NEWS AND NOTES FROM

PEACE WITH CHRIST

1412 W. Swallow Road

Fort Collins, CO 80526
970-226-4721
Pastor Ralph Patrick
www.pwchrist-fc.org
November 29, 2009
First Sunday in Advent

WELCOME TO PEACE WITH CHRIST

LUTHERAN CHURCH!

We give thanks to God that you are joining us today!

Many of our guests are seeking a home church where they
can be part of the Fellowship of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace with Christ is a congregation that is a family not an
“organization”. We are small enough to allow people to
know each other by name, and yet large enough to offer
opportunities for growth and service. What we “specialize”
in is not programs or productions, but simply The Gospel
of Our Lord Jesus. Christ, His Word, and the Cross are
what provide the foundation for faith and ministry. If you
are interested in learning more about Peace With Christ
Lutheran Church, please call the church office at 226-4721.
Pastor Patrick would welcome the opportunity to visit with
you personally.
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THE TIME before the service may be used for prayer and preparation.
Read through the worship bulletin and familiarize yourself with the service.
A few moments spent this way will help make the service more meaningful.

NEXT WEEK’S LUTHERAN HOUR MESSAGE:

“Nobody Tells Me What To Do!” Guest Speaker: Rev.
Dr. Ken Klaus. Half-hearted repentance is not really
repentance at all. Jesus didn’t come into this world to
live, suffer, die, and rise for those who think they are
doing just fine on their own. (Luke 3:1-14)
(Mark 13:13) Listen to The Lutheran Hour Message on KOA,
Denver (AM850) at 6:00 a.m. and KFKA, Greeley (AM1310) at 9:30
a.m.

Peace With Christ Radio Broadcast: KCOL (600AM), at 9:00 AM

Sundays. **Please note that the radio broadcast will not be aired on
the following dates due to Bronco football: December 6, 13 & 27.

ADOPT A SEMINARIAN REPORT: Advent offerings have

been designated to support Stephen Heimer who is enrolled at
Concordia University. Please use offering envelopes for Advent
or mark a plain envelope for your contributions. Thank you for
supporting this ministry with your prayers and generous gifts.

2009 Season’s Opener will be held on Saturday,

December 5th from 4 - 5:30pm. Please plan to
help welcome in the Advent Season by attending
PWC traditional Season’s Opener. This gathering
is meant for young & old alike and all those in-betweeners.

Missions & Ministry

Our annual Christmas Party for the Good Shepherd
Home residents will be at the church on December
6th at 6:00pm. Everyone is invited to come join the
fun and see the happy faces!
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LWML December Christmas Party

LWML will meet Sunday, December 13th at 2pm at the home of Norma
Thaemert for our annual Christmas Party. We’ll carpool from the
church at 1:30 pm. Remember to bring your Christmas “Dime Stock-
ing” money, your mites, and a plate of cookies. Dime stocking money
will support Crossroads Safehouse. Extra cookies will be used to make
up holiday plates for shut-ins. All ladies of the congregation are in-
vited to share this special afternoon. Plan on attending!

♦ LWML will be hosting the December 2nd Advent soup supper. Pro-
ceeds will benefit the Heiliger’s work in Turkey. The sign-up sheet
for food and kitchen help is posted on our bulletin board.
♦ The next regular LWML’s Executive Board meeting is tomorrow
night beginning at 6pm in the home of Bev Russman. All ladies are
welcome!

JOY CIRCLE - Our annual Christmas meeting will

be Thursday, December 3 at 1pm at Cheryl Harsen’s
home. We will have a short business meeting and
program. Cheryl will provide treats and Marge
Westhoff will have devotions. All women are wel-
come to join us!

TAG
(Tuesday Afternoon Group)
December 1st at Noon: The meal will be catered so there
isn't a need for anyone to do any cooking during this busy
time of the year. Please sign-up for the meal so there will be
enough for everyone. Bible study will follow at 1:00pm led
by Pastor Caspersen. All older adults are welcome to attend.
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YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Thank you to all for your support of the Youth Candy Sales!
We appreciate it!
Senior High Christmas Party - December 6 at 4:00 PM, at The
Kaiser Home, 2643 Antelope Rd. Plan to bring a gift ($5 limit).
Please sign up to let us know how many will attend and what you
would like to bring.
Confirmation Age Christmas Party - Saturday, December 12 af-
ter Children’s Christmas Service Rehearsal. Please sign-up and
plan to bring a snack to share and a gift ($5 limit). Friends are wel-
come!
Children’s Christmas Service - Plan to sign up to help, sing,
read, or play your instrument at the Children’s Christmas Service
December 16th. Rehearsal is Saturday, Dec. 12 at 10 am.

Poinsettia Orders
A sign-up sheet is in the Narthex, $9.00 each, make
check payable to PWC write poinsettia on memo line
and give to Lu Buchholz by Dec. 13th. Please indicate
which color you would like, Red or White. You may pick
up your plant after Christmas Day service. If you’d like your plant
to go to a shut-in or nursing home resident, please let me know.
Thanks, Lu Buchholz

Orders for the 2010 LWML calendar will be accepted

through December 1st. The final printing will begin
December 2nd. Please see Cheryl Harsen for an order
form to be returned to her. Prepaid orders only will
be accepted through December 1st.

Peace with Christ Library Book of the Week- NEW BOOK!

The Lutheran Study Bible
Engage in devotional, Christ-centered Bible reading and study with
the distinctive, comprehensive notes and practical application of
The Lutheran Study Bible. This new Bible is the first in English to
be developed from the ground-up with notes that are distinctively
Lutheran, prepared by Lutheran contributors from over twenty con-
fessional Lutheran church bodies. Current Lutheran scholarship,
insights from the Church Fathers, and rich devotional commentary
provide meaningful perspective for both young and mature Chris-
tians.
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Youth and Children’s Christmas Service: A sign-up
sheet for volunteers is posted on the bulletin board.
Feel free to look it over and sign-up where you would
like to serve. Our next meeting to discuss the service
will be Tomorrow at 6:30pm.
ALSO, we sent out student sign-up forms to all the Sunday
School classes. If your young person is planning to be in the
program, please fill one of these out and return it to Reena
ASAP and no later then Today. Extra forms are located at the
bulletin board in the Narthex or from Reena.
Thank You!

Parents & Twos - A Sunday School class for two - three

year old children and their parents will begin TODAY. Plan
to attend the Sunday School Opening at 9:30 am in the
sanctuary, class will be held in the Nursery. If you have any
questions, see Chad Hamilton, Robin Hamilton, Reena
Linke or Marilyn Lasich.

The freewill offering for the Nov. 18th FED meal was $217. Thrivent
has graciously given a supplement of $220. And recent freewill offer-
ings by Rocky students have added an additional $79.55 for a grand
total of $516.55. Thank you all for your continued support. The
Rocky lunch bunch.

Thank you everyone who has donated to the St. John’s Food & Cloth-
ing Bank! Items to be collected: Coats, sweater, sweatshirts,
shirts, pants, skirts, jeans, socks, underwear, mittens, hats,
shoes, cereal (hot & cold), canned fruit and vegetables, breads,
chili, holiday foods. Place your items in the plastic boxes in the
Sunshine Hall. You may take donations to St. John’s on Eliza-
beth St. anytime when someone is there. They are most appre-
ciated of our donations & have had a good year! Thank You!
Coordinators: Gary & Angela Myers 282-7557 and
Cleve & Nancy Moore 224-1312.
Collection dates: December 6 & 13
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CHRISTMAS CHOIR

As our choir director, Kelley, will be out of town for Christmas, we will
have a “pick-up” choir. If you would like to join in singing with choir for
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, please sign-up on the bulletin board in
the Narthex. Youth are welcome too. The more the merrier!

We have several services between the two days with choral pieces at
each service:
♦ December 24 - 4pm and 7pm. Lessons and carols, 10pm Divine Ser-
vice
♦ December 25 - 9am Divine Service.
Contact Reena if you have any questions or if you would like to have
the music early - reena@pwchrist-fc.org

Rehearsals: Wednesday, December 2 - after the

Advent service.
Wednesday, December 9 - after the
Advent Service.
Sunday, December 20 - Noon
Wednesday, December 23 - 6:00pm

Our Prayers: We remember-

Those who are ill, hospitalized, or recovering from surgery:

Bernice Nansel, Gene Frank, Ted Anderson, Mac & Iris Bergen, Helen
Leben, Art Pforr, Louise Tuchenhagen, Emily Irvine (great-niece of An-
gela Myers), Linda Groeling, , Zoe Jones (Infant daughter of Josh and Jamie
Jones), Kevin Rodenbeck, Marilyn Craig, Marilyn Hudson, Evelyn
Marweg, Jason Shedd and family

Those who are not able to attend church: Margaret Ziehm, Carolyn
Brown, Arline Young, June Schwarck, Marie Rubel, Jean Upham.

The families of Peace With Christ

U.S. Soldiers throughout the world

Heartfelt devotion and prayerful preparation for Advent

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD

FORMULA OF CONCORD, SOLID DECLARATION
ARTICLE VII: THE HOLY SUPPER
FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT

[Dr. Luther] foresaw in the Spirit that after his death some
would try to make it seem that he had backed away from the
doctrine [of the true presence of Christ's body and blood in the
Holy Supper] and other Christian articles. Therefore, he has
added the following protest to his Confession concerning
Christ's Supper:

I desire with this treatise to confess my faith before God and

all the world, point by point. I am determined to abide by it
until my death and (so help me God!) in this faith to depart
from this world and to appear before the judgment seat of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Hence if any one shall say after my death,
"If Luther were living now, he would teach and hold this or
that article differently, let me say once and for all that by the
grace of God I have most diligently traced all these articles
through the Scriptures, have examined them again and again
in the light thereof, and have wanted to defend all of them as
certainly as I have now defended the sacrament of the altar. I
am not drunk or irresponsible. I know what I am saying, and I
well realize what this will mean for me before the Last Judg-
ment at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am in dead ear-
nest, since by the grace of God I have learned to know a great
deal about Satan. If he can twist and pervert the Word of God
and the Scriptures, what will he not be able to do with my or
someone else's words? (paragraphs 28-31)

Condensed from CONCORDIA: THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS, copyright

2005,2006 by Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. All rights reserved. To
purchase a copy of CONCORDIA, call 800-325-3040.
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ACTIVITIES THIS WEEK

Today Worship Services 8:00 am &

November 29 (Communion) 10:45 am
Education Hour 9:30 am

Monday LWML Executive Board 6:00 pm

November 30 Elder’s Meeting 7:00 pm

Tuesday TAG 12:00 pm

December 1 Christ on Campus 5:00 pm

Wednesday Bible Study 8:45 am

December 2 Advent Services 4:30 - 7:15 pm
Soup Supper 5:15 pm
Confirmation Class 6:00 pm

Thursday RMHS 10:50 am

December 3 Joy Circle 1:00 pm
Elder’s Meeting 6:30 pm

Friday
December 4

Saturday Season’s Opener 4:00 pm

December 5

Sunday Worship Services 8:00 am &

December 6 (Communion) 10:45 am
Education Hour 9:30 am
Senior High Youth 4:00 pm
Christmas Party
Good Shepherd Christmas 6:00 pm
Party
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THOSE SERVING TODAY
November 29 8:00 am 10:45 am
Materials: Niermans
Greeters: Nansel Nansel
Guest Book: Anne Foster Colleen Rohlfs
Reader: Ray Kaiser Wes Nierman
Ushers: Daniel Cerman Michael Rohlfs
Tracy Foster Ted Anderson
Ray Kaiser Ned Daugherty
Larry Siegfried
Nursery: Anne Foster Colleen Rohlfs
Acolytes: Julie Roth Mackenzie Cheuvront
Crucifer: Keller Foster Marina Rohlfs
Audio Support: David Nierman David Nierman
Organist: Reena Linke
Elder of the Month: Dan Prevedel

December 2 - 4:30pm 7:15pm

Greeters: Wiesners Kettlesons
Guest Book: Martha Scheiwe Kettlesons
Ushers: Chris Dunker Dan Prevedel
Ken Keeney Adele Ahnstedt
Reader: Dan Prevedel
Acolytes: Libby Hoy

THOSE SERVING NEXT SUNDAY

December 6 8:00 am 10:45 am
Materials: Millie Miller
Greeters: Bill & Fran Watson Millie Miller
Guest Book: Connie Jurischk Julie Ward
Reader: Ray Kaiser Michael Rohlfs
Ushers: Ed Jurischk Dan Prevedel
Randy Fiscus Chris Prevedel
Sandy Fiscus Chris Dunker
Chris Dunker Paul Carlson
Nursery: Jenna Withee Angela Neuhaus
Acolytes: Krissy Petago Zachary Prevedel
Crucifer:
Audio Support:
Organist:
Youth Choir Director: Reena Linke
Elder of the Month: Art Pforr
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Prayer and Study

Date: November 29 - December 5

Luther Quote: “It is true, we should believe when we are bap-

tized; but we should not let ourselves be baptized in reliance on
this faith. To have faith and to rely on this faith and thus to be
baptized in dependence on it are matters that are very different
indeed.”

Bible readings for the week:

Sunday: Psalm 149–150; Matthew 25-26

Monday: Exodus 15:1-18; Matthew 27-28
Tuesday: Luke 1:46-55; Revelation 1-2
Wednesday: Psalm 1; Revelation 3-5
Thursday: Psalm 2; Revelation 6-8
Friday: Psalm 3; Revelation 9-11
Saturday: Psalm 4; Revelation 12-14

Urban mission work in the United States - Nov. 18-30

With the third-largest population in the world, and the world
coming to its cities, the United States is indeed a vast mission
field. These missionaries work in some of the urban centers of
the United States to coordinate mission work and train future
leaders.

Daily Prayers:

Sunday: For the work of Lutheran Intercity Network Coalition

(LINC), a ministry that operates in Houston, Texas, Dallas, Texas, New
Orleans, La., and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Congregations that are
members of LINC networks have joined together in a common mission
to impact these cities with the love of Christ.
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Monday: For Lutheran City Ministries, Inc., which reaches out spe-
cifically to “hearts and souls” living in urban areas. Lift up Rev. Steven
Essenburg as he directs this ministry, which is based out of Detroit,
Mich. That the LCMS as a whole would become known as a beacon of
Gospel witness in the abandoned and neglected areas of U.S. cities—
and that the Lord would call more LCMS members and congregations
into urban ministry.

Taiwan – Dec. 1-15

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod began work in Taiwan in
1951. The China Evangelical Lutheran Church Taiwan (CELC)
became an LCMS partner church in 1966.

Tuesday: For GEO missionaries Ray and Emilie Dubert, Matthew

Fick, Kevin Foley, and Heidi Greimann, who serve in Taiwan. Ask the
Lord to bless their service and the relationships they build with their
students and students’ families.

Wednesday: For GEO missionaries Rebekah House, Anna Meyer,

Ben and Amy Riley, and Stephanie Roegner, who also serve God in
Taiwan. Ask the Lord to sustain them in their service and that the Holy
Spirit would give them joy in all they do.

Thursday: For GEO missionaries Andrew and Noel Schaff, Petrea

Schwahn, Michael Vogel, and Mark Wolfram, as they serve in Taiwan.
Ask God to use them as His instruments in their classrooms, Bible stud-
ies, and other activities.

Friday: For LCMS missionaries Matt and Dee Wasmund, and their
daughters, Lily and Olivia, as they guide and disciple GEO missionaries
that serve in Taiwan and Japan and explore ways to expand the work of
LCMS World Mission in these countries.

Saturday: For the ministry at Concordia Middle School (CMS) in

Chiayi, Taiwan. LCMS GEO missionaries teach English and religion
classes there, which provide many opportunities to reach middle and
high school students with the Gospel.

www.lcmsworldmission
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November 15 ATTENDANCE

Worship Attendance: Total

108(8:00) 99(10:45 am) 207

Education Hour Attendance:

Adult Bible Study: 47 Sunday School: 36

Financial Update
As of October 31, 2009

Budget - 2009 Income Expenses Net Income

$359,000.00 $274,469.17 $282,691.23 -$8,222.06

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION HOUR: 9:30-10:30 a.m.

ADULT BIBLE CLASS. .. Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall

NURSERY & KINDERGARTEN . . . . Preschool Rooms
GRADES 1- 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter
GRADES 3-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abraham
GRADE 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isaac
JR. HIGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jacob
SR. HIGH . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . Youth Room

NEXT WEEK'S PRESS DEADLINES

SCRIPTURE READINGS
(ESV) Green sheet articles are due
by 3:00 p.m. Wednesday
First Lesson: Malachi 3:1-7b afternoon.
Second Lesson: Philippians 1:2 Broadcast articles are due
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December 20
Gospel: Luke 3:1-14