Welcome to Holy Spirit Lutheran Church of West Bloomfield Michigan

Administrative Assistant’s Corner

 

 

Leaving Messages: Call the church office and choose option “2” to get information to me when I’m not in the office or send an e-mail to: office@spiritdrivenchurch.com

 

August Newsletter Deadline: Please turn information into the office no later than

July15, 2009.

 

 

Please submit weekly bulletin and newsletter information to Ann Elliott by Wednesdays @ 10:00 a.m..

 

 

 

 

 

Holy Spi r i t : A Praying Community

 

As you pray throughout your day, include:

For health and healing: our shut ins.

 

For those who grieve: The Hauswirth family and the Figi family.

For Bishop Stephen Marsh, the the Southeast Michigan synod staff, and SE MI Synod, at this time of transition.

 

 

For the congregation and Pastor Bill;

 

For the end of war, and for peace and justice throughout the world; or the people of Haiti; for the unemployed.

 

 

For families in crisis; and for all God’s children who are hungry, homeless, ill and lonely.

 

 

 

 

Congregational Life

Holy Spirit  

Congregational    

Council and Staff

2009 Council Members:

Bob Frick, President  

Donna Optoff, Vice President  

Jean Butler, Secretary

Nancy Green, Recording Secretary

 

Committee Chairs:

Fellowship: Jean Butler

Worship and Music: Shelly Holtquist

Evangelism: Tammi Engleman

Property: Andy Meyer

Stewardship and Finance: John Dzuba

Church in Society: Donna Optoff

Christian Education: Joyce Washington

 

Staff Members:

Bill Matlack, Pastor

Ann Elliott, Administrative Assistant

Bonnie Sweda, Music Director (lead)

Sheila Stephenson, Music Director

 

 

 

            July  Anniversaries:  

 

                                          

14-  Doug & Donna Opthoff                     19- Brian & April Rohde                     

We encourage you to call the Church office when… a member of your family is admitted to the hospital, so that visits can be made and the proper people notified : either you home phone number, address or email has changed so that our records can be updated; you are planning to move, either out-of-town or locally; a new baby arrives in your family; a new family moves into your neighborhood; or you feel the Church can assist you in any way. Thank you.
NEW PARAMENTS
The Altar Guild would like to buy new paraments.We want to buy a new banner and lectern cloth for use at Christmas.The banner would be Mary and Joseph standing over the manger with the Baby Jesus, while the lectern cloth would depict the star over Bethlehem.The price of the set is $992.

We also would like white paraments for use on Christ the King, Transfiguration, and Reformation Sundays.The banner would be Christ ascending, and the lectern cloth would be a Chi-Roh in gold on the white background. The price the set is $1950. We are looking for memorial donations.You may choose which item wish to donate toward.Your memorial will be listed on the back of the parament and in a Memorial Gift ledger. Please talk to Judy or Ruth.

Please see the display on the bulletin board for pictures of the actual designs.
Book/Bible Study
 Begins on Thursday, July 8: 10am & 7pm
Leonard Sweet is anauthor,preacher,scholar, and
 ordainedUnited Methodistclergymancurrently serving as theE. Stanley JonesProfessorEvangelismDrew Theological School, inMadison, New Jersey. In 2007 he was votedOne of the 50 Most Influential Christian Leaders in America(#8).
The main idea of this book is not Starbucks. Leonard Sweet uses Starbucks to show how they connect with their customers. He urges the church to observe what they do.He uses Starbucks to show how they have connected with the culture–in fact they have transformed the culture. If you go to Starbucks they expect you to know “their” language -Venti, Grande and Tall (large, medium and small).
Sweet says that people go to Starbucks not for the coffee but for the experience. He says that is what the church should be. He uses a acronym EPIC to describe what the church should be like.
E- Experiencial; P- Participatory; I- Image-rich; C- Connective
The book club will met on Thursday, August 26th at 7 PM to discuss this next book selection: Falling Angels bu Tracy Chevalier. It is a poignant tale of two families brought together in London in 10901.