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Celebrate our new SAM!
Church Picnic
Sunday, September 14th
3:00 p.m. @ the Clarks'
Last Sunday, Kathy Gosnell became our SAM (Synod Authorized Minister). This is a great occasion & deserves celebration. All are invited to a picnic at Bob & Myrtle Clark's house . Fellowship will provide grilling meat & the Clarks will have drinks. Everyone else please bring a picnic dish to share. Sign up sheet is in the narthex or call the church office to RSVP.
Our Redeemer Church
– Spaghetti Supper & Fundraiser –
Wednesday, September 10th,
5:30 p.m. at Ferguson Baptist
Our Redeemer is beginning to rebuild after the F4 tornado that hit last May. On September 10th at 5:30pm there will be a $10 Spaghetti dinner and silent auction at Ferguson Baptist Church, Ferguson. All of the Gethsemane Church Family are invited to attend. It’s a great opportunity to get to know this congregation and support their rebuilding efforts.
Let's TP the Church!
It continues to amaze us how quickly TP disappears from the Blessing Box – there is never any left after stocking day!
For the month of September, please consider adding toilet paper 4-packs to your normal Blessing Box donations, and let’s see how much TP we can amass to help keep up with this basic need.
Hint: Dollar Store & Dollar Tree typically sell 4-packs for $1.25 (check prices).
Tornado Relief
Across the country, Lutheran Disaster Response supports communities recovering from devastating tornadoes. They include:
- Western Kentucky
- Selma and Prattville, Ala.
- Amory and Wren, Miss.
- Rocky Mount and Battleboro, N.C.
- Pulaski County, Ark.
- Central Tennessee
Our response:
In the aftermath of tornadoes, Lutheran Disaster Response works with ELCA synods, social ministry organizations and community-based groups to support local responses. Together we accompany impacted communities through disaster case management, construction management, providing relief supplies and addressing other unmet needs.
What you can do:
Pray:
Please pray for the people impacted by these destructive tornadoes. May God's healing presence give them peace and hope in their time of need.
Give:
Gifts to "U.S. tornadoes" will be used entirely (100%)
to assist those affected by tornadoes.
Connect:
To learn more about the situation and the ELCA’s response:
Sumud - For Justice and Peace in Palestine
Sumud is the ELCA Churches response to occupation and injustice in Palestine and Israel. In Jesus Christ all of life— every act of service, in every daily calling, in every corner of life— flows freely from a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.
Freed by the transformative life of Christ, the ELCA is committed to accompaniment, advocacy and awareness-raising with our partners in the Holy Land and in the United States. For the past two decades that work was organized through the ELCA Peace Not Walls campaign. In October 2023 the ELCA announced that, following an in-depth review by ELCA staff and leadership from the Palestinian Lutheran church, Peace Not Walls would be renamed and reconfigured as a new initiative, Sumud: For Justice in Palestine and Israel.
Sumud is an Arabic word meaning “steadfastness.” The term is widely used by Palestinian theologians and others to signify Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. That resistance takes the form of nonviolent advocacy for political change as well as “resistance through existence,” embodied in education, social work, the arts and one’s relationships with the land and community.