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June 2017

1 (Thurs.) 9:30 am – Guild – Bible Study

1:00 pm – Hand Bell Choir

3 (Sat.) 9–Noon – Fleazaar Barn open

4 (Sun.) 8:00 am – Mini Service

9:30 am – Full Worship Service

Holy Communion

11:00 am – Adult Bible Study

7 (Wed.) 8:00 am – Men’s Bible Study*

10:30 am – Lakeshore Living Service

3:45 pm – Youth Groups

8 (Thurs.) 1:00 pm – Hand Bell Choir

10 (Sat.) 9–Noon – Fleazaar Barn open

11 (Sun.) 8:00 am – Mini Service

9:30 am – Full Worship Service

14 (Wed.) 8:00 am – Men’s Bible Study*

15 (Thurs.) 9:30 am – Guild

1:00 pm – Hand Bell Choir

17 (Sat.) 9–Noon – Fleazaar Barn open

18 (Sun.) 8:00 am – Mini Service

9:30 am – Full Worship Service

11:00 am – Adult Bible Study

Chit Chat articles due

21 (Wed.) 8:00 am – Men’s Bible Study*

9:30 am – Session Meeting

1:00 pm – Missions Meeting

22 (Thurs.) 1:00 pm – Hand Bell Choir

24 (Sat.) 9–Noon – Fleazaar Barn open

25 (Sun.) 8:00 am – Mini Service

9:30 am – Full Worship Service

28 (Wed.) 8:00 am – Men’s Bible Study*

29 (Thurs.) 1:00 pm – Hand Bell Choir

*- meets at Hogan’s Store

Congratulations Graduates

(8th Grade) (High School)

Lauren Gardner Isabelle Johnson

Callie Johnson Skylar Frandy

Amanda Semmerling Hayle Woolf

Morgan Frandy

(College)

Lucas Paulson

Michael Orlowski

Duties

Ushers

June 4 John & Carmen Farwell

June 11 John & Carmen Farwell

June 18 Dale Ekdahl and Chris Christensen

June 25 Dale Ekdahl and Chris Christensen

Liturgist:

June 4 Carol Brewer

June 11 David Foster

June 18 Marjean Schulelke

June 25 David Foster

Communion Person

June – Margo Perkins

Lay Leader:

June 4 Mary Watkins

June 11 Ramona Kubica

June 18 Carmen Farwell

June 25 Rev. Stephen Russell

Counters

June 4 Vince Hoehn and Carol Bohlin

June 11 Dave Lukas and Sharon Bridges

June 18 Bob Bridges and Jean Eales

June 25 Mid Sharpe and Sharon Lukas

Give us faith to continue the journey before us with courage, not exactly knowing where we are going, but trusting that your Spirit is leading us on and your love is supporting us. - --Rev. Ben Bishop

SESSION MEMBERS 2017

Clerk Lois Bauers -715-904-3105

Nan Bloch – 715-356-9410, Eric Koster – 715-686-7300

Helyn Woolf -715-686-7173, Dave Lukas – 715 -686-7697

John Suffron – 715-686-2668, Joyce Hoehn – 715-543-8350

Margo Perkins – 715-686-2035

Joan Ouimette – 715-476-3887

Deane Galloway- 715-543-8010

William Williams – 715-862-2898

DuWayne Schumacher (Treas.) -715-686-2074

DEACONS 2017

Susan Schroeter, Sharon Lukas, Carmen Farwell,

Jan Schumacher, Robert Rider, Dick Smith

Feel free to contact a Session or Deacon member with any concerns or questions.

Missions

 

 

As the rain has finally stopped, and the sun is slowly peeking out from under the clouds, we again think of those on the other side of the world, that have little or no access to available water and food. The main mission of "Give Me Water Lord" is to drill deep water wells in desperate areas where there is no clean water. Another of their missions is the “Feeding Program." This provides one "nutritious" meal each day to 100 plus orphans.

I am enclosing a letter and picture from Vic Hamer giving us an update on this important "Feeding Program"

 

Greetings to everyone at MWCPC,

I want to give you a brief update on the "Feeding Program" and "School Fee Program" as your church is sponsoring three children.  The children are Peter Kaudu, Boaz Otieno, and Jackson Lolinyok.

Pictured are the children that "Give Me Water" (GMWL) provides for through sponsors like yourselves.  Since the "Feeding Program" was closed over Christmas and New Year’s   Holidays, GMWL provided bags with beans, rice, corn meal and tea leaves for these children.  In the background are the

caretakers for the children as most are orphaned.  On the far right is Imma Ntaoti....GMWL Field Representative who manages this program. 

The building is the "Feeding Program Building which was donated by a husband and wife from Canada.

 

Thank You,

Vic Hamer"

As always, the requests are many....not so the available money.  The Mission Committee is working hard to sort through and consider all requests.  The Loose Change this month and next is for the Mercer Food Pantry.  "This past month, 80.2 pounds of much needed food was delivered to the Mercer Food Pantry, and another large bag of necessities were delivered to DOVE in Ironwood.  

 

Thanks to all once again for your generosity and caring.

Respectfully submitted

Joan Ouimette

 

Fleazaar, 2017

In the Mid and Far East by foot or on beast

they traveled from both near and far

to buy or sell wares charm snakes or cut hairs

in the famous market Bazaars

Today’s markets for fleas, not for dogs if you please, provide venues to recycle goods

The best combo I know is the yearly tent show

The Fleazaar in the North woods

It arrives in July and folks can't pass it by

with the big silver tents on the grounds

there are bargains galore you won't find in a store

shoppers feet pound our grass down

I can't guarantee just what you will see

as you peruse wares on display

but one thing’s for certain you may buy a curtain

or a rug before you stop shopping that day

If you crave tools, most men become fools

for a drill, wrench or Phillips screwdriver

a chainsaw or plane faucet or drain

to cure problems, just like McGiver

The tent Kitchen ware has everything there

to solve all your culinary ills

George Foreman’s' grill Cuisinart fill the bill

then a vacuum or mop for the spills

Do you have surround sound with the noise all around a stereo or monaural hifi

As an audiophile you can spend a while

you never know what you'll buy

We have digital too great speakers for you

Maybe an AR or Bose

A high end HIFI that special buy

what comes in we never know

Old records and books of crimes some cooks

something for almost all tastes

now tapes and cds we hope to please

take your time don't shop in haste

There are Christmas knick Knacks

and linens in stacks

Toys that makes Santa's elves jealous

and more handmade goods made in the North woods

delicious pies and great relish

So join us this year we all will be here

a friendly gregarious bunch

please shop but don't drop

buy things you don't need

like strawberry shortcake to top off your lunch

Warren D Johnson April 11 2017

FLEAZAAR

We are well into our…

Fleazaar preparations.  Remember Fleazaar is Wednesday, July 19th.  Most of our communications are done via email.  If you aren't getting them please let The Blochs know at daniel.bloch@ or 715-356-9410.  If you don't email, please find a friend willing to notify you of pertinent information.

Flea and Fleaette

DONATION FOR FLEAZAAR PICK UPS

Following the 2016 Fleazaar, the Fleazaar Committee discussed the possibility of asking for a “pick-up donation” from people requesting our pick-up service for their donated items. It has traditionally been a free service, but has sometimes been abused by people who have items in unsuitable condition, by parties being paid by the homeowner to remove items from their home, etc. On the other hand, we have occasionally received a monetary donation for our service.

After considerable discussion, we decided to ask non-Church member donors for a monetary “donation” based on their distance from the Church according to the following schedule:

Donation Distance of donation site from MWCC

$10 up to 10 miles

$20 beyond 10, up to 20 miles

$30 beyond 20, up to 30 miles

$40 beyond 30, up to 40 miles

etc.

After this year’s Fleazaar sale day, we will review the pluses and minuses of this policy. We appreciate any input you may have received from donors.

Respectively submitted,

Deane Galloway, Session Fleazaar representative

June18

WESTMINSTER GUILD

Westminster Guild met on Thursday, May 4, for our ninth and last Bible Study lesson of the 2016-2017 season. This year’s study, entitled “Who Is Jesus? What a Difference a Lens Makes,” has looked at Jesus through the writers of our four Gospels, writers of non-canonical texts, and others who are not Christians but who share the Abrahamic faith tradition. In our final lesson we looked at how the context and perspective of the READER contribute to interpretation. We learned that it may be more important to look for “meaning potential” than for an absolute objective meaning. Each interpretation of the sacred text is a conversation between the biblical writing and the biblical reader — mediated by centuries of tradition and the immediate experiences and situations of each reader. Who we are and where and how we were raised determine in large measure how we interpret a text and how we hear God’s word

for us. The Bible is a living text, and God continues to speak to us through it. Our study this year has helped each of us to determine for ourselves who Jesus is and who, through Jesus, God is calling us to be.

Please plan to join us for next year’s Bible Study, entitled “Cloud of Witnesses: The Community of Christ in Hebrews.” We will begin on Thursday, September 7, and we are fortunate to have Father Bill Radant again leading us. He is a wonderful and inspirational leader.

Our Guild is now moving into high gear with Fleazaar planning! We will soon begin selling our raffle tickets — please check out our great raffle items for this year — and we are working on menus for all the lunches we serve to Fleazaar worker-bees. On June 1 we will begin making our pies for the bake sale, so please continue bringing in pie filling as you are

able, and if anyone has fresh rhubarb we are delighted to make rhubarb or strawberry/rhubarb p pies! Each “Bazaar” department is always seeking items to entice customers: jewelry, giftware, antiques and treasures, Country Store finds, seasonal decor — you name it! We would love to have almost anything you are ready to part with!

Finally, please plan to join us for our cookbook launch, “Taste and See,” on Sunday, June 11, immediately following our church service. We will have samples of several items from our cookbook for you to taste — and the cookbooks will be available for sale on that day!!! Mark your calendars!

Kay Suffron

Moderator

Administration Committee

Joan Dioszegi has tendered her resignation in her position as our Christian Education lay leader. The resignation is effective June 30, 2017. Joan has held that position for almost ten years.

Her plans include a move to the Neenah, Wisconsin area, to be near her daughter, son-in-law and grandson; to become a more active part of their lives. We wish Joan our best! She will be missed. When you run into her during the next few weeks, please take the time to thank her for her work, dedication, and for being such an important part of our church family.

If any member of our congregation knows anyone that may be interested in learning more about this part-time job opening, we ask that they contact Lois at our church office.

Dave Lukas

Administration Committee Chair

Reward Offered

The last time I asked the congregation for volunteers for Fleazaar pick-ups, perhaps I was overly zealous. I lost four volunteers. I guess they don’t realize this remains on their permanent records.

Consequently, I am taking a different tack in asking for volunteers for the shuttle. I have ten time slots available, most are two hours. If anyone is willing to do more than one shift, it will reduce the number of volunteers needed.

Being a shuttle driver is fun, easy, and you get to schmooze. You are not even on your feet. If you are not committed to any other department, or you have some time during the day, please give me a call—(715)686-7173. This is a once-in-a-year opportunity.

Jay Woolf

June Birthdays:

1st Elaine Newton, 2nd Gayle Strand, John Stahl, Kelsy Kost, 3rd Judi Arnold, 5th Donna Stahl, 6th Ruth Stober, 7th Barb Novak, Norman McKindles, 9th Jesse Schroeter, 10th Doreen Ahonen, 11th Carl Johnson, 12th Justin Chamberlin, 13th Ron Hine, John Farwell, 14th Missy Drake, Nan Bloch, 15th Ramona Kubica, 17th Tom Schroeter, Nathan Kingstad, 18th Judy Denton, Bowen Slone, 19th Hester Rayala, Keaton Brewer/Crownhart, 20th Judy Peterson, 21st Sarah Becklund, Margo Perkins, 24th Keewin Wilson, 25th Alicia McElroy/Lee, 26th James Patterson, Eleanor Olesen, 27th Jean DeCarlo, 28th Lauren Patterson, 30th Marjean Schuelke

June Anniversary:

1st Michael & Christine Hayes, 3rd Mike & Gail Speer, 4th Dave & Beverly Kebrdle, 5th Roger & Sarah Becklund, Jeff & Kay Krans, 8th Chuz & Kath Wilson, 9th John & Jo Reichling, Richard & Freda Masar, 10th Tom & Betty Larum, 13th Don & Carole Berglin, Tom & Judy Erickson, 17th Dick & Becky Kayser, 18th Stephen & Nancy Russell, 20th Lloyd & Susan Glynn, 22nd Ed & Mary Monroe, 24th Don & Jean Trimble, 28th Rick & Peggy Eble, Glenn & Agnes Ripley, Andy & Julie Detling, 29th Bob & Judy Strauser

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Our last day of Youth Group was on May 24th. Everyone had a good time. The consensus of the teachers, was that this was our best year yet. The kids were great, the curriculum was easy to use and the teachers all worked well together.

Confirmation will be on June 18th, Father’s Day. We have 3 young ladies to present to you that day. Callie Johnson, Lauren Gardner and Amanda Semmerling. We hope you will all be here to welcome them into the church membership.

Lauren Gardner was baptized in our church, has been coming to youth group from the time she was old enough, and attending church with her parents, Vanessa Hahn and Chris Gardner.

Callie Johnson started in Youth Group at the same time, following her sister Isabelle and brother Grayson. Her parents Adam and Danna Johnson joined the church in _____.

Amanda Semmerling’s family has been worshipping with us for several years. Amanda and her sisters, Hannah and Breanna, were all baptized in our church last year. Jeff and Kristin Semmerling and girls have been attending our church very faithfully.

Callie, Amanda and Lauren will be graduating from North Lakeland this year as well. Best wishes for your future and may God bless you along the way.

In His service and yours,

Joan Dioszegi

P.S.

As many of you have already heard, I will be moving to the Neenah area this summer. My daughter, son-in-law and grandson live there and I want to be actively involved in their lives, especially Charlie’s.

Just as I know God led me here, I believe He has a new plan for me now. ---Jeremiah 29:11

This was a very difficult decision to make, as you have all been my family for nearly 16 years. I will miss you all, but will never forget you!

Manitowish Waters Community

Presbyterian Church

PO Box 69

Manitowish Waters, WI 54545

June

2017

Bible Trivia

…check your Bible knowledge

People in Exile

1. How many years were the Israelites in Egypt?

2. What prophet was exiled in Egypt with other people from Judah?

3. What was the first instance of exile in the Bible?

4. Who was brought down to Egypt and sold to a man named Potiphar?

5. Who chose to go into exile rather than constantly quarrel with his brother?

6. Who was exiled from the rest of the world?

7. Who did Abraham banish to the desert?

Happy Father’s Day

Happy New

Year

Office Hours:

Monday through Friday = 9:00 am till noon

715-543-2998

Rev. Chips 715-776-2998

manwtrschurch@



1. 430 years (Exodus 12:40), 2. Jeremiah (43:5-7), 3. God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden (Genesis 3:24), 4. Joseph (Genesis 39:1), 5. Jacob (Genesis 27:41-45), 6. Noah and his family, since everyone else died (Genesis 7:23), 7. Hagar and Ishmael (Genesis 21:14).

Chit Chat

“How does a zipper work?” asks Gary Drevitch in his Psychology Today article, “Massively Intelligent.” He asks the same thing about the operation of other items such as toilets, coffee-makers, watches, cell phones and space probes. Can you explain how they actually work? Every day we use countless items, and we think we understand how they work until we actually try to explain those operations to another person. We then realize we do not actually know as much as we thought we knew. There is a significant gap between what we think we know and what we actually do know. Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach in their book, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone bring this gap between what we think we know and what we actually do know under scrutiny. ”…people are more ignorant than they think they are,” contend the researchers. We know just enough to get by. The researcher’s intention is not to underscore our ignorance, lack of intelligence or lack of explanatory ability. They draw our attention instead, as the subtitle of their book implies, to the way in which our understanding and knowledge is a conjoined activity rather than an independent one.

Sloman, a psychologist at Brown and the editor of the journal Cognition, and Fernbach, a cognitive scientist at the University of Colorado, tell us that although as individuals we are fairly ignorant, collectively we are capable of brilliance. We have easy access to information, but that can also make us “recklessly overconfident.”

Our brains are magnificent organs, and our minds are capable problem solvers. They do not have, however, unlimited memory capacity. According to some estimates, we have somewhere between 1 and 10 gigabites of memory. Our brains also have the ability to use that memory in conjunction with pattern recognition and other forms of insight. There is too much for any one individual to know, so most knowledge resides outside of our heads and is in the rest of our bodies, in the environment, and most importantly say Sloman and Fernbach, in other people.

We use our little bits of information, seeing the world only one bit at a time, we know, however, that the rest is there. Our success as a species is because of our ability to combine the abilities and capacities of our minds together. Massive undertakings like the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt or the Skyscrapers of New York would be impossible by a lone individual. The knowledge base of individuals is specialized, however, and the combination of that specialized knowledge with the specialized knowledge of others is what enables us to be successful in very complicated tasks such as putting a person on the moon, or building a particle accelerator. Collectively, human beings are capable of great tasks. This collective joining of knowledge is also true in our most intimate relationships. For instance, spouses are more prone to forget details in areas of their partner’s clear expertise – choosing the right wine, how to file taxes, fixing a leaky faucet, or adjusting the derailleur on a bicycle. We can focus our memory on what we have to, or want to, secure that our partner has his or her territory equally well covered. Without this kind of collaboration we cannot be successful, nor even survive. There is a problem, however, and that problem has to do with hubris, or pride.

Our failure to recognize how much of our knowledge is outside of us can lead us to a failure to recognize how much we don’t know. We live, therefore, says Drevitch, without explanatory depth, and can fall victim to something called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a phenomenon in which those who perform the worst on a task are those who have overrated their skills the most. Doctors, workers, students and drivers who have the highest level of skill tend to underrate their abilities. They recognize how much they don’t know, and how much more they could know, and how much better they could perform. Those who perform the worst are those without an accurate sense of what skills they are missing.

As you can imagine, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a particular risk in the world of politics. Leaders have the responsibility, says Drevitch, to learn about their own ignorance and effectively take advantage of the knowledge and skills of others. Likewise a mature electorate is one that makes the effort to appreciate a leader who recognizes that the world is complex and hard to understand. Knowledge is not the only thing which spreads across communities. So do values and beliefs, these however are not always fact-based. We can become victims of a collaborative “group-think” in which members of a particular group may provide each other with support for shared beliefs for which there is no factual basis. Take climate change, for instance. When skeptics are shown videos or articles about the science behind the process --- the mechanisms, not the blame,--- says Drevitch, their cognitive wall begins to crack. In the end, say the researchers, “no one wants to be wrong.”

I am often struck by the noteable humility and lack of hubris exhibited by newly ordained and installed Elders and Deacons who serve in our governing bodies. The most effective among them often come with a clear sense that they lack certain knowledge and skills for leading and serving our congregation and community. They also often have an awareness, sometimes a rather dim awareness, of some of the gifts they “bring to the table,” so to speak. They may think too little of the gifts they have, they may think they are undeveloped or underdeveloped, they may not even recognize some of the gifts and capacities which are part of their knowledge base and skill set. They come to the governing “body”, however, open to learning from others, willing to explore and examine areas of knowledge outside of the 1-10 gigabites of memory stored in their minds, and ready to share in the overall life of this wonderful living body we call, “Our Church.”

As we ramp-up for the Fleazaar, the work of Sloman and Fernbach is lived-out in our everyday activities. Each of you have a certain skill-set and knowledge base, and these combine with your particular capacities and which are conjoined with the knowledge and capacities of others. Most of us know we do not possess the knowledge others in our group do. We recognize our ignorance in certain areas, however, we also recognize others have the knowledge and skill-set we lack, and so we are confident that those others have their specialty covered just as we have ours covered.

Two thousand years ago, the writers of the New Testament used a metaphor to speak of the same reality. They described the specialized and conjoined knowledge and capacities of Jesus’ followers as a human body – the body of Christ. “The Church,” contrary to most of our impressions of it, is not the physical plant in which we work and worship. It is the gathered community of those who share the faith of, and/or faith in, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, and who, in turn, are empowered and led by a Spirit whom we call, The Holy Spirit. The early church’s leaders recognized the unique capacities among their individual members, and used the metaphor of the particular parts of the one body to underscore both the specialized knowledge and capacities of the individuals, and also the amazing capabilities for serving, helping, healing, forgiving and giving to others which is created when those particular members of the body come together.

May we continue to celebrate the gift of one another, and great capacity we have when we are joined together.

Your Pastor, Chips

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June 2017

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