BAPTISMS FOR JUNE:  

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 June in previous years: 

Michael W. G.

Tristan J. S. D.

Bruce A. S. H.

Henry D.S.

Colby D. S.

Kiara Q. J.

Jessiah A. J. L. B.

Sydney A. S.

Cohen P. T. M.

Colby A. G. V. R.

Elizabeth M. W.

Sadie E. G.

IN OUR PRAYERS: 

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

Phyllis A. - Concordia Place  

Claire D. - Fred Douglas Lodge

Dorothy H. - Luther Home 

Anne M. - Concordia Place

Melita T. - Luther Home

Ollie Z. - Fred Douglas Lodge

WEEKLY BIBLE CONVERSATIONS:

Everyone is Welcome to join us on Wednesday’s for the noon bible conversations. 

Bring a bagged lunch – coffee and tea are provided! 

SLZ COUNCIL MEETING:

The next council meeting will be held on June 11th

at 7:00 p.m. All are welcome! 

HEALTHY START:

We are partnering with the Grace Lutheran Social Ministry Committee, as well as our Shared Youth Ministry partners in order to support the Inner- City Prenatal Nutrition & Parenting Program called HEALTHY START.  It will involve collecting newborn layette items – as on the display in the narthex – from now until the end of June.

BLESSING OF THE GRADS:

 is planned for Sun., June 23rd during the service. 

If there is somebody in your family who is graduating from high school, university or college this year, please let Pastor Lynne know.  High school grads will be blessed during the service, and post-secondary grads will be included in our prayers on June 23rd.

SUNDAY, JUNE 16TH!

On Sunday, June 16th, we will be hosting Pastor Marie Besong, a pastor from Cameroon who is currently studying in Waterloo, ON.  People from other MNO Synod congregations who are interested have been invited to join us.  There is a poster in the narthex to sign up to bring food for the pot-luck.  All are welcome, and please come if you are able!

SLZ SUNDAY SCHOOL:

on June 16th we will be hosting a

Father’s Day ‘Mexican’ Pot-luck Luncheon

at St. Luke’s Zion following Worship to honour our Father’s & Grandfather’s.

Anyone who is interested in bringing a dish to share is more than welcome to do so. See sign-up board in the narthex.

We hope many of you will be able to join us to honour our Father’s & Grandfather’s.

on June 23, 2024 the Sunday School Children & Families, and Staff will be going on their wind-up outing. We will be going bowling at Billy Mosienko Lanes at 1136 Main Street (Main & Redwood) from 12:00-2:00 p.m. (meet at 11:55 a.m.).

Please let Joanne Janzen know as soon as possible if you plan on attending and how many… as we need this information to book this event. Thank you

SHARED YOUTH MINISTRY:

Sunday June 16th Service and BBQ

Youth will lead worship at Prince of Peace Lutheran  (combined service with Abundant Life)

Please arrive at 10:45 am service is at 11:15 am 

We plan to be outside so please bring lawn chairs

There will be a BBQ lunch - this will be youth fundraiser and games to follow

Families are welcome to join us for lunch and BBQ

Lisa van Dijk  Shared Youth Ministry Director

ALL-GLC-SLZ-SPLC-POP (204)293-6357

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES

We’ve had an environmental assessment of the St Luke’s Zion Church building done as a university project.  The resulting report gives some suggestions for us to reduce our carbon footprint.  If you have an interest in being on a committee that will meet to discuss possibilities, please let me know. 

-- Evelyn Roloff

SLZ JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN 2024:

All Training is provided – references not required

*Readers:

starting the first Sunday in June

*Communion Set-up:

- starting the first Sunday in June

*Communion assistants: 

- 2 communion assistants each week

*Counters: every Sunday we need 2 people to count

If you are available please sign-up on the sheets on the table which go through to the end of December or let Joanne Janzen know either by text, email, phone call or in person.

We appreciate all those who have volunteered up to this point. Thank You

LUTHER VILLAGE CAMP:

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2024 season at Luther Village!

Join us to experience “Boundless- God beyond measure” and all camp has to offer in a rugged and beautiful setting on the shores of Dogtooth Lake.

#seeyouatLV #campinglife #registernow

www.luthervillage.ca

MAY 31-JUNE 2 ...Bikeathon – Bruce’s ride

JUNE 7-9 ...Women’s Retreat

JUNE 7-9 ...LIT Training Weekend

JUNE 21-23 ...Small Fry Camp (Grades 2-3)

JUNE 28-30 ...Kick Off to Summer Weekend

JUNE 30-JULY 5 ...Grades 7-10 Camp

JUNE 30-JULY 5 ...LIT Training Week

JULY 7-12 ...Grades 4-6 Camp

JULY 14-20 ...Family Camp 1

JULY 21-26 ...LIT Rotation Week 1

JULY 21-27 ... Family Camp 2

JULY 28-AUG 2 ... LIT Rotation Week 2

JULY 28-AUG 3 ... Family Camp 3 

AUG 4-10 ... Family Camp 4 

AUG 11-17 ... Family Camp 5 

AUG 18-23 ...Teen Canoe Trip

AUG 23-25 ... Family Camp Retreat

AUG 30-SEPT 2 ...Labour Day Long Weekend

SEPT 4 - OCT 3 ...Personal Retreat

OCT 4 - 7 ...MNO Synod Thanksgiving Retreat 2

LUTHERAN URBAN MINISTRY:

May 2024 News from your Ministry Manager

Food insecurity is a constant source of stress in these times for those who struggle with trying to make ends meet with a low income, or attempting to make ends meet on EI or EIA Disability, for newcomers to Canada, and for those suddenly unemployed. Housing insecurity is so often mentioned in sharing circles, or in conversations with me. Rising inner-city rent prices and few options for a “decent place to rent” create worry and a feeling of helplessness. Moving further from the inner-city often creates much loneliness, along with the inability to pay for transportation to visit family and friends.

• Also, at any given time, there are always a few people attending our worship service, sharing circles, or picking up a bagged meal - who are currently unhoused. The term unhoused can have many descriptions: couch surfing (examples: sleeping on Auntie’s or Grandma’s sofa, or the floors of friends); hoping to find a bed that night at one of the local shelters; or sleeping outside somewhere. There are many circumstances that contribute to the situation of “no place to call my own”.

Mental Wellness Sharing Circles Program: The Lutheran Urban Ministry’s Mental Wellness Sharing Circles were facilitated by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), and took place from the first week of each month from September 2023 to April 2024 during the men’s lunch/sharing circle, the women’s and co-ed sharing circles.

• The Urban was fortunate to have the expertise of these facilitators from CMHA: Curtis, John, Huruy, Arlene, Heidi, Tracy-Ann, Brent, Jennifer, and Coralee. We are thankful for their knowledge, their active listening and responding, and for sharing their own anecdotes and stories with our Urban community; and we are very grateful to Natalie, Senior Manager of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, CMHA for her coordination of our Mental Wellness program. We had such wonderful discussions, information, and fellowship in the men’s lunch/sharing circles, and the women’s and co-ed sharing circles - that specifically addressed important subjects of mental wellness that touch us all during our lives.

To our MNO Congregation Members and Clergy: A wonderful opportunity to have fellowship with our Urban Community - please drop by anytime to our: Sunday Worship Service: door opens at 1:00 p.m. with coffee/tea. Worship service 1:30 – 2:15 p.m. Men’s Lunch/Sharing Circle every Wednesday - Downstairs at Noon Please stop by at 12:00 p.m. Noon (ring the doorbell) for lunch and great fellowship and conversation!

Women’s Sharing Circle every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. (until 3:30 p.m.) Please arrive at 2:00 p.m. (ring the doorbell) for coffee/tea/dessert and great fellowship and conversation!

Women’s Drop-in every Wednesday from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Please drop in (ring the doorbell) for coffee/tea/cookies and visiting together! Kids & grandkids welcome to come with you and we have colouring and arts and crafts to keep them busy.

Co-ed Sharing Circle every Thursday at 4:30 p.m. (please arrive at 4:30 p.m.) Please stop by at 4:30 (ring the doorbell) for great fellowship and conversation! And coffee/tea/dessert. –

 Rhonda Gorham, Ministry Manager, Lutheran Urban Ministry Corp.

Canadian Lutheran World Relief's (CLWR)

visit CLWR's website www.clwr.org

GARDENING: (WKHS)

WEST KILDONAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY:

Yearly Family Membership is $15.00. Payment in cash or cheque. Membership card can be shown at many garden centres for a 10-20% discount.

Coffee, drinks and snacks are provided. Please bring your own cup.

Our meetings are held from 7 – 9 pm on the first Tuesday of February, March, April, May, June, September & October.

We meet at the West Kildonan Memorial Community Club located at 346 Perth Avenue.

WKHS - Upcoming Meetings:

June 1 – Fiesta Day, Seven Oaks Arboretum
June 4 – Prairie Originals with Kelly Leask

WKHS - Fiesta Day Plant Sale

Saturday, June 1,

10 am to 2 pm

Plant Sale, Bake Sale, Silent

Auction

CASH ONLY......RAIN OR SHINE

Located at the Seven Oaks Arboretum

~ Linda Edel (Board Member)

Check out our website at www.wkhorticultural.ca

LITANY OF RECOGNITION AND HONOR FOR FATHER’S DAY:

On this day we recognize our fathers and stepfathers [and adoptive fathers], those who have nurtured and guided us in our lives.

We thank You, O God, for those who have been fathers to us.

We honor our grandfathers, our uncles and brothers, those who have demonstrated love and care to us in our lives.

We thank You, O God, for those who have been like fathers to us.

We appreciate our teachers, leaders and pastors, who have been both male and female, but we especially honor those who have extended fatherly tenderness and love in our lives in our past and present.

We thank You, O God, for those who have fulfilled a fatherly role in our lives.

Loving God, You have been both Mother and Father to us. 

Abba, Father, we remember how Jesus called out to You on earth, recognizing that You are closer to us than our earthly parents. Your love and care for us are felt in the ways we are loved and cared for by others. 

We thank You for all the male figures in our lives who have shared Your love with us. 

We ask that You guide and nurture new fathers and fathers-to-be.

We seek Your forgiveness for fathers who have fallen short, for models of fatherhood that were limiting rather than embracing, for that is not Your model. 

You are our ever-loving Parent, Father of us all. 

Grant Your wisdom to all fathers and fatherly figures to love their children as You have loved Your children.

We thank You, O God, for fatherhood and motherhood, for the blessing of parents in our lives.

Abba, Father, 

we pray with those who are mourning the loss of fathers today, and for those whose fathers were absent or abusive. 

[We pray with those who were never able to have children or who mourn the absence of grandchildren.]

Ease their pain on this day, loving God. 

May they know Your embrace, and that You are more than Father or Mother to us–

You are the all-loving, all-caring Parent, 

Creator of heaven and earth, who knows the hairs on our heads.

We thank You, O God, that You are always with us, that You will never leave us or forsake us.

We thank You for this day, and ask that You bless all of Your children with Your love, as a wonderful father loves their child.
Amen.

 ~ written by Rev. Mindi, and posted on the Rev-o-lution blog. http://rev-o-lution.org/

What’s up with the organ?

            St. Luke’s Zion has an Allen digital organ that was built in 1987.  Currently, it is in need of cleaning, maintenance, and repair in order to be usable.  The estimated cost of this service is around $2,700 plus tax.  To give this amount some context, the original cost of the organ was in the $20,000-$30,000 range, and the cost of a similar instrument today would be in the $60,000-$70,000 range.  Given the amount needed for repair, this is a congregational decision rather than a council decision.  Hence, here are some details for you to consider, as well as an invitation to give some feedback:

• The most serious items needing attention are the main power cord, which could short out due to decaying and brittle insulation, and internal batteries that are close to leaking acid and need replacing.

• A number of areas need cleaning / adjustments / repair in order to produce a good sound and function as they should (a detailed list is available upon request)

• Very little maintenance has been done on this organ in almost 40 years.  With repair, it is likely to last another decade or two.

• While cheap (or even free) organs can be found on Kijiji and in other places, the quality of both the sound and the organs are inferior to the one that we have

• The estimate provided includes parts, labour, a travel fee, and a cleaning / inspection of our digital keyboard (piano) at the same time

• In the opinion of an organist who has played in multiple churches around the city, it is worth it to fix this organ, and the estimate seems reasonable

• There are funds available from the Meakings bequest if we decide to go ahead with repairs (Roy was an organist!)

• Without repair, this organ cannot be used safely or sold

• While there is an organ sound on the digital keyboard, there is no way to change the sound being used or the volume in the same way as on an organ

Organ repair feedback form

(this is not a vote – just a survey!)

1. I support repairing our Allen digital organ

1. I’m pretty neutral on the subject

1. I do not support repairing our Allen digital organ

1. Other: _____________________________

Name (optional): ___________________________________

Please give your response by the end of June, either on paper or via email to stlukeszionchurch@gmail.com