Author: Julie Raffa

August 2021

The Pilgrim Herald
Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

The Divine Service and Sunday School
“He [Jesus] said to him [Simon], “Feed my lambs...He said to him, ‘Tend my sheep.’”
Centered Alignment

As August quickly fades into September, I have been thinking about catechesis, of the instruction of the lambs of our parish. As Jesus spoke to Simon, “Feed my lambs...tend my sheep,” the teaching of the young in the ways of the Lord, to train them in the language of the Bible, the hymnal, and the catechism is not to be taken lightly. It is not to be built on the philosophies of the world, be it educational, psychological, or membership growth charts. For many years now, as I have moved between the sanctuary and the Sunday school, I have frequently pondered the relationship between the Divine Service and the Sunday school. How do these two realities fit together?
Known by some, but unfamiliar to many, is that Sunday school, viewed from the perspective of church history is a recent development. We are told that Sunday schools were first set up in the 18th century in England to provide education to working children. William King started a Sunday School in 1751 in Dursely, Gloucestershire, and that Robert Raikes started a similar one in Gloucester. Around this same time, Sunday schools made there debut in America. Inspired by British examples, most Sunday schools were designed to provide basic instruction to the poor working children on their only free of the week. Raikes and other British evangelicals had pioneered this model during the 1780’s by collecting children off the city streets, cleaning them up, and keeping them in school for two long Sunday sessions. The chief concern among the founders of Sunday school was to solve the social ills that arose from unruly behavior of undisciplined children when they had time away from work, which was on Sunday. It was to prepare for a better society in the future. The theory went, if the child could learn morals and establish good ethical foundations at this early age then society as a whole would be better tomorrow.
The Sunday school originated with an educational purpose. The founders were far less concerned about a child’s religious instruction than about the growing numbers of working children who seemed to be slipping through the cracks in the educational system. It was the goal of the original Sunday school to offer education to those that may otherwise do without. The purpose was that of a moral and social reform. The intent of the founders was to place a Bible in the hands of the children in hopes that, as they learned to read and write, the words they were learning would lead to life transformation. So, while evangelism was not the expressed outcome of the original Sunday school, there existed a hope that change would take place in the lives of these children to lead a better life. Mortality was taught based on the truths of Scripture. In short, early Sunday schools existed to assimilate young people into a vision of a more productive and moral society, and with the hope that evangelism would follow.
The Lutheran church was skeptical. While acknowledging that the modern Sunday school was indeed traced back to the efforts of Raikes, Lutheran church leaders were opposed to it largely because it was not church related. Nonetheless the Sunday school moment grew and spread. The Lutheran Cyclopedia, published by CPH in 1954 notes, “with the development of tax supported “free schools” 1825-1850, many Lutheran parochial schools were replaced by Sunday schools. The General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the U.S. established a Lutheran Sunday school Union in 1830. Sunday schools began to appear in the Missouri Synod in the 1840’s, but the Synod in general was distrustful of the doctrinal laxity often associated with Protestant Sunday schools. The Missouri Synod long continued to emphasize parochial schools and the Sunday school was not officially accepted until the time of World War I” (pg. 742).
This brief historical sketch of the Sunday school is not meant to harpoon it. Rather it is to convey the simple point: long before there were Sunday schools there was the divine service, God’s people gathered in His name around sermon and sacrament. The liturgy itself taught Christians the core texts of the Scriptures in the cycle of the lectionary readings. The great canticles of the service like the Gloria in Excelsis and the Sanctus taught worshipers the doctrine of the Holy Trinity while the Agnus Dei proclaimed the atoning work of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The creed was confessed, naming God-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and detailing His work in creation, cross, and church. Hymns told the story of salvation. Sermons proclaimed God’s law and Gospel for repentance and faith. Church architecture, stained glass, paraments, crucifixes, and pastoral vestments gave silent witness to holiness of the space set apart for the speaking and hearing of God’s Word; the giving and receiving of His sacraments. The liturgy itself was the context for Christian education as believers were edified, that is built up in the truth of Christ.
This brings me back to my original question, “how do the realities of the Divine Service and Sunday school best fit together?” Answer: Sunday schools will function best when congregational leadership recognize that worship remains the context for Christian education. This means that the Sunday school is not a free standing program in the congregation. Rather, it draws on the resources of the divine service—biblical readings from the lectionary, liturgical texts, hymns, art, gestures, architecture, and the liturgical church calendar to enrich the student’s life in the church. Worship in the context of the Sunday school whether it is in an opening assembly or in individual classrooms should be reflective of the worship of the church on this particular Sunday. Repetition and predictability are assets as students learn by heart biblical passages, parts of the catechism, hymns, liturgical sentences, and patterns of reverence.
As we have emphasized a lot here at Pilgrim, the church’s liturgy is itself a dialogue. The Lord speaks and we listen. Only as He speaks to us in His Word do we speak in confession, praise and thanksgiving. The language of the liturgy is the language of faith for faith comes by hearing God’s Word. Children do not learn their native tongue in school but at home as they listen to parents and siblings. So, too, Christian children do not learn the language of faith in Sunday school but in the home and in the church service. In Sunday school, there is an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the language of faith. Bible stories are unpacked so students hear the Gospel of Jesus who forgives sin and promises eternal life. Faithful Sunday school teachers serve their students by helping them learn how to use the basic books of the Christian faith—the Bible, the Small Catechism, and the hymnal.
Our teaching is drawn from the Bible, confessed in the catechism, and expressed in the hymnal. A faithful Sunday school curriculum will facilitate the use of all three books. Faithful Sunday school teachers will grow in their ability to tells the stories of the Bible, showing how the teaching of Scriptures is summarized in the six-chief parts of the Catechism, and drawing connections with the liturgy and hymnody of the church. In this way, downstairs in the Sunday school both presupposes the divine service upstairs, and leads children back into the liturgical life of the church with a greater understanding of what our Lord Jesus is doing through His Word and Sacrament.
It is vital that we bring elements of the divine service into the classroom of the Sunday school. As one Luther scholar observed, “Luther’s great Catechism brought the village altar into the family kitchen.” In other words, such items as speaking of the triune name with the sign of the cross, recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and the Apostles’ Creed, morning and evening prayers, and verses from the psalms at meal time were purposely included in the daily prayers of the Catechism. So also, portions of the liturgy can be brought in the Sunday school.
In the end, as we firm up the linkage between the divine service and the Sunday school, this will ensure that we are being faithful to our tasks here as God’s people gathered around His name and His gifts. Also important is when pastors (and others within the congregational leadership) work with the Sunday school and its teachers in helping them understand the biblical basis of Lutheran liturgy and hymnody. Pastor Raffa.

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Pilgrim News
Sunday School—First day is September 12. In order for us to prepare adequate materials we ask that parents either fill out a paper registration form located in the narthex and turn it into the office, or fill out the online form that can be found at the church’s website, pilgrimlutheran-westbend.org. under the “Education” tab labeled “Student online registration.”
Wednesday Youth Catechesis—Prior to entering Pastor Raffa’s Lutheranism 102 class or Pastor Fisher’s 103 class on Wednesday, youth will be required to complete a successful recitation of both the primary text and explanation of the Six Chief Parts of Luther’s Small Catechism to one of the pastors. If needed, it is possible that we will offer Lutheranism 101, a time that is solely dedicated to learning the words of the Small Catechism. If you have any questions please feel free to talk with one of the pastor’s.
Church Picnic—The Church Picnic is scheduled for September 12, 2021. This is also the first day of Sunday School. We are looking for volunteers to help with setup, cooking, serving, games and take down/clean up. If you are able to help with any of the above, please sign up on the gold sign up sheet in the Narthex. Your help is needed to make the Church Picnic a success.
Amazon Smile—Designate Pilgrim when you shop at Smile.Amazon.com and they will donate .5% of the eligible purchase price to our church. Designate Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church as your charity of choice on the homepage, then place your order.

The Silent Auction will run September 12 through October 3, 2021.
We are looking for donations for the Auction. Please make sure that the donations are in good –useable- condition.
Items that you wouldn’t mind having for yourself is a good way to judge of it would be good for the Auction or not.
If you would please mark your donation with your name, it will be put on a master list, then if it is not bid on and you would like to have it back it can be returned to you.
Suggestions of items:
*Hand crafted items
*Small kitchen ware in good condition
*Toys
*Crafty items
*Sports items in good to excellent condition.
*Certificates for home baked goods, services, or babysitting.
*Theme baskets
Please bring items to the Church starting in August to give the workers time to sort through them.
All money raised will be going to the Roofing Fund
Thank you.

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Lutheran Education
Being a part of a family—a son or daughter, a father or mother, a husband or wife, a brother or sister, uncle or aunt, grandfather or grandmother—is a calling from God. According to the Lutheran Doctrine of Vocation, God places each of us into particular stations (the family, the workplace, the church, and the nation) where we are to live out our faith in love and service to our neighbors. The family is the most fundamental calling of them all.
God could have populated the earth simply by making more people out of dust and ribs, as He did Adam and Eve, but instead, explained Luther, He chose to work the miracle of creating new life by means of the vocation of mothers and fathers, husbands and wives. God’s institution of the family is perhaps the most dramatic example of how He Himself is at work in ordinary human vocations, creating children (through the sexuality of marriage), caring for them (through the everyday work of parenting), and bringing them to Himself (as parents bring their children to Baptism and the life of the church).
God protects the family with His commandments and His promises. When we pray to God as “Our Father,” it is not ascribing to Him the attributes of human fathers, but rather the reverse: human fatherhood comes from the fatherhood of God. Marriage, the forming of a family, is not something that human beings can re-invent to accommodate different sexual preferences; rather, it was not only established by God, but it is, in its very nature, Christological, a “mystery” embodying the relationship between Christ and the Church (Eph. 5:31-32).
The Large Catechism cites the family as the model of all other vocations in its exposition of the Fourth Commandment: “We have three kinds of fathers presented in this commandment: fathers by blood, fathers of a household [i.e., employers], and fathers of the nation. Besides these, there are also spiritual fathers—not like those in the papacy who applied this title to themselves but performed no fatherly office. For the name spiritual father belongs only to those who govern and guide us by the Word of God.” If we would only keep this commandment, Luther observes, “Then all would be well; parents would have more happiness, love, kindness, and harmony in their houses, and children would win their parents’ hearts completely.”
Of course, we do not keep this commandment or fulfill God’s design for the family. Our homes are often places of disharmony, with husbands and wives at each other’s throats, and parents and children tormenting each
other. The divorce rate approaches 50%, and—in what is one of the most tragic scandals in the church today—the divorce rate among Christians is slightly above that of non-Christians. What has gone wrong, and how can we recover the blessings of the Christian family?
The home, at its best, is a refuge, a place where both children and adults can find a haven from the world, with all of its conflicts and politics, a place of love and acceptance and security, in marked contrast to the dog-eat-dog atmosphere that has become common from the workplace to the pecking orders of the school social scene. And yet, we often bring the world, in all of its destructiveness, into our homes. The TV that is on all the time brings fighting, yelling, sexual immorality, and rebellion into our living rooms and into the imaginations of not just children but adults.
The outside world takes precedence over the family. Husbands and wives often do not spend enough time together. Parents often do not spend enough time with their kids, with fathers reportedly spending an average of less than half an hour a day with their sons and daughters.
Part of the problem is that we allow our other callings to take precedence over our marriages and our children. The family is the fundamental vocation, which means that we must not neglect it in favor of our work and our social responsibilities. Nor should our involvement with the church be such that it causes us to neglect our families. (Many churches have so much going on that conscientious members are often spending so much time there that they have less for their spouses and children, a problem that sometimes comes from that violation of the Doctrine of Vocation that believes that “spiritual” activities are more pleasing to God than the activities of our callings that God has given us).
The purpose of every vocation is to love and serve our neighbors, not primarily to love and serve God—in our relationship with Him, He first loves and serves us, in Jesus Christ, apart from any works of our own. In restoring us through His grace by Word and Sacrament, enabling us to love God, He then sends us out into our vocations, where we live out our faith by loving and serving our neighbors. On the job, we love and serve our customers, clients, and fellow employees through the work that we do for them. In our society, we love and serve our fellow citizens by voting, obeying the law, and working to make our community and country a better place. In the church, we love and serve our fellow members by singing in the choir, passing out bulletins, serving in church offices and on committees, and building up the spiritual fellowship. So who are our neighbors in the family?
In the calling of marriage, a husband’s neighbor is his wife. He is to love and serve her. The wife’s neighbor is her husband. She is to love and serve him.
Scripture, as in the Table of Duties in the catechism, describes how this love and service are to be carried out. “Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord.” (Eph. 5:22) Again, we see that God Himself is present in vocation, so that Christ is literally in marriage, so that wives submitting to their husbands are submitting to Christ Himself. This, of course, is very unpopular advice today, not just that women should submit to a man, but that anyone should “serve” anyone else, putting someone else’s needs above one’s own.
But just as wives are told to submit to their husbands, husbands are told to “give themselves up” for their wives: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her” (Eph. 5:25). So how did Christ love the church? By harsh domination? By forcing the church to wait on His every whim? No. “Though He was in the form of God” He “made Himself nothing, taking on the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:6-7). He gave Himself up, “to the point of death, even death on a cross” (2:8), out of love for His church.
That is how a husband is called to love his wife, denying himself for her sake. This rules out every kind of selfish demand, every authoritarianism, much less cruelty and abuse, with husbands instead emulating the self-sacrificial love of Christ. When a wife feels loved like that, it is much easier for her to submit to a husband whom she knows is giving himself up for her.
In this dynamic relationship of submission and self-sacrifice, there is no room for power-plays or manipulation or tests, just each partner serving the other, putting the other first.
In the case of parenting, fathers and mothers love and serve their neighbors, which, in this particular vocation, would be their kids. In the vocation of being a child, the neighbors who are to be loved and served would be their parents.
Children are to love and serve their parents by obeying them (Eph. 6:1). Parents love and serve their children by disciplining them, teaching them, and catechizing them in God’s Word; but it does not include actions that would “provoke your children to anger” (Eph. 6:4). Again, the Biblical and vocational model rules out any kind of cruelty or child abuse, which involves harming one’s children instead of loving and serving them.
It may not seem very “spiritual” to think that the ordinary routines of parenting—driving the kids to soccer practice; fixing them dinner; playing with them; dealing with their bad behavior; getting them ready for church—should be ways that we are living out our Christian faith, but God Himself is caring for our children through these very mundane-seeming actions. Luther went so far as to say how a mother changing her baby’s diaper is doing a holier work than all the monks in all the monasteries. She is acting in her vocation, and she is loving and serving her neighbor, namely, her baby.
If husbands would focus on loving and serving their wives, who, in turn, would focus on loving and serving their husbands; and if the two of them would concentrate on loving and serving their kids, who would love and serve their parents, then the family would indeed be a refuge. There would be no divorces, no generational conflicts. No one would need to put his or her own needs first, since the others would be fulfilling those needs. The pressures and temptations of the world would remain—since we have vocations there, as well—but the family would be a safe haven
It is our sinful nature, of course, which keeps this ideal of loving and serving from happening, even though it would bring us happiness, so families must also be a place of forgiveness. Husbands and wives must always be forgiving each other. Parents must forgive their children. Children must forgive their parents.
All must go to that true refuge, the church, where they can receive the forgiveness won by Christ. In confession, according to the words of the catechism, Luther says to “consider your station in light of the Ten Commandments, whether you are a father, mother, son, daughter” and to have recourse to another vocation through which God works, receiving absolution “from the pastor as from God Himself.” The Word of God that the pastor proclaims and Christ’s Sacraments that come through the pastor’s voice and hands convey the life-changing Gospel that gives healing for our brokenness and for that of our families. We then are sent back into our families and our other vocations to grow, despite trials and failures, in holiness and love.
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This article first appeared in CTS Life of the World magazine in April 2004. Volume 8. Number 2. pgs. 4-6

The Family: A Place of Refuge
by Gene Edward Veith

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Membership report
Baptized: None
Transferred In:
Ilana Goehner from St. John West Bend
Transferred Out: None
Released from Membership
Joyce Heberer to Shepherd of the Hills WELS

month volunteer schedule
Sunday, August 1: 8:00 a.m. / 10:30 a.m.
Office Volunteer: Nancy Audley
Altar Guild: Laurie L. /
Elder: Tanner S. / Gary J.
Usher Team: 1 / 4
Acolyte: Matthias R. / Georgia J.
Thursday, August 5: 7:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: Ginny S.
Elder: Bob K.
Usher Team: A
Acolyte:
Sunday, August 8: 8:00 a.m. / 10:30 a.m.
Office Volunteer: Kathryn P.
Altar Guild: Nancy R. / Julie R.
Elder: Jake H. / Dennis E.
Usher Team: 3 / 8
Acolyte: Victoria M. / Wade J.
Thursday, August 12: 7:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: Karen S.
Elder: Dennis E.
Usher Team: B
Acolyte:
Sunday, August 15: 8:00 a.m. / 10:30 a.m.
Office Volunteer: Carolyn M.
Altar Guild: Norma B. / Carolyn M.
Elder: Bob K. / Gary J.
Usher Team: 1 / 2
Acolyte: Rachel R. / Josiah R.
Thursday, August 19: 7:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: Ruth K.
Elder: Brian S.
Usher Team: A
Acolyte:
Sunday, August 22: 8:00 a.m. / 10:30 a.m.
Office Volunteer: Julie R.
Altar Guild: Nancy R. / Rita F.
Elder: Tanner S. / Dennis E.
Usher Team: 3 / 4
Acolyte: Matthias R. / Georgia J.
Thursday, August 26: 7:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: Ginny S.
Elder: Patrick S.
Usher Team: B
Acolyte:
Sunday, August 29: 8:00 a.m. / 10:30 a.m.
Office Volunteer: Nancy A.
Altar Guild: Nancy R. / Ginny S.
Elder: Jake H. / Gary J.
Usher Team: 1 / 8
Acolyte: Victoria M. / Wade J.

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Communal Prayers
For the Sunday school: Lord Jesus, Our savior and Redeemer, You have given the Church the command to bring the children to You that they may find hope in the promise of everlasting life with You. Therefore, help an support our pastors and leaders as they assist our parents in nurturing the baptismal faith of Your little lambs. You alone can preserve them in faith against all the evil influences of the world, yet You have given to us the task, the privilege, and the means to nurture the faith of all our children. You alone can create faith and hope and love in these children, yet You call men and women to teach your Holy Word. I thank and praise you for such grace and compassion. Bless the instruction given in our Sunday School. May Your Word nourish and sustain all who hear it. Bring all teachers to realize not only the importance of their vocation but also that You promise to be with them and that they, too, are children of God redeemed with Your holy, precious blood. Give them wisdom, understanding, and ability to proclaim to the children entrusted to thier care the truths of Your Word that provides the certainly of salvation You have won for them. May the lives of our teachers so agree with Your instruction tha that they may always be shinning examples of Christian virture among us. I ask You to hear my prayer for Your sake. Amen.
For Help to Meet Parental Responsibilities: O Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for all Your great and unspeakable gifts. I will in turn gladly do what you require of me. You have commanded me to serve my wife (husband) faithfully, and to bear the responsibilities of family life diligently and submissively. I will gladly do this. You have made me father (mother) of a family. Dear Lord, make me a devout parent. Help me to discharge my parental duties with heart and soul. I would rather loose my life than disobey You by offending my children and members of my household or by failing to guide them faithfully. You will not permit this ordinance and blessing of yours to be disturbed or destroyed , but will graciously protect it through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Morning Prayers: Now I awake to see the light; Lord, Thou has kept me through the night. To Thee I lift up my voice and pray, That Thou will keep me through the day. If I should die before ‘tis done, O God, accept me through Thy Son. Amen.
Dear Father in heaven, for Thy care which kept all danger from me while I slept, I thank Thee, and pray, help me this day to show my thankfulness be being good and obedient, for Jesus sake. Amen.
O help me, Lord, this day to be Thy own dear child, and follow Thee; And lead me, Savior, by Thy hand, Until I reach the heavenly land. Amen.
Family and friends requesting our prayers: Phyllis Fraedrich, Tim Orvan, Carolyn Bren, Ron & Joyce Virchow Sr., Judy Clark, Loretta Waechter, Inez Schwoch, Mark Selzler, Keith Gierach, Deb Sumner, Cindy Scheunemann, Jan Meyle, Sue Zell, Mark Soat, Carl & Lois Pritzlaff, Nancy Rosenthal, Jim Lathrop, Richard & Chloe Fisher, Ruth Mertz, Dot Miller, Jerry & Gert Sullivan, Carolyn Bren, Donna Sommer, Kandie Darmody, June Fry, David & Olivemae Olson, Eric Johanen, Diane Behrens, Marge Legate, Suzanne Stadelmayer, Elaine Kuenzel, Ray & Frances Neerhoff, Donald Teske, Connie Hackbarth, Jeanette Guillaume, Glenn Schnabel, Jenny Vickerman, Linda Lukas, Linda Borneman, Nancy Nicholas, Scott Biskobing, Rachel Davis, Marissa Flanders, Linda Schmidt, Vanessa Kuehne, Travis Winkler, Brian Vonlender, Scot Meisenheimer, Thomas Kramlik, and Jody Meisenheimer.

Voice of Faith

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Birthdays
1- Rita Frank
Jeanette Guillaume
2- Melanie Ruppier
3- Wade Janssen
4- Julie Raffa
5- Phillip Gohr
6- Dakota Guillaume
7- David Hoffman
Ethan Hoffman
8- Lorna Olson
Luke Selzler
9- Caryn Lewandowski
Daniel Shay
10- Nick Rosenthal
Steven Virchow
11- James Audley
Reegan Brehm
Lynne Wille
13- Corey Janssen
Jennefir Carron-Walls
14- Adam Zell
15- Elizabeth Meier
16- Jeremy Mayer
20- Lydia Hoffman
Michael Wiedmeyer
21- Pamela Nitzke
23- Barbara Rockrohr
Linda Stahl
24- Jeremy Doyle
Jodi Selzler
25- Ava Castro
26- Janet Ehlers
Jonathan Faul
27- Jess Doughty
Carrie Roell
30- Katie Krubsack
Anniversaries
1- Jamie & Carrie Mulvey
3- David & Sheryl Pajewski
11- Keith & Cindy Gierach
Jim & Suzanne Stadelmayer
12- Tom & Kathy Greve
Rev. Chris & Julie Raffa
19- Jim & Beverly Hanson
23- Adam & Leah Bolstad
Dennis & Susan Gabor
28- Travis & Carrie Roell

Lutheran Library
“Children, even the youngest, are part of the church and should be regarded as full brothers and sisters in Christ to all of us. Too often congregations have excluded them from regular worship of the church. It is no wonder that these children are less inclined to participate in church. Chris Thoma provides reasons for their inclusions along with real life anecdotes of how the Gospel through liturgy has worked in their lives. More than anything else, the liturgy provides the cement which holds congregations together as one church. A consistent church liturgy serves the unity of the church in which children can participate. They are the church’s future and Chris Thoma lays out plans for assuring that this will happen in our congregations.” David P. Scaer.
Thoma writes in the early pages of the book, “An obvious indicator is to compare the trends of the world to the trends of the Church. Kids in popular culture are not watching Leave It To Beaver anymore (or at least most kids I know), but they are still watching their pastor’s perform baptisms. They’re not listening to Glen Miller orchestrations and yet they are singing “Kyrie Eleison.” They aren’t wearing bobby socks or poodle skirts, but they are wearing robes or albs, while they attend to choral or acolyte duties. RC Cola is no longer their most popular drink, and yet they continue to receive the blood of Christ every Sunday all over the world.
The Divine Services have stood the test of time. Their purpose has never been found in following trends, keeping us entertained or interested, rather they are about keeping us safely within the Shepherd’s fold. They are about healing sin-sick mankind. They are about giving us His gifts in a place where we can be absolutely sure He is present!. No distractions. No confusion. No doubt. He really is here.” (pg. 21)

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Come Join us on Sunday, September 12, 2021 for the
Starting after the 10:30 a.m. service.
Food, Fellowship and Fun will be served up.
Food: Brats, Hamburgers, Hotdogs.
Salads, chips and desserts.
Fellowship: Join in the Fun of trying to ’Dunk a Pastor’!!
Children’s games with prizes, including Packers items.
Silent Auction starts the same day with many great items up for bid.
The Silent Auction runs from September 12 - October 3, 2021

1 / 8a Divine Service / 9:30a Adult Class: Life of Christ / 10:30a Divine Service / 12:30p. 1st Samuel	2	3 / 2:00p. Chapel @ Auxiliary Court	4 / 6:30p Adult Class: / Lutheran Difference	5 / 7p Divine Service	6 / Office Closed / Hoffman/Schmidt Rehearsal	7 / 7a Men’s Breakfast & Bible Study / Hoffman/Schmidt Wedding
8 / 8a Divine Service / 9:30a Adult Class: Life of Christ / 10:30a Divine Service / 12:30p. 1st Samuel	9	10 / 2:00p. Chapel @ Auxiliary Court	11 / 9:00 a. Pilgrim Quilters / 6:30p Adult Class: / Lutheran Difference	12 / 7p Divine Service	13 / Office Closed	14
15 / 8a Divine Service / 9:30a Adult Class: Life of Christ / 10:30a Divine Service / 12:30p. 1st Samuel	16 / 5:30p Board of Trustees Meeting	17 / 2:00p. Chapel @ Auxiliary Court	18 / 6:30p Adult Class: / Lutheran Difference	19 / 7p Divine Service	20 / Office Closed	21 / 7a Men’s Breakfast & Bible Study
22 / 8a Divine Service / 9:30a Adult Class: Life of Christ / 10:30a Divine Service / 12:30p. 1st Samuel	23	24 / 2:00p. Chapel @ Auxiliary Court	25 / 9:00 a. Pilgrim Quilters / 6:30p Adult Class: / Lutheran Difference	26 / 7p Divine Service	27 / Office Closed	28
29 / 8a Divine Service / 9:30a Adult Class: Life of Christ / 10:30a Divine Service / 12:30p. 1st Samuel	30	31 / 2:00p. Chapel @ Auxiliary Court	August 2021

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Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
462 Meadowbrook Drive
West Bend, WI 53090

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Phone: 262-334-0375
Email: office@pilgrimlutheranwb.org
Website: www.pilgrimlutheran-westbend.org

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“See that you do not despise one of these little ones.
For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. “
—Matthew 18:10

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Inside this Issue:
Pilgrim News & Reports
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Communal Prayers
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Lutheran Library
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
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Calendar
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Lutheran Education
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