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From Pastor Jay This time in 2006, it appears that people were getting ready to help with a Habitat House. This weekend we're going to Valdosta, GA to work on a Habitat House. This time last year we were doing Grad Student/Young Adult Small Group. We haven't had one of those gatherings in a long time. This time last year we were beginning to talk about +Vespers+ Reformed Acoustic Contemporary. Now it's something that we do every week. As human beings we love the past. We cherish it. We take pictures of it, write stories about it, and tell everyone about those good old days when everything was right in the world. We will even look back at some of the awful stuff in our past and try to "bronze the garbage," making it better than what it really was. It's human nature. But it's not really divine nature. Notice He almost never talks about things "going back to Eden" in Scripture, but instead dreams up a whole new paradise for mankind to live in forever with Him. That's not the behavior of a past-lover. God doesn't seem to be all wrapped up in the past like we are. In fact, He really doesn't seem to be all that attached to it at all. It looks like He favors the future. Instead of a photo album, it seems that God would rather have a picture about how things could and will be. Maybe it's because He knows the future, that would make some sense. Maybe it's because He despises the past, we're really to blame for that one - we cluttered the past up with a bunch of ugly sin. Or maybe it is because for God, all things are good. He's not worried about the future stuff being bad, He's excited about future because it's going to be better. It has to be, after all, if it was the same - He'd just be mediocre, and calling God mediocre should really be considered blasphemy. So if you're His child, and you know that He has something in store for you that is going to be better than the past. If you know that He has something for you that isn't going to be bad or mediocre or even just good - but something that is BETTER, then shouldn't you be dreaming of the future? What does that future look like? Where is God taking us? Dream it, pray it, and allow God's future to make this place better. In Christ, Pastor Jay Clear
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Calendar Items! October 3rd - 5th - Lutheran Student Fellowship Fall Retreat Pastor Jay along with eleven of University Lutheran's college students will be meeting with students from University of Florida and University of Georgia in Valdosta, GA to help build a Habitat for Humanity House. October 5th - LWML Sunday - The 21st Sunday After Pentecost
Join us as we serve food to those who are seeking to transition out of a homeless lifestyle at HOPE Community Center. Serve from 5pm to 6pm at HOPE Community Center. (Here's a map) Sign up on the bulletin board by the kitchen. NO ONE SIGNED UP YET!!! October 12th - AIDS Walk Join other Tallahassee Lutheran churches as they participate in the Big Bend Cares AIDS Walk. Registration is at 2pm, the walk is at 3pm. Contact Cindy at 850 510 9089 for more information. All sorts of volunteers are needed! LWML Sunday is October 5th Starting this coming Sunday, September 21st, look for our large Mite Box on the entry table. We welcome any donation large or small to help in this ministry. -Cheryl Dance Trunk or Treat Seeking Volunteers The Peer Ministry Team is seeking to run a "Trunk or Treat" event at University Lutheran on Reformation Night (October 31st) from 5pm-7pm. The idea of "Trunk or Treat" is to make University Lutheran's parking lot into a non-threatening "neighborhood" where children can go trick-or-treating from one car to the next. In order to make "Trunk or Treat" a success we need:
Children's Sermons to begin 10/12 Pastor Jay will begin including a children's sermon beginning on October 12th. Missed a
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Forget Your Checkbook Last Sunday? Send in your offering via University Lutheran's web site. Prayer List (Please consider including the following in your
prayer life this week) Chris Hahn going through his final round of chemotherapy, thanksgiving and continued experience of God's comfort. Sylvia Culp, who is going home after a stay at Hospice House, thanksgiving and continued healing. Dreena, who is suffering in a relationship, that God might comfort her and heal problems in that relationship. Eric, who is going in for an appendectomy, healing and guidance for the doctor's hands. All those going to the Fall Service Retreat in Valdosta, GA, safe travel and that we might make a difference in the lives of others. Willard, Randee Garrett's grandfather who is in the hospital, renewed strength and vigor. Allison, the brand new baby niece of Scott and Lura Diestelhorst, thanksgiving and continued health. Every week we be pray for a few students. This week we pray for: Brittany B., Jacob R., Carson U., Gregory D., Samantha F., Shannen K., Brian A., Margaret H., Bradley B., and Christina B. ...and that our prayers may be joined with the prayers of all God's saints here on earth. Weekly
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Minister Corner We continued our counseling training
talking about how Law and Gospel comes up in a counseling relationship. We planned for the October
service/social project - Trunk or Treat. Your Peer
Ministers are Adam
Douthwaite, Randee
Garrett,
and Crystal
Berner.
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