Andrew Stutesman 10/3/20 Andrew Stutesman 10/3/20

Announcements for Sunday, Oct. 4 2020

Inside: Coulee Region Hunger Walk / Run / Bike, Faith Alive! U

Jason Stanton 10/2/20 Jason Stanton 10/2/20

Message from Pastor Stanton for October 2020

October 31, Reformation Day, 1870 was a Monday. Kids (and adults) would not start dressing up as ghosts and goblins and other strange things for Halloween until the 1930s. Trick or treating wasn’t a ‘thing’ until the 1950s. In 1870, the end of October didn’t mean candy. It meant harvest time was here. And… winter was coming. Spring and summer was the time for planting, building and carefully cultivating many new and growing things, including a new church built at what is now 4th and Irvin in Onalaska. Norwegian immigrants had clustered around this part of Onalaska, and amidst their many other concerns, those Norwegians needed a place to gather for worship. They chose October 31, Reformation Day, as the founding date, the birthday, of their congregation: your First Lutheran Evangelical (which means good news) church.

Karyn Bodenschatz 10/2/20 Karyn Bodenschatz 10/2/20

Message from Pastor Karyn for October 2020

Dear friends, this newsletter article is taunting me for I have few words right now that feel or sound edifying. My soul actually longs for fewer words and more stillness. So I am going to invite you into a moment of stillness with me, right now, as you are reading this newsletter. We live in a world that is so full of so many things and there are days when the burden of these things is too much and the words are too loud. Paul tells us that if we speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, we are a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. I think we can all testify to the truth of that - there has been a lot of noisy gongs and clanging cymbals in my world lately.

Karyn Bodenschatz 10/2/20 Karyn Bodenschatz 10/2/20

Family Photos… a cloud of witnesses

Andrew Stutesman 10/2/20 Andrew Stutesman 10/2/20

Live Stream Update for October 2020

Our peak views for the month of August totaled 770; which is up slightly from June (728) and down slightly from July (813). The summer peak views, in general, have proven to be lower than the spring months (both were over 1,000), but as this is all new and is compounded by pandemic closures, it is hard to say what is lower or higher than average.