Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church
Stratford, Wisconsin
News
Our Fall Schedule resumes the Sunday after Labor Day, September 12, with worship at 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 9:10. Our last Thursday evening service was September 2. Our oldest Sunday School student will be in 6th grade, so we will not have a Wednesday evening Catechism class this school year.
Our Ushers’ Schedule through December has been placed in the mailboxes of those who are on the list. Thanks to all our volunteers!
A Brat/Hot Dog Fry will be hosted by our Ladies’ Aid after our second worship service on Sunday, September 19. A table offering will be gathered for the Ladies’ Aid Parsonage Appliances Fund. If you can’t stay for the meal, takeout service will be available.
A Door Offering will be gathered the first Sundays of October for our Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society.
Our Fall LWMS Rally will be held Saturday, October 2 at Northland Lutheran High School, with registration and refreshments at 8:30 a.m., followed by the Rally from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. The featured presentation will be a video prepared by the Carroll University WELS Waukesha Campus Ministry, providing insight into the role of WELS Campus Ministry at our colleges and universities and the opportunities to lead through this ministry. Two Northland graduates will be part of the video and share their stories about Campus Ministry: David Burgess, Class of 2018 and Hailey Russ, Class of 2019. Offerings collected at the rally, as well as congregational offerings and mite boxes, will support:
●WELS Campus Ministry ●Our circuit’s Befriend a Mission (BAM) Assignments ●Our Savior’s Lutheran School, Peridot, Arizona ●Divine Savior Lutheran Church, Delray Beach, Florida ●LWMS Home OfficeMission Festival: We will conduct our Mission Festival on the first Sunday of October, the 3rd, with a single morning service at 10:30, followed by lunch for everyone at 11:45. Sunday School will meet at the usual time of 9:10 a.m.
Northland Lutheran High School News:
Dime and Dollar Thrift Store in Wisconsin Rapids is located at 1351 8th St. South, next to LaTaqueria Mexican restaurant, near Pick-N-Save. Store hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Visit the Northland Pride Pump to earn 2 cents/gallon for NLHS, at the R-Store Cedar Creek BP in Rothschild, next to Culver’s.
Do you have a Thrivent account? Thrivent Financial for Lutherans allows you to designate a recipient for charitable disbursements. Go to Thrivent.com, scroll down to the “Generosity” box and click on “Learn More.” Scroll down to the “Thrivent Choice” box, and click on “More.” Choose “Direct Choice Dollars,” and type Northland Lutheran High School in the search box.
Volleyball and Soccer teams have been hard at practice, and are ready to begin new seasons of competition. As always, we can use volunteers to help run the games. Please go to this Signup Genius link to volunteer for a game or two: www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4da5af2ba3fb6-fall.
