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Of all the gifts for which we thank God, above all is the gift of Himself to us, His erring but redeemed children!  “Whom have I in Heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides you” (Psalm 73:25).

 

Our purpose is to reach out to families and individuals of all backgrounds and bring them into healing and transforming relationships with the Lord Jesus and with others in His Church through the sharing of God’s Word and Sacraments.

 

 

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THE CHIMES

July 29, 2007

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St. Paul Lutheran Church and School

a multiethnic family of faith

1025 Lake Street * Melrose Park, IL  60160

Church Ph. No. 708-343-1000 *

School Ph. No. 708-343-5000

Fax No. 708-343-8635 www.stpaulmp.org

Rev. Thomas R. Johnson, Pastor 

Mr. Douglas Grebasch, Principal

 

CALENDAR

 

 

 

EVENTS THIS WEEK AT ST. PAUL,  July 29 – August  5, 2007

TODAY:

9:00 AM

Worship Service (NHC)

 

 

Servicio de Adoración (SC)

 

10:15 AM

Coffee Hour

 

10:30 AM

Sunday School / Christian Growth Hour

 

TUESDAY:

 

             7:30 PM

 

Praise Team

WEDNESDAY:

7:00 PM

Deacons / Property

THURSDAY:

7:00 PM

Hispanic Bible Study

SATURDAY:

5:30 PM

Contemporary Service (NHC)

 

SUNDAY:

 

9:00 AM

 

Worship Service (HC)

 

 

Servicio de Adoración (SC)

 

10:15 AM

Coffee Hour

 

10:30 AM

Sunday School / Christian Growth Hour

 

Pastor Johnson, Dee Williams, Chelci Spiegel, and a group of our young church members are in

Orlando, Fl., attending the Youth Convention.  They will comeback next Thursday.

 

INSTALLATION SERVICE.  The members of Jehovah El Buen Pastor Lutheran Church invite our congregation members to the installation service for Dr. Eric Moeller, as their pastor, next Sunday, August 5, at 3:00 PM. He and his wife, Irma, have served as missionaries with the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Panama. Reception will follow in the church’s fellowship hall.

 

STEWARDSHIP CORNER.  In Luke 12:21, Jesus predicted disappointment for those who are not “rich toward God.”  Have you wondered what it means to be “rich toward God”?  Certainly, we are rich toward God when we see everything as a gift from Him.  Those who are rich toward God are givers rather than takers.  By grace, we freely receive, and we freely give.  Through faith, we are empowered to express God’s love and are being rich toward Him as we love our neighbors.  Those who are rich toward God will seek first His righteousness and do His will.

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Please include the following prayer needs in your personal and family devotions this week.   

ü   MCj04041930000[1]We pray for those in care facilities and at home who are physically unable to worship with us.  We also ask God to heal and comfort the following members and/or friends of our congregation:

 

Alma M.

Hildegarde W.

David B

Karen H.

 

Irene G.

Mary D

Clara K

 

We also want to continue to remember those in nursing facilities, those who are recovering, and those who are receiving ongoing treatments.

 

*(If you would like us to pray for someone, please let Maria, our church secretary; know, either by phone or with a request card.  Names of congregational members will remain on this list for 4 weeks unless additional requests are received.)

 

FROM PASTOR JOHNSON.  “If you are in the hospital or are in need of pastoral care, please notify Maria in the church office.  If it is an emergency, please call my mobile phone (in printed copy of chimes).  Please don’t hesitate to call me at any hour if it is important; I keep the phone with me at all times.  If the matter is important enough to think about calling a pastor, by all means call me.  Please do not think you will disturb me or I will think the matter unimportant.  Thanks!”

ü   We pray for those celebrating birthdays the week of July 28th  - August 3rd 

 

 

28:

Hildegarde W., Taryn P., Andrew C.

29:

Ruth S.

31:

Erna F., Stephen B.

August 2:

April S., Doug B., Lauren C.

3:

Alan S.

ü   In thanksgiving,

For all the young people and their leaders, that had the opportunity to attend, and be fed on the Word, at the Youth Convention in Orlando, Fl, this past week.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HEALTH FAIR.  Proviso Township High School Dist. 209, Proviso Township, and West Suburban Senior Services will host a Family and Senior Citizen Free Health Fair next Saturday, August 4, from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the Proviso Math & Science Academy (First Ave. & Roosevelt Road, in Forest Park). Please call 344-7432 to register. There will be snacks and activities, health screens, back-to-school and sports physicals, family portraits and much more. 

 

STPAULMP.ORG is St. Paul’s volunteer run website.  In addition to the Chimes and School Newsletters the site hosts pages about many activities around our congregation.  You can find out what the theme for next year’s VBS will be on the VBS page.  You can check out newly uploaded photos from VBS and the Fourth of July sing on the PHOTOS page.  You can read the newsletters of missionaries with ties to our congregation on the CAMP, SWEDEN and AFRICA pages.  Missed that sermon that everyone is talking about?  Many are recorded and can be listened to on the SERMONS page.  If you want others to know about your congregational activities a page can be created for your organization or event email the details to lynette(atsymbol)stpaulmp.org* to find out more!

 

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ALL CHOIR MEMBERS:  Adult Choir rehearsals will resume on Thursday, September 6th. Return & new members are welcome.  Questions?  Please talk to Jeff Kiel after the Sunday worship service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PAINTING PARTY!  You are invited to our Painting Party next Saturday, August 4th, from 9 AM till ?? We will be painting the school hallways.  Lunch will be provided.

 If you have a favorite brush/roller, etc. please feel free to bring it along!

 

ST. PAUL SCHOOL NEWS this week

Click here for school newsletter page

Have a blessed and safe summer vacation!

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AUGUST NEWSLETTER ITEMS:

As the Newsletter is very cumbersome to duplicate online, a few important items from the most recent issue are included here.  We will endeavor to keep them up to date.

PASTOR JOHNSON’S MONTHLY LETTER:

From the DCE Intern

And they took hold of [the Apostle Paul] and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”  —Acts 17:19-20

Paul’s preaching in the midst of the Areopagus (an area historians call “Mars Hill”) is not what we might call typical preaching. It was an interactive presentation of God’s Word. Paul was free to talk about their idols—especially “the monument to an unknown God” and use it as a segue into the Gospel.

Paul starts with creation and builds to the resurrection of Jesus. The crowd is free to interact with Paul. They are free to call his teachings strange. They are free to mock him. But through it all, some believe the Gospel and join Christ’s Church (v. 34).

We bear the name of St. Paul. Wouldn’t it be great to have a similar forum for our community? Wouldn’t it be awesome to see God’s Word go out to a culture full of false idols? Doesn’t our culture need a place where they can question, interact, and even mock the foolishness of the Gospel? And it is OK! “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men” (1 Cor. 1:25).

Our DCE, Chelci, some lay leaders, our youth, and myself hope to provide such a forum for our community. Our target is not just t