Announcements
THANK YOU: to Pastor Holbrook and Pastor Campbell for your visits to Shock Trauma, Carroll Lutheran Village Health Care, and to my home with the Monday morning visitors while I was and still am recovering from brain surgery. I am so blessed for the abundance of prayers and cards from our dear Church family. God is so faithful! Thank you, Marilyn Riecke
THANK YOU: for all the cards and prayers for my surgery, during my recovery, and also for my birthday. Doris Kibler
THANK YOU: to everyone who prayed and for all the love that was extended at the passing of my father, Virgil Earp. His funeral was held on Monday, August 29. Thank you, Brenda Dodson
VETERANS DAY: Please help us honor our Vets! Mrs. Dyson is working on a display for Veterans Day and needs more pictures as soon as possible. Please place your picture in an envelope marked with the Veteran’s name, service, and include your phone number so she may return your picture to you.
JOYFUL CONNECTION: resumes on Monday, September 12, at 6:45 pm. Please sign-up at the Welcome Desk.
GRIEF SHARE: resumes on Tuesday, September 13, at 6:30 pm in Rooms 417/418. Please sign-up at the Welcome Desk.
LAST CALL FOR PHOTOS/UPDATES: All photo submissions, requests to use prior photos, and any directory listing changes must be received by the Church Office no later than Wednesday, September 7. As a reminder, the submission of a new photo or use of a prior photo for the New Directory will incur a $10.00 fee. Also, we are still in need of recent photos for the Live Nativity, Living Cross, Christmas Cantata, Sunday School classes, Nursery, College & Career, and Conquerors.
NURSERY VOLUNTEERS: We are looking to start up our Wednesday evening nurseries again and need help staffing them! We are also in need of workers to fill some empty spots on our schedule for 9:45 am and 10:45 am on the 1st, 4th, and 5th Sundays. Please stop by the Welcome Desk to sign-up!
FOOD TRUCK: Volunteers are needed to help with the grocery give-away on Friday, September 16. Set-up will begin around 10 am and the food distribution will begin at 2 pm. Please sign-up at the Welcome Desk!
EMAIL ADDRESSES: If you are interested in receiving updates and alerts from the Church, please provide your email address to the Church office.
COLLEGE STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Forms are available at the Welcome Center to add a new or returning student for prayer, or you may email the information to cbowers@opendoorchurch.org.
COLLEGE & CAREER: will be attending the College and Career Retreat at the Wilds from October 28th-30th. A link with more information and to sign-up can be found at opendoorchurch.org/CandC. Please let Pastor Aaron know if you plan to attend so he can arrange transportation.
From My Heart
The Lord has been so good to our nation through the years. Even though our country has legislated God out of our government, our military, and our schools, the Lord has spared our country from the wrath and judgment our country deserves. With the modern day technology available today, it is obvious that abortion is the murder of a human life! But our politicians do not seem to care, and they continue to support abortion without shame!
The public schools of our land continue to groom children by scheduling events for kindergarten children and first graders by having them entertained by “drag queens.” That is the most vile and disgusting thing I have ever heard of! What these perverted people have to do with a child receiving an education is something I cannot seem to comprehend.
Teachers returning to begin the 2022-2023 school year are being bombarded with training videos on “gender issues,” on how the LGBTQ…students are bullied and picked on by other students and getting the latest instruction on how to deal with children who want to consider speaking with someone about the transitioning process. Has our education system forgotten about “reading, writing, and arithmetic?” The liberals running our schools across America are more concerned with gender than they are with children learning and getting an education.
On the evening when the CCS parents came for orientation, I opened the meeting and welcomed all our new parents and students. I wanted to establish as quickly as I could where CCS stands on some of these things. I said, “I want you parents to know we are not ‘woke’ around here!” And immediately there was a burst of applause! I said, “We will not speak to your child about gender, and we will not foster any of that stuff! We will never have drag queens come in to read stories to your children!” After each sentence, the parents immediately began to clap and say, “Amen!”
I have said for years now that America has lost her soul! And I believe with all my heart that America has to be on the very brink of seeing and experiencing God’s wrath and judgment! People across the nation know more about the lives of celebrities than they know about Heaven or Hell. Our nation is more concerned about sports than about being right with God and having the hand of God blessing us. I want to encourage you to pray for God’s richest blessing to be upon us today, and ask the Lord to wake us up…not “woke” us up!
Have a wonderful day and may the Lord bless you richly.
Pastor Norris