Beginning
June 2 & 3, 2001
Saturday
remains at 6pm
Sunday at
8:30am &
10:00am
The last day of Sunday School is May 20th
Sunday School and
Adult Bible study will
resume in September
GOOD SAMARITAN PICNIC
Sunday, May 20th, 2001
Picnic begins at Noon
West Flamingo Park
Center Gazebo
(East end of Kenny Guinn Jr. High)
Bring your own drinks, plates, forks, etc.
The Church will supply the hamburgers, hot dogs, buns and condiments.
Things to bring to share for
the pot luck:
First letter of last name:
A-E - Chips and dip
F-J - Vegetables or fruit
K-Q - Salad
R-Z - Dessert
skateboard and roller blade park
Come join in all the fun and games!!
Council Retreat Scheduled for Saturday, May 5th from 8-11am
Good Samaritan’s Church Council will be spending time reviewing and discussing how to use the Long Range Planning Committee’s volume of work they created over the past year. Breakfast will be served.
Soup Labels and Box Tops for Education Collected!
Did you know we collect Campbell’s soup labels and General Mills box tops for education? They are then donated to Faith Lutheran School and are used to help purchase many extras for use in the classrooms. You may place your labels and coupons in the envelope hanging on the women’s bulletin board in the West hall.
We also need donations of:
Fabric scraps or yardage
Used sheets or pillowcases
Used blankets or mattress pads
Cash to purchase batting and to
ship the quilts
If you would like to make a cash donation just put it in an envelope and mark it LWR Quilting and put it in the offering with your regular envelope at worship or you can mail it to the Church.
For further information call Judy Johnson 220-6749 or Sally Bouchard 360-5062
EVENTS
The Grand Canyon Synod Assembly is May 31-June 2
Delegates from Good Samaritan are Joyce Johnson, Joe Bauman and Jolene Carlin. Pastor Tom and Joe, our Intern, will also be attending. There will be an election of a new Bishop as Bishop Wennes is retiring from that position. Medardo Gomez, Bishop of El Salvador will be preaching at one service and Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing, from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago will lead the Bible study. The theme is Many Voices One Song...Making Christ Known.Confirmation Pictures and Rehearsal, Saturday, May 26th
All 8th grade Confirmation students need to be dressed up, at the Church, and ready for pictures by 10am on Saturday, May 26th. A short rehearsal will follow. Bob Morgan, of Morgan Photography, will be taking group and individual pictures.Good Samaritan’s IHN
Host Week is May 20-27
Lutheran Social Services Night at the Ball Game
Friday, May 18th at 7:05pm the new Las Vegas 51’s will play the Fresno Giants at Cashman Field. Tickets are on sale at the Church. They are $7.00 each of which $2.00 will go to support LSSN.When Dale Earnhardt died in a crash during the Daytona 500 NASCAR race this past February, his private family funeral was at St. Mark Lutheran Church, in Mooresville, N.C., where Dale was a member. He and his wife, Teresa, were married at St. Mark in 1982. Friends called him a man of faith. Before each race he had a Bible passage taped to the dashboard of his car. At Daytona, the passage was Proverbs 18:10. "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run into it and are safe."
Imagine, if all humankind living today on this planet were just 100 people living in a village, the population would be like this:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 Americans (North and South America), 8 Africans, and 0
Australians.
52 would be women, 48 men.
30 would be white, 70 non-whites.
30 would be Christians, 70 Non-Christians.
89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual.
6 people would own 59% of all wealth that exists on earth. All 6 would be citizens of the
US.
80 would not have sufficient shelter to live in.
70 would be illiterate.
50 would be undernourished.
1 would die.
2 would be born.
1 would have a PC.
1 would have an academic degree.
If we view the world from this perspective, it should become clear to everyone that there is a necessity for unity, acceptance, and education.
Think about this: if you woke up this morning in good health and not ill, you are luckier than 1 million people who will not survive next week.
If you have never experienced war, loneliness or imprisonment, the agony of the tortured, or starvation, you are luckier than 500 million people on earth.
If you can go to church without fear of being persecuted, imprisoned or killed, you are luckier than 3 billion people on earth.
If there is food in your refrigerator, clothes in your closet, a roof above your head, and a bed to sleep in, you are richer than 75% of all others.
If you have an account at your bank, and some money in your wallet, you belong to the 8% of the wealthy people.
Somebody once said: Work, as if you didn’t need the money. Love, as if you had never been hurt. Dance, as if nobody was watching you. Sing, as if nobody would listen. Live, as if earth would be paradise.
Joachim "Joe" Woerner
Student/Intern
Now Above The Sky He’s King
Ever since I can remember singing "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" on Easter Sunday, I always smile when we sing the third line of the third verse. It reads, ‘Now above the sky he’s king, Al-le-lu-ia.’ Not an Easter goes by when I don’t think of Sky King when I come to that line. The dominant aroma of Easter Lilies takes me right back to 1968 when Gary Munson and I were acolytes at First Lutheran Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sitting together and singing about Jesus and Sky King.
From 1956 to 1959, 72 episodes of Sky King were filmed. Every Saturday morning was like a little Christmas back then. There was the same anticipation of getting up and opening presents as there was tiptoeing into the living room and turning on the TV. And all of it was in black and white! We would get up early, still in our pajamas, to watch Mighty Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Roy Rogers and Sky King.
I can still remember the image of a Cessna 310 in flight as it flew across our RCA screen and rolled off in a turn to the left. Then a strong voice thundered, "Out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King."
Sky King and his niece, Penny, always had an exciting time, saving good and foiling evil. Somehow his plane, ‘Song Bird,’ was always involved in watching the trouble from above or assisting in getting Sky King somewhere just in the nick of time. All this took place from the Flying Crown Ranch near the fictitious town of Grover, Arizona.
Maybe in some way Sky King was a Christ figure and it’s not so weird for me to connect the two during this Easter hymn. After all, they both taught right from wrong. They both worked for good and foiled evil. They had an inner circle of disciples, they both lived in the desert and as often as Sky King came out of the clear blue western sky, Jesus looked to those same heavens and prayed!
In an ironic twist of kismet, Kirby Grant, who played Sky King, was killed in a car accident in 1985 while on his way to watch a launch of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger. He was to be honored by the shuttle astronauts for his achievements in encouraging aviation and space flight. Kirby Grant was 74.
God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. Genesis 1:8
Christ has Risen!
He has Risen Indeed!
Pastor Tom