NOVEMBER 2020 Created for the Friends and Members of Good Hope Lutheran Church Highlights Inside New Day & Time for Drive-In Worship Invite your neighbors and friends… Good Hope’s Drive-In Worship Operation Christmas Page 1 is now Saturdays at 4PM! The Word, worship, and Holy Communion are Toys for Tots Page 1 celebrated weekly. As cool weather approaches, you can stay in your car Priscilla Circle Page 2 and tune to 92.3FM. See you there! First Communion Page 2 Poinsettia Orders Page 2 Operation Christmas Child Upcoming Visit from the It's time to start filling shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Katterhenrich Family Page 3 Child. Shoeboxes will be available in the Gathering Room Missions Conference Page 3 before and after service or you can use a regular shoebox Building Use Page 4 from home. National Collection Week is Nov. 15-22. Celebrating Our Youth Page 4 Please join us! SS Christmas Program Page 5 Prayerfully fill your shoebox for either a boy or a girl in age groups, 2-4, NALC Highlights Page 5 5-9, or 10-14 yrs., with a "WOW" item, small toys, school supplies and Daily Nuggets Page 6 hygiene items. Please be sure to label your box with age and gender. And Benevolence Page 6 remember to include $9.00 for international shipping or use "Follow the Box" Memorial Garden Page 6 option to track your box or to donate online. You can also sponsor someone Birthdays & Memorials Page 7 else's box and pay for someone that can't afford shipping. You can pray for Thank You Notes Page 7 the children that receive the boxes and the adults that deliver them and Council Meeting Notes Page 8 share the Gospel. Let's try to reach our goal of 80 boxes! Pastor Bob’s Page Page 9 The gift filled shoeboxes are a great evangelism tool for Pastors around the world. And each child will hear the Gospel, maybe for the first time. Please wear a mask upon entering the Church "What goes into the box is Fun, what comes out is Eternal!" Maintain social distancing Wash or sanitize your hands Toys for Tots often Good Hope is again participating in the U.S. Stay home if you are sick Marines “Toys for Tots” program. Donations will Continue to pray for healing be given to underprivileged children in our local for all affected by Covid-19 area for Christmas. There is a donation box downstairs near the carport doors where you can donate new, unwrapped gifts for kids of all ages from now - December 6. Thank you for your help! Scan to pay or give. Good Hope Lutheran Church E-Giving Rev. Robert Quaintance, Pastor 98 Homestead Drive www.Goodhopeboardman.org Boardman, Ohio 44512 • 330-782-8109 Fellowship & Ministry Christmas Poinsettias Priscilla Circle Yes, it is that time of year again! Lay Ministry The ladies of Priscilla If you would like to order a RED Assistant Circle will meet in the Parlor Poinsettia to be placed in the on Tues. Nov. 10 at 4:30pm. church sanctuary on Christmas Karen Biggs Our current project is Eve, please fill out the pink form Email: assembling holiday gift boxes and include your check payable for our shut-ins. to Good Hope and return to the KarenB@ All women are invited to church office no later than GoodHopeBoardman.org join us. We to refresh our- Monday, November 23rd. Please selves with the Word and see the enclosed order form or you with fellowship. may pick one up in the church entrance. Email Prayer Chain Fun Timers If you would like to join the Fun Timers on hold. You email prayer chain, please may call Joanie Duffey at email Nancy Brown at home 330-533-0501 or call or [email protected] and she text her cell at 386-956-9089. will put you on the group to be emailed with prayers. 1st Communion Sunday On Sunday October 25th, three very special young people received their 1st Communion. Congratulations Jamison, Santino, and Kenzie! Good Hope will continue to pray for each of you and support you as Altar Flowers you grow in your faith. In Phillipians 1:6, Paul reminds us, “And I am Needed sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to 1 vase for 11/8 completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” 1 vase for 11/15 Please print your complete name on the space next to the date. Do not print the dedication on the chart. Flowers are $22 per vase and you will receive a phone call or email as a reminder before your date. Please submit all information for the December Newsletter to the church office by Nov. 20. You can email it to [email protected] or you can call or stop by the church office. Pictured with Pastor Bob, from left to right: Jamison Lynn, Santino Nespeca and Kenzie Tobey Page 2 Good Hope Lutheran Church The Good News of Good Hope November 2020 Missions Upcoming Visit from the Katterhenrich Family Missions Conference th on Zoom On November 8 , we Like a multitude of other events will be blessed to have our during 2020, in-person conferences missionaries, the Katterhen- have adapted to online settings. In the rich family, visit us Sunday case of the upcoming missions morning at Good Hope. conference, Unveiled: Singing the Stephen and Rachel along Light in the Darkness, church with their children, Hope and members and many others gain the Scott, have been serving as benefit of being able to attend without missionaries as NALC global travelling and without cost. The Great workers in Tanzania. They Commission Society will host the event will be coming to Good Hope as a Zoom webinar beginning on Wed. to share some of their Nov. 4th and continuing with experiences as they have been working to spread the Good sessions on Thurs. and Fri. All News of Jesus by translating the written Word of God for sessions are 1 hr. long at 11 am or communities that have never seen the Bible in their own 8pm. For more information or to language before. register, please visit Stephen and Rachel were both blessed to have grown up in the Church, involved in youth groups at St. John’s Lutheran https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unveiled- Church in Grove City, Ohio, and in supportive Christian tickets-120233749381 families. Through these, they learned the value of knowing and serving God, as well as serving others. Stephen went to Taylor University in Indiana and studied Christian Education and Biblical Studies. He developed a passion for the Word of God. Rachel studied Spanish and French at Hope College in Michigan, and developed a passion for languages and culture. The Katterhenrichs first heard about Wycliffe while they were in college. Rachel met a couple who had worked with Join your brothers and sisters Wycliffe in South America and who told them about the work in Christ and gather virtually to support of Bible translation. They each attended a one-week course missionaries serving in their homes on translation and loved it. Eventually they realized that their and neighborhoods, in their congreg- passions aligned and pointed towards doing translation with ations, and internationally. Among the Wycliffe. keynote speakers is Rev.Dr. They are currently working with a translation team in Gemechis Buba, Missions Director Tanzania, helping to begin the process of Bible translation for of the NALC. The schedule includes groups that don't yet have God's Word in their language. In the following: 11/4- Unashamed Tanzania, they are analyzing languages, developing based in Genesis 3:8-11, 11/5- alphabets, and helping to train others in linguistic principles. Unleashed based in Isaiah 43:18- Most of the 40 languages in Tanzania where translation is still 21, and on 11/6- Unrestrained needed do not yet have a written form. The majority have based in 1John 1:1-4. never been analyzed or documented. If you interested in attending Good Hope has began supporting the Katterhenrich this online conference, please go to family and their mission at the beginning of the year. We pray the link shown above. Then you for them every Sunday. Soon, on Sunday November 8th, we will receive an email from will have the opportunity to see them in person and hear about Eventbrite with a link. The link will the work they have been doing for God’s glory. allow you access to the conference each day at any time. At the appointed day and time, click on the link and it will automatically open in Zoom Webinar. Additional details will be sent via email leading up to the event. November 2020 The Good News of Good Hope Good Hope Lutheran Church Page 3 Sharing Our Lives Building Use: Re-Opening Update You shop. Church Council passed motions to re-open our Parlor and Fellow- Amazon gives. ship Hall; with the understanding that all state laws and recommendations Amazon donates 0.5% of will be followed. Council has considered re-opening cautiously for the the price of your eligible health and safety of all involved. The outside groups that previously held AmazonSmile purchases regular meetings in our building include AA, NA, and Al-Anon and to the charitable Neighborhood Watch. Council also decided to open up the calendar to organization of your schedule member events and parties. choice. For both types of gatherings, a limit of 2 hours will be enforced. Good Hope is registered The kitchen areas will remain closed.