Author: Lynn Kuhnke

St. Paul Lutheran

June 2023 NEWSLETTER

From the Pastor:
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
These are some exciting times for us as a church and important times as the Church at large. I find this is as good a time as any to focus on the difference between the “church” and the “Church” (capital vs lowercase “c”). As St Paul Lutheran Church, we are a church established in Madison to bear witness to our Lord and Savior, but hardly are we the only one. There are many other Lutheran churches, let alone churches in general.
No single church can do everything and considering the activity or event, it may be difficult to do many things ourselves. It’s for this reason that we have begun working closer with our sister LCMS churches in the Madison area. A partnership between St Paul Lutheran Church, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Our Savior Deaf Lutheran Church, and possibly yet others will go a long way towards spreading the Gospel more effectively and powerfully in our community.
Consider these words from Acts: “And all who believed were together and had all things in common,” Acts 2:44. The Church, that is, the whole Christian Church on earth is together in mission and holds in common our goals and witness. It is our purpose as an individual church to be members of this broader Church by faith, to work together for the glory of God. In this partnership, it will allow us the opportunity to reach out to those we otherwise struggled or failed to reach. Many plans are in motion towards the type of events we will hold together, such as youth group, family ministry, joint bible studies, joint special services, and much more! Be looking forward to hearing more about this as plans come together!
In the meantime, upcoming in July, our Synod will be joining together again in convention. Every three years, our churches come together to elect leaders, address concerns and issues that have arisen, and work towards a better and stronger synod and Church. For the word “synod” means “to walk together.” We seek to walk together as believers in Christ in the faith which Christ has given us. Indeed, in this synod, we all remain sinners and strife and conflict still arise. But this is why the convention is even more important. Our time together is meant to join us together again through God’s grace, mercy, and forgiveness that we may return ready to proclaim the Gospel to the world.
For this purpose, let us pray. Let us pray for our Synod Convention as it approaches that the will and grace of God would lead us in the way we are to walk, ever walking together by God’s forgiveness. Let us pray for the partnership of our Madison churches that we may make a greater witness to Christ in our community. Great is the work of our church, but greater is the witness of the Church who works together for God’s glory. By Christ’s death on the cross, may we hold all this together, keeping our common confession in hand that the Church of Christ may grow in every way into Christ, it’s head!
Pastor Sorenson

Happy Birthday!

Blessing Dahn 6/1
Jill Hellmer 6/6
Joyce Herritz 6/9
Lavone Otto 6/11
Dan Dierks 6/19
Nancy Bontly 6/20
Jamie Meise 6/20
Leo Lakpa 6/21
Guy Webster 6/22
David Evert 6/27
Diana Leone 6/28

Altar Flowers
June 4- David Evert in memory of Barb Evert.
June 11- (None)
June 18- (None)
June 25- (None)

St Paul Online:
Visit our website: www.stpaulmadison.org
Facebook– @StPaulMadisonLCMS
YouTube– St Paul Lutheran Church
(services and sermons online)
Note: You do NOT have to have an
account in order to view these pages.

Contact us
St Paul Office– 608-244-8077
office@stpaulmadison.org
Pastor Sorenson (Cell) 317-690-5204
pastorsorenson@stpaulmadison.org

Serving in June
Altar Guild
Chris Krueger & Marcia Otto
Tellers
Jullianne McGill
Ushers
June 4-
Jerry Meise, Jamie Meise, Dan Dierks
June 11-
Richard Beal, Randy Buss, Tom Niemczyk
June 18-
Rick Van Dusen, Ray Hellmer, Leo Lakpa
June 25-
Jerry Meise, Jamie Meise, Dan Dierks

DATES TO REMEMBER
June 25– Leadership Meeting
June 27– Vets Connect

LUTHERAN WITNESS:
The Lutheran Witness is a monthly magazine that can be mailed to your home or viewed online. This
magazine is the official publication of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, and it contains news from the Synod and has featured articles. If you are
interested in having this magazine mailed to your home for the next year, please tell Ray Hellmer on or before June 25,2023, and please consider making a donation of $20 for the cost of this magazine for a year. Or, you can purchase this magazine online by visiting the website https://witness.lcms.org.

Update Contact Information:
Dear Members,
Summer is always a good time to make sure your
contact information is up to date with the Church office. To make sure information from church gets to you when sent out, please make sure Church has your current email address and phone number on record. If this has changed in the last year, please send new email or phone number to the office (office@stpaulmadison.org).
If you would like access to our online directory, please contact Pastor Sorenson (pastorsorenson@stpaulmadison.org).
Pastor Sorenson

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newsletter to the office at
office@stpaulmadison.org,
or please call the office at
608-244-8077.
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RECEIVED BY THE LAST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH.
Thank you for your help!

St Paul Financial Update

GENERAL FUND INCOME AND EXPENSES
April 2023 Actual Income	$17,632.41
April 2023 Actual Expenses	$16,871.16
April 2023 Net	$761.25
DEBT
Unpaid Balance on Mortgage Loan (4/30/2023)	$174,933.29