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Happenings
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1/25
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
1/26
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM
Sunday School
Upstairs Classrooms
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
1/27
Confirmation Home Study
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Staff Meeting
Fireside Room
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Angelic Choir
Jr. Choir Room
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Sing and Ring
Jr. Choir Room
1/28
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PBWY
Sandrock Hall
1/30
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
Bells
Sanctuary
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Chancel Choir
Sr. Choir Room
2/1
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
2/2
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM
Sunday School
Upstairs Classrooms
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
2/3
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Staff Meeting
Fireside Room
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Angelic Choir
Jr. Choir Room
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Pizza Night
Youth Room
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Sing and Ring
Jr. Choir Room
7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Confirmation
Upstairs Classrooms
2/4
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PBWY
Sandrock Hall
2/6
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM
Men's Breakfast
Bethany Room
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
Bells
Sanctuary
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Chancel Choir
Sr. Choir Room
2/8
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
2/9
9:30 AM to 11:00 PM
Worship w/communion
Sanctuary
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM
Sunday School
Upstairs Classrooms
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
2/10
12:00 AM
Confirmation Home Study
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Staff Meeting
Fireside Room
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Angelic Choir
Jr. Choir Room
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Sing and Ring
Jr. Choir Room
2/11
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PBWY
Sandrock Hall
2/12
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Listening For God
Off Site
2/13
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
Bells
Sanctuary
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Chancel Choir
Sr. Choir Room
2/15
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Bridge
Poppen Hall
2/16
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Worship w/Communion
Sanctuary
10:45 AM to 11:30 AM
Sunday School
Upstairs Classrooms
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!
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CALL TO ANNUAL MEETING
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- Worship at 9:30
- Christian Ed as usual
- Brunch served in Sandrock Hall at 11:00, remaining open past 11:30 to serve Christian Ed participants. Thanks to Jim Brege for providing the brunch.
- Annual Meeting to start at about 11:30.
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No Adult Forum Today
Stepping into God's Word:
Today as part of our worship service, parents and congregation will present Bibles to the Third Grade students in our congregation. This is one of the many Milestone Ministries that we do at St. Paul.
Living the Word Sunday School:
The children will have their lesson during the pajama party and learn about Jesus calling the first disciples. There will also be a brief time for the Angelic Choir and Sing and Ring to practice. Children can be dropped off and picked up in the youth room on the second floor. The pajama party hosted by the youth will include crafts and conclude with VeggieTales. A snack will be served during the opening and pizza during the movie.
Thrivent Builds Trip
St Paul is forming a team to work on a Habitat for Humanity build in El Salvador through the Thrivent Builds Worldwide July 26-August 3, 2014. For more information visit the St Paul website Link.
 Stress and pressure are constant companions for most of us. Our lives are filled with high expectations, and seemingly never enough time to fulfill them. And this is true not just for adults, but for our children and teens as well. Our instant communication and immediate gratification culture creates daily expectations that are impossible to meet. These activities are designed to help. Performance Pressure (Adult/Couple) - when expectations overwhelm, faith helps. Long Dark Night (Young Adult) - find a light to shine in your darkness. Depths of Addiction (Young Adult) - Hi, I'm Jonah and I'm avoiding reality. The Pressure to Succeed (Teen Family) - talk through the stresses each family member faces. Where's My Phone? (Teen Family) - find balance between phone time and here time. Sweet Dream Pillowcases (Young Family) - feel safe and wind down after a busy day. Big Mistake (Just for Kids) - here's help when you've blown it BIG time. |
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Discernment Committee
|  Your St. Paul Discernment Committee has been hard at work since being installed on 12/8/13! We have been defining our mission and how to best reach out to the whole church to get your input into the discernment process. One of our first pieces of business was to create a logo to help you identify us and the important work ahead. The logo is shown at the top of this letter. Please look for it in the church Sunday bulletin, weekly newsletter, special handouts and on the buttons that we wear as we go about the business of Discovering your individual preferences, Developing a list of the qualities and characteristics we seek in our next pastoral leader, and summarizing the future Direction of St. Paul that your wishes convey. It is the job of the Discernment Committee to enter our findings into a Ministry Site Profile. The all-important Ministry Site Profile will then be submitted to and used by the ELCA Synod to identify the candidates to be interviewed by the St. Paul Call Committee.
During the next several months, please welcome our outreach to you as we try to Discover your individual vision for St. Paul and Develop our congregation's collective future Direction. Our outreach will take many forms including surveys, adult forums, E-mail communication and one-on-one conversations. In other words, we'll serve as Your voice to God's ear. Individual feedback will be kept confidential and compiled into a representative congregational Ministry Site Profile.
May the Lord continue to bless our ministry.
Peace and Blessings: Richard Grenzke (Chairman), Lela Creighton, Shawn Cugliari, Chris Hardenbrook, Doug Jenzen, Heidi Korte, Mary Ann Magill, Mary Weiland and Reverend Krister Ulmanis |
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Administrative Matters
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New Office Hours
 At its meeting on January 15, 2014, Church Council approved a new Employee Policies and Procedures Manual. Part of the changes includes attempts to make the Church Office staff available to the congregation for a longer part of the working day. Beginning February 1, 2014 (taking effect Monday, February 3) these changes will take place:
*A regular, staggered, lunch hour will be implemented by the entire staff. The phone will be covered by other staff during the office staff lunch time.
*Office hours will change to 9 am - 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.
*The Custodial Staff is NOT to act as intermediary for the office staff. Any notes or dealings with Sandy Wallace, the Office Administrator, are to be dealt with her directly during business hours.
Inevitably, for a variety of reasons, in spite of all attempts for it not to happen, there will be times during a day when no one is available to answer the phone. Please use the answering machine system and your call will be returned as soon as possible
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These changes will be in effect for the month of February and then reviewed. Adjustments will be made if necessary and as needed. If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this, please speak with either Ken Steketee or Pastor Krister.
Custodians and Work Requests Not In Their Job Description
 St. Paul is much blessed with two excellent and dedicated custodians - Ray Carpentier and Greg Hooper. As many of you have found out, they are more than willing to go out of their way to help do work requested of them, even work that is not in their job description. Sadly, their generosity of time and extra work in administrative and other duties that are not in the custodians' job description has now come to the point of being at times not just in high volume, but also taking significant time away from their regular work. Since the regular work needs to be completed, and is completed, it adds to the time worked, and compensated for, which means that the congregation is paying extra time for all of the normal work to be completed.
We all live busy lives but there is some work we just need to do ourselves, be it in a committee or as individuals, rather than have the expectation that Ray or Greg will do it for us. You are asked to be considerate of this and minimize the amount of requests for work outside of their regular workload.
At the same time - there is some work around the church that is outside the work duties of our custodians that they would be willing to do - or even should be doing. To request that kind of work, there is a 'Custodial Special Work Request Form' found in the Request Form Rack in the Church Office.
EVERYONE who has a request for work by the custodians is asked to complete one of these forms. This will give the congregation a chance to see what work is needed around the church that we may not know about, perhaps. It would also give us an opportunity to review job descriptions, appropriate working hours and adjust compensation accordingly.
Having said that, before asking the custodians to do anything, we should all be mindful that all property matters of the congregation should be referred, first of all, to the Chair of the Property Committee, Rick Treusch.
Your cooperation in this matter will ensure a well-kept church and staff working within their job description and regular working hours. Thank you for your help!
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Gateshead Bingo Prizes
|  It is now time to replenish the Bingo prizes for the seniors at Gateshead Crossing. Suggested items: postage stamps and cards, grooming and skin care products for men and women, candy and sugar free candy, smaller size laundry and cleaning products and facial tissue.
A collection basket is in the Harms Fireside Room. |
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Family Preservation Programs
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 "Serving people as an expression of the love of Christ" How do children end up in the foster care system and is there a way to prevent this from happening? LSSM has created Family Preservation Programs that help keep families together. Protect MiFamily and Eastside Wrap Around are new programs that intervene with at-risk families in the Metro Detroit area Please keep LSSM's Family Preservation Programs' staff and clients in your prayers this month. Today is the Pajama Party for the children after Sunday school, during the Annual Meeting. All children are invited to join in on the fun! Games, crafts and a movie are planned! |
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Ministers of
Worship and Service
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Ministers of Worship & Service
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Interim Pastor: Rev. J. Krister Ulmanis
Organist: Stephanie Yu
Director of Music/Chancel Choir Director Eric Miller
Director of Children's Choirs Margaret Rees-Baker
This Sunday Next Sunday
Acolyte: Elizabeth Rooney Gabriel Kirck
Altar Guild: Carol Komer Carol Komer
Margy Huizinga Margy Huizinga
Assisting Minister: Fred Orth Fred Orth
Communion Assistants:B Steketee R&C Treusch
J Callewaert B Wrobel
C&N Cusmano K Edick
Cross Bearer: Emma Rooney Michaela Kirck
Coffee Hour: Maryann Magill Anna George
Greeter: Warner Family Kohut Family
Lector: Liz Jenzen Tim Reisen
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