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SSLC news: What's Going on?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 August 18, 2021 We celebrated our Final Wednesday Evening Worship Service for the summer. The Wednesday Night Worship Service will return in mid-September, coinciding with the beginning of the Confirmation Year. The Church Council and other elders of the congregation will be initiating conversations with all households in the couple couple of weeks. This is both a fact-finding mission and a check in: We are looking to see how the Spirit is leading us forward as a people. One of our biggest challenges right now is to figure out Pre-K through 6th Grade religious education, and a couple of the questions delve into that. With the Pandemic shadow looming large over schools as we head into the fall, we're simply not in a position to roll out any sort of programming or initiative for children yet. Our prayer is to have something we can share and build, with a start date in October. A Task Force of High School students is developing a plan of action for students in Grades 9-12, which could include events, activities and food every two weeks through the school year. An announcement will be sent out soon on this front. August 16, 2021 SSLC Day Camp was a huge success! Can't wait until next year! We have set our fall worship times: 8 am and 10 am, both services will be in the sanctuary. Drive in worship will be at those same times, with audio provided outside. July 11, 2021 The SSLC Church Council has approved the use of the tradition way that we collect offering, and left it up to the Altar Guild to determine when we will begin offering traditional communion—which appears to be this week already. We will continue to offer the individual portions for anyone who would feel more comfortable using them. Pastor and the Communion Assistant will wear gloves when distributing communion. “The Offerator” - an octopus-looking device into which children and adults can walk up and put their offering contributions into on Sunday mornings, will be debuting in the next couple of weeks if everything goes well in its construction. June 9, 2021 Please keep Karla Zerwas in your prayers. She was injured last week, had surgery to repair her femur, and is back at home to heal. June 2, 2021 Our hearts hurt today as we mourn the death of Roger Humble, who died unexpectedly at his home yesterday. We will post the funeral details as soon as we get them. It seems strange to follow up that message with a note about Root Beer, Dreamsicle and Purple Cow Ice Cream Floats that we will be sharing on Sunday after the 8 a.m. indoor service and throughout the 9 a.m. outdoor service. It's Jubilee as the first Sunday of the month. May 25, 2021 SSLC Summer Worship Schedule beginning June 6: 8 a.m. – Sanctuary Service with Live Facebook Feed 9 a.m. – Drive-In Service in the SSLC Parking Lot. The Executive Committee of the SSLC Church Council found itself in a bit of a quandary as it worked with staff to set times for worship through the summer months of 2021. Historically, we have gone to a single worship service in the summer, and the initial plan was to do that again. God has blessed and grown the Drive-In Service over the past several months and to go away from something that the Spirit is obviously pushing seemed wrong. Couple that with that fact that there are several households with immune-compromised members who attend that service and there are several reasons to keep it going. The next question was when to do the Sanctuary Service: Not doing one was not an option. The earlier start will give individuals who would like to watch the video (on Facebook) on Sunday morning a larger window to do so, and Families with small children tend to gravitate to earlier starts, as well. The 10 a.m. time slot can be used for baptismal rites, if the family wants to go that route. The Council has already started looking into Sunday Schedules for the Fall, which will be shared as soon as they are set. |
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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! | ||||||