This summer there are three special opportunities for children
to have fun and grow in the Lord.
 

Join Us for Worship!

Sunday Morning Worship

Celebration Service: 8:30   

Education:   9:45   

Praise Service: 11:00

Summer Schedule begins on June 8

One Service at 9 AM.

Sunday School & Pioneer Club Sunday

Sunday, June 8th -  9:00 AM

The children will participate as greeters, ushers, readers, acolytes, and communion assistants. Also, the Sunday School and Pioneer Clubs teachers and leaders will be recognized.

Mission and Vision Statement

of Northlake Lutheran Church

Map and directions

Lutherwood counselors join with Rose and Northlake volunteers to offer daily fun for school-age children.  Bible lessons, crafts and singing  give kids something special every day. The times are 9 AM – 3:30 PM daily at $50 for the full week (scholarships are available).  Volunteer opportunities abound for junior high and high school youth and adults as small group leaders, snack providers and daily registration helpers.  Please contact Rose Joiner — 425-486-6977. A registration form is printed on page 6, and they are also available for pick-up on the table in the church narthex.

Download Registration Form

CAMP LUTHERWOOD

See the brochure at church for many camping opportunities at our Lutheran camp on Lake Samish near Bellingham. www.camplutherwood.org

CASCADE CAMP CHERITH

BOYS  July 6-12 (boys)

GIRLS July 13-19 & 20-26 (girls)

The camping ministry of Pioneer Clubs has three weeks of camp for boys and girls.  The overnight camp is near Cle Elum.  Kids do not need to be a member of Pioneer Clubs to attend.  Beyond traditional camp fun, Camp Cherith gives kids the opportunity to develop both new and advanced skills in horsemanship, archery, canoeing, riflery, crafts, clowning, swimming, drama, nature and more.  Daily devotions and Bible study help children grow closer to Jesus.  Laser tag, the bungee run, human hamster balls and the Saturn water toy add loads of fun.  Don’t you want to go?  Campers are entering grades 2-12 in the fall.  Volunteer opportunities are numerous for adults who love children to serve as counselors, activity specialists and janitors. 

Contact Judy Elbert at 425-487-0648 
www.cascadecampcherith.org 
 

Mission Planning Team established    

As a result of the Year of Transformation work that was done in 2007, Pastor Dick Wendt, our consultant, put forth the challenge to establish some immediate goals and also to look at more long range goals by establishing a three-five year plan.  The immediate goals have been published previously as
the Top Six 0of our “RED DOT” exercise.  We now move into the more extended planning. Read More...
 

Church Picnic

Bring a main dish, salad or dessert to share, plus your plates and utensils. Beverages are provided. Games and activities are planned, or you can observe as others participate ….. this event is for all ages! Invite friends and neighbors,

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“Just Desserts” a huge success !

Detective Dirk Drake (played by David Osborne) arrives by “Kenmore Air” to solve the murder mystery at the “Just Desserts” production. Howard the butler (played by Alan Murdock) is in the background — he seems a bit nervous that the detective is arriving !! This event was organized by Flo Lindstrom in response to a suggestion by a non-member, Cherry Van Overstraeten, who wanted to repay Northlake for generously allowing community groups to use church facilities. Cherry wrote and directed the play. Other performers included Shannan Hayes, Joanne Hayne, Sara Hayashi, Bruce Keegan, Judy Keegan, and Lucy Kay Osborne.
 

Hopelink

Thank you for all the food collected during our March food drive for Hopelink. We will continue to have a basket just inside the front entrance of the church for ongoing food donations to this food bank.  Please continue to remember them on your trips to the grocery store. Read more...

Sharing Talents
One of the Three Ts of Stewardship

The Stewardship Committee has begun a discussion about ways to encourage members to share their talents in a variety of ways that will promote fellowship and enhance involvement, as well. This discussion came about after the early May “Just Desserts” fundraising event. This production showed that people (the actors) have hidden talents that even they may not be aware of ….. more

“Special Needs Fund”
Established

The Church Council has approved establishing a fund to assist a local family with physical challenges and unmet needs. Donations are gratefully accepted for this worthwhile cause. Your donations, over and above your regular offerings, can be made payable to the church, marked “Special Needs Fund.”
 

THANK YOU to those who have worked hard to teach our children during this school year. read more...
 

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Sunday, June 1^st - The last day of Sunday School

Youth Receives Honor . . .
 

The Inglemoor High School DECA Team won first place in an international competition with DECA squads from the fifty states, Canada, Germany and Puerto Rico. Northlake’s Aaron Coombs is a part of this champion group. Congratulations to Aaron and his fellow team members!
 

SOCIAL MINISTRIES
 

As we mentioned in the last Northlights, during the summer months children no longer have access to breakfast or lunch at school. This makes it a time of greater need at food banks to provide items for these meals.

Mid-May we started a “Brown Bag” food drive for summer breakfast or lunch items. This includes a shopping list with these items and a special “brown bag” for money donations to Hopelink. You will find the shopping lists and “brown bags” on the table in the narthex. Please remember these children on your trips to the grocery store ..… or with a gift of money.
 

Bishop's Message
Opening The Book Of Faith

by The Reverend Wm. Chris Boerger, Bishop

The Book of Faith initiative is a five-year project for every member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). This project is the result of a memorial from the North Carolina Synod to the 1995 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Its goal is to increase Biblical knowledge and conversation among all of the members of this church.

We are a church that affirms that the scriptures are the authoritative source and norm of our proclamation, faith and life. It is in the scriptures that we see Jesus. It is in the scriptures that we are confronted with our sin and the power of God’s grace....Read more...
 

President's Spotlight 

Do you know who came to Northlake by way of Minnesota? Okay, that could be a rather large group! This couple is “relatively” new to Northlake. She sings in the choir and has used her musical talents for Sunday School and Pioneer Clubs. He has used his knowledge of sound systems, and jumped in with both feet to help during the call process and various other projects around Northlake (he is also hard to miss in a crowd).  Even though they felt like we were a bit unfriendly at first, they stuck with us, and we’ve warmed up to them pretty well. YUP! I’m talking about Connie and Roger Wolter!  Roger and Connie, thanks for sticking with us! Keep up the good work(s)!        .

 David Osborne

God’s Work. Our Hands.

This is the theme for the 2008 NW Washington Synod Assembly, which will be held in Everett on Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17.  Molly and Alan Murdock are the lay voting members from Northlake.

 Exercisers’ Alert!

 Perhaps you’ve noticed while reading the Sunday church bulletin insert that there seems to be someone coming to exercise at church at 10 AM on Monday,  Wednesday,  and  Friday.  If you’ve wondered who these people are, we are a small group at the moment:  Janet Loewen, Dot Brenchley and Linda   Musgrave.  Marge Dale had purchased a set of VHS tapes by way of an infomercial on TV and asked around for interested ladies who would like to exercise together at the church.  Six or more ladies started out fairly regularly, but some ended up deciding they preferred to be walking outdoors, so the group dwindled.  This present group has continued to meet for several years now.  Anyone is welcome to join in.  If 10 AM is not a workable time, come at another time and use the tape or DVD of your choice and ability (they are in the library).  Just return everything to its proper place when you are finished.   ~ Janet Loewen

Fortress Press releases

I Am Bonhoeffer: A Credible Life—A Novel

From privileged prince to political prisoner

On April 5, 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian, was arrested in his parents' home and taken to Tegel prison in Berlin. In the isolation and loneliness of his cell, he composed his now-famous poem, "Who Am I?" Now Paul Barz has composed a novel that posits Bonhoeffer looking back from his cell over the fateful trajectory that brought him to prison—and, later, trial and hanging.

From deep immersion in Bonhoeffer's own papers and the scholarship about him, Barz's narrative imagines Bonhoeffer's looking back to his childhood and family; his education and turn to theology and ministry; his travels to Spain, America, and London; his leadership of the underground seminary at Finkenwalde; his growing opposition to the Third Reich; and his decisive involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Paul Barz, born in 1943, is a freelance journalist living in Hamburg, Germany, whose 25 years of work with newspapers and magazines has been augmented by his books on film and history, especially the history of opposition to the Third Reich.

I Am Bonhoeffer
A Credible Life—A Novel
Paul Barz

Translated by Douglas W. Stott

Prayer Chain
Reorganization

As the church receives requests for special prayers, the Prayer Chain is activated, Those serving on the Prayer Chain are asked to call the next person on the list, and to include the prayer concern in their daily prayers.

It is time to update the church Prayer Chain list. Some people currently on the list are no longer available, and there may be others who would like to participate.

Please indicate your willingness to serve on the Prayer Chain. You can drop a pink slip in the offering plate with your name and the words, “Prayer Chain” or email mcbee@northlakelutheran.org  by Monday, March 10. A new Prayer Chain list will then be circulated using the names of those who have indicated their willingness to serve this important ministry.
 

Three Generations of “Anenson” Pastors

In 2007 Nathan Anenson was ordained at his home congregation, Immanuel Lutheran Church in Story City, Iowa.

Nathan’s father is Pastor Stephen Anenson, who is the senior pastor at Immanuel Lutheran.

And, Northlake’s Pastor LeRoy Anenson, retired, is Nathan’s grand-father and Stephen’s father.

Thanks be to God for these good and faithful servants.
     

The beautiful quilts that were blessed at the altar on October 21 have now been shipped -- Tom and Vicky Hacker packed and delivered 38 to the shipping point. Many thanks to our faithful group of ladies who work on this labor of love: Vicky, Kay Shea, Ferne Pierce, Ruth Stuvland (who tie the quilts) and Dot Brenchley & Janet Loewen (who hem the edges). Ferne Pierce also pieces the quilt tops.
 

Protecting Children/Youth
Safe Church Plan approved

A “Safe Church Plan” is being instituted at Northlake, in the interest of being pro-active in protecting our children and youth. At its May meeting, the Church Council approved this document that outlines the steps the church will take to minimize the possible risks associated with working with children and youth. More...