Merry Christmas

Thank you for joining us at the Christmas Eve Program

- Hope you had a Very Merry Christmas -

Carl Matter

Carl will be receiving treatments in Sioux Falls for approximately three weeks.
His address is:
Walsh Family Village
801 E 23rd St. Room #204
Sioux Falls, SD 57105

December 21st Announcements

Lutheran World Relief Coffee Project -  Mission Project for 2015

Through the LWR Coffee Project, a partnership between Lutheran World Relief and Equal Exchange, Lutherans can enjoy delicious fairly traded products while supporting small-scale farmers across the world. Farmers earn a fair price for their crops, have access to affordable credit and can invest in education, health care and sustainable agriculture, building a better future for their families. In addition, for all fairly traded coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar and snacks purchased through the LWR Coffee Project, Equal Exchange give $0.20 per pound to LWR for projects supporting small-scale coffee farmers. We hope everyone will enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and help support these small farmers.

Jean Wormstadt has different coffees and tea available for purchase. Tea is $4.50 and coffee ranges from $10-$11.

WELCA will have a meeting following the December 28th service to elect officers.

 Kids had their dress rehearsal this morning and are ready to perform for you on Wednesday evening. Be ready to join them in song!

 

 

Angel Tree Gifts & Announcements

On Friday, Sunday School children and their parents from Immanuel Lutheran, rural Iroquois, purchased items for kids on the Salvation Army Angel Tree. The Sunday School children asked the congregation for donations and since they were so generous, they were each able to adopt an angel that was their age and purchase a gift for them. The kids had so much fun picking out presents and learned how important giving to others was! After shopping, they enjoyed supper together and then went caroling at StoneyBrook Suites Assisted Living and to a couple of our elderly church members’ houses. This morning, they got to show & tell the congregation what they purchased for their angel before delivering the presents. They cannot wait until next year to do it again. THANK YOU FOR DONATING!!!!

 Announcements:

 - Synod Council representatives joined us for worship this morning & gave a presentation

 - Immanuel Council this Tuesday at 7:00 pm

 - Confirmation at Parsonage this Wednesday at 7:00 pm

 - Next service is at 6:00 pm on Saturday night with Sunday School at 5:00 pm

 - Please keep Carol Metter in your prayers as she will be having a total ankle   replacement on Wednesday.

 - Donations of wrapping paper and bows/ribbons are being collected for Social Services in Huron to wrap Christmas gifts for the foster children. A basket is in the back of  the church.

 - WELCA is collecting non-perishable food items for our local food pantries. A tote is located in the back of the church.

 - Sunday School children are busy practicing for their Christmas Eve program so please join us at 6:30 on Christmas Eve...there will be a lot of singing!!!

Thankoffering Service

WELCA will be having their Thankoffering service at the December 13th evening service.  A separate offering will be collected.

Announcements for week of 11/23/14

Church is at 9:30 this week with Sunday School following at 10:30!

There will be a short WELCA meeting following our 9:30 service this Sunday to discuss end of the year monetary donations and WELCA board positions that will be up for re-election.

Community Thanksgiving worship will be held at Trinity in Carthage, Wednesday, November 26th at 7:30 pm. Refreshments will follow service. Confirmation youth need to attend this or another Thanksgiving Service in place of confirmation class.

The Sunday School kids want to adopt angels from the Angel Tree again this year! If you would like to donate money to help purchase gifts you can give it to Jodi. We are hoping that each kid will be able to adopt an angel! We will be taking all the kids shopping on Friday, Dec. 5th to purchase the gifts and they will show everyone at church that following Sunday what they picked out for their angel before delivering the gifts. After shopping we will be going to Godfather's for supper and then Christmas Caroling. Feel free to contact Jodi if you have any questions!

Thank You for Donating to Food Drive

Reminder: Sunday School is at 5:00 and Church is at 6:00 tonight!!

THANK YOU FOR DONATING!

What an amazing night...so many generous friends! We started around 4:30 east of the church and 80+ miles later we finished in Huron around 7:00. We received donations from over 30 families and everyone was so generous! The food pantry was very excited to receive all of our donations. After we unloaded all the food they showed us where all the food is stored and what goes into each basket that is given to the families. Each basket is supposed to last them two months. They also told us that after Christmas the donations will slow down and they will need a lot of donations in June and July because their supply will be very low!

                                           

They were as follows: 11 soups, 12 cans of fruit, 78 vegetables, 5 canned meat, 4 tuna/herring, 6 bottles of honey, 1 peanut butter, 3 oatmeals, 4 cereals, 22 rice & pastas, 1 instant potato, 6 rice-a-roni, 4 macaroni & cheese, 1 hamburger helper, 6 stuffing mixes, 1 box of broth, 1 spaghetti sauce, 1 ramen noodle, 1 hot cocoa, 1 package of coffee filters, 2 turkeys, 1 gravy, 2 cornbread mixes, 4 cake mixes, 2 pizza crust mixes, 1 package toilet paper, 1 package paper towels, 1 package of sliced meat, 1 jar of minced meat, 3 zebra cakes, 1 jar jalapeno peppers, 4 bags of candy, 1 marshmallow, 1 package cookies, 1 pudding, 1 popcorn, 1 apple pie kit and 3 boxes of granola bars. They collected 198 items to earn a total of 10,675 scavenger hunt points (a little less than last year) but are challenging themselves to beat it next year & to collect food this summer for the food pantry!

Thank you,

Lauren, Tessah, Katie, Lexi, Kelby, Jodi & Stephanie

November 16, 2014 Announcements

Reminder ~ Sunday School students will be doing a scavenger hunt food drive for the Salvation Army food pantry again on Friday starting at Wintle's at 4:30 pm and will work our way towards Huron. Any non-perishable items that you donate are greatly appreciated. If you will not be home, but would like to donate you may leave items at the church or talk to Jodi to make other arrangements. Thank you in advance for helping us "Can Hunger!"

Our winter Saturday night services will start this Saturday with our praise band leading the service. Therefore, we will not be having 8:00 am services on Sunday until this spring. Our services will be at 6:00 pm on Saturday night with Sunday School at 5:00 pm.

Confirmation is on Wednesday at Immanuel at 7:00 pm

WELCA is collecting non-perishable food items for our local food pantries. A tote is located in the back of the church.

Donations of wrapping paper and bows/ribbons are being collected for Social Services in Huron to wrap Christmas gifts for the foster children. A basket is in the back of the church.

There will be a general WELCA meeting November 30th following the 9:30 service. We will be discussing end of the year monetary donations and WELCA board positions that will be up for re-election.

Community Thanksgiving worship will be held at Trinity in Carthage, Wednesday, November 26th at 7:30 pm. Refreshments will follow service. Confirmation youth need to attend this or another Thanksgiving Service in place of confirmation class.

Wrapping Paper Needed!

"We're on a roll...of Wrapping Paper that is!! 

Immanuel Lutheran is collecting Christmas and birthday wrapping paper for Social Services, in Huron.  The wrapping paper will be used for the Christmas and birthday gifts for foster children.  If you have an extra roll of paper or bows/ribbon, please bring it to church on November 9.  A basket for donations will be at the back of the church.  Any and all donations are very appreciated to make Christmas and birthdays a little brighter for the foster children.  Thank you everyone!!"

November Newsletter & Announcements

Click here to view the November 2014 Parish Newsletter

There will be Veteran recognition during next Sunday's 9:30 service. There will be fellowship following the service with coffee and donuts being served so Sunday School will be held at 8:30 am. 

The quarterly meeting as been rescheduled for Nov. 16th, following the 11:00 am service.

Sunday School students will be doing a scavenger hunt food drive again on Friday, November 21st. We will start at Wintle's at 4:30 pm and will work our way towards Huron. The collected items will be donated to the Salvation Army Food Pantry. The youth will have a list of items to earn them scavenger hunt points, but any non-perishable items that you donate will be more than appreciated. Last year, they collected 11,225 scavenger hunt points so they hope to get even more this year. If you will not be home, but would like to donate you may leave items at the church or talk to Jodi to make other arrangements. Thank you in advance for helping us "Can Hunger!"

Veterans Recognition

During the November 9 service, Immanuel will recognize our Veterans and also Jason Bell, who has recently returned from Afghanistan.  Coffee, donuts and fellowship will follow the service.

 

Armand and Lenora moved into their new house last week. Be sure to send them warm wishes or even better stop in and say hi! Their new address and phone number are as follows:

745 8th St SE

Huron SD  57350

352-2025

Reformation & Confirmation Sunday

Today was a big day at Immanuel!!

Presentation of Bibles

 

Confirmation Graduates ~ Kyle & Gavin

 

Confirmation Sunday Potluck

There will be a potluck following our 11:00 service, this Sunday, to celebrate our Confirmation graduates.

Announcements

October 19th: We will be celebrating Pastor LeShea's birthday with a card shower.

WELCA is collecting non-perishable food items that will be distributed to our local food shelves this fall.  Items can be left at the church in the plastic tote near the book shelf.

Ruth Circle

Millie Zell will be hosting Ruth Circle at her house at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 22.

October Parish Newsletter

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Parish Announcements 10/5/14

First Lutheran in Artesian would like to invite all members of Immanuel to the Unity service next Sunday, October 12th. Therefore, there will be no service or Sunday School at Immanuel. The service will be at First at 10:30 am followed by a dinner. The theme will be "Our Christian Heritage." The service will feature special hymns, a skit and readings to entertain the congregation. October is also Pastor Appreciation Month and Pastor LeShea's birthday. A card shower is planned in conjuction with the Unity Service.

Confirmation will be Wednesday at 7:00 pm at Immanuel.

Trinity Lutheran Youth will be having a spaghetti dinner and bake sale on Sunday, October 26th, from 11-1. Free will donation. Proceeds will go toward sending Trinity youth to camps and the ELCA youth gathering.

All Saints Sunday in November 2nd. Please let LeShea know if there are friends or family who have died in the past year that you would like remembered during this service. We will automatically include all funerals held by our parish congregations.

October Duties:
Ushers ~ Nicholas Dickson
Cleaning ~ Wenton & Jean Wormstadt
Acolyte ~ Jeny Johnson

Ruth Circle

Ruth circle will meet September 24 at 7:30 pm at the church.  A light supper will be served.

Come and Visit

Anyone wishing to visit and say Hi to Maria Del Rosario Viljezz (Torres), the
foreign exchange student of Lowell & LaVaye's in (1970) is welcome to
stop in for cookies and coffee (anytime of the day) at the Dubro home.
She is from Managura Nicaragua in Central America and will be spending next week (September 22nd) with the family.

The Waldner Messengers

Yesterday was a great day at Immanuel! The church was full with members and guests to hear The Waldner Messengers sing their praises. They are such a talented family. If you were not able to join us you can go to their website and hear some sample songs.
http://www.waldnermessengers.com/

Thank you LaVaye for making arrangements to have them at Immanuel.

WELCA Fall Retreat

The WELCA Fall Retreat will be held on September 16 in Badger SD at the Legion Hall.  

Time: 9:00 - 3:45.  Cost: $7.00

LWR trucking/shipping will available.

Questions: Diane Spilde   (605) 482-8172   or email: dmspilde@gmail.com

 

Reminder: The Waldner family will be leading our worship tomorrow at 11:00 with a potluck to follow. 

First Day of Sunday School

Today was our first day of Sunday School!! After welcoming each other back we grooved to some of our VBS songs from this summer. So much fun to hear them singing praises!! Throughout the year we will be traveling down Route 66 (66 chapters of the bible). We even have a map to follow...kids are pretty excited about that! Anyone is welcome to join us on our adventure at any time...young or old! Can't wait to see where our adventure takes us together.

Next Sunday, do to the special service we will not be having Sunday School, but still hope that everyone will be able to join us at the 11:00 service. The Waldner family will be doing our service for us and a potluck will follow.

Please continue to pray for those who are grieving loved ones. Especially, Dale Kopplin & Donna Koziolek after the loss of Beverly and Angel Dubro and Gayle Larson after the loss of their fathers.

Potluck following Special Service

On September 14, there will be a potluck following the 11 am worship service led by the Waldner Gospel group.  Work group responsibilities are listed below for the potluck.

Group 1: serve

Group 2: clean-up

Group 3: set up tables & chairs

Group 4: prepare - coffee/lemonade

 

If you are not sure which group you are in the list is on the right hand side of our blog at

www.immanuelenews.blogspot.com

September Parish Newsletter

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Card Shower for Krista & Tyler Moore

Immanuel Lutheran is having a card shower for Krista and Tyler Moore to celebrate their new marriage. There will be a box for the cards in the back of the church for the next three Sundays. Any questions contact Angel, thanks!

Beverly Kopplin

Message from Donna Koziolek:  Our family would like to thank everyone for their prayers for our mom, Beverly!  The doctor found some bleeding in her stomach and medication has been started to help control this.  As of July 24, Mom is now living at the Violet Tschetter nursing home.  She is in Rm 215 at this time.

Here is the address to use:

Violet Tschetter Memorial Home

Beverly Kopplin

50 7th St SE

Huron SD  57353

WELCA bus trip

WELCA bus trip to Minneapolis/LWR & Global Health Ministry - Sept 25-26. 

Cost; $155 per person for 2 - 4/room, or $235 person for a single room.  Trip includes the bus ride, a play on the evening on Sept 25, most meals, luggage handling.  When signing up please designate your roommate/s.

Pick up: Sept 25: Watertown 6 am, Summit at 6:30 am, Milbank at 7 am.  Return to Watertown Sept 26 approximately 6 pm.

To make reservations: contact Alpha Behrens at 605-932-3510 or Lucille Birkholtz at 605-625-3765.  Payment is due August 20 to hold your seat on the bus.

If the bus fills up, they may try to schedule another trip immediately to accommodate everyone.

Information will also be posted on the bulletin board at Immanuel.

July 2014 Parish Newsletter

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June Parish Newsletter

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June 2014 Parish Newsletter

Pictures from VBS last week

If you were not able to join us for our Vacation Bible School program on Friday night, you missed out on a very fun program! The kids did a great job with their parts, songs and actions! We would also like to thank everyone that was able to volunteer whether donating time, supplies or money...it would not be a success without all of your generosity! THANK YOU!!

Weird animals was the name of our bible school program this year. We had lots of fun each day talking about how God not only made beautiful animals but also how God made each one of us special and beautiful too!

The offering collected during bible school and at the program is being donated to Lisa Johnson, Lori Peskey's aunt.  Lisa had been having some health problems beginning in April. What doctors initially thought was a double ear and sinus infection has actually turned out to be Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. CJD is a very rare and fatal brain disorder. A hospital stay in Sioux Falls led to a trip to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN for a full diagnosis. There is no cure or treatment for CJD, so the days ahead will be spent making sure she’s as comfortable as possible as the disease runs its course. Lisa is currently at home outside of Huron in Hospice care. If you were not at the program, but would still like to make a donation you can do so online at http://www.gofundme.com/love4lisa

 

Click on the following link to view more pictures

Vacation Bible School Pictures 

VBS Program Tonight ~ Everyone Welcome

Reminder ~ The VBS program is tonight at 7:30 pm. All of the kids have been working so hard preparing songs for tonight and would love to see you all there!! There will be fellowship afterwards with cookies/bars in the basement provided by all of the VBS families! The roofing crew has also been busy replacing the shingles on the church the last couple of days. Therefore, you might want to park in the grass rather than right along the church, just in case they do not have everything picked up by tonight. Hope to see you all tonight at 7:30 pm!!

Care Package for Jason Bell and VBS Program

WELCA would like to invite everyone to place care package items for Jason Bell, husband of Shalace (Larson) Bell in the box that is in the back of the church. Jason is stationed in Afghanistan and will be deployed until December. We want to send him a package to tell him THANK YOU for his service and to let him know that our church family is keeping him in our prayers.

Also, Vacation Bible School started today. We have 37 kids joining us this year and they are all eager to learn the new lessons & songs, make fun crafts and of course play on the awesome playground!! Thanks Ben Machtemes for this great gift...the kids love playing on it. All of the kids would love for you to join us at our VBS program on Friday night at 7:30. There will be fellowship afterwards with cookies/bars in the basement provided by all of the VBS families! 

Parish Newsletter

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REMINDER: Vacation Bible School plans are underway!! VBS will be held May 28-30th from10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Please bring a sack lunch for dinner. (Do not need to bring a shirt) If your children/grandchildren are planning on attending please let us know & also if you will be able to volunteer any or all of the days! Feel free to contact Jodi or Angel with any questions!

Pastor Kathy Hibbert

Pastor Kathy Hibbert also had surgery today to have a kidney removed because they found a malignant tumor on it. She will be in the hospital for a couple of days. 

Along with prayers get well wishes and cards can be sent to:

Kathy Hibbert

#19 12th St NE

Watertown, SD 57201

Update on Pastor LeShea

Pastor LeShea went to the doctor today because her fibromyalgia has been acting up very badly after her last surgery. Her doctor recommended that she go to her parents, in Lincoln, NE, for a couple of weeks to rest and recooperate and to not do therapy. Rick will be taking her down there, but will not be able to stay because of his job.

Please send prayers. Get well wishes & cards can also be sent to her parents address:
LeShea Avery
% Norman Kempf
2312 North 80th St
Lincoln, NE 68507

Holy Land Presentation & VBS

Ruth Circle extends an invitation to the congregation: Wedesday, April 30th at 7:30 pm.  Ann Puterbaugh will be given a presentation/talk on her trip to the Holy Land.  We hope to see you there!

This Sunday, May 4th is the last day of Sunday School.

Vacation Bible School plans are underway!! VBS will be held May 28-30th from10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Please bring a sack lunch for dinner. If your children/grandchildren are planning on attending please let us know & also if you will be able to volunteer any or all of the days! Feel free to contact Jodi or Angel with any questions!

 Be sure to add www.immanuelenews.blogspot.com to your favorite webpages so you can always look to see what time services are, who is acolyte, cleaning, ushering, etc. Links to the Parish newsletters are also available on here. If you have anything that you wanted added to this page or if you know of someone who would like to receive these emails please let Jodi know at immanuelenews@gmail.com

Sunday, April 27th Announcements:

First Lutheran quilters would welcome any donations of blankets, mattress pads, sheet blankets, sheets or fabric for their quilt projects.  There are even middle school and elementary girls getting involved.  Contact Judy Wormstadt (527-2342) or Deanna Dean (527-2240), if you have anything you would like to donate.

A possible spring or summer rummage sale in Mitchell is being considered as a fundraiser for the First Lutheran ladies. If you have household, yard items or clothing you would like to donate, please bring them to church.

Feasibility Survey: The South Dakota Synod needs a few minutes of your time.  All members, please take the Appeal Feasibility Survey on the synod website at http://www.sdsynod.org/appeal-feasibility-survey/ before April 20.  Your insight and prompt response is appreciated. 

Immanuel will hold their Quarterly Meeting on May 4 after 9:30 am worship.

Medary Conference will no longer ask member congregations to pay dues each year.  Instead, all congregations are encouraged to join together to raise money for one project each quarter.  Our current project is the Hospital in Garoua Boulai in Cameroon.

Power of Prayer

Words cannot express how thankful I am for all of the thoughts and prayers you sent for my family. A week ago yesterday, I received the phone call that you pray you never receive, my dad’s heart had stopped and he was on life support in Aberdeen. After a fast trip to Aberdeen to meet my family we were informed that he had fallen outside of the Federal building in Aberdeen and by the grace of God he had placed people in his path to help him. A lady and her husband were driving by and saw my dad fall so they jumped out and ran to help him. He was conscious when they got to him, but then a few minutes later he was not so another man came out of the building and started CPR. As a group was gathering around him a pastor came along and started a prayer chain around my dad. Soon after, the ambulance arrived and got my dad’s heart back into rhythm, but he was still not breathing on his own. We were being faced with the question of what he would want us to do…keep him on life support or not. That was not a question we were ready to answer so we prayed. A few moments later his doctor came out and said that he wanted permission to try one more thing and we of course said do whatever you can. They decided to fly him to Sioux Falls to start him on a cooling process. They would make his body temperature lower so that hopefully his brain would rest and reset his body. After we arrived in Sioux Falls they started that process and they told us it would be 3-5 days before we would know whether he would come out of it. Well, thanks to all of the prayers God sent us a miracle. He was supposed to be in the cooling process for 24 hours and half way through that he woke up. He squeezed our hands, wiggled his toes and blinked his eyes…was such an amazing sight to see! No words can express the emotion we felt at that time. That evening they started warming him up again and by Saturday morning he was warmed back up to his normal temperature. By noon or so he was breathing on his own and he was taken off of the ventilator. WOW!!! He instantly started talking to us, but had no recollection of what happened & no short term memory. If you have ever seen the movie “50 First Dates,” that is exactly what was happening. We could tell him something and a few seconds later he would forget and ask the same question again, but we didn’t care. We would answer the same question over and over as long as we had our dad. My mom said she wanted a phone number to call someone and he rattled it right off and knew who we all were so that is all we cared about. We have a rather large family so there was always one or two people with him at all times and our “family room - waiting room” was full! By that night they wanted to move him out of the ICU, but the hospital was full so there were no rooms available for him so he stayed in ICU until he was moved to the heart hospital on Monday afternoon to put his defibrillator/pacemaker in and on Tuesday afternoon he returned home. Therefore, in the time that it was supposed to take us to know whether he would wake up or not he was already back home. If that doesn’t scream an Easter miracle, I don’t know what does. The power of prayer is such an amazing thing!! My sister has been in contact with the lady that saw him fall so that is the only reason we know what really happened that morning since none of us were with him. So we are so grateful to her, the man who performed CPR (which we are still trying to find him so we can THANK him), the pastor that started the prayer chain around him and all of our family, friends & church families for praying for him and our family.  The pastor in Aberdeen started his prayer chain at his church, the lady that found him started her prayer chain in Conde, my aunts & cousins started prayer chains at all of their churches, my sisters & I all asked to have our prayer chains started at our churches as well. Thanks to all of them God answered our prayers and my dad is home recovering. Thankfully, he did not have an actual heart attack either. He has had an irregular heartbeat and for some reason his heart got out of rhythm that morning which caused him to pass out and the hard fall made his heart stop which is why they implanted the defibrillator.

My family has always had a strong faith, but after this it is even stronger and now even more than ever we believe in miracles. We've seen one happen right before our eyes.

Thank you!! ~ Jodi Burma