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Happenings
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8/7 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
staff meeting
Fireside Room
8/8
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/9
8:45 AM to 2:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Gamblers Annon.
Bethany Room
8/10
8:00 AM to 3:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/11
10:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Worship w/communion
Sanctuary
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/12
11:45 AM to 6:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Rummage Work Night
Poppen Hall
8/13
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Pieces Be With You
Sandrock Hall
8/14
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
staff meeting
Fireside Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Listening to God
Off Site
8/15
Epistle Deadline
Office
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/16
8:45 AM to 2:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Gamblers Annon.
Bethany Room
8/17
8:00 AM to 3:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/18
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
12:30 PM to 4:30
Bridge
Poppin Hall 8/19
11:45 AM to 6:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Rummage Work Night
Poppen Hall
8/20
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Pieces Be With You
Sandrock Hall
8/21
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
staff meeting
Fireside Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Council Meeting
Bethany Room
8/22
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/23
8:45 AM to 2:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Gamblers Annon.
Bethany Room
8/24
8:00 AM to 3:15 PM
U of D Mercy
Bethany Room
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/25
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall 8/26
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Rummage Work Night
Poppen Hall
8/27
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Pieces Be With You
Sandrock Hall
8/28
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
staff meeting
Fireside Room
8/29
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
8/30
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Gamblers Annon.
Bethany Room
8/31
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
9/1
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall 9/3
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Pieces Be With You
Sandrock Hall
9/4
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
staff meeting
Fireside Room
9/5
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
9/6
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Gamblers Annon.
Bethany Room
9/7
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
9/8
10:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Worship w/communion
Sanctuary
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
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Do you have a church-related event or announcement you'd like to share with the GP community? E-mail communications@stpaulgp.org and we'll spread the word for you!
Please note: submissions must be received at least 2 weeks in advance to ensure publication.
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Council Meeting
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 Council WILL meet on August 7th at the regular time. Please add this to your calendar. .
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Pastor Ken Lentz Preaches August 11
|  Pastor Lentz, a former Senior Pastor, now living in Scottsdale, Arizona will preach and be honored at a Reception following worship. We look forward to hearing him share the Good News, and he is anxious to see old and new members. If you know of a former member who won't see this publicity, tell them of Pastor Lentz's visit...it will be a fun time of reconnecting with St. Paul members from the 70's.
In 1965, Ken was our Vicar for a year. He then graduated from Trinity Seminary and got his PhD in church history at Heidelberg, Germany. In 1973, he was called to be our Associate Pastor with Rev. Sandrock. Upon Rev. Sandrock's retirement, Ken was called to be Senior Pastor in 1976 and shared his many talents for seven years before leaving to do ministry in northern California (ten years--also teaching classes at Berkeley Seminary). His pastoral years then took him to Venice, Florida (seven years), Buxtehude Germany (six months), and finally semi retirement in 2002 to Arizona. Since then, he has been a transition Pastor to churches as small as Globe, Arizona (mining town) and as large as a mega church in Phoenix of 3,900.
During his years with us, he reorganized the Sunday morning format--church worship time was separated from Sunday School/Adult Education time. It was also during his time with us that our Constitution was modified to allow more lay committee involvement and corporate leadership by laity
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Habitat for Humanity - Grosse Pointe Partners
|  The 2013 Blitz Build will be held Saturday, August 17 and Monday August 19 through Saturday, August 24 in the Morningside Community where we will build seven homes. Grosse Pointe Partners and Thrivent are each sponsoring a home.
Volunteer registration is now open. You may register on-line at www.habitatdetroit.org under the Volunteer tab. If you have questions, contact Tom Archinal at 313-530-3794 or thomas.o.archinal.civ@mail.mil or Crystal Bell at 313-521-6691 ext. 106 or cbell@habitatdetroit.org.
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Pray & Play Leaders Needed
|  Pray & Play supports families with young children in worship by giving children a break and allowing parents an opportunity to focus on the sermon. Adult leaders are needed to spend 20-25 minutes with the children and lead them in a closing prayer; there is no teaching expectation. It is our hope that a number of volunteers can share this responsibility on a rotating basis. Please contact Mary Mobley or Patty Dougherty to be part of this ministry.
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School Kits
|  It's that time of year again...back to school shopping time! When you see a good deal on one of these items, please purchase a few to go into the LWR school kits.
School Kit items:
Four 70-sheet notebooks of wide- or college-ruled paper approximately 8" X 10½"; no loose-leaf paper
One 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other
One pencil sharpener
One blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)
Five unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers;
Five ballpoint pens (no gel ink);
One box of 16 or 24 crayons
One sturdy drawstring backpack-style cloth bag approximately 14" X 17" with shoulder straps(no standard backpacks)
We are partnering on another school bag project with Christ Lutheran Iroquois Avenue Church. We will be collecting items for school backpacks for students in Detroit.
School Kit items needed:
Paper
3-ring binders
Pencils
Colored pencils
Pencil sharpeners
Hand sanitizers
Ballpoint pens
Backpacks
Rulers
Crayons
Blunt scissors (safety scissors)
Calculators
Composition notebooks
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St. Paul Annual Rummage Sale
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Due to a LARGE quantity of furniture and fine art, we are having an
Advanced Furniture and
Fine Art Sale
Saturday, August 24th
8:30 AM- 1:00 PM
Join us for Monday evening work nights during August. We're planning on unpacking and sorting from 7pm to 9pm Monday, August 5, 12, 19 and 26th. All ages are welcome to help with the congregational rummage sale. Please watch the weekly email blasts and bulletins for more information on the work nights. Need to drop off stuff...Monday nights will be great time to that. If Monday doesn't' work, please drop if off during the weekdays between 9am and noon between August 1 and September 10. If these times don't work for you, please do not leave your "goodies" outside the doors, call Gretchen Archinal or Liz Jenzen to make other arrangements.
We'll find a new home for the clothing, books, furniture and everything in between! Poppen Hall will be ready to accept your donations. Please help us by hanging the clothes on the racks and putting other treasures in the marked areas
Rummage Sale Setup is from
Sunday, September 8 through Thursday, September 12.
Rummage Sale dates are Friday and Saturday,
September 13 and 14
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Senior Programs
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 "Serving people as an expression of the love of Christ"
LSSM Senior Living offers retirement living for seniors in Michigan with 18 communities throughout the state. Whether you want independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory support or rehabilitation therapy, you'll find a community to fit your needs. LSSM Senior Living also offers affordable senior housing in Michigan with 13 HUD-subsidized retirement communities. One of the LSSM housing communities is Gateshead Crossing, just down the street. Members of WELCA have been sponsoring social activities at Gateshead and have a Bingo event planned for Thursday, August,29th at 1 pm.. If you would like to help provide bingo prizes there is a basket in the Fireside Room for donations. Also, some residents at Gateshead have expressed an interest in a Bible Study on site. If you feel that God is calling you to lead a Bible Study and serve in this way please contact Pastor Collier. Please keep the residents of Gateshead Crossing as well as all the LSSM Senior Programs and persons they serve in your prayers this month. Thank you!
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Thank You!!!!
|  Thank you! to all who donated supplies to the LSSM Foster Camp! We nearly filled the tent and sent off several sleeping bags, toiletries, caps, backpacks, toys, swim suits and gear, sandals and towels! We also donated over 300 dollars toward costs. The staff was very excited and will be visiting us with some camp updates this fall!
Thank you also to all who responded to the urgent needs from Wayne County Family Center. Over a dozen twin sheet sets, many towels, cleaning cloths and many cases of packaged snacks were donated. The program's needs change when the children are out of school for the summer and we were able to help them out as these needs arose
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Ministers of
Worship and Service
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Sunday, August 11
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Acolyte Emma Willard
Altar Guild Elaine Farquhar, Cheryl Wiseman
Assisting Minister Betty Morris
Coffee Hour Alana Sabol
Communion Assistants R. & B. Grenzke, C. Komer, S. Archinal
Cross Bearer Archinal
Greeter Marsha Spannagel
Lector Bea Grenzke
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Sunday, August 18
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Acolyte Carly Demkowicz
Altar Guild Elaine Farquhar, Cheryl Wiseman
Coffee Hour Beth Brackett
Communion Assistants J. P. & M. Dougherty, P. Sierant
Cross Bearer Ben Heidebrink
Greeter Tim Reisen
Lector Janice Steeland
Pray & Play Laura Rooney
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