Christmas Eve Worship on Friday, December 24
NOON, 2 PM, 4:30 PM, 8 PM
All services will include Holy Communion
WORSHIP TIMES:
8 AM IN SANCTUARY 10 AM IN SANCTUARY WEDNESDAYS: 7:30 PM The SUNDAY 10 AM SERVICE AND THE WEDNESDAY 7:30 PM SERVICE ARE STREAMED LIVE ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE! IMPORTANT COVID-19 INFORMATION
We are currently in Phase 3
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Church Office Hours
Monday: 8:30 am to 3 pm
Tuesday 8:30 am to 3 pm
Wednesday 8:30 am to 8 pm
Thursday 9 am to Noon
Tuesday 8:30 am to 3 pm
Wednesday 8:30 am to 8 pm
Thursday 9 am to Noon
PARENTS NIGHT OUT
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10
5:30 - 9 PM
Bring your kids to church while you enjoy an evening to Christmas shop, wrap, enjoy a dinner with your significant other, or even take a nap! Your children will be fed, kept busy with lots of activities and wore out from running and playing games. $5/child or $10/family. All proceeds will go toward youth mission trip kids.
Confirmation kids 7th - 12th graders sign up to help!!
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10
5:30 - 9 PM
Bring your kids to church while you enjoy an evening to Christmas shop, wrap, enjoy a dinner with your significant other, or even take a nap! Your children will be fed, kept busy with lots of activities and wore out from running and playing games. $5/child or $10/family. All proceeds will go toward youth mission trip kids.
Confirmation kids 7th - 12th graders sign up to help!!
www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a49a4a922a6fa7-parents6
SCAM ALERT
Someone has been using Pastor Thul's name in text messages and emails asking for gift cards - and then they will instruct the person to scratch off the number area and send the numbers to them.
This is not Pastor Thul, nor is he sending these.
At least two of our members were fooled by the individual or group and on Sunday we will talk about what happened and how we can protect our members from this sort of thing.
Please know we are not alone in this happening: there are many churches in the area that were targeted also. The Sherburne County Sheriff's Office has been notified and we will work to remove any phone numbers on our website.
If you happened to receive one of these texts, please take a screenshot of it (with the originating phone number) and text the picture to Number 7726. It's the scam message response center for most major cell phone carriers. Please also let Pastor or Shelly know.
This is not Pastor Thul, nor is he sending these.
At least two of our members were fooled by the individual or group and on Sunday we will talk about what happened and how we can protect our members from this sort of thing.
Please know we are not alone in this happening: there are many churches in the area that were targeted also. The Sherburne County Sheriff's Office has been notified and we will work to remove any phone numbers on our website.
If you happened to receive one of these texts, please take a screenshot of it (with the originating phone number) and text the picture to Number 7726. It's the scam message response center for most major cell phone carriers. Please also let Pastor or Shelly know.
SSLC News:
October 18, 2022
The SSLC Fall Craft Sales was wonderful! Thank you to all of the vendors, volunteers and customers. We're looking into next year's event already ... We had at least one vendor ask if she could reserve a spot already!
In other good news, the Youth Team has set its site on Rockford, Illinois for its Mission Trip 2022 Destination. Rockford has given the world some really cool architecture, the voice of Ariel from The Little Mermaid franchise, Susan Saint Day (Wife of McMillan) and the Rock Group Cheap Trick.
It's also the fourth largest city in the state, with just over 150,000 residents and has gone through good and bad times - a mix like a lot of places.
The Church Council has also given the Youth Team the green light to become a Host Site for Service Learning Cooperative, the organization through which we've gone to Toledo, Denver and Dallas - and almost Billiings.
If it works out, we could host groups next summer and share God's love in a new and fun way. We'll keep you posted on this one.
At last count, SSLC has shared more than 46 Bibles this Autumn to our First, Fourth and Seventh Graders!
September 20, 2021
Coming off a fantastic mission experience to Texas and staffing the A/V Worship support team with young men and women from our congregation, it’s time to see what the Holy Spirit Will do in this season of renewal at SSLC.
That said, we have brought Kayla du’Monceaux on as our High School and Youth Group Ministry Coordinator! She’s about eight years removed from being a teen at SSLC herself, and her passion to share God’s love with this age group will be essential as we work to build community at all levels.
The Kick-Off event will be ‘Breakfast at Bill’s’ at 10 a.m. on October 10th. More details will be emailed out to our high school students and their families. Furthermore, we don’t limit involvement to members: Bring friends!
We thank God for this opportunity to share Jesus’ love into a demographic that has endured so much shaky ground their lifetimes.
September 16, 2021
Breaking News: Karla Zerwas has been brought onto the SSLC staff as our new Children and Youth Ministry Coordinator. In the coming weeks, she will be reaching out to our families in regard to Sunday School, Breakfast Club and The High School Fellowship.
May God bless our congregation and community through her work and support! We are so very excited about this - and there will be additional announcements in the coming weeks about additions to the team!
September 12, 2021
With COVID-19 numbers spiking again in Sherburne County, rising from an average of seven new cases per day to upwards of 40 last week, the SSLC Council has taken steps to ensure safety of staff, members and visitors.
These include returning to inviting individuals to place their offering in a basket in the way into worship, as well as pick up their individual communion kits.
The signs on the front door have been changed out to encourage people to wear masks and to distance themselves from others in the sanctuary as they see fit. Masks are available in the narthex.
There are so many things that have divided us as a community and a culture these past couple of years and the Council was emphatic about its directive to staff that we are to continue to build a culture in Christ that celebrates differences.
Going back to Phase 3 of the church’s COVID response plan does not require the use of masks, and unless the numbers continue to climb in our region the path forward will not include that.
Individuals who are immune-compromised or otherwise concerned about environmental concerns (policy remains anyone who is inoculated May come and go without a mask at their own discretion) can listen to the service live in the parking lot at 8 and 10. If you send Pastor a text and let him know you are out there, he will send the usher team out to provide you with bulletins and communion supplies.
The 8 a.m. service is also available via livestream in the South Santiago Lutheran Facebook Page.
Coming off a fantastic mission experience to Texas and staffing the A/V Worship support team with young men and women from our congregation, it’s time to see what the Holy Spirit Will do in this season of renewal at SSLC.
That said, we have brought Kayla du’Monceaux on as our High School and Youth Group Ministry Coordinator! She’s about eight years removed from being a teen at SSLC herself, and her passion to share God’s love with this age group will be essential as we work to build community at all levels.
The Kick-Off event will be ‘Breakfast at Bill’s’ at 10 a.m. on October 10th. More details will be emailed out to our high school students and their families. Furthermore, we don’t limit involvement to members: Bring friends!
We thank God for this opportunity to share Jesus’ love into a demographic that has endured so much shaky ground their lifetimes.
September 16, 2021
Breaking News: Karla Zerwas has been brought onto the SSLC staff as our new Children and Youth Ministry Coordinator. In the coming weeks, she will be reaching out to our families in regard to Sunday School, Breakfast Club and The High School Fellowship.
May God bless our congregation and community through her work and support! We are so very excited about this - and there will be additional announcements in the coming weeks about additions to the team!
September 12, 2021
With COVID-19 numbers spiking again in Sherburne County, rising from an average of seven new cases per day to upwards of 40 last week, the SSLC Council has taken steps to ensure safety of staff, members and visitors.
These include returning to inviting individuals to place their offering in a basket in the way into worship, as well as pick up their individual communion kits.
The signs on the front door have been changed out to encourage people to wear masks and to distance themselves from others in the sanctuary as they see fit. Masks are available in the narthex.
There are so many things that have divided us as a community and a culture these past couple of years and the Council was emphatic about its directive to staff that we are to continue to build a culture in Christ that celebrates differences.
Going back to Phase 3 of the church’s COVID response plan does not require the use of masks, and unless the numbers continue to climb in our region the path forward will not include that.
Individuals who are immune-compromised or otherwise concerned about environmental concerns (policy remains anyone who is inoculated May come and go without a mask at their own discretion) can listen to the service live in the parking lot at 8 and 10. If you send Pastor a text and let him know you are out there, he will send the usher team out to provide you with bulletins and communion supplies.
The 8 a.m. service is also available via livestream in the South Santiago Lutheran Facebook Page.
SOME OF OUR MONTHLY
STEWARDSHIP PRACTICES
Stewardship--the spiritual faith practice of applying our time, talent, and treasures toward God's mission of love and mercy in this world--is a SIGNIFICANT theme here at SSLC. Here are a couple of ways that we, for the sake of the world, practice good stewardship of what God has given us:
1st Sunday Food Pantry Offering
On the 1st Sunday of every month, we set out our Food Shelf collection box to receive the gifts from any and all who are willing and able to give.
4th Sunday Noisy Offering
Our 4th Sunday Noisy Offerings, something that you would have to experience to truly appreciate. Try to imagine, though, what a hundred dollars or more in change might SOUND like hitting the bottom of a metal paint can!! It is music to generous ears, and we believe it is music to God's ears too!!
Our Noisy Offerings are applied to other missions and ministries apart from South Santiago locally (within the Sherburne-Wright-Benton-Stearns County area), state- or nation-wide, and globally. Past recipients have included Minnesota Food Share, Lutheran Disaster Relief, and Becker Backpack Buddies.
Join us in constructing your own Noisy Offering box in whatever creative way you can dream up. Use it to collect your daily change. And because of God's overwhelming love revealed in the resurrection of Jesus, help us be CHANGE in our world!
Our Noisy Offerings are applied to other missions and ministries apart from South Santiago locally (within the Sherburne-Wright-Benton-Stearns County area), state- or nation-wide, and globally. Past recipients have included Minnesota Food Share, Lutheran Disaster Relief, and Becker Backpack Buddies.
Join us in constructing your own Noisy Offering box in whatever creative way you can dream up. Use it to collect your daily change. And because of God's overwhelming love revealed in the resurrection of Jesus, help us be CHANGE in our world!