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Fond du Lac WI 54937-9235
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October 2015
Be Selfless not Selfish
Inside this issue
Calendar
cover
News & Notes
1-6
Schedules
Cleaning
5
Greeters
3
Special Points of Interest:
♦ WLA Association Festival
of Reformation p. 2
♦ Blood Drive p. 2
♦ Visitation Ministry p. 2
♦ “End of Life” Presentation
p. 3
♦ Church Library News p. 4
♦ WLA Homecoming
Festivities p. 5
♦ 2016 Creation Calendars
p. 5
♦ LGP & DoC Pizza Sale
p. 5
♦ Nurses Points of Interest:
Palliative Care p. 6
The world system is committed to at least four major objectives, which I can
summarize in four words: fortune, fame, power, pleasure. First and foremost:
Fortune, money. The world system is driven by money; it feeds on materialism. Second: Fame. That is another word for popularity. Fame is the longing to
be known, to be somebody in someone else’s eyes. Third: Power. This is having influence, maintaining control over individuals or groups or companies or
whatever. It is the desire to manipulate and maneuver others to do something
for one’s own benefit. Fourth: Pleasure. At its basic level, pleasure has to do
with fulfilling one’s sensual desires. It’s the same mindset that’s behind the
slogan: “If it feels good, do it.”
King Solomon wrote in the book of Ecclesiastes 1:9, What has been will be
again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the
sun. How true it is, the world system hasn’t changed at all since the days of the
Greeks during the Apostle Paul’s ministry. The Greek culture was filled with
sexual immorality, hedonism, high-living self-indulgence, and overindulgence. If the Greeks had a desire, they simply went out and fulfilled it.
They definitely lived by the slogan: “If it feels good, do it.”
Whether the time of the societies of the past or the time of days in which we
live, every world system has been and is based on the same ideal of selfishness. The need to be selfish is ingrained in our sinful nature. One of the first
words our children learn to speak is “mine.” Listen to teenagers as they begin
so many sentences with subject and verb, “I need…..” Even the most common
complaint of adults is heard when they remark with the words “What about
me?”
Read Galatians 5:19-21, where the Apostle Paul lists the obvious acts of the
sinful nature including, “hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, and selfish ambition.” Then he states the warning, “That those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Where people only have room in their hearts for
themselves, there is no room for Christ. And without Christ there is no forgiveness, there is no eternal life.
Being selfless is not something we could know or learn on our own, it had to
be shown to us. It was the selfless love of Christ that caused him to take up our
sins and carry them to the cross. The selfless love of Christ that caused him to
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suffer hell in our place and die the death we deserved. It was in selfless love that
Christ rose again from the dead to proclaim to us forgiveness and eternal life,
neither of which we have earned or deserved. Jesus’ earthly ministry was about
saving souls at the expense of his own life, completely selfless.
Only in Christ can Christians begin to model selfless love. It’s not about me, but
about giving thanks to my Savior, And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves
but for him who died for them and was raised again. (2 Corinthians 5:15) It’s not about me, but about loving
and serving others: Love is patient, love is kind…..it is not rude, it is not self-seeking. (1 Corinthians 13:4-5)
Be selfless, not selfish, and in so doing you will let others see the selfless love of Christ that is in you, that has
saved you.
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
7:45
Dave & Bonny Zarbock
10:30
Gib & Ann Trewin June Kartos
7:45
Susie Kollmann Marilyn Abbey
10:30
Marilyn Gruber Diane Sippel
7:45
Deb Dehring Bonnie Baerwald
10:30
Jerry & Diane Fricken
7:45
Deb Deere
10:30
Dewane & Mary Scheidt
End of Life Presentation
You Won’t Want to Miss
The Parish Nurse team invites you to a presentation by Pastor
Robert Fleischman of Christian Life Resources. He will be presenting “End-of-Life Issues – Life, Death and In-Between:
Things You Wanted to Know” during Bible class
on Sunday, October 4. The presentation will include purposes of life, reasons for suffering, reasons for fearing death, the role of medical directive statements, and tough issues including resuscitation orders, tube feeding, cancer issues, palliative care, hospice, and family care and conflicts.
Please mark your calendars now.
Wednesdays
10:00 am or 7:00 pm
Sunday Mornings
9:00
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Church Library Now Open Again!
After extensive “weeding out” of unused and outdated materials, come in and check
out the “new look” of our library. You will find the children’s section all on the right,
non-fiction all on the left, and newly-labeled sections to help you find what you are
looking for. Gone are all the VHS-format videos to make room for more DVD-format
videos, which will be coming soon. The middle section is adult fiction, teen fiction,
Luther items and DVDs.
We’d also like your help in locating items MISSING from our shelves:
Children’s section: Gertie’s Not Alone, Bible Animals and Peter Bold Disciple.
Teen section: Time Crashers.
Fiction section: City of Angels, Lily’s Sister, The Prodigal and The Widow
of Larkspur Inn.
Non-fiction section: Ezra/Nehemiah/Esther and Judges/Ruth and Psalms,
(three volumes of the People’s Bible series), For Such a Time as This –
Gospels V2, The Good House of God, Jacob He Wrestled with God,
Moses God’s Deliverance, When I Lay My Isaac Down.
If you have checked them out, please return or have them rechecked out. If you
“borrowed” without checking them out, please return. Please help us correct
our inventory.
Checkout time is 30 days for books and 14 days for videos. We have a few
new items, with many more to come in the next few weeks!!
Membership Matters
The matters of membership listed below were acted upon
or recognized by the Coordinating Council at its September meeting.
Transfers Received
Ryan Gudex from St. Paul’s, North Fond du Lac
Baptisms
Simon Fisher
Stephanie Bakeberg and daughter Autumn Kimball
from St. Paul’s, North Fond du Lac
Rhett Baumbach
Transfers Granted
Kelly Sippel to Grace, Glendale, Arizona
Funeral
Gerald Reader
Gordon Tews to Grace, Milwaukee
Josiah Zabel to Good Shepherd, Fond du Lac
Hannah Zuberbier to Trinity, Eugene, Oregon
Liam Dyer
Unable to Serve
and Removed
Jordan Gray
Marriage
Brett Walser and Shelby Roth
Luke Kurth
Gordon Kimball
Received by Confirmation
Pamela Gudex
Jacqueline Buchholz
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WLA Homecoming
Our Area Lutheran High School, Winnebago Lutheran Academy, celebrates its homecoming this month. The Homecoming football game will take place Saturday, October
10 at 1:00, as the Vikings take on Mayville High School. The annual Skit Night is
Friday, October 9, at 6:30 in the gym. For a full list of Homecoming activities, please
visit www.wlavikings.org.
Packers and Pizza
Who doesn’t want pizza for when the Packers take on the Carolina Panthers on Sunday,
November 8? Over the next month the Lutheran Girl Pioneers and the Disciples of Christ
(DoC) will be selling pizzas that they will personally make fresh for you on November 7.
The proceeds of the pizza sale will help defray the cost of our LGP Summer Camp and our
teens to going to the 2016 WELS International Youth Rally in Colorado Springs. Support
our youth ministries, and if you must ask – the pizzas are awesome!!!!
Disciples of Christ
The Disciples of Christ is our teen
youth group made up of all 6th-8th
graders, with high school students
serving as leaders. The DoC meets
Sunday mornings at 9:00 in the
multipurpose room. We are a Biblestudying, growing-in-faith group.
Throughout the year we also put our
faith into action through community
service projects, church projects, and other great outings.
Come and be a part of our great group – it’s always an adventure!
2016 Creation Calendars
The 2016 Creation Calendars are in and they
are as amazing and beautiful as ever! They
will be put out and made available sometime
mid-October. The cost of the calendars is $7.
How wonderful to be able to look at a daily
calendar that both quotes God’s promises and
pictures his beautiful creation.
Cleaning Schedule
Week of
Oct. 4
Jane Fell
Oct. 11
Jane Fell
Oct. 18
Sue Repp
Carolyn Kramer
Oct. 25
Sue Repp
Carolyn Kramer
Please call Gregg at
923-1583 to
become a member
of the “cleaning
team”.
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N URSES P OINTS OF
I NTEREST
Quality of Life
When it comes to quality of life, each patient has his
or her own vision.
“Each suffering is unique. Each individual is unique,
and each family and the dynamics are unique,” Chan
says.
“There is no generalization and that’s the key,” Meier
says. “Palliative care is genuinely patient-centered,
meaning: We ask the patient what’s important to them
and what their major priorities are. Based on what the
patients or the family tell us,
we then develop a care plan
and a strategy that meets the
patient’s goals and values.”
For some people, Meier
says, the goal or value might
be to live as long as possible
– no matter what the quality.
“Maybe one in ten to one in 20 patients don’t care if
they’re on a ventilator and on dialysis for the rest of
their life. They’re waiting for a miracle and that’s
what they want,” she says. “They understand the odds
and that’s their choice. And then we will do everything in our power to make sure that their goals are
respected and adhered to.”
But some patients care more about the quality of each
day. Although pain management is a major part of palliative care, patients can also seek help with other
symptoms such as nausea, loss of appetite, fatigue,
constipation, shortness of breath, and trouble sleeping.
People who face serious illness often need emotional
and spiritual support.
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Part 2 of our series on
Palliative Care
Holistic Focus
Palliative care is holistic. For patients, this
means attending to the challenges that illness
poses in every aspect of life. It also means that
palliative care extends to family members and
caregivers. Support services may include:
⇒ educating family members about the patient’s illness, treatment, and medications
⇒ respite care for caregivers
⇒ home help with transportation, meals, and
shopping
But flexibility is important. Meier recalls one
patient, a 24-year-old woman who developed
acute leukemia. She had intense bone pain, severe shortness of breath, panic attacks, anxiety,
and a large, devastated family with one sibling
who was a substance abuser. As a result, nobody
in the family wanted her to have any pain medicine.
“You get this sense of how complex and intense
the palliative care needs were for this young
woman,” Meier says. “Frankly, I don’t think she
would have gotten through her treatment at all
had she not had expert treatment of her pain, her
shortness of breath, her anxiety, and a tremendous amount of counseling and support for her
family.” When faced with serious illness, some
patients yearn for reconciliation with an estranged spouse or
child, Chan says. Social workers will attempt to contact the
person at the patient’s request.
Information for above article obtained from WebMD
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Blood Drive Coming to WLA October 14
The Fond du Lac area WELS parish nurses are coordinating a blood drive with the Blood
Center of Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 14 from 12:30 to 5:30 at WLA. Blood cannot
be stockpiled, so there is a constant need for donations. There is no substitute for human
blood, therefore individuals can only receive blood transfusions if others donate. If you or
someone you know has received a transfusion of blood or platelets, remember someone
else was generous enough to donate to make it possible.
The entire process for donation should only take one hour. Signup sheets are available in the narthex, or you
may contact Diane Sippel at 579-1062 or [email protected] for an appointment time. Please consider a
donation that may help save a life. If you have questions about donating (criteria or the process), please contact Diane Sippel.
Visitation Ministry:
An Opportunity to Serve
The people of our Visitation Team call on members that are unable to
attend church regularly. The visits
strengthen the faith of all involved. If
you are interested in serving in this
ministry, please call Pastor Zuberbier at
517-8808 or Diane Fricken at 922-6011.
We will meet Monday, October 12 at
10:00 in the conference room.
Fondue Fest
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who helped
with our Fondue Fest Booth this
year. We had so many people stop
by our booth with whom we were
able to share our ministry with. It
was a wonderful opportunity to get
our church and its ministries out in
front of our community.
Outreach Table
Don’t forget to stop by our Outreach Table in the narthex to check out our
new additions. We now have license plate covers! There is a specific one for
the front plate and a specific one for the back plate, so everything is legal.
Also, don’t forget to pick up some business cards to keep in your wallet for
the opportunities that arise to share our church and its ministries, which
include our Lutheran Elementary School.
WLA Association
Reformation Festival
Our joint Reformation Festival service is Sunday, November 1, at 3:00
here in our sanctuary. Wisconsin Lutheran
Seminary Professor Rev. James Korthals
will be the guest preacher. WLA choirs and
band will participate, as well as a special
junior choir of Association grade school students. What an opportunity for us to come
together and rejoice in the full and free forgiveness we have through Christ our Savior.