BAPTISMS FOR NOVEMBER:  

Inspired by the congregational pledge made in the service of Holy Baptism (see page 228, EvLW), we will be including names of those baptized at

St. Luke's Zion in our monthly newsletters. 

We hope this will be a reminder to lift them up in prayer, wherever they may be in their faith-walk. 

The following were baptized in the month of November in previous years: 

Nicole A.L. W.                  Jason W. S.
Ryan J. F.                        Tammy D. S.
Allaiya T.F.M. B.              Jaxson Z. S.
Michael J. T.                    Alyssa R. A.
Kayleigh A.D. A.              Trinity R.I. P.
Lauren A. A.                    Dominic R. C.
Caitlyn E. K.                    Jericho R. W.

IN OUR PRAYERS:

Please remember in your prayers our shut-in’s in long term care:

Phyllis A. – Concordia Place

Laura G. - Red River Place, Selkirk

Irene K. - River Park Gardens

Anna M. – Fred Douglas Lodge

Doreen S. - Luther Home

Alice V. – Middlechurch Home 

SOUP ‘n’ PIE LUNCH:

It is time again!!  The First Sunday in Advent, December 2nd.   Soup'n' Pie Lunch
Mark your calendar, invite a friend.  This annual event is something many people look forward to. 
Check the poster and put your name down to help in any way you can. All are welcome!!!

NEST:

The next NEST General Meeting will be held on November 22nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Grace Lutheran Church (211 Kimberly Avenue).

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE AT SLZ:  

Please fill out a Sunday Servant sheet located on the table in the narthex if you are interested in serving as Ushers, Communion Assistants, Readers,

Operating the projector and Choir members. 

All training is provided!!! 😊

LUTHER VILLAGE:

Urgent Disaster Assistance for Luther Village!!!

Dear friends of Luther Village,

We need your help to recover from a terrible storm that has shut down Luther Village. 

For the safety of our campers, we made the difficult decision to cancel all reservations for the season, including the Manitoba Northwestern Ontario Synod Thanksgiving Youth Retreat. This year would have been the 50th year this retreat was held at Luther Village. We are saddened to see this impact on the important ministry of Luther Village, but are hopeful that with your help, we can recover, repair, rebuild and re-open camp to continue God's work!

We are still in the process of obtaining quotes, but it is clear that it will cost tens of thousands of dollars to simply patch the roads and assess the stability of the affected hills. A longer term solution to improve drainage and use stronger road materials will cost significantly more. These large and unexpected expenses are not within our already stretched budget (we're also dealing with expensive and urgent repairs to the kitchen and dining hall that are expected to exceed $15,000).

We need your help! Please:
1) Pray for Luther Village
2) Share this message with others
3) Visit our Canada Help's page here and consider how you can help us financially
4) If you are a Civil, Structural and/or Geotechnical Engineer willing to lend us your expertise, please contact us 

We are hopeful that with your help, we can recover, repair, rebuild and re-open camp again to continue this important ministry!

Thank You

Call us at the camp 807-543-4052

Email: lv@luthervillage.ca

Website: www.luthervillage.ca

***Check out the pictures of the damage at Luther Village that are posted on the bulletin board.

SUNDAY SCHOOL:

Operation Christmas Child:

Samaritan Purse shoe boxes - we will be collecting shoeboxes until Nov.18th (inclusive); If you would like to fill up a shoebox, you can pick-up your shoebox from the table downstairs. Please write your name and number of shoeboxes taken on the sheet.

Thank you!  To help cover the costs of shipping the shoeboxes we will be having a Bake Sale on

Nov. 4th!!! Baking donations greatly appreciated. 

October

28th - Sunday School classes & Toddlers

          *staying upstairs for Confirmation

          *distribute Samaritan Purse shoeboxes

November

  4th – Sunday School classes & Toddlers

       *Sunday School Bake Sale – donations welcome

**11th - no Sunday School - Remembrance Day 

18th - Sunday School classes & Toddlers

         *drop off Samaritan Purse shoeboxes

25th - Sunday School classes & Toddlers

December

  2nd – Sunday School classes & Toddlers

          *make Advent wreaths

  9th – Sunday School classes & Toddlers

16th – Sunday School classes & Toddlers

23rd – Sunday School & Toddlers Christmas Party

**30th – no Sunday School – Christmas break 

LUTHER HOME:

Luther Home’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday, October 28, 2018 @ 2:00 pm in the Chapel at 1081Andrews Street.  All Corporate Members and anyone interested are welcome to attend. The meeting usually lasts about an hour followed by refreshments.

LUTHER HOME 50th ANNIVERSARY – 1969 – 2019

Next year will be Luther Home’s 50 Anniversary and in preparation there will be a wine tasting fundraiser on Friday, November 16, 2018 at Holy Eucharist Parish Centre, 460 Munroe Avenue from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm to TOAST THEIR GOLDEN YEARS.  There will be wine tasting, appetizers, dainty table coffee/tea, door prizes, silent auction draws and 50/50 tickets for sale.  The 50/50 will run for 6 months to allow the jackpot to build.  They will also be selling their Luther Home 2019 calendar at this event.  Tickets can be purchased from Linda Kostiuk (204-633-8635)  (lkostiuk@mymts.net).                           Tickets are $20 to attend.  Also, for sale are $10 ‘Support tickets’ if you can’t attend.

Watch for more announcements regarding events being planned for 2019.

YOUTH:

**we are selling Grey Cup Raffle tickets each Sunday - $2.00 each in support of youth ministry.

**We are getting ready for our Fall Youth Fundraising Dinner

3 course dinner, entertainment and silent auction

Where: Sherwood Park 

When:  Saturday November 10th

Time: Doors open 5:30 p.m. supper at 6:00 p.m.

Tickets: $15.00 each – contact Lisa van Dijk for tickets.

Youth November Schedule

Thurs. Nov. 1st – 6:30 p.m. – We Care Bag sorting

at SPLC – parents welcome!

Sun. Nov. 4th - 9:30 a.m. - Confirmation Sunday at Abundant Life (Youth meet at 9:00 a.m.)

Sun. Nov. 4th – 4:30 p.m. - Prairie Fire at Gimli Lutheran Church (Youth meet at 3:00 p.m. at Tim’s - p/u 7:45 p.m. at Tim’s)

Sat. Nov. 10th – 6:00 p.m. - Fall fundraising dinner at Sherwood Park (volunteers needed at 3:30 p.m. - silent auction prizes needed / parent help needed with clean-up)

Sun. Nov. 18th – 5:00 p.m. - “Eat. Praise. Repeat.” at ALLC (Youth meet for supper at 5:00 - Service at 6:00 p.m.– cost $5.00 – p/u at 7:15 p.m.)

Fri. Nov. 30th – Sat. Dec. 1st - Sleep-over at SPLC

(Meet at SPLC at 6:45/7:00 p.m. - cost $10:00 plus snack to share – bring sleeping bag, pillow etc.)

LUM:

Urban 2018 Fall Needs

Current Immediate Needs:  Bedding & towels; sleeping bags for the homeless; socks / underwear (for men, women, children); shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste; toilet paper; disposable razors; slippers (handmade or otherwise); used backpacks (especially for adults - any condition as long as the zippers work) always welcomed. 

Current Immediate Needs for Emergency Food at the Urban: Canned meats: tuna/salmon, chicken, ham, corned beef, Klik or Spam; Pasta sauce; canned vegetables: peas, corn, yellow and green beans, pork and beans; Fruit cocktail, small mandarin oranges; Peanut butter, jam/jelly; Pudding cups; Cookies; Instant coffee (small jars).  Please see Donate tab: "food items" for additional regular needs.

Also needed: plastic grocery bags; empty margarine & yogurt containers.

Coffee for the coffee urn and tea are welcomed donations as the coffee urn and tea pots are always on here for those who attend! 

Please contact rhonda@theurban.ca for drop off times.
Thanks so much   ~Rhonda Gorham 

NEWS & EVENTS AROUND THE SYNOD:

A Celebration of a New Ministry

Join the 6 congregations of the Interlake Regional Shared Ministry as they celebrate the beginning of a new ministry on All Saints Sunday, Nov. 4th, 2018 at Good Shepherd - Selkirk at 10:30 a.m.

Bishop Jason Zinko will be preaching.

There will be a potluck to follow.

For more information email PastorParker@icloud.com

All are welcome!

Exploring Compassion, Accompanying    Suffering

Sponsored by Manitoba Multifaith Council, this event (which requires registration) is happening Wednesday, November 14th, 8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

For more information see the poster on the bulletin board or visit mnosynod.org

Farewell Gathering for Bishop Don Phillips,

Diocese of Rupert's Land

Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 2 pm at St. John’s Cathedral. A brief service followed by a ‘dessert party’ reception, along with presentations and ‘fun’, will follow at 2:45 pm in the John West Hall.

For more information visit website at mnosynod.org

Synod News pages in the Canada Lutheran:

We would love to hear stories from around the synod! If you have stories and or pictures to share, please send them to mnoeditor@gmail.com

Joanne Janzen (MNO Synod section editor) 

Palliative Manitoba – 2018 Grief Seminars:

Palliative Manitoba offers monthly grief seminars hosted by Chapel Lawn  Funeral Home and Cropo Funeral Chapel. The seminars are free and are open to the general public.

Chapel Lawn Funeral Home  4000 Portage Ave.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Tuesdays

December 4th - Not so Jolly Holiday Season

Cropo Funeral Chapel  1442 Main Street

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Tuesdays

November 13th  - Helpful Resources

December 11th - It’s Not Always a Happy Holiday

IN FLANDERS FIELDS POEM
By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Composed at the battlefront on May 3, 1915
during the second battle of Ypres, Belgium

On May 2, 1915, John McCrae’s close friend and former student Alexis Helmer was killed by a German shell. That evening, in the absence of a Chaplain, John McCrae recited from memory a few passages from the Church of England’s “Order of the Burial of the Dead”. For security reasons Helmer’s burial in Essex Farm Cemetery was performed in complete darkness.

The next day, May 3, 1915, Sergeant-Major Cyril Allinson was delivering mail. McCrae was sitting at the back of an ambulance parked near the dressing station beside the YserCanal, just a few hundred yards north of Ypres, Belgium.

As John McCrae was writing his In Flanders Fields poem, Allinson silently watched and later recalled, “His face was very tired but calm as he wrote. He looked around from time to time, his eyes straying to Helmer's grave."

Within moments, John McCrae had completed the “In Flanders Fields” poem and when he was done, without a word, McCrae took his mail and handed the poem to Allinson.

Allinson was deeply moved:

“The (Flanders Fields) poem was an exact description of the scene in front of us both. He used the word blow in that line because the poppies actually were being blown that morning by a gentle east wind. It never occurred to me at that time that it would ever be published. It seemed to me just an exact description of the scene."