The Dove

   

 

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FROM  THE  PASTOR:         Summer is on the way.  It’s not official until the 21st of the month.  On the longest

                                                            day of the year this year I plan to be in northern Montana near Glacier National

                                                            Park for my niece’s wedding.  We plan to meet Kate and Abby when we fly in

                                                            from different parts of the country to Kalispell, Montana north of where Lewis and

                                                            Clark passed in 1805.

As we think of family change there is a lot of upheaval and tension in the world.  There is a new commandment – The Eleventh Commandment.  Have you heard the Eleventh Commandment?  It reads thus:  Thou shalt not judge (or discriminate).  It sounds nice doesn’t it?  But it destroys all the other commandments.  Because it destroys the other commandments, it destroys life and denies the Gospel of life too.

Discrimination is a civil idea gone amok.  Justice in a democracy says it is wrong to discriminate against a person because of their race so that they are denied a fair opportunity at the goods of the community and society.  The civil war was ignited by prejudicial discrimination.  But then the idea went amok to the point we are not to make any kind of judgements that would make anyone feel bad or upset.  We can’t discriminate between right and wrong or good and evil.  There is a group of people – mostly academics – who tell us that we should call prostitutes sex workers now so we don’t discriminate against them.  This kind of thinking means we should go blind and senseless and even godless.

There is good discrimination:  The word means simply to judge one thing from another or simply to tell one thing from another.  Without good discrimination there is no life, only death.  Our immune system is basically our discrimination system.  It’s basic function is to discriminate – judge – between me and not me.  When some germ that is not me invades me then the immune system is to set off alarms and contain or destroy the “not me.”  This is one of the problems with organ transplants and why the discrimination system has to be suppressed for the organ to live in an alien body.  But if our discrimination system fails, we die as a body, a person, a family or a society, or as a Christian.

In a way one of God’s first acts in creation was to set up a discrimination or immune system for human beings for healthy life.  He put a tree of knowledge of good and evil (the know-it-all tree would be a paraphrase from Old Testament and Lutheran theology) in the middle of the garden and said, “Don’t eat.”  This means, “I’m God and you are not.  You need to discriminate between who knows it all and who does not.”  When we forget this basic discrimination or get confused about it, we go blind and die.  We forget all the commandments and lose the Gospel.               (continued on next page)

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Salem  Lutheran  Church

10 McClellan Circle  -  Buffalo, New York 14220

Rev. David F. C. Wurster, Ph. D. - Pastor

Rev. Richard E. Blemaster, Pastor Emeritus

e-mail: salemoncircle@yahoo.com   website:  www.salembuffalo.com

= = =      Misson:  SALEM/Peace -  As the Father sent me I send you.      = = =

 Vision:  Preach – Teach – Heal – doing what Jesus does


From the Pastor continued:  This whole thing applies to Father’s Day too.  Some in our day are having trouble discriminating between men and women and fathers and just guys who hang around.  In “My Fair Lady” Rex Harrison sang, “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”  As I remember the story he discovered that it is a good thing they are not more like men.  Adam got the point right away when God gave him Eve and he said, “at last!”

In our day it seems a funny little tune is coming back with a vengeance.  “Reuben, Reuben I’ve been thinking – what a fine world this would be – if the men were all transported far beyond the northern sea.”  A radical feminist writer wrote that a woman needs a man like fish needs a bicycle.  Do you catch a “little” hostility there?  Let me say that there are different kinds of feminism and some issues raised are good and important.  But like religion and even like Lutherans some feminist beliefs are out to lunch or more.

There is a belief for some that men should be more like women:  nicer, kinder, less aggressive, etc.  For some there is a belief that women were spared original sin and that if we only put women in charge of things the world will become a new and peaceful Garden of Eden.  This puts boys and their fathers in a bad spot.  It can be very confusing in such a world for a boy to grow up to be a man.

Maybe we just need to discriminate between men and women because God discriminated between (not against) them from creation on.  A famous psychologist did play research with children who were building things.  The boys built towers and spires that pointed to the skies and liked weapons and combat.  The girls built enclosures like gardens with a gate and were less combative.  Are there exceptions?  Yes.  But perhaps we can just accept the differences.  Perhaps we can even celebrate the differences.  Perhaps we can’t be whatever we want to be or do whatever we want to do, but rather be who God created us to be and to do what He calls us to do.  That takes discrimination.

When God puts men and women together and makes them mothers and fathers, they begin to discriminate between who they are and who they are not.  They also begin to discriminate between good and evil and sin and grace and see sin is in their own body and soul.  It’s then they can see the gift of God’s forgiveness in Christ.  At the cross they can discriminate between sin and God’s anger at sin and love and God’s forgiveness in the body of Christ, now risen and blessing fathers and mothers.

In the blessing of the Gospel fathers can celebrate being men in grace and not feel guilty or ashamed that they are not more like women or mothers.  In a time of conflict and war men can also see and know that love does not mean being a pacifist – one who cannot get into conflict.  The catholic (St. Augustine) Lutheran tradition tells us that wearing the uniform of the nation and picking up a weapon can be an act of love before God and for loved ones God has put in our care.  In Mark’s Gospel it was a soldier who first could say “Son of God’ when looking at Jesus.

A father can help us learn the art of love by good discrimination.  He can discriminate between different women by keeping his promise to the one who is mother of his children and letting the children know she outranks them in his love.  He can teach the children how to discriminate between good and evil and smart and foolish.  This kind of discrimination will free sons and daughters to see the cross clearly and be real discriminating peace workers in the world.

                                                                        Peace,

                                                                        Pastor Wurster

 

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B A N N S         Published

Andy Goodman and LuAnn Wright wish to enter the holy estate of matrimony according to God’s ordinance and desire the prayers of the Christian congregation on their behalf so that they may begin it in God’s name and have it turn out well.  Now should anyone have anything to say against this, let him or her speak at this time or hereafter remain silent.  God grant them His blessing.  Amen.”  (From Martin Luther’s Wedding Booklet)

 

COLLEGE     ENDOWMENT      FUND

 

 

The Salem Board of Christian Education will be offering a one-time grant of $500.00 yearly.  This will be awarded for the first time in September for the 2004-2005 school year.  You must be a graduating senior in high school in June 2004 to be eligible for this year’s grant.

 

If you wish to be considered, please submit this application by August 31, 2004 to the Salem Board of Christian Education.

 

 

 

 

Name: __________________________________________________________

 

Home Address: _______________________________________________________________________

 

Home Phone: _______________________  e-mail address: _____________________________________

 

Name of High School: __________________________________________________________________

 

Where enrolled for 2004-2005: ___________________________________________________________

 

Field of study:_________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

Please submit also, a brief, one page history of your high school experiences and your expectations for college.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* This grant was made possible from a fund established by St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.

                                          Thank you to everyone that provided cookies for our love/care packages sent at Easter to

                                our out of town college students and servicemen.  Two new officers were voted in at our

                                last L.W.M.L. meting in April – Gladys Matson as Secretary and Maxine Ford as Treasurer.

                                Our delegates – Joyce Vassallo and Elinor Jentsch will attend the Eastern District

                                Convention in Owego, N. Y. June 4 – 6, 2004.

 

Our annual picnic meeting will be held July 22, 2004 at Claire Carlson’s house.  This will be a potluck dinner. All ladies are welcome.

                                                                    Julie Diehl

                                                                    Secretary

 

A big thank you to Maureen Wilke for the making the 60th Anniversary Eastern District L.W.M.L. Banner for the convention – June 4th – 6th in Owego, N. Y.  This banner was donated by Eastern District L.W.M.L President Claire Carlson in memory of her father, Fred Bartz Sr., who was called Home to the Lord three years ago June 3rd.

 

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W O M E N ‘ S     G U I L D

 

Our next meeting will be Tuesday evening, June 8, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.  After the meeting we will be setting up for our penny sale.

Ethel Berkhoudt – President, and Fran Wiedemann – Vice President – will be holding the same office for the next two years.

Please continue saving items for the penny sale on Wednesday, June 9, 2004.  Example:  knick-knacks, boxed mixes, canned goods, etc.  Please mark items – “Women’s Guild penny sale” and leave them in the kitchen on Sunday, June 6th or bring them to the meeting on Tuesday, June 8th.

Our Salad Bar Luncheon/Penny Sale will be on Wednesday, June 9th at 12:00 noon.  Please bring in your salads.  Tickets can be purchased from Guild members for $6.00 for the luncheon and includes 50 tickets for the penny sale.

Our summer picnic will be on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at the church in the social room.  Punch and snacks at 4:00 p.m. and supper at 5:00 p.m.

                                                            Frances E. Wiedemann

                                `                            Vice President

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S A L E M     G O L D E N     A G E R S

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, June 3, 2003 at 12:00 noon.  If you wish, you may bring your lunch.  Dessert and beverage will be provided by the committee.  If you are 55 years and over, please join us.

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SOUTHSIDE  SCHOOL – Second Annual Multi-years – “Reunion in the Courtyard”

Saturday, June 5, 2004 – 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

This event is open to the public honoring the students who attended Southside when it was a Junior/Senion high school from 1970 – 1982.  Tickets: $15.00 (include beverages and appetizers).  Reservations can be made by sending your ticket payment with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: “Southside Reunion Committee, P. O. Box 1114, Buffalo, New York 14220 or may be purchased at the door.  For more information, contact Mrs. Teresa Schuta, Principal at 828-4818 or email at SOUTHSIDESRHIGH@AOL.COM

 

 

 

Lutheran  ‘30’  Broadcast  Schedule:

33th YEAR, 2003-2004

 

Each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. on WXRL (1300 AM), Lancaster, N. Y.

 

June 6 – Trinity, West Seneca

June 13 – Salem, Springville

June 20 – St. Luke, Cheektowaga

June 27 – St. Mark, North Tonawanda

 

 

S T R A W B E R R Y    S O C I A L

SUNDAY,  JUNE  20,  2004

SALEM  LUTHERAN  CHURCH

AFTER  WORSHIP

(12:00 – 1:00 p.m.)

in  the  social  room

Sponsored  by  Thrivent For Lutherans

To benefit Salem Lutheran Youth for the National Youth Gathering this July in Orlando, Florida

 

Cost:  $3.00           age  2 - 5  $1.50           under 2 free

COME,  FOR  A  SWEET  TREAT!

 

 

 

 

 

M c K I N L E Y     C I R C L E        P A R A D E

Sunday, June 6, 2004

2:00 p.m. from Dorrance Ave. to Southside Pkwy.

 

All members of Salem are invited to join the “McKinley Circle Parade – Dorrance Ave. to Southside Pkwy. – celebrating a vision 100 years ago by Fredrick Law Olmstead for a park like setting for South Buffalo.The parade starts at 2:00 p.m. from Dorrance Ave.  Any interested people are asked to call the church office (824-2787) for more information.

 

NEEDED:  D O N A T E D     V. B. S.      I T E M S

 

Please leave items in the kitchen, marked: “V. B. S.”  -  -

           

            CRAFT  SUPPLIES:  Paper towel tubes

                        Bottled water; gel pens; raffia (any color);

                        felt squares (any color); rice (dry);

                        beans (dry); snack bags; crayons; markers;

                        glue sticks; scotch tape; paper towels;

                        cereal size paper/plastic bowls; vegetable oil;

                        resealable plastic sandwich bags; wet ones;

                        clear contact paper; poster board – white.

 

            BIBLE  STORIES:  orange & yellow tissue paper;

                        flashlights; white blinking Christmas lights;

                        duct tape; (electric) fireplace logs; box of hand

                        tools, including regular & Phillips screwdrivers;

                        tool belt; plywood scoreboard; rolls of black

                        plastic; weathered, heavy cotton ropes; folding

                        table – seating 6 – 8; old white sheets to be cut

                        apart.

 

            ITEMS NEEDED FOR VBS TROPICAL TREATS DINNER:

                         Items to be borrowed:            Items to be donated on specified night:

                                    Squaking parrot Day 1 – 125 cupcakes baked into flat bottomed ice cream cones

                                    Serving trays

                                    9” x 13” baking pans            Day 3 – about 120 bananas

                                    Scoop-type measuring cups     Day 4 – about 125 bagels

                                                (1/4 cup)     

 

                        Items to be donated ahead (July 1 –12) and stored: 

                                    Water/juice (enough for 125; every evening – 23; quarts per night x 5 = 115 quarts)

                                    food coloring; rubber bands; paper towels; zip lock sandwich bags; zip lock snack-sized bags;

                                    craft sticks; non-dairy whipped topping; red sprinkles; orange sprinkles; jimmies (candy sprinkles);

                                    vanilla frosting (5 cans); M & M’s candies (1 large bag); pretzel sticks (4 bags); Fruit by the Foot;

                                    red licorice rope; Chex cereal (12 boxes – variety); raisins; chocolate chips; colored gold fish

                                    crackers; large sugar cookies (about 125 total); paper plates (625); paper cups(625); napkins;

                                    plastic knives (30); plastic wrap; anti-bacterial soap.

 

            ITEMS NEEDED FOR GAMES – Paul Thomas Jr.):

                                    5 blind folds                                                     1 pitcher

                                    4 bowls                                                 candy – day 1: 4 pieces per child

                                    chairs or artificial potted plants to use as island obstacles;            1 ounce paper cups

                                    several large boxes                                           rope or cone for a starting line

                                    4 buckets                                                 several beach towels

                                    brightly colored bandanna                                              1 coconut cup

                                    squawking parrot or horn (attention-getter)                          1 bag (100 count) cotton balls

                                    variety of over-sized adult shoes                                            watch with a second hand

                                    masking tape and wide duct tape                                              1 banana

                                    1 small ice chest                                               8 cups of cubed ice

                                    1 plastic foam cup                                 

 

INSTALLATION  SERVICE

for

REV. TRAVIS A. PITTOCK

Sunday, June 20, 2004

4:00 p.m.

at

Salem Lutheran Church

91 W. Main Street

Springville, N. Y. 14141

 

All are invited to attend Pastor Pittock’s Service of Installation as pastor of Salem, Springville, NY.  We ask God’s blessings upon his new ministry.

 

G R A D U A T I O N

 

CLASS  of  2004  -  To our all our elementary and high school graduates, we offer our sincere best wishes, as you mark these important milestones in your young lives, and our earnest prayers for God’s blessings upon you as you press on to still higher goals.  Always remember, young friends, to let Jesus be your guide in all your future days and endeavors.

 

Please submit to the church office names of all high school graduates, college/university graduates and information for  their future plans, etc.   We’d like to give them recognition.

 

LUTHERAN SERVICE SOCIETY

WOMEN’S AUXILIARY

ANNUAL  PICNIC

Tuesday, June 2, 2004

beginning at 12:00 noon

at CAMP  PIONEER

9324 Lakeshore Dr.

Angola, NY.

Bring a dish to pass; your own place setting; “white elephants” for silent auction; and contribution for freewill offering for Camp Pioneer.  Everyone is welcome.  For directions to Camp Pioneer, call 549-1420

 

 

LOST AND FOUND

 

Found on Sunday, May 9, 2004 in church ( 9th or 10th pew area on the pulpit side) – a gold ladies ring.  Call the church office for more information.

 

 

CONTINUE  TO  ENCOURAGE  MILITARY  PERSONNEL  .  .  .  Provide a service member with the Armed Forces                                    Devotional Book and help equip him or her with “the full armor of God” (Ephesians 6:11).

Show your support!  You can now order copies at a discounted price of just $3.00 each (regularly $4.99) until July 15, 2004.  Order this important resource through your church office two ways: 

1) Donate your order to the synod’s Ministry to the Armed Forces department for distribution around the world.  Make checks payable to “Salem Lutheran Church” with note to “Armed Forces Devotional Book.”  We will send the total out on July 1, 2004.

2)  Order copies that you would like to receive and distribute personally to friends and family for $3.00 each (plus shipping).  Call Concordia Publishing House for details – 1-800-325-3040.  We will have some copies available at church in July.

 

Here’s what chaplains are writing:  “If there are boxes of the Armed Forces Devotional Books available, a couple of them would be helpful.  They have been very popular here on camp.  I’ve been using them when I do services for the units preparing to leave in convoys north (to Iraq).  They don’t want to give them back after the service (which is fine with me), so they go pretty quickly.” – Army Reserve Chaplain (Captain) John A. Meyer

                                              394th Combat Support Battalion

                                              Camp Virginia, Kuwait

(Chaplain Meyer is an activated Army Reserve chaplain from Trimont, MN)

 

“I like the new Concordia Publishing House Armed Forces Devotional Book.  (While deployed with Air Force squadrons to Diego Garcia) I gave them out at our Lutheran service.  On the mission the next day, a young airman read all the prayers on a very long, difficult mission – and then read them all again with a new intensity on the way back.”

                                Air Force Chaplain, Colonel, Gary Bomberger

                             Langley Air Force Base, VA.

 

 

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FROM  THE  PASTOR:           May brings more spring and warmer weather.  It also brings one of the larger feast days of the

                                       church year  -  Mother’s Day.  Things have changed for families and mothers in the past fifty

                                       years.  Actually motherhood has fallen on harder times.  It is my impressions (not a scientific

                                       survey, by any means) that mothers don’t rate very high on prime time TV.  Few main

                                       characters appear to be married women and mothers.  What is a bit more scientific are the

                                       studies that tell us that in America and western Europe each woman has between 1.6 and 1.9 children.  Yes, I know there are days when we are sure that one of our children is only .6 present and accounted for.  But on a more serious level those numbers mean that western women are not having enough children to replace themselves or make a new generation to come after them.  Now compare that with the simple fact that each Moslem woman has an average of five children in her life time.  You don’t have to be an upper level math scholar to know what these numbers will mean in one century.  This says a lot about families and religion.  Lutherans should be concerned about both families and faith.

With the picture of the numbers in mind, I’d like to connect some other pictures.  I remember a young man of fourteen years of age.  I remember him standing alone outside of church after everyone else had gone.  He had read his confirmation essay along with others from a fairly large class.  Parents and friends and church leaders attended the reading and the reception.  His parents were not there.  They were not there when all others were gone.  All he could say was that they had to be with the bowling team that night.  His father left his mother and was living with his parents who in turn brought him to church on occasion.  His mother was working two jobs.  She also had a boyfriend who had two children with a wife he was separated from.  These two children were known to pick on the boy.  The boy was alone.  Sometimes, over twenty years later I wonder where he is.  I hope he met some good and wise people along the way to help him hang on to God’s presence and direction in life.

I have seen hundreds of family structures like this young boy lived in.  I came from one that had its’ own set of problems.  We all have some such problems in our immediate, if not in our extended families.  What makes me angry is to hear some people  -  some very educated people  -  say that family structure or shape makes no difference and that we shouldn’t discriminate because people will feel bad.  When I think of that boy alone on that Missouri hilltop outside of an empty church, I know family structure makes a difference.

Blessed is the child who has married parents who love each other and are committed to each other and to the children.  The core of the family structure is then the strong trinity of husband, wife, and marriage.  This trinity runs on the rhythm or dance of all creation:  leave-die, grieve, cleave-rise, rejoice.  This is reflected in Baptism and the Lord’s Supper in the Christian Church and leads to faith and life.  Yes, Christian married couples have troubles and tragedy too.  There are no guarantees of perfection or success in family life.  A death or illness can come and upset the whole balance.  

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Salem  Lutheran  Church

10 McClellan Circle  -  Buffalo, New York 14220

Rev. David F. C. Wurster, Ph. D. - Pastor

Rev. Richard E. Blemaster, Pastor Emeritus

e-mail: salemoncircle@yahoo.com   website:  www.salembuffalo.com

= = =      Misson:  SALEM/Peace -  As the Father sent me I send you.      = = =

 Vision:  Preach – Teach – Heal – doing what Jesus does

 


(Continued “From the Pastor”) – But structure does make a difference.  Centuries of observation and now scientific research tells us that children in crooked and distorted family structures are at much higher risk (3 to 10 times depending on the different factors) for depression, violence, physical abuse, sex abuse, suicide, bad grades, marital failure, diseases and health probrlems and many other problems.  Cell structure in a body makes a difference.  Cancer cells in a body, the cells that can’t say no or respect limits, can make a body sick or even kill it. 

We can’t change nature by voting on some new laws.  Living together is not marriage.  At the present time we are in a political uproar over family and marriage.  Many desire to say gays can be married; courts and voters will decide.  But God and nature have already decided that marriage is made for man and woman because they were made or structured to fit one another biologically, emotionally, and spiritually.  In a political argument Abraham Lincoln once asked his opponents how many legs a sheep would have if they called the tail a leg.  The opponents said, “five.”  Lincoln then said, “No, there are still only four legs on a sheep. Calling a tail a leg does not make it one.”  Calling a gay relationship marriage does not make it marriage.  The consequences to youth and community will not be annulled with a cover of words.  If we go in that direction a brother and sister could decide to be married; that would still be incest, would it not?

At this point we Christians are not called upon to go out and attack gay people or people living together.  We are called to take our faith seriously and think about these things from the base of our faith.  Our faith is summed up in the catechism.  The center of the catechism is the same center as the Scripture:  The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit focused in Jesus Christ our Lord.  This is the center of our worship and teaching at Salem.  I would like to add another picture to the boy standing alone – congregational worship during the Easter season.  In the past forty years I have seen attendance at worship during holy week become deplorable – that means bad.  People seem to want to come to Easter and skip Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.  People seem to want to rise but not die, to be upbeat without grief, and have faith without repentance.

I think this is connected to some figures we talked about in staff meeting.  In our church body only half of all kids baptized are confirmed and only one quarter of those confirmed stay on in church today.  These figures come from denominational bean counters..  This means that if we baptize 100 babies we confirm 50 and 12/13 stay with the congregations.  Like all statistics these are generalities, but show a clear trend.  Repentance is not for “the other guy.”  If we in this generation want to change the trend, it begins with us  --  with me.  Only adults and leaders who are growing in faith will inspire another generation to grow.

Inspiring people in a chaotic world is a challenge.  I remember when Dr. Wicher and I were teaching confirmation together, we called divorce a sin – a hard word.  We asked the class if dumbing down the word would be an act of love like dumbing down the word cancer so a patient wouldn’t feel bad.  One kid said no because then the treatment would be dumbed down too and the patient could die without hope.  We then said there is a treatment for sin – it is forgiveness in cross and Easter.  We also told them that the class should know that both the pastors teaching them came from homes with divorce and broken lives.

We Christians cannot ignore biology and the structure of the human body for the future of the family, our culture, and the faith; Moslem biology will change things in this century.  We cannot ignore family structure.  Mothers need to love husbands more than kids to love kids well.  We cannot ignore faith and worship.  With no Good Friday crosses Easters are thin soup.  I wonder about the kid all alone on the hilltop as darkness fell that night.  I hope he has seen some light somewhere by God’s grace.

                                                                        Peace,

 

                                                                                    Pastor Wurster

 

                                                            I have had many people come up to me in the last few weeks and tell me

                                                            how sorry they are to see me go. The favorite phrase is, “What will we do

                                                            without you?”  I have to say, it’s flattering.  It is nice to be needed, to be

                                                            loved, to be missed.  But it is also nice to know that Salem will not fall

                                                            apart just because I am leaving.  Ministry was happening for many years

                                                            in this place, long before I was born, and it will continue for years to

                                                            come.  No good ministry can be dependent on any one person.

How do I know that things will continue for many years?  There are resources abounding in your midst, resources that cannot be totaled in an accounting program or a membership list.  Real growth within the church is never about numbers or money, it’s about faith, and God working through people.  I see people coming to Bible study to grow in their faith.  I see youth inviting their friends to activities and worship.  I see Sunday School teachers who devote their lives to teaching the Bible to children.

I also see opportunities for outreach all around.  I see people unconnected with the church who are here nearly every day, from the Trocaire students who park to the youth who play hockey.  I see others who drive by on the circle, heading for Mercy or other parts of Buffalo.  How amazing would it be to host a youth street hockey tournament, or provide a shuttle service to the hospital or college from the parking lot?  What would it be like to hold a carnival on the front lawn of the church, free to all who wanted to stop in, or to work with the maternity ward at Mercy to offer parenting classes to new mothers and fathers?  These are just the ideas that I can think of while looking out the window – imagine what other things could be done in this place!

I wish God’s blessings to you all as you start a new chapter in your ministry journey, and I ask for your prayers as my husband and I do the same.

                                                                                    Stephanie Pittock

                                                                                    Director of Christian Growth

 

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NOTES  AND  NEWS  f r o m   C A M P    P I O N E E R

 

PIONEER  SUMMER  CAMP  PROGRAMS – “Soaking Up The Son!”  is our theme this year.  “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” (Col. 3:16 NIV)  Pioneer offers a variety of activities for growing in faith and in service towards one another.  Children, teens, adults, seniors, confirmands, children in foster care, and those with developmental disabilities, are welcome all summer!  Please call Pioneer for a brochure – 549-1420.

. . . . Please help send foster children to camp – There are over 5,000 foster children in Western New York who will never have the opportunity to go to camp.  At Pioneer Camp they will learn to swim, play volleyball and other sports, do  crafts and many other fun things, but most importantly they will learn about Jesus!  You can help send foster children to Camp by helping us make, “Sending Foster Children to Camp” Salad Bar Luncheon and Quilt Sale a success!  We need donations of multiple kinds of salads (example:  potato, macaroni, fruit, pasta, Jell-O, etc.), finger desserts (such as: cookies, bars, brownies, etc.) and monetary gifts are always welcome. (Checks payable to: “Pioneer Camp & Retreat Center”  For: “sending foster children to camp.”

            Do you have that special friend or friends that you want to invite for lunch?  Here’s your chance!  No dishes to wash, no houses to clean and no preparations or clean up to think about!  Bring your family and friends to the

                                                                        Salad Bar Luncheon and Quilt Sale

                                                            Tuesday, June 22, 2004 – 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

at First Trinity Lutheran Church, 1570 Niagara Falls Blvd., Tonawanda, N. Y. 14150

Adults: $6.00; 5 – 10 yrs: $4.00; children 4 and under – free

Tickets available at the door or from Salem’s church office

NURSES  NEEDED:  Each summer, Pioneer relies on volunteers to help provide quality healthcare supervision for our summer campers.  Each week, we need two volunteer nurses, one to work with our “Agape Camp” (10-20 developmentally disabled adults), and one to work with the rest of our programs, including youth, families, and adults.  The “CAMP NURSE” can be a physician, physician’s assistant, RN, or LPN.  Please have anyone interested call Pioneer’s office – 549-1420.

 

W O R S H I P

 

The Worship Committee has developed a page for the DOVE that will communicate to the congregation the themes, liturgies, sermon texts and titles and other points of worship  (LW  =  Lutheran Worship     TLH  =  The Lutheran Hymnal     WOV  = With One Voice)

Hymns and liturgy are being chosen by Pastor, the Music Director, and the Worship Committee.  Comments invited for future growth.

 

SUNDAY             LITURGY                   1st  Hymn                    Sermon   Hymn               Communion Hymns               Last  Hymn                      Text  and  Title

June 6   Trinity (white)

LW 158 Communion Gospel Procession

 

WOV 651 – “Shine Jesus Shine”

“Draw Nigh and Take the Body;”  “We Have Come Into This House;”  LW 171 – “Holy God, We Praise Your Name”

LW 168 – Holy, Holy, Holy”

John 16:12-15 – “Truth is Passed”

June 13 Pentecost 2 (green)

LW 158 Word

 

 

WOV 776 – “Be Thou My Vision”

 

LW 408 – “I Am Trusting You, Lord Jesus”

Luke 7:1-10 – “Authority for Faith”

June 20 Pentecost 3 (green)

S. S. Close

 

Sunday School

 

LW 516 – “What A Friend We Have In Jesus”

Luke 7:11-17 – “Life Is Sharing”

June 27

Pentecost 4

(green)

LW 158 Communion

 

LW 311 – “Lift High the Cross”

 

 

Galatians 2:11-21 – “Dead to be Alive”

 

 

 

Sunday Morning Adult Bible Class – Spring 2004

Faith, Stories and Prayers

Making peace with head, heart, tongue and both hands

 

Mission:  Peace/Salem – As the Father sent me, I send you

Vision:    Preach, Teach, Heal/Care – doing what Jesus does

          Lutherans are people with One Lord and 3 books (Bible, Catechism, Hymnal)

 

Date                 Bible                                              Catechism                                                  Hymns/Prayers

June 6                                                                    Commandment Conclusion

June 13                                                                  Discussion

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Salem Lutheran Church

            2 0 0 4                                                                                                                                                                                       10 McClellan Circle

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Buffalo, New York 14220

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Phone: 824-2787

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

  THURSDAY

  FRIDAY

SATURDAY

 

 

1  -  12:00 – L.S.S. Women’s Auxiliary, Camp Pioneer

 

1:00 – Bible Study

7:00 – Church

              Council

2  

 

1:00 – Staff

         Meeting

7:30 – Sr. Choir

3

9:30 – Bible Study

12:00 – Golden Agers

6:00 – S. S. Dinner at Ilio Di Paolo’s Restaurant

4

              LWML

            Treadway

               Owego,

5

Convention

Inn

New York

6 -  (white)

       

  9:00 – Sunday School, Youth &

             Adult Bible Classes

10:30 – Holy Communion

2:00 - Parade

          

7

12:00 – Quilting Group (bring lunch)

 

 

6:00 – Brownies &

             Girl Scouts

8

 

1:00 – Bible Study

6:00 – Worship

7:00 – Women’s Guild

9

12:00 – Salad Bar Luncheon & Penny Sale

 

6:00 – Servant

    Ministers

10

9:30 – Bible Study

12:00 – So. Bf. Ecu.  Asso. (location unknown at time of printing)

6:30 – L.C.E.S. dinner @ Salem

11

12

 

 

13 -  (green) 

  9:00  -  Sunday School, Youth &

                  Adult Bible Classes

10:30  -  Worship

 

14

12:00 – Quilting Group (bring lunch

 

6:00 – Brownies &

            Girl Scouts

 

15 –

 

1:00 – Bible Study

 

16

1:00 – Staff

            Meeting

 

 

 

17

 

9:30 – Bible Study

 

 

 

 

18   

19

4:00 – Wright/Goodman

Wedding

20  -  (green)   FATHER’S  DAY

  9:00 – S. S., Youth & Bible Classes

10:30  - Worship – S.S.Closing

  Program & Thrivent Strawberry Social from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

4:00 – Rev. Pittock’s Installation, Salem, Springville, N. Y.

Deadline for July/August DOVE

21

 

12:00 – Quilting Group (bring lunch)

 

6:00 – Brownies &

          Girl Scouts

22

12:00 – Salad Luncheon/Quilt Sale, First Trinity Luth. Church, Tonawanda, NY

1:00 – Bible Study

23     

 

 

 

 

24

 

9:30 – Bible Study

 

5:00 – Troop Gold Award Party

25

26

27  -  (green)  -

 

  9:00  -  Sunday School, Youth &

                 Adult Bible Classes

10:30  -  Worship

 

28

 

 

29

30