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YOUTH GROUP NEWS
For more information, call Bill or Heidi at 425-1001 or Rusty
at 425-7641
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UPCOMING YOUTH GROUP EVENTS
LINK!!!!
Pictures from Youth Group 9-10-06
4-13-08 Special Music 1
4-13-08 Special Music 2
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Riverside Worship
Assistants
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WANNAKSA LUTHERAN PARISH CONFIRMATION SCHEDULE 2007-2008
Informational meeting on Wednesday, September 5th at
7:00 pm at Riverside. All students entering 8th and
9th grades should attend, along with their parents.
Please bring baptismal information for your student. Classes
continue Wednesday evenings in September:
9/12 Class—B
9/19 Class—PG
9/26 Class—R
10/3 Class—B
10/10 Class—PG
10/17 NO CLASS, MEA
10/24 Class—R
10/31 Class—B
11/7 Class—PG
11/14 Class—R
11/21 Thanksgiving Eve Service — B
11/28 Class—B
12/5 Advent Vespers — PG
12/12 Advent Vespers — R
12/19 Advent Vespers — B
CHRISTMAS BREAK
1/5 Twelfth Night-PG
1/9 Class—PG
1/16 Class—R
1/23 Class—B
1/30 Class—PG
2/6 Ash Wednesday Service - R
2/13 Lenten Vespers — B
2/20 Lenten Vespers — PG
2/27 Lenten Vespers — R
3/5 Lenten Vespers — B
3/12 Lenten Vespers — PG
3/20 Maundy Thursday — R
3/21 Good Friday — B
3/26 Class — B
4/2 Class — PG
4/9 Class — R
4/16 Class—B
4/23 Class — PG
4/27 9th Grade Retreat
4/30 Class — R
5/11 Confirmation Sunday
“Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
—Proverbs 22:6
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SCHEDULE FOR RIVERSIDE ROLL/YOUTH GROUP
SERVING
Please have rolls to the church by 10:00
am. Each family is asked to bring 3 dozen rolls or muffins and 2
juice. (Apple, grape, cranberry or orange) Please find someone
to change with if your month does not work for you. The larger
the family the more times you will serve. Parents Please come
and help with set up. serving, and clean up your month of
serving rolls and meetings. Thanks Bill, Heidi and Rusty.
August 5th: Ryan Petersen &
Rusty Billberg
September 2nd: Emily Severson &
Mariah Ellefson
October 1st: Ian/Zac/Ashley
Larsen & Emily / Ann Beito
November 4th: Branden Skoien &
Jasmin Beito
December 2nd: Mark Oslund & Jake
Johnson
January 6th: Emily Severson &
Mariah Ellefson
February 3rd: Ian/Zac/Ashley
Larsen & Emily / Ann Beito
March 4th: Branden Skoien & Mark
Oslund
April 6th: Jared Nelson & Jasmin
Beito
May 1st: Ian/Zac/Ashley Larsen &
Jake Johnson
June 1st: Ryan Petersen & Rusty
Billberg
July 6th: Jared Nelson & Ryan
Petersen
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The youth
group is selling 2008 pocketsize or wall calendars at a cost of
$6.00. Order from Riverside/Bethesda youth members.
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Riverside/Bethesda Youth
Fundraiser
Christmas
wreaths for sale—order from a youth
member or
sign up at church. Deadline to order is November 11th.
MONTHLY LETTER:
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Youth News
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2007-2008 Roseau County Atlas
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News:
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Students Learn to Lead by Example
Almost a year and a half has passed since Hurricane Katrina,
but the response to the 2005 hurricane season is still in
full swing. Over the next several months, hundreds of
college students will travel to the Gulf Coast region to
participate in the second annual Lutheran Disaster Response,
“What a Relief!” alternative spring break.
In spring, 2006 nearly 1,100
students from 54 colleges and universities made an impact on
the affected regions with $650,000 worth of inkind service
work.
Want
to see volunteers in action? The new What a Relief!
Video is the perfect resource to engage your congregation in
the long-term recovery effort.
Watch the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy_mvVveamo
For
information on volunteering, visit www.ldr.org/volunteer
Reprinted from Seeds of the Parish
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Food Shelf
at Riverside—all people are encouraged to bring staple items to
the shelf. March is considered Food Share Month in Minnesota.
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Lutheran Video Game Available for Free Download
At the
Games for Change conference held in New York and Chicago,
participants discussed new ways of marketing social purpose
games to teenagers. Examples of positive and uplifting games
include Darfur is Dying and Peacemaker. Another
new game—debuted at this past summer’s Youth Gathering—is called
Rescue Riders, and was developed by the ELCA Deaconess
Community. The game is reviewed here by Brian Plagge, a high
school student from Cedar Falls, Iowa, and a member of Nazareth
Lutheran Church.
Hans
Desotel is not your average social worker. He is none other than
a rescue rider, a fearless missionary who delivers supplies to
the needy. Using the thunderous jeep, Desotel tears through the
countryside doing what God has called him to do. The new game
Rescue Riders presents a healthy alternative to the blood and
gore of many modern day games on the market. As a local
missionary, a player’s objective is to deliver emergency
supplies to disaster victims, charities, and people in need.
When a player runs out of supplies, he or she must make a stop
at the church to restock. Rescue Riders presents features
including online play and single player mode. The Jeep used for
delivering supplies has striking qualities such as a turbo
booster, high vertical jumping, and the ability to scale a
mountain. The game itself presents a valuable concept, but lacks
complexity in certain areas.
The
Rescue Riders game is now available as a free download from
the Deaconess Community’s web site,
www.elca.org/deaconess. A user’s guide will be available
soon, featuring ideas on how to use the game in Sunday school
classes, youth groups, and adult groups. DVD versions are
available to borrow from synodical and regional resource
centers.
Reprinted from Seeds for the
Parish
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What’s New on the World Wide Web
ELCA Videos
available on Google Video and You Tube
With
more than 100 million videos available and some 72 million
visitors viewing the site each month, You Tube is the
hottest site on the Web since the founding of Google in
1998.
You
Tube, which came on the Web scene in February 2005, is a
consumer media company that provides original videos for public
viewing via the Web. Along with Google Video,
these popular Web venues represent an affordable option for
spreading the church’s message.
ELCA
videos are now available at both Google Video and You
Tube. The ELCA has posted 87 videos in past 6 months, says
Tim Frakes, associate director for public media, ELCA
Communications Services. Since then, the posted videos have
been viewed over 120,000 times and downloaded 4,145 times.
To view
ELCA videos such as The ELCA in Chile, the 2006 Synod
Assembly video ELCA Identity, and the Story of the
ELCA, simply go to video.google.com and type “ELCA”
into the search box. Search results will yield videos from the
churchwide offices as well as individual congregations.
“With
new video distribution systems like Google Video and
You Tube, congregations can distribute their videos and
target their audiences in a cost-effective way, in a way that
they have never been able to do before, “Frakes said. “You can
take your production, whether it’s a sophisticated marketing
video or just a portion of the Sunday sermon, upload it and
target it to a specific audience that has access to the Web,” he
said.
While
Google Video restricts the posting of pornographic and
graphically violent videos, congregations should be aware that
they are posting to an uncensored public marketplace, Frakes
said. “It’s important to understand that this isn’t sanitized,
and if you’re going to put your message out there it’s going to
be out there in the open marketplace, so you can’t be shocked by
that. In fact, you need to celebrate it,” he added. “That's
what Jesus did, he went to where people needed to hear the
gospel, and this is a way we can do that more effectively than
we have in a long time. We can go right to where people are.”
Although he is NOT offering technical support Tim Frakes is
available to supply more information at 773-380-2962 or
Tim.Frakes@elca.org
Reprinted
from Seeds of the Parish
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NEXT MEETING.....
Unless otherwise specified; Meetings will
be 7-9 pm the 1st Sunday of each month.
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