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Prayer Leads to Action 
by Pr. Michelle Sevig
God of steadfast love, though destructive winds swirl around us, shattering our lives, we believe and trust that you are with us, just as you have always walked with your people through storm and strife. Today, we pray for the people of Carney, Little Axe, Shawnee, Newcastle and Moore, Okla. and all those affected by tornadoes this past week. Use us to surround them with your love, compassion and mercy. Provide them with caregivers and friends to accompany them on the long road to recovery. Be with all those who weep and mourn during these days, and comfort them with your hope and the promise of resurrection. We pray all these things in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life so that we might know that you have the power to bring life from death. Amen --
A prayer from Bishop Girlinghouse (Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod, ELCA)
Immediately following the destructive tornadoes this past week, people began praying-praying for the survivors whose lives are forever changed, praying for first responders who would work for hours on end, praying for those who died. As we pray for those who are affected by the tornadoes, we also pray that we will be motivated to weep with those who mourn, provide comfort to those who are suffering and give hope to those who are without hope. As Pastor Tim Brown wrote in his blog this week, "Prayer must always lead to action, and all your prayers won't give blood to the injured, security to the now homeless, or tools for rebuilding." Prayer leads us to action, and empowers us to share one another's burdens, in the name of Christ.
Your prayers and actions are needed right now. Lutheran Disaster Response affiliates are already on the ground, assessing the immediate and long-term needs of those affected by the tornadoes. Your financial gifts are put to good use immediately to coordinate volunteers, rebuild homes and provide spiritual and emotional care to those in need.
Please prayerfully consider a gift through Lutheran Disaster Response. Gifts designated to U.S. Tornadoes will be used entirely-100%--to help survivors of tornadoes rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
Send a note to Michelle with your comments or reflections!
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UPCOMING SUNDAY
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May 26 - The Holy Trinity
- 9:30 a.m. - Festival Eucharist with baptisms and guest high school choir from St. Mary's Lutheran in Kenosha, WI
Prayer of the Day
Almighty Creator and ever-living God: we worship your glory, eternal Three-in-One, and we praise your power, majestic One-in-Three. Keep us steadfast in this faith, defend us in all adversity, and bring us at last into your presence, where you live in endless joy and love. <<Weekly readings>> |
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| Purpose & Principles | Purpose Statement
Open to the Mystery...
Connect, Strengthen, and Serve with Joy!
Guiding Principles
--Act with courage
--Be radically inclusive
--Cultivate empowering relationships
--Delight in God's beauty
--Engage with intention |
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BIRTHDAYS:
Rebecca Sjovall 5/25
Michael Johnson 5/26
Michelle Sevig 5/26
Scott Kuhagen 5/28
Michael Jensen 5/30
Dia Fornasiero-Johnson 5/30
Marcus Flamme 5/31
BAPTISMS:
Sean Diller 5/25
Kelley Bender 5/31
ANNIVERSARIES:
Kara & Ed Popelas 5/25
Richard Bough & David Easterbrook 5/28
Amy & Steve Fanale 5/28
Carol & Rob Schickel 5/29
Susan & Tom Boin 5/30
Leslie & Scott Kuhagen 5/30
Carolyn & Chris Pirotte 5/31
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| Congregation Council | |
President
Meggen Saka
Vice-President
Kelley Bender
Secretary
Jon Skogen
Treasurer
Steve Hopwood
Outreach
Kristi Harreld
Social Ministry
Ken Duckmann
Finance
Don Marsh
Property
John Flowers, Rita Schnell
Spiritual Life
Megan Eichhorn
Stewardship
Johanna Olson
Worship
Clyde Andrew Walter
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UPCOMING WORSHIP NOTES
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Worship (at 9:30 a.m.) will feature guest preacher Rabbi Shoshanah Conover from Temple Shalom. Following worship (about 10:30 a.m.), hear Rabbi Conover speak about the challenges of practicing radical inclusivity in a religion that is all about boundaries. Pastor Mueller will engage Rabbi Conover in a conversation about contemporary Judaism and the ministry of Temple Shalom in the Lakeview community.
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| COMING EVENTS AT HOLY TRINITY | |
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Last Sunday's Attendance
8:30 - 31; 10:30 - 151
New Members: View pictures/bios of recent new members: November.
Next Baptism Dates: August 25 (9:30 a.m.), November 10, December 8. More info.
Next Holy Trinity Orientation Dates: Next fall. More info.
Office Hours: Mon. - Thurs., 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Sun., 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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| NEW MEMBERS - MAY 2013 |
 EMILY STUDER AND COLLIN ANDERSON have lived in Chicago for the past five years. Collin works as a service design manager for Trading Technologies and Emily is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Thresholds social service agency. Collin is a lifelong Cubs fan, so Emily decided to be a White Sox fan to keep things interesting. They are in the process of planning their wedding on August 24, 2013 in Ohio, are very excited to be married, and are looking forward to their honeymoon in South Africa.  JOSH EVANS was raised for over twenty years in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, in which he was baptized, confirmed, and educated (from pre-school through college!) when he first came out to himself, and ultimately his family, he realized that the church in which he grew up-for which he was even on track for seminary-could no longer be a safe place in embracing all of who he is. During his senior year at Concordia University River Forest, he found Urban Village Church, an infant church plant of the United Methodist Church, which he attended and served in for about two years. Feeling again a call to ministry in a new light, in February he visited LSTC, which brought him to Holy Trinity where he hopes to continue his discernment process for ministry in the ELCA.  PETER WONG has been worshiping at Holy Trinity since July 2012. He very much likes the worship services and has decided to finally become a member. Peter lives in Lakeview and often takes trips around the world.  DINAH WAYNE grew up in Hyde Park with her mother, twin brother, three cats, and a turtle. She is interested in architecture, old buildings and all things German. Dinah found Holy Trinity somewhat by accident many years ago and is pleased to finally make her affiliation 'official.'  JOHN AND ABBY HOTTLE grew up as high school sweethearts in a small town in Ohio, went on to get their bachelor's & master's degrees from Ball State University, and moved to Chicago for work. John is a business analyst at Deltak Innovation and Abby is a pediatric speech therapist working independently and at a developmental preschool. They enjoy watching the Cincinnati Bengals lose, the Chicago Blackhawks win, and travel as much as possible.  KELSEY JONES, originally from Fort Wayne, has been living in Chicago for about five years. She is a CPA and in her free time enjoys playing soccer, watching college basketball (go Hoosiers!), and cooking. Holy Trinity has a vibrant congregation, beautiful church, and wonderful music... which is why she decided to become a member!
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| Last Sunday's Sermon | |
 The Day of Pentecost
May 19, 2013
Pr. Craig M. Mueller
Red
Name some things that are red. Stop signs. Fire engines. Blood. Brake lights. Roses. Valentines. Strawberries.
My childhood memory of red is the color of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. Being from Colorado I rooted against them, but they always won. They are called Big Red and the whole state seemed hooked on Nebraska football. My parents are here today and they grew up in Nebraska and my dad attended NU. I know I should be handing out red Holy Spirit banners, but I couldn't resist getting this red Nebraska Cornhusker banner for today.
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CALENDAR
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FRIDAY, MAY 24
11:00 a.m. Practice Building Group
SATURDAY, MAY 25
5:00 p.m. Common Solutions
SUNDAY, MAY 26
9:30 a.m. Festival Eucharist w/ Guest Choir
MONDAY, MAY 27
7:00 p.m. Chicago Sitting Meditation
TUESDAY, MAY 28
7:00 p.m. Lakeview Orchestra Rehearsal
7:15 p.m. Congregation Council Meeting
7:30 p.m. Book Group Meeting
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29
10:00 a.m. Scripture Study
1:20 p.m. Cubs home game
7:15 p.m. Contemplative Eucharist
7:30 p.m. 12-Step Groups
THURSDAY, MAY 30
1:20 p.m. Cubs home game
FRIDAY, MAY 31
10:00 a.m. Parent's Group
1:20 p.m. Cubs home game
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| AMONG OUR COMMUNITY | |
On Sunday, May 19, Pastor Craig Mueller graduated from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago with a Doctor of Ministry degree. His thesis topic was: "Any Body There: Embodied Liturgy, Virtuality, and Human Authenticity."
Please send news about awards, new positions, life passages and other important events in your lives for this section of our e-news.
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| IN OUR PRAYERS |
Those ill or in special need:
- Brian Cronin, recovering from brain surgery;
- Bogdan Zalewski;
- Harold Hanson, Sarah Hanson's father;
- Unni Duckmann;
- Amy Buzby's grandmother;
- Jen Hopwood's mother, Lynn Istwan, diagnosed with macular degeneration;
- Katherine Whinnery;
- Katherine Whinnery, grandmother of Beth Mankowski;
- Jonathon Widener;
- Carleen Buschmann;
- Pastor JoAnne Post;
- Erica Brown;
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- Kari McCrady, friend of Erika Robeck;
- Dana Johnson's mother, Diana Johnson;
- Maria Devins;
- Kay Scott;
- Phyllis Zangri;
- Myleen Dunleavy;
- Merri Pierce;
- Alan Stang, Jeff Stang's father;
- Mary Stoner;
- Carol Stoner;
- Scott Johnson's mother, Virginia Johnson;
- those struggling with infertility;
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Ministries Supported by Holy Trinity: ELCA World Hunger Appeal; RefugeeOne; Lakeview Action Coalition; Lakeview Pantry; The Crib; Reconciling Works (formerly Lutherans Concerned); The Night Ministry; Christian Peacemaker Teams; Arise Chicago; Chicago Coalition of Welcoming Churches; The Lutheran Volunteer Corps; Anti-Racism Team of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod; Holy Family Lutheran Ministries; Lutheran Youth on the Northside (LYONS).
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| Check It Out |
Why can't I concentrate?
New research from Carnegie Mellon University confirms what we already knew: Yes, distraction does make us stupider. The little red flag at the bottom of my computer screen is not a harmless little reminder that I am not alone in the world. It is a constant invitation not to finish a thought. A constant temptation to escape into the urgently irrelevant so as to avoid the complexity and pain of completing a task.
Carnegie Mellon researchers found that being interrupted twice during a simple comprehension test made people answer the questions with 20 percent less accuracy. What Carnegie Mellon didn't study is how compulsively I turn to e-mail, Facebook and the web to save me from the painful task of thinking itself. I would so much rather surf than think, dive into the half-formed thoughts of others than deal with the incomplete task of thinking in front of me.
So I invent reasons to be diverted. I give in over and over to the impulse to look something up rather than think something through.
Paul Miller recently wrote about his own experiment with giving up electronic distractions. He took the research seriously-research like Carnegie Mellon's and that found Nicholas Carr's essay "Is Google making us stupid?"-so he gave up the internet altogether for a year in order to write, think and rediscover the physical world.
Still, Miller says that there's a problem with believing that the internet is the source of your concentration problems. When you turn it off, you realize that you are the source of these problems. You cannot magically erase the difficulty with an on/off switch.
Just out of the curiosity, those of you who made it through the 275 words above: How many times were you interrupted while reading? Did you wander off into the internet's netherlands and then, for who knows what reason, wander back?
As for me, I was tempted to quit writing and look something up on Google-something that no doubt would have been helpful to my writing-no less than four times. That's once every 70 words, once every three minutes. At this rate, I should be able to finish my next book by around 2030, but will it have any finished thoughts in it?
Check Out These Links for more interesting discussions, conversations, questions and ideas! - Living Lutheran: A Daily Blend of Stories, Culture and Community - <link>
- Spirituality and Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys - <link>
- Big Questions Online - <link>
- Religion dispatches - <link>
- Sightings (The Martin Marty Center) - <link>
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HOLY TRINITY E-NEWS is the weekly electronic newsletter of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chicago. To unsubscribe click on "safeUnsubscribe" below. E-newsletter submissions and prayer requests should be sent to office@htchicago.org by Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.
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Josh Judd-Herzfeldt and Craig M. Mueller
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
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