Concordia
Lutheran
Church
"The wind blows where it wills..." John 3:8
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3705 Harwood Rd., Bedford, TX 76021-4013 Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Pastor: Rev Mark Lasch Office Phone: 817-283-3560 Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. windsock@concordialutheran.org
October 2014
On What Shall We Stand?
October is a good month to be a Lutheran. For it was during this month, on the eve of All Saints day 1517 that one Martin Luther hung 95 thesis on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. This event began what would be the Reformation, an event of such importance that it would impact the world theologically, culturally, politically, economically, and change it in ways that the young re-former could never have imagined. Some would say that the foundations of democracy were laid long ago during the days of the Reformation.
I wonder what Luther would say if we were to credit him with such a huge impact on all of our lives. I suspect he would probably rant and rave, and become angry at the idea that one man should re-ceive credit for that which only God could bring about. It is likely that he would direct us to the Word of God, slap a Bible in our hands and write the 3 Solas (Grace alone, Faith alone, Scripture alone!) on our foreheads with a big black permanent marker. I suspect that he would want us to know that the reformation didn’t begin with the hanging of the 95 Thesis, but with the hanging of our Lord, and the empty tome. I suspect he would want us to know that he wasn’t some sort of the-ological super-hero, but a servant of the Lord God who “Unless...convinced with evidence from the Holy Scriptures or with open, clear, and distinct grounds and reasoning...” could not and would not recant. There he stood, he could do no other.
The bottom line is this, the Reformation happened because sinful men traded authority for power, and walked away from the pure teachings of Jesus Christ. You and I often do the same thing. Though we have the Gospel in its purity and are assured of forgiveness because of the victory that Christ won for us on the cross, we trade his authority over death and the grave for a license to sin. What we need is a Reformation!
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord we have it!
In Baptism our Lord washed away our sin. Everyday we wake up bran new! So shall we return once again to the filth and mud of yesterday? By no means! We died to sin, how then can we live in it? Living in the Reformation means casting aside our former way of life and striving to live differ-ently.
How can we do such a thing??? By being soundly, openly, and clearly convinced with evidence from Holy Scripture that even today we can live a new life.
Start a Reformation of your own today...Read the Book!
From the Board of
Evangelism…
Christian Education...
From the Board of
We had a great time at our “Gangway to Gali-lee” Rally Day. A big thanks to Katie Rander-mann for leading the children's songs and to our Board of Education Director Dennis Mu-rawski for a wonderful lesson. Our Sunday School Children enjoyed the snacks and the crafts too. Remember our message in a bottle: Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not of your own doing; it is the gift of God.”
Pastor Mark presented Children's Bibles to the children who were moving up to another class. Our fall Sunday School “Growing In Christ” is starting with the Old Testament story of The Creation. Sunday School is at 10:00 am every Sunday except when we have one service. Our preschool and elementary school children sing Christian songs together the first 10 minutes of Sunday School. They will sing “Jesus Rescues Me” at the 10:30 am Blended Worship Service on Oct. 5th. We are looking forward to all our children singing this special song.
Dennis Murawski is teaching the Confirmation Class Old Testament lessons for students grades 5 through 7 every Sunday morning. Pastor Mark's 8th Graders Confirmation class meets every Monday evening at 6 pm at Con-cordia. Parents, please bring your children to Sunday School and Confirmation Class.
Trunk or Treat will be held at Concordia from 4 pm until 6 pm on Sunday, October 26th. We encourage our children and their friends to at-tend and wear a costume. It should be a fun time of fellowship.
October 26
“Bring a Friend to Church Sunday” Adult and young adult visitors receive a Bible and "I Belong" bracelet. Board of Evangelism encourages the congregation to pick
up extra bracelets to share with others.
Any Sunday
Visitors will receive "We're Happy You Popped In" popcorn with
Church information.
Trunk-or-Treat and
Fall Festival Fundraiser
Chicken and
Baked Potato
Luncheon
Sunday
October 5
11:45am
Dine on Delicious Rotisserie
Chicken and Bubba’s
Famous Baked Potatoes
A free will offering will be
accepted to help raise funds
OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS
6— Catherine Lasch
8—Vanessa Wilson
9— Avery Coleman
9— Kourtney Garcia
9— Brad Shepperd
10— Jonathan Luckenbill
10— Micheal McWhithy
10— Bruce Nelson
12— Cian Doyle
14— Mary McNeese
16— Linda Wilson
17— Ima Ruth Jacoby
19— Joel McClure
22— JoAnn Dickinson
23— Mia Saura (Finder)
24— Eddie Jackowski
25— Brenda Rodgers
26— Kathy Nelson
28— Wendy Martin
29— Tom Johnson
30— Kainalu Garcia
31— Justin Randermann
N.E.E.D. Needs
October 5: Canned meat (tuna, spam, etc.) and Hamburger Helper
October 12: Peanut Butter & Jelly, Rotel, and Refried Beans
October 19: Canned Vegetables & Fruits October 26: Canned Tomatoes, Pasta, Rice, and Beans.
LAY MINISTERS
:
John Finder and Justin Randermann
LAY READERS
October 5— Ulana Ratley
October 12— Heather Finder
October 19— Bruce Nelson
October 26— Gail Shepperd
OCTOBER USHERS
Contemporary Traditional
JoAnn Truelock Joel Lozzi
Ed/Melissa Gattoc Eric Schjerven
Serving Concordia in October
Concordia
Softball
The Concordia Free Agents are back in action and will be playing a Fall season at the park in Hurst on Precinct Line Road. The games are played on Friday nights. Come out any Friday evening to cheer them on. Look for upcoming game times to be listed in the Sunday bulletins and the Windsock Calendar. This is a men’s league and you must be over 18. The dues are around $30 and the jerseys are $20 for new players. If you are interested in playing, please contact:
Steve Wilkins.
steven_and_rebecca@sbcglobal.net
OCTOBER
ANNIVERSARIES
13— Oliver and Robin Smith
22— Jordan and April Sandifer
29—Dewitt and Mary Weaver
If we missed your important date please share it with us
so we may update our records. We will be sure to
Trunk-or-Treat
And
Fall Festival
LIVE MUSIC!
Trunk-or-Treat
for the Kids!
FREE Hot Dogs, Chips
and Drinks!
Join Us Sunday
October 26
How You Can Help!
Decorate Your Trunk!
We need as many trunks as possible
to participate in order to make this a
fun event for all the children. Candy
will be provided to distribute.
Donate Drinks!
Several different types are needed
such as canned soft drinks, bottled
water and kids juice boxes. Sign up
sheet located on the table in
the narthex.
Donate Candy!
We need bags of individually
wrapped candies to be distributed to
the children during Trunk-or-Treat.
Donated candy can be placed in the
Shop and
Donate
You can Help Concordia Lutheran when
you shop at Tom Thumb or Kroger and
use your reward card. Just link our Good
Neighbor Number for Tom Thumb or our
Community Rewards number for Kroger
to your reward card and Tom Thumb or
Kroger will make a donation to
Concor-dia Lutheran based on a percentage of
your purchases. Please look for program
sign up sheets on the table in the
nar-thex.
If you participate in Kroger Community
Awards beginning August 1 you will
need to go to the Kroger Community
Re-wards website to re-enroll Concordia
Lu-theran Church as the non-profit
organi-zation you support for the year. If you
need assistance enrolling online Please
see secretary Heather Finder.
Our Charity Number for Tom Thumb is 7412 Our Charity number for Kroger is 20996
NEW AND IMPROVED
Men’s Network is taking on a
new look and feel!
Join your fellow Concordia Brother’s for
an evening of food and fellowship.
There will be grilling and hanging out.
Topics for discussion could include
sports, weather, world events or
whatev-er is on your mind. Think of it as the
new “Tastes great, less filling” version.
All men of the church are invited to
at-tend at 6:00 pm. It is still BYOM (bring
your own meat) but cold drinks, sides
(Bubba’s famous baked potatoes), and
Blue Bell ice cream are provided for the
meal. The next gathering will be :
Tuesday October 21
Kids In Church
A Sunday school
teach-er asked hteach-er children as
they were on the way to
church service,
'And why is it
neces-sary to be quiet in
church?' One bright
lit-tle girl replied, 'Because
School Supply Drive
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7:00 pm Board of Youth 7:00 pm Board of Christian Education 5:30 pm Board of Fellowship
Important September Sundays
October 5— Blended Worship/Chicken Luncheon October 12— Board of Lay Ministry
October 26— Fall Festival and Trunk-or-Treat
6:00 pm Men’s Network 6:30 pm Board of Evangelism 6:00 pm Board of Properties 7:00 pm Church Council 11:00 am Lunch Bunch Free Agents Game 7:50P.M. 9:00 am Traditional Worship 10:00 am Sunday School 11:00 am Contemporary Worship 9:00 am Traditional Worship 10:00 am Sunday School 11:00 am Contemporary Worship 7:00 pm Hula Practices 7:00 pm Hula Practices 7:00 pm Hula Practices 7:00 pm Hula Practices 7:00 pm Hula Practices 7:00 pm Hula 7:00 pm Hula Practices 9:15am Sunday School 10:30 am Blended Worship 11:45am Luncheon 9:00 am Traditional Worship 10:00 am Sunday School 11:00 am Contemporary Worship Free Agents Game 9:30P.M. Free Agents Game 8:40P.M. Free Agents Game 7:00P.M. 7:00 pm Hula Practices Level 3 Communion Class 6:00 pm Level 3 Communion Class 6:00 pm Level 3 Communion Class 6:00 pm Level 3 Communion Class 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Hula Practices Girl Scouts 5:45 pm Girl Scouts 5:45 pm Girl Scouts 5:45 pm 7:00 pm Hula Practices
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Concordia Lutheran Church
3705 Harwood Road Bedford, Texas 76021-4013
Phone: (817) 283-3560 Fax: (817) 283-2877 Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.
Worship - 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. Concordia Lutheran Church
3705 Harwood Road Bedford, Texas 76021-4013
OUR MISSION AT CONCORDIA
Living joyfully in friendship, love and ministry
Openly reaching out with the Gospel
Visibly sharing the life of Christ through Word & Sacrament
Encouraging spiritual growth and development
SHARING GOD’S LOVE & TOUCHING PEOPLE’S LIVES
