Posts from July 2023
E-Note July 28, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends of Peace, I hope that you’re staying cool this week! Even though it’s the middle of the summer, there’s a lot going on at Peace. This Sunday (9:30am), we have the joy of welcoming to the Church in baptism, Kaibigan Hawkins Del Rosario Thomson, the son of Jimmy Thomson and Arielle Del Rosario, and the grandson of Jim and Lori Thomson. We will continue with our sermon series, “The Life and Ministry of the Apostle Paul” and I’ll read “A Letter from Paul to Kai on…
CYF Blast July 27, 2023
Dear Peace Parents and Families, While Pastor Joe is on paternity leave, I am continuing to join up with the ongoing editor, Daina Sivanich, to send along to you Peace’s weekly children, youth, and family newsletter. It’s an exciting weekend ahead! Sunday afternoon, nine Peace youth (4th-8th Graders) will head to Camp Wapogasset’s Youth Camp in Amery, WI for the week. The Peace youth are: Trevor Budz, Emery Byers, Kiya Losinski, Myla Macejkovic, Elsa Oman, Sofia Oman, Asher Rogers, Ayla Rogers, and Addison Tschida. We join together…
E-Note July 21, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends of Peace, First of all, I want to thank the many of you who last Sunday responded to VEAP (Volunteers Enlisted to Assist People) and their special request for contributions in filling the food shelfs due to the increased number of household requests for this basic need of life. The children did a great job in collecting up those offerings and you responded generously. I’ll announce that amount on Sunday! We will also continue in worship (9:30am) with our sermon…
CYF Blast July 20, 2023
Dear Peace Parents and Families, While Pastor Joe is on paternity leave, I am continuing to join up with the ongoing editor, Daina Sivanich, to send along to you Peace’s weekly children, youth, and family newsletter. Martin Luther spoke of the need for “the mutual consolation of the brethren.” He said, “a faithful friend is a great boon and a precious treasure in any situation of life….it remains a great advantage to have a brother/sister with whom one can converse…
E-Note July 14, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends of Peace, I still remember it: my first computer. My wife, Marcie, had schemed with our nephew and there in the living room, on Christmas morning, sat a new computer. In that moment, a new world was born for me. Now I had access to a whole new unseen universe (“the world-wide web”!). And there was a whole new way of living that went along with this new contraption. No more typewriter. No more carbon paper.…
CYF Blast July 13, 2023
Dear Peace Parents and Families, While Pastor Joe is on paternity leave, I am continuing to join up with the ongoing editor, Daina Sivanich, to send along to you Peace’s weekly children, youth, and family newsletter. It was amazing. Two angry human beings. Wrestling. Angry. No, it wasn’t two men (or women!) It wasn’t UFC or MMA on television in my living room. No. It was at Target. In the toy section. It was two very young children. And it…
E-Note July 7, 2023
Dear Peace Members and Friends of Peace, Sometimes life can change with only a few words. You hear the words, “I love you,” and your life will never be the same. Or you hear the announcement, “you have a new baby daughter (or son)” and your life changes immediately. And, as we discovered last week in church, the St. Paul’s life changed dramatically when he was interrupted by God and heard the words, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” His life was…
CYF Blast July 6, 2023
Dear Peace Parents and Families, While Pastor Joe is on paternity leave, I am continuing to join up with the ongoing editor, Daina Sivanich, to send along to you Peace’s weekly “Children, Youth, and Family Newsletter.” My thanks to her and our thanks to you for your taking a few minutes to read it! First of all, I hope you had and/or are having a good July 4th week and that you are having a renewing (and restful?) week. And secondly, I can…