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STAFF MINISTER’S REPORT As Missionaries of Christ, we bring everyone we come in contact with closer to the Savior. We have decided to go ahead with this new event and coordinate it together with our school. We are calling this event “Fall Family Trunk or Treat”. We have picked the date of Sunday, October 29, 2pm - 4pm (which is also Milwaukee’s trick or treat time). We will be encouraging the community to bring their children to this “childsafe” event. We are asking our members to decorate the trunks of their vehicles. We will pass out treats, have a guessing contest, and invite people to come inside our building for treats of pies, hot coffee, chocolate and cider, popcorn, etc. This event would also be an opportunity to use it as an “open house” for our church and school. We will need congregation’s support for this new event. Can you support us by decorating your vehicle and handing out candy to our community? We would also like to conduct a raffle where we will ask our visitors to provide their contact information at this event. Can you donate something that we can raffle? We have had great success with receiving community contact information through these raffles and this has resulted in new Centennial members in the past. Can your family support the church and school with your time and talents? Since this is a children-friendly, Christian event, please refrain from decorating your vehicle in a overly scary fashion. We have a pie sign up sheet on the bulletin board in the church lobby. Please sign up if you can donate a pie or other dessert. If you want to donate something for a raffle, please see me. We can always use your financial gifts as well. Help us make this new event a blessing to our church and school! Thank you. ~Bob Garbe - Minister of Evangelism & Outreach MISSION MOMENTS Death and Demons Defeated BY SOUTH ASIA COORDINATOR Recently, a member at a WELS sister church in Asia died in an accident. This young woman, wife and expectant mother, fell out of a tree while harvesting berries. Our sister in Christ attended three Christian training workshops at the Scripture Learning Center in South Asia. Her dream was to eventually serve the local national church. An American may wonder why a pregnant woman was climbing trees! An understandable question. The answer is bone-jarring poverty leads Christians to work in unsafe conditions in this Asian country. The husband called the pastor who was attending a seminary session. The pastor left immediately and took an all-night bus to offer personal support to his grieving member. But, the bus had a flat tire at one o’clock in the morning and there wasn’t any spare. He then walked nine hours to reach the village. There is immense pressure–from the surrounding Hindu community–when Christians die. In this instance, the Hindu neighbors said the mother's abdomen must be cut open to remove the baby. Their belief was that the baby would become a demon and haunt the village. However, the law says it is illegal to do this. If the family gave in they would be breaking the law. And, once they broke the law, then, anyone in the community could accuse them of committing a criminal act! Several men spent the night at the church guarding the body, so that no one would come in the middle of the night and remove the baby from the mother’s body. They dug two graves but, both times the Hindu community confronted them and would not allow them to bury the mother with her child. Sometimes Hindus intimidate Christians into carrying their deceased many hours from their villages. Christian families then are unable to visit the grave site. Continued on page 8...
Have you read the whole Bible yet? Do you want to, but find it difficult to do on your own? GOD'S WAYS is a two year 60 week thematic study of the entire Bible in its chronological and historical settings. John Nolte will continue to lead this course starting September 11. The class meets in the 7 th and 8 th grade room Monday evenings from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. The course is broken into four fifteen week quarters spanning two years. This year, one quarter will run from September 11th to December 18 th , and the second quarter will run from January 22 nd to May 14 th with a two week break over Easter. The focus this year is the New Testament and Psalms, with a few books to help understand the transition from the Old Testament to the New. Attendance last year averaged about 15 each week. There is room for another 10 to 15 people to join us in the classroom. A 5 th or 6 th grade reading level is necessary. Anyone considering registration should be prepared to make this a major part of their lives during the times it is in session. It may mean some things will have to be dropped from your normal schedule. This course requires a serious commitment to spend some quality time each week getting to know your God and letting Him speak to your life. Several hours of reading plus worksheets are required most weeks. Reading and discussing the entire Bible with your fellow Christians will be some of the most profitable time you have spent in your life. Join us if you can! There is a sign-up sheet in the narthex. “This course is such a blessing to me. It is helping me understand the entire Bible as a whole and to see God’s entire plan of salvation from the Garden to the Cross and beyond. It is helping me to prioritize my faith and identify what role God wants me to play in this ~Current Student God’s Ways Starts Monday, September 11th
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