Peace Council

Derek Getz, Chair Peace Lutheran Church

PO Box 214
Barrett, MN 56311
320-528-2445
getzderek@yahoo.com
Kim Lang
PO Box 223 June 2011
Barrett, MN 56311
320-528-2290
lang_tk@runestone.net
Tom Perry
JUNE SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS
PO Box 159
Barrett, MN 56311
320-528-2342
Summer is here! We had a great day planting flowers on May 15th.
T.RP@Live.com
We have pots of flowers at the Church, at the park, at the pavilion,
Nancy Waugh
and at the public access picnic shelter and they look beautiful!
805 Spruce Ave
Barrett, MN 56311
Our last day of Sunday School picnic in the park was rained out but
320-528-2396
we had a fun time playing charades at our ―indoor picnic.‖
nhwaugh@runestone.net
Patricia Schack
Thanks to all the teachers for their hard work this year – Kim Lang
20815 180th Ave
and Jodi Overson in the Pre-School Room, Deb Erickson and Kristy
Barrett, MN 56311
Simar in the Art Room, Marlene Dreier and Tanya Schleicher in the
218-685-5478
Cooking Room, Shelby Dreier and Jennifer McLaughlin in the
schack@runestone.net
Drama Room, and Jackie Fagre and Beau Kashmark in the Games
Diane Puchalski
Room. A big thank you to Pastor Matthew for our openings and to
22785 Co Rd 21 Mason Irwin and Ryleigh Johnson for being our helpers. Thanks to
Barrett, MN 56311 all the parents and students who helped serve this year. We appreci-
320-528-6208 ate ALL of you!!!
puc@runestone.net
Craig Schroeder Vacation Bible School will be held from Sunday, August 14th through
23877 Co Rd 21 Thursday, August 18th from 5:00 pm to 8:15 pm. Our theme this year
Elbow Lake, MN 56311 is ―God’s Zoo.‖ Come meet Sid the Snake, Geoffry the Giraffe, Leon
218-685-6277 the Lion, Fredrick the Big Fish, and Sean the Sheep.
craig.schroeder@starbank.net
Jennifer McLaughlin We are looking for many volunteers to help with arts & crafts,
11254 Co Rd 2 games, drama, video, registration, meals, decorating, group leaders,
Barrett, MN 56311 and much more. Please call Joyce at 528-2354 or Pastor Matthew at
320-986-2139 528-2536 is you can help in anyway. Registration forms will be
mikejen@runestone.net mailed out the end of this month so we have a head count to order
supplies. Thanks in advance for your help!
Youth Representative
Alayna McLaughlin Have a great summer and we’ll see you in August!!

Joyce Hanson, Director

Peace Sunday School
Flag Day fun facts — June 14 2011

Why red, white and blue? To the original members of the Continental Congress, red stood for hardiness and cour-
age, white for purity and innocence, and blue for vigilance and justice.

Why thirteen stars and stripes? They represented the thirteen American colonies which rallied around the new flag
in their fight against the British for self-governance.

The thirteen colonies included Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jer-
sey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.

To this day, thirteen stripes still commemorate the original colonies. Instead of thirteen stars, today the number of
stars on the US flag has grown to 50, representing every state in the Union.

Summer Worship Time

Worship will begin at 9:30am
starting Sunday, June 5th.
This is what
Courage

Looks like.
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Faith Women of Evans-

ville has invited Peace Effective June 1st, 2011 Sara Getz will be our
Church to a Guest Night custodian here at Peace.
featuring the Leraas Fam- Thank you to Zach Gisi for doing a good job;
ily Singers. The date is we sincerely appreciate your time and efforts.
Thursday evening June
9th at 7:00pm at Faith Lu-
theran Church in Evans-
ville.

WEST CENTRAL AREA Graduation

June 3rd
WELCA MEETS 7:00pm Video; 7:30pm Commencement
June 8th at 12:00pm.
Everyone Welcome!!!! We wish the best to all the Seniors West Central Area.
Jenny Thompson open house June 4th, 1-4pm Barrett Com-
munity Center. Come & join in celebrating her graduation.
Old Settlers’ Reunion
Community Worship
Service
Barrett Pavilion VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL WILL BE HELD
11:00am
Rev. Matthew Rose August 14th—18th.
Presiding Minister ―God’s Zoo‖ is our theme this year.
June 26th, 2011
As part of the program we are going to be needing 50 shoe boxes.
If you have any please drop them off at the church office. Volun-
teers are needed; contact Joyce Hanson or to sign your child up for
VBS.

WELCA WILL BE SERVING PIE AND

ICE CREAM ON Sunday June 26th at
the Community Worship Service and din-
ner at the Pavilion.
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Peace Council Minutes April 13th, 2011

Members Present: Tom Perry, Pastor Matthew Rose, Trish Schack, Derek Getz, Kim Lang, Nancy
Waugh, Craig Schroeder, Jennifer McLaughlin, Diane Puchalski
Members Absent: Alayna McLaughlin
Meeting called to order by Derek Getz
Secretary’s Report – Motion to approve Kim, 2nd by Diane, MCU
Treasurer’s Report was given by Sandy Kashmark- Motion to approve Trish, 2nd Jennifer, MCU
Pastor’s Report- There are 3 Weddings this summer, one of which is a non-member. Pastor Matthew
talked about doing some kind of mission for the youth this summer. Also wants the youth group to do
some kind of fundraiser. Outreach to the youth was discussed and the council approved the use of the
church.
Pastor Matthew asked for the week after Easter and the week after Christmas to be taken as vacation. A
motion was made by Trish and 2nd by Kim, MCU.
Old Business: Picture Directory- Is ready to be sent off.
New Business:
Roof repair and Clean up days will take place April 30 with a potluck to follow- Motion to approve Kim,
2nd by Tom, MCU.
Diane has been approached by a few members about being financially unable to serve for coffee. It
was discussed and we will talk to the group leaders about this.
The coffee maker has been leaking a lot of water. It was found out by a church member that we need
to clean it monthly to avoid this problem. Tom volunteered to clean the coffee maker.
Tabled for next meeting - A new cleaning person for this fall.
Motion to adjourn was made by Kim, 2nd by Tom, MCU
Lenten Service followed.
Trish Schack, Secretary

Collene Kloos
Carol Peterson

*If you know of anyone else who has prayer requests please call the church office.
 June 2011
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4
Faithful Folders
10:00am

5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Worship 9:30am WELCA 12:00pm Faithful Folders
Council 6:00pm 10:00am

12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Worship 9:30am Faithful Folders
10:00am

19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Worship 9:30am Faithful Folders
10:00am

26 27 28 29 30
Community Worship
Service at Pavilion
11:00am
 Serving in June
Servers Ushers
6/5 Karen & Wendy Steffen 6/5 Karen & Wendy Steffen
Joyce Hanson Joyce Hanson

6/12 Dennis & Jennifer Lien 6/12 Dennis & Jennifer Lien
Lee & Pat Ronhovde Lee & Pat Ronhovde

6/19 Todd & Kim Lang 6/19 Todd & Kim Lang
Jennifer Combs Jennifer Combs

6/26 Celebration Service at Pavilion 6/26 Celebration Service at Pavilion

Readers Work Group # 3 Leaders Altar Guild

Lee & Pat Ronhovde Diane Puchalski
6/5 Alveda Rhude
Bob & Joan Roe Marlene Dreier

6/12 Deanne Frarck

6/19 Kathy Dahl

6/26 Celebration
Service at Pavilion

If you are unable to be a

helper on your Sunday,
please call one of your work
group leaders and he or she
will help you find a replace-
ment.
Thank you.
 Stewardship of the Good News

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. God is
Here This is potentially one of the most audacious proclamations of faith we make as mem-
bers of the Christian Church, but I also believe its one of the most important. We hear about
God‖ Emmanuel,‖ God with us, during Christmas, we hear about a God that is for us both
on the Cross and out of the now Empty Tomb. My worry is that although we join in one
voice to say this, even though we hear in reading after reading from the bible that in fact God
is Here, when it comes down to it, do we really believe it? Its seems easy to point to the mid-
dle of a natural disaster, and point out how God is there – in the volunteers, in the clean-up,
in the hope for a new beginning. It seems easy to point to the upstart missionary church in
the middle of Asia or Africa, where some missionary is preaching to far away tribe the words
from the bible for the first time. We can bring ourselves to believe that God is There. It
seems that it has become easy to point to Mega Churches who have 500, 1000, maybe more in
worship every week. We point to their programs, staff, technology, and say God is There.
But what does it mean to say, and believe that God is HERE, in Barrett, MN and the sur-
rounding small towns and farms.
It means that God cares deeply about us. It means that God is living, working, and re-
deeming us. It means that God is actively giving us the gift of faith, and the many and varied
gifts throughout our community. It means having to believe that we are special, and that
God cares about us, here, now. If it isn’t obvious to you, I will come out and say it directly:
God IS HERE. Sure God is in the midst of far away disasters, sure God is with far away mis-
sions, sure God is with those actively pursuing their faith in far away Mega Churches, but
God is Here as well! Where ever God goes He gifts with talent and passion in order to do
God’s will in that place. Sure we are gifted differently than those other places, but its be-
cause we are different than those places, but we really have a lot of gifts in our community.
Gifts we need to lift up for God’s Ministry in this place.
There is a radio commercial right now for Prairie Ridge Clinics, that talks about people
in communities out here choosing to live here, and that the clinic also chooses to be here.
They are right, in some ways it would be easier to live in a community with department
stores, large grocery stores, multiple restaurants that are open late, and lots of options of dif-
ferent churches. But we choose to live Here, with each other. We choose to live Here, where
we can trust our neighbors. We choose to live here, where we track and tend the land. We
choose to live Here, where we gather in worship and share in each other’s lives.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, let me say again, God also chooses to be Here,
among you, with you, for you. GOD IS HERE!
 PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
PO Box 206
Barrett MN 56311

June
2011

HANDY LITTLE CHART - God has a positive answer:

YOU SAY GOD SAYS BIBLE VERSES

You say: "It's impossible" God says: All things are possible (Luke 18:27)

You say: "I'm too tired" God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30)

You say: "Nobody really loves me" God says: I love you (John 3:16 & John 3:34 )

You say: "I can't go on" God says: My grace is sufficient (II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)

You say: "I can't figure things out" God says: I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5-6)

You say: "I can't do it" God says: You can do all things (Philippians 4:13)

You say: "I'm not able" God says: I am able (II Corinthians 9:8)

You say: "It's not worth it" God says: It will be worth it (Roman 8:28 )

You say: "I can't forgive myself" God says: I Forgive you (I John 1:9 & Romans 8:1)

You say: "I can't manage" God says: I will supply all your needs (Philippians 4:19)

You say: "I'm afraid" God says: I have not given you a spirit of fear (II Timothy 1:7)

You say: "I'm always worried and frustrated" God says: Cast all your cares on ME (I Peter 5:7)

You say: "I'm not smart enough" God says: I give you wisdom (I Corinthians 1:30)

You say: "I feel all alone" God says: I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)

PASS THIS ON.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MAY BE IN NEED.