THE PEACE MESSENGER

Called to Receive and Share God’s Peace

AUGUST 2018

Grace and Peace to You dear sisters and brothers in Christ!

What do an empty raspberry pie tin, a rocket ship, rummage items, pancakes and an accordion have to do with
each other? These are all signs that point towards our involvement with helping our community celebrate
Poplar Fun Days. The final event of the weekend’s events is an outdoor worship service underneath the Poplar
Fun Days tent. We desire to be a part of our local community. If we believe that God meets us where we are –
that God is in fact ―circulating around the neighborhood,‖ not just off somewhere in heaven, then God will
surely meet us out in the Poplar Fun Days tent just as much as in our sanctuary.

Our first sign was a member bringing 6 raspberry pies to be sold for $10/pie with matching funds promised.
One thing let to another and this brought in $640 – miraculous! The next Sunday a Rocket Ship landed in our
church – creatively home built to help advertise our VBS GALACTIC STARVEYORS program which kicks

off after Poplar Fun Days.

Our third sign is rummage items flowing into the church and all the help needed to pull this rummage sell off
during Poplar Fun Days. Our fourth sign is the pancakes we will serve on Sunday of Poplar Fun Days. We
started this last year and meeting with success we expanded an extra hour and even pushed back the worship
start time from 09:00 to 10:00am.!

Our 5th sign is a member sharing their rediscovered talent of playing the accordion for our Sunday worship
service. Our 6th sign is the work we will do to help tear down the Poplar Fun Tent after our worship service
because that is the help our local community needed--- our 3rd year helping. God has promised to meet us
where we are at. Come let us worship the Triune God on Sunday, August 5th, 10:00am – you guessed it! At
the Poplar Fun Days Tent! Blessings Grow, Pastor Donna

Pastor Donna Rutten: Cell—715-815-0897; Email—pastorpeacepoplar@gmail.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 345 Poplar, WI 54864 Office Phone: 715-364-2593
Website: www.peacepoplar.org Email: peacepoplar@gmail.com Facebook: Peace Lutheran Church, Poplar, WI
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AUGUST 2018

June 21, 2018 Peace Lutheran Council Meeting Minutes

Present: Pastor Donna, Tricia, Dale, Luann, Sherry, Gerry, Ray, Rita, Yvonne, Amy;
Absent: Jon, Tony, Carole
Called to order at: 6:35pm
Devotions: Gospel Reading

Clerical Business:
Secretary Minutes: Dale/Sherry MSA
Calendar: Reviewed, calendar changes; no men's group for the summer, presentation of basement repair
7/19/18 Motion made to approve building use 6/30/18 for a baby shower, Sherry/Yvonne MSA
Pastor's Report: Reviewed
Parish Nurses Report: Reviewed, Luann is checking with insurance company about coverage and prices for
Parish Nurses.

Financial Report:
Treasurer Report: Dale/ Amy MSA
Motion made for Tony Garland to start as Financial Treasurer 7/1/18. Amy/Gerry MSA
Motion made to have Gail Saari, Pastor Donna and Tony Garland on Safe Deposit Box, Checking Account
and Money Market, Rita/Dale MSA

Committee Reports:
Women: Refrigerator was purchased
Men: Making pancakes for Poplar Days 7am to 10am
Education:
Property: DBS will do basement presentation 7/19/18 at 5pm
Outreach/Inreach: Poplar Days 10 volunteers are needed to help Friday 6pm for set up and Saturday for kid’s
games 10 to 4. Boy Scouts were asked and Amy will ask Footballs teams. Rummage Sale will run Saturday
same time as Poplar Days, Wes little can answer questions on this.
Worship: Working on music
Stewardship:

Old Business:
Faith Lutheran is not going to make an offer on the printer at this time.
Lin is working on the playground and what will be put under it.
Food Shelf has completed the 501C3 and is no longer using the Church EIN#, a post box has been set up in
Brule and mail is being changed over as it comes in.

New Business:
Dale will do quarterly update 6/24/18
VBS Loretta and Amanda have been contacted for dates, and Poplar Days update
Jon has been contacted for Harvest Dinner

Thank you cards: Thank you to Mike Hubbard for roasting the pig on Pentecost Sunday
Next Executive meeting: July 8th at 6:30pm; Next Church Council Meeting July 19 at 6:30pm
Devotions for Gospel Reading
Motion to adjourn at 8:00 by Dale/Gerry MSA with the Lord's Prayer and a song by the men's
quartette
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Called to Receive and Share God’s Peace

AUGUST 2018

Mindfulness Walking
“Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your
requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your
hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”. Philippians 4: 6-7

We hope everyone is taking advantage of these beautiful summer days by going for walks. We encourage
you to make your walking even more healthy by being mindful. Mindfulness means being more fully aware
of experiences in the present moment. Often when we walk we separate movement from our thoughts. Our
bodies do one thing while our minds race in another direction altogether often making to-do lists or stressing
about work or family.

Mindful walking is an opportunity to be fully present in what our body is doing. We can be mindful of our
breath, of how our bodies feel, of how our bodies respond to the environment, of how our thoughts take form
and to bring them back to the bodily experience rather than watching them race off.

We can mindfully choose how to bring our thoughts toward supporting health in body and spirit as we walk
with a meditative focus. A brief devotional time before a walk can provide the focus to center our minds as
we walk and open up space where God’s healing presence may become clear.

Use these tips for mindful devotional walking.

1. Begin with a brief devotional time using your chosen devotional or text. As you read the day’s reflection,
settle on a word or phrase from the Scripture verse or the reflectional passage. Make this your focal point as
you walk.
2. Pray and invite God’s presence into your mindful walk, asking God to clear your mind and spirit and open
up space for divine communion. You might want to jot down your day’s focal point to carry with you as you
walk.
3. While you walk, practice mindfulness. Allow your senses to help you be fully present in the moment and
not carried off by the cares of the day. Feel and notice the small experiences around you so that they might be
gateways to a larger awareness of God’s healing presence.
4. If you find your mind wandering to your to-do list or your worry list, bring your mind back to the focal
point you chose from the daily devotional time. If you wrote it down, this is a good time to look at it again
and remember why you chose it.
5. At the end of your walk, reflect on what you noticed as you walked that calmed you, brought you joy,
connected you to God, or provided positive perspective on circumstances that might have been weighing you
down. Consider keeping a journal where you write down one sentence each day of your awareness of God
from your walk.

Source: Church Health Reader, Summer 2018

Your parish nurses

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Called to Receive and Share God’s Peace

JULY 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE

FOLLOWING MEMBERS

Richard Larson August 02

Carolyn Grube August 05
Jedidiah Romich August 07
Reed and Pam Pearson Aug 20
Deanna Lancour August 08 Carl & Joyce Gustafson Aug 26
Audrey Hakkila August 11
Luke Sedin August 11
Logan Swenson August 11
Terra Johnson August 12 SUNDAY
Kade Maslowski August 17 AUGUST 5TH
Blanche Jacobson August 19
10:00 AM
Jerry Colby August 23
+
Amy Erickson August 29
Worship Service will be held in the Tent
Traci Laughlin August 31 at Poplar parking lot, following the Pan-
cake Breakfast, 7:00am to 10:00am.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES WITH LIMITED INCOME

DID YOU KNOW there are programs available to help pay for your Medicare costs? Medicare Savings
Programs assist people with Medicare who have limited income and resources. If eligible, your Medicare
Part B premium would be paid for you and you would automatically qualify for low cost prescriptions. That
savings would be over $100 per month! Another program known as “Extra Help” assists qualified
individuals with their prescription drug costs. If you or someone you know is on Medicare and struggling to
make ends meet, contact Brenda Kohel, Elder Benefit Specialist to learn more!

Brenda Kohel, EBS

ebs@seniorconnectionswi.org Flyers are available
Senior Connections (T & TH)715-394-3611 on the table in the
ADRC of Douglas County (M & W) 715-395-7533 Narthex.
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Called to Receive and Share God’s Peace

JULY 2018

IN AUGUST WE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING:

Aug 5 Abby Bottelfson, Joyce Peterson, Landan Swenson

Aug 12 Claire Kopetzky, Ralph Rounsville, Zoie Landgreen
Aug 19 Justin Sedin, Bud LaPole, Loretta Kopetzky
Aug26 Cory Schmidt, Lance Lindahl, Nina Olson

More Parish Nurse News: The parish nurses are now selling Kwik Trip car wash cards in addition to
Kwik Trip and Holiday gas cards. You can get 5 Ultimate $10 car washes for $40. These cards are a great gift
for the hard-to-buy-for people in your lives.

The Peace Parish Nurses are starting a bereavement card ministry to provide comfort and
support to people in our congregation whose immediate family members have died. Cards
will be sent at the time of death, at 3-month intervals and at special times such as the loved
one’s birthday or wedding anniversary during the first year following a death of a spouse,
parent, child, or sibling. An appropriate Care Notes® pamphlet will be sent with the card.
We recently applied for and received a $150 mini-grant from Northern Waters Parish Nurse
Ministry to start the card ministry. We welcome people to be part of this special ministry.
Let Jan Stevens know if you want to be involved. Also makes us aware of congregation
members whose loved ones have died.

2018 CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS

PASTOR Donna Rutten
PRESIDENT/Women Tricia Garland
The Poplar/Wentworth Lion’s Club
VICE PRESIDENT/Men Dale Johnson
has provided a container to donate
SECRETARY/Inreach/Outreach Sherry Jacobson
used eye glasses and hearing aids.
TREASURER/Worship Tony Garland
Education Jon Kopetzky
Property Ray Larson
Senior Carol Lindahl
Stewardship Amy Sedin
Youth/Young Adult Yvonne Kalin
Please bring your no longer needed
Inreach/Outreach Rita Garrow
items to the container in the Narthex.
Seniors Gerry Karna Thanks for helping with recycling.
Administration Assistant Kathy Johnson
Financial Secretary
The garden has been tilled and the pumpkins and squash have been planted.
People are welcome to use the rest of the garden.
Please help with weeding this summer.

A special thanks
to the
Norma Fechtelkotter
family for donating
crab apple trees for
the church grounds
in remembrance of
Norma.

A belated birthday wish to Samwel

Richard Berg and Carol Kittelson received
certificates of appreciation from the RSVP
Program at Catholic Charities for volunteering
more than 4200 hours at Essentia Health.
Kulwa Chaula who is now 14 years old.
Our Peace Lutheran Women have
sponsored Samwel for many years. We
pray for his continued spiritual growth,
perseverance in his education, building
healthy friendships, wisdom in making
God-honoring choices in his life, and a
spirit of joy and hope.
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JULY 2018
Sunday Servants Schedule AUGUST 2018
Under the Tent ? John Sippola
AUG 5 AUG 12 AUG 19 AUG 26
READER Amy J Gloria Olivia Gloria
ASSISTING MINISTER Gabe Gail Rick Dale
COMMUNION Dale Dale Amy J Gail
SERVER Gail Rusty Tony Amy J
GREETER Gilderman Arlene Gerry Rusty
GREETER Family Carol Bette Carole
OFFERING Gerry Lois Rich Jan
COUNTER
ACOLYTE Gunnar Ian Landan
ACOLTYE
FELLOWSHIP

HOST
JAPAN MISSION Terry Johnson Amy MJ Sedin in Bette
For Terra Sedin Father’s Memory Hanson

If you cannot assist/serve, you need to find a replacement person and leave a note, or phone message to church office,
715-364-2593 or peacepoplar@gmail.com

There are 12 jackets/coats still hanging on the racks in the Narthex that haven’t been claimed.
Please check to see if one might be yours and bring them home with you.
Those left will be put in the rummage sale August 4th.

MEN’S GROUP Peace Lutheran Women (PLW) - August

will reconvene Altar Guild Committee for July is Team #3 Jan Stevens
September 17 @ 7:00 pm Quilting: will reconvene September 4 & 18 at 9:30
Ruth Circle: 3rd Wednesday, August 15 at 10:00
Food Shelf : Third Saturday August 18 at 9am to 11:00
PLW Meeting: To Be Announced

CHURCH OFFICE HOURS Sunday Worship Schedule:

Tuesday, Wednesday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm Worship Service @ 9:00 am

Fellowship @ 10:00 am
Thursday, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Sunday School @ 10:00am