 3 or 4 others to take on this project. Once the committee is formed, they will interview the picture companies and make the recommendation on who to contract with.

We will need all names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses plus any updates of all church members if they would like to be in the directory.

If anyone would like to volunteer for this project, please contact the Church office at 260-356-6528. Thank you.

The Prophets are Serving You?

According to the dictionary, a prophecy is" the message  that has been communicated to a prophet  which the prophet then communicates to others. Such messages typically involve divine inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of events to come."  The next couple of bible studies will be on the subject of Prophecy and the first is titled "THE PROPHETS ARE SERVING YOU."      Take a few minutes to read over this important aspect of our faith and belief. -Pastor Fischer