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Member Reflections
Our Web site has been compiled devotions written by members of Holy Spirit Lutheran Church who are celebrating their blessings. Instructions for adding your reflections are at the end. Click here to share our member’s reflections.
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Acolytes |
Counters |
Greeters |
Lector |
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July 4 |
Danielle Lemmer
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Mary & Janet Martin |
Mary & Janet Martin
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Marty Opthoff
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July 11 |
Lukas Mattern
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Stan Samuelsen Ken Casagrande
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Stan & Jean Samuelsen
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Charlene Meyer |
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July 18 |
Arlyn Reed |
Hilda Sawicki George & Chris Kuljurgis
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George & Chris Kuljurgis
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Jean Butler
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July 25 |
Annika Mattern
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Thomas & Jean Butler Tom Sweda
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Norm & Carolyn Werner
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Tammi Engleman
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Worship Assistants for Month
Thank you to all who have signed up and hosted a coffee hour. A coffee hour sign up sheet is on the bulletin board with future available dates. Please consider hosting a coffee hour with another person or a group.
Revisioning God’s Mission in the Southeast Michigan Synod
Introduction to the Strategic Planning Process
We Get the Basics
Faithful and meaningful life in Word and Sacrament Ministry.
God shows up when we gather for worship.
People are fed, equipped.
God gives us everything that is needed for life and mission.
How we live that out is the challenge before us.
The Old Ways Don’t Work Like They Used to
Traditional parachute drop mission starts. We have not had lots of success.
Traditional redevelopments don’t work so well in a changed world.
Congregations increasingly are challenged to connect with changing communities.
Synod Staff & Mission Directors as “experts with the answers”at times helpful just don’t have and perhaps should not have the answers “that work.”
That people are eager to become engaged in what God wants us to do
That we want to do what really matters
And we believe deeply
That God has a dream for Southeast Michigan
That we are invited to live out that dream with God in the world
That God is already giving eyes to see, ears to hear and hands to act
God is calling us
To do this together
To learn from one another
To discover the resources, insights, passions and capacities that we have.
The Time isNow……
The Synod, Congregations
and all of us will ask key questions.
What in the world is
God up to?
What is our role in that work?
What is God’s purpose for us?
For more information go to www.semisynod.com & click on Mission Strategy box.
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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
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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-
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