A widow steps out of scripture today to teach us about persistence in prayer. The widow is acquainted with grief as one among many marginalized and vulnerable people, but also as a woman who stands her ground in her quest for justice. The unnamed widow repeatedly appeals for justice and finally is vindicated. Many have known persistent prayer as a kind of wrestling with God. Many have pleaded with God for justice and mercy. Today God’s grace and mercy is known in the blessing of baptismal remembrance and our identity as beloved children of God.

Holy Communion
9 am – First, Chariton
11 am – Christ the Servant, Corydon
10 am – CTS Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
1 pm – Slavic Worship

MONDAY: October 21
7 pm – Quilt Guild in Fireside Room

TUESDAY: October 22

WEDNESDAY: October 23

THURSDAY: October 24
9 am – FLC Quilting
7 pm – Slavic Worship

FRIDAY: October 25
Office Closed

SATURDAY: October 26

NEXT SUNDAY:  October 27
Reformation Sunday
Holy Communion
     9 am – Joint Worship at FLC
(There will not be a service at CTS on this day.)
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
1 pm – Slavic Worship

Today is a day of unexpected blessings and miracles, signs of how God is active and alive and present in our world and in our lives. Fragile relationships are restored. Hope is experienced in profound ways. Ten lepers implore God’s mercy and are made clean. But the outsider—the foreigner—is the only one who returns to give thanks. Today many of us encounter other hardships of all sorts, and our reading in 2 Timothy makes the stark point that we all suffer. But our God joins us in our sufferings and in our hardships, making us whole through our spiritual cleansing of baptism and filled with God’s Spirit.
 

SUNDAY:  October 13
Holy Communion
9 am – First, Chariton
11 am – Christ the Servant, Corydon
10 am – CTS Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Special Congregation Meeting
Noon – CTS Special Congregation Meeting
We will be discussing amending the budget to
include possible parking lot improvements.
1 pm – Slavic Worship
6 pm – Lutheran Adult Fellowship

MONDAY: October 14
2 pm – Laplanders Quilt Guild at CTS
6:30 pm – Council at FLC

TUESDAY: October 15
Noon – CTS Women’s Bible Study
at the home of Ann Sipma
3:30 pm – CTS Worship Committee
4:30 pm – CTS Task Force

WEDNESDAY: October 16

THURSDAY: October 17
9 am – FLC Quilting
Noon – Wayne County Ministers Meet
6 pm – CTS Serve Football Team Meal
7 pm – Slavic Worship

FRIDAY: October 18
9-11 am – CCC at CTS
Office Closed
Newsletter Deadline

SATURDAY: October 19

NEXT SUNDAY:  October 20
Cinnamon Roll Sunday
Holy Communion
9 am – First, Chariton
11 am – Christ the Servant, Corydon
10 am – CTS Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
1 pm – Slavic Worship

Faith is the theme of today’s readings, a life-transforming faith, one that demonstrates the very presence of God moving, alive, and active in God’s people. God, who creates and claims each of us as God’s own children, brings us into this family by our baptisms and by the faith God gives us makes us holy children. Being part of this divine family gives us our worth, even at those times we may not think of ourselves as worthy. In 2 Timothy, the author writes a history of the faith in Timothy’s family, beginning with his grandmother and then passed on to his mother and himself. This is how many of us were first brought into the family of God: we had faithful parents who knew of their own God-given righteousness and then passed this gift on to their children. But again, it’s all God’s doing! Finally, Jesus’ disciples boldly ask their teacher to “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5). They knew that faith was something needed, and Jesus explains that even a small amount of faith can do great wonders.
 

SUNDAY:  October 6
Holy Communion
9 am – First, Chariton
11 am – Christ the Servant, Corydon
10 am – CTS Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
1 pm – Slavic Worship

MONDAY: October 7
6 pm – WWW at the Parsonage

TUESDAY: October 8
8 am – Breakfast Gals
9 am-3 pm: Blanket Making Party at CTS

WEDNESDAY: October 9

THURSDAY: October 10
9 am – FLC Quilting
1 pm – Women of the ELCA
7 pm – Slavic Worship

FRIDAY: October 11
Office Closed

SATURDAY: October 12
9 am-3:30 pm:  “Jesus, Old, New, & Now”
Bible Study at FLC
Featuring Dr. Mark Mattes and
Dr. Ken Sundet Jones
Authors and Professors of Religion
at Grand View University
All are invited!!
$5.00 cost includes lunch and snacks
Please contact Del Kray (515-360-5936) if you can join us on this day.

NEXT SUNDAY:  October 13
Holy Communion
9 am – First, Chariton
11 am – Christ the Servant, Corydon
10 am – CTS Sunday School
10:15 am – FLC Sunday School
10:15 am – Executive Committee at FLC
Noon – CTS Special Congregation Meeting
We will be discussing amending the budget to
include possible parking lot improvements.
1 pm – Slavic Worship
6 pm – Lutheran Adult Fellowship