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BEAUTIFUL NEWS!
“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those
who bring good news!” (Isaiah 52:7)
BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH & EARLY LEARNING CENTER
4320 S. Conklin Street + Spokane, WA 99203 + 747
747--6806
Volume 9
Issue 11
Published Monthly
November 2014
Taking Comfort in Rituals
The slogan outside the Starbucks caught my
eye: “Take Comfort in Rituals.” It was advertising a pumpkin latte, but more than that—the
ubiquitous coffee shop was tapping into an intuitive and deep-seated satisfaction that many
people take from those well-worn paths we call
“rituals.”
Fall is the preeminent season for ritual. My
family visited Greenbluff, a place I’m sure will
become an annual destination for us, as it may
well be for your family. As I write, the “Fall
Classic” (baseball’s World Series) is underway. And we’re inching toward Thanksgiving and
its panoply of practices, from parades to family gatherings to turkey. Rituals cover Fall like the
pine needles on my front yard.
I took especial notice of the Starbucks slogan, though, because of the way it also speaks to our
life in the church. Particularly as Lutherans, we are all about taking comfort in rituals. The
week-by-week rhythm of confession and absolution, of hearing God’s word and responding in
prayer and praise, of receiving the Lord’s Supper and returning to the world refreshed and renewed—it’s like settling into an autumn sweater. The well-worn paths of Gloria and Sanctus
and Agnus Dei slowly, but surely, make their way from head to heart and bring us home to the
warm welcome of our Father.
The comfort of our churchly rituals is not merely sentimental, though—the way your $5 latte
might be. They are sign-posts of the sacred, tastes of transcendence. Consider, for instance, the
ceremonial—the rituals—surrounding the Lord’s Supper. What accounts for the pastor’s
strange actions of chanting and bowing (not to mention the curious outfit!), and the congregation’s awkward kneeling side-by-side before the Lord’s table? Is this not to affirm and celebrate—in ways that even words cannot—that God’s holy Presence is in our midst? As one of
our hymns puts it, “Undivided God we claim Thee and, adoring, bend the knee, while we own
the mystery” (LSB 940:5). These rituals are a way in which we “own the mystery.”
Nor does taking comfort in rituals mean that we merely go through the motions, any more than
enjoying the same Thanksgiving dinner year after year is necessarily vain repetition. Humans
are creatures of habit; we delight in the familiar. God made us this way. The rituals are simply
a way in which we ‘get in the groove,’ priming our souls to practice our faith. The comfort ultimately comes from the Comforter.
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So I have to say—Starbucks is on to something, though it is hardly original. At least since the final day of
Creation and the first Sabbath, God’s people have been taking comfort in rituals. It’s a tradition we gratefully
continue.
✙ Pastor Tinetti
Spotlight on the Staff
Connie Boyer
Connie started working at Beautiful Savior Day Care in
August 2014. Connie also teaches Pre-School at Hamblen Park Presbyterian Church. She loves to spend time
reading Bible stories and playing games with the children. In her spare time Connie enjoys visiting her two
beautiful grandbabies. Welcome, Connie!
Congregational Voters’ Meeting
Sunday, November 2, 2014, 9:15—10:15 a.m.
Vote on the Budget for fiscal year 2014-2015.
No Sunday School or Adult Bible Class that day.
Rake and Run
BSLC Youth
Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014
12:00 p.m.
Plan to be in worship at the
10:30 a.m. service and stick
around to eat lunch immediately following worship. We will rake and remove leaves/pine needles from a few yards,
including some of our elderly members, and
then run to the next stop. What to bring:
grubbies (work clothes), work shoes/
boots, gloves, rakes, and garbage bags.
BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR
LUTHERAN CHURCH STAFF
Rev. Ryan Tinetti
Pastor
Floyd Czoski
Music Director
Marty Tornquist
Office Manager
Katy Eucker
Accountant
Pam Larson
ELC Teacher
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Thanksgiving Worship Service
At Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
7:00 p.m.
With Holy Communion
Anna Cantu
ELC Teacher
Dena Ward
Kindergarten Teacher
Armin Vogt
Youth Coordinator
Chloe Ledwith
Day Care Director
Christina Derrick
Day Care Provider
Connie Boyer
Day Care Provider
Mitchell Kinney
Janitor
THE CONGREGATION’S CORNER
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Laurette Bridges’ new address is: St. Mark’s Senior Living, 1515 North Illinois, Room 153,
Spokane, WA 99207-5047.
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Verna Brady’s new address is: 4343 Lebanon Road, #T406, Hermitage, TN 37076
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Matt & Piper Swaney’s new address is: 5108 North Lucille Rd., Spokane Valley, WA 99216
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Emmett John Nelson was baptized at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church on October 26, 2014. His
parents are James & Amanda Nelson and his grandparents are John & Ruthell Baker.
Meet Sally Winn
Sally Winn moved to Spokane in June of 2014 upon admission to Gonzaga University Law as member of the first Accelerated 2-Year JD Program. Her prior work
was serving as the VP of a DC area non-profit. Her two daughters, Emily (20) and
Hannah (19), live in Bozeman, Montana where they attend Montana State University. Sally's retired father, Dr. Richard Winn, was ordained in 1979 as a pastor in the
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Welcome, Sally!
HYMN FESTIVAL
Sunday, November 16,2014 at 2:00 p.m.
Central Lutheran Church, 512 South Bernard St.
You are invited to the second annual hymn festival honoring the late Janice Newell’s love of hymn singing. In the churches she
served, she strove to make hymn singing meaningful, joyful and an important part of worship. This year we will have lots of congregational singing with varied organ, brass, percussion, strings, choirs, and hand bell accompaniments. Beautiful Savior’s choir will participate. For more information, call 624-9233 or talk to Floyd Czoski.
Early Learning Center
Income and Expenses
September
Day Care
Pre-School Total ELC
Revenues
$6,078.00
$6,230.87 $12,308.87
Donations
69.50
Expenses
Income Less
Expenses
69.50
139.00
(6,235.64
(7,760.43) (13,996.07)
($88.14)
($1,460.06) ($1,548.20)
Beautiful Savior’s Debt Out-Look
Land Mortgage Loan Balance as of
Oct. 5, 2014: $ 177,983.46
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Church
Income and Expenses
Plate Contributions
Land Mortgage Loan Income
September:
$22,170.98
620.00
Fund Transfers
Interest/Other Income
Total Income
3.17
$22,794.15
Total Expenses
($42,117.12)
Income Less Expenses
($19,322.97)
The Church’s Profound Responsibility
Is To Pay Attention to Young People!
by Randy Benson
A new school year has started at Beautiful Savior Early Learning Center (ELC). Let us rejoice and
be glad in it. Our school and daycare, a ministry of the congregation, is a vital outreach and essential service of Beautiful Savior. From enrollment to finances, the ELC is having a good year
and we, as a congregation, have a responsibility to pay attention to and support our school.
The Lord cares for, forgives, and loves His children even at their most tender stages of life: while
they are in the womb and as they grow and are shaped in their knowledge of the world and of
Him.
Learning from their pastors, teachers, youth leaders, Sunday school teachers, and parents,
young people discover the love of Christ and are emboldened to share that Good News. As they
grow in the love of the Lord and His gifts, they reach out in love with their own gifts to their
friends, classmates, congregations, and their own families.
Steeped in an understanding of what it means to be and live as a child of God, they get to have a
full and exciting fellowship with other people — especially those their own age — enjoying the
support and camaraderie of the body of Christ, the Church as a whole, and our congregation.
There’s such joy and energy when the children of our Early Learning Center grow in love and
knowledge of the Lord!
Youth ministry and Lutheran education are not passing fancies for the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; they are hallmarks of our work in the world. Our young people are part of the
Church of today, and they are the Church’s future. That’s why we should pray for, pay attention to, and support Beautiful Savior’s Early Learning Center.
Please join with our brothers and sisters throughout the Synod in celebrating the work done
among our youth and within the walls of our Early Learning Center. Please pray for the Lord to
raise up faithful young people in our midst. Please pay attention to the needs of our ELC and
Day Care and support the work of this valuable ministry at Beautiful Savior. Below are some
wonderful suggestions on how you can help and support the ELC and Day Care. Feel free to ask
the ELC faculty (Pam Larson, Dena Ward and Anna Cantu) for the names of students to pray for,
reach out to, and support during this school year.
Pray for the ELC and Day Care students,
their families, the teachers, and the staff.
Attend ELC programs held at the church.
Get the name of a student from the staff
and include them and their family in your
daily prayers.
Send the student a birthday card.
Send a thank you note to the teachers and
staff.
Participate in ELC fundraisers.
Offer to volunteer if there is need in a specific area.
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Make a financial contribution to the ELC.
Give a book to an ELC student.
Participate in an ELC/Day Care staff appreciation dinner.
Donate supplies (pencils, crayons, paper)
to the ELC. Please check with staff to see
what's needed.
Tell others about the ELC and Day Care
(family, friends, coworkers).
Distribute the ELC/Day Care brochure to
family, friends and coworkers.
Look at ELC website and share that with
others.
Early Learning Center News
October was a busy month for our school! We picked
apples and pumpkins at Walter’s Fruit Ranch. The afternoon classes harvested potatoes in the Community
Garden. Several volunteers from the Senior Class
helped us with art projects. Corbin’s father, Mr. Middleton, spoke to three classes about fire safety. Kelcey Boyce took pictures of the
ELC for our website. And the children sang for their Autumn parties. Whew!
Our Christmas Store will be open for the ELC children to shop on Thursday and
Friday, Dec. 11 & 12. The store will be open for the congregation to shop on
December 13 & 14. Laura DeMersseman and Heather Audet will post updates and ways the ELC families
and congregation can help with this exciting event.
(See page 7 of this newsletter for creative ways to support the Christmas store.)
Serving God by Serving One Another
by Charles Brondos
As we heard from Pastor Tinetti's message on October 19, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars
and render unto God the things that are God's,” he reminded us that our work and the things we do with
and for others is our way of serving God.
There are many opportunities for you and all our members to be in service to others.
A few examples of how you can help:
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The Union Gospel Mission is collecting canned meat and fish in October and November. Put your donations in the barrel in the church foyer.
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Mission Community Outreach Center is collecting items for distribution to families for Christmas.
There are also volunteer opportunities at MCOC. Call 536-1084 for more information.
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The Early Learning Center is collecting gift items to be used in their Christmas Store. Find out from the
ELC staff other ways you can assist them.
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Help serve meals to the homeless at Calvary Baptist.
Beautiful Savior’s Board of Directors are making plans to have a "Service Fair" where we will learn of service opportunities in our church as well as in the community. If you know of other community service opportunities, put them in Charles Brondos’ box at church.
“Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff. To reflect on your blessings is to rehearse
God’s accomplishments. To rehearse God’s accomplishments is to discover his heart.
To discover his heart is to discover not just good gifts but the Good Giver. Gratitude
always leaves us looking at God and away from dread. It does to anxiety what the morning sun does to valley mist. It burns it up.” ~ Max Lucado, You’ll Get Through This
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8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible
Study
11-Veterans’ Day
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10:30a.m. ELC Chapel 11:30a.m. Out-to-Lunch
Pre-School & K. Closed
Bunch
Office, Day Care Open 12:00p.m. Christian
3:30p.m. Staff Devo. &
Writers Group
Meeting
9:30a.m. LifeLight Bi7:00p.m. Confirmation 5:00 p.m. Elders Meetble Study
Class
ing
5:45p.m. Praise Team
7:00p.m. Choir
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10:30a.m. ELC Chapel
10:45 a.m. ELC
9:30a.m. LifeLight Bi3:30p.m. Staff Devo. & Thanksgiving Program
ble Study
7:00p.m. Confirmation Meeting
Class
5:45p.m. Praise Team
10:30a.m. & 1:00p.m.
7:00p.m. Choir
ELC Chapel
7:00p.m. Board of
Directors Meeting
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10
9:30a.m. Ladies Bible
8:00a.m. Worship
9:15a.m. S.S.; A.B.C. Study
10:30a.m. Worship
12:00p.m. Rake ‘n Run
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8:00a.m. Worship
9:15a.m. S.S.; A.B.C.
10:30a.m. Worship
30 First Sunday in
Advent
9:30a.m. One Service
No S.S.; A.B.C.
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Pre-School & K.
9:30a.m. LifeLight Bi- Closed; Day Care Open
PRE-SCHOOL, K.
ble Study
7:00 p.m. WORSHIP
DAY CARE
PRE-SCHOOL, K.,
2:00 p.m. ELC
OFFICE CLOSED
DAY
CARE,
OFFICE
Thanksgiving Program 10:30a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
CLOSED
ELC Chapel
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9:30a.m. Ladies Bible
Study
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9:30a.m. Ladies Bible
8:00a.m. Worship
9:15a.m. S.S.; A.B.C. Study
10:30a.m. Worship
5:00p.m. Newsletter
ELC Children Sing
Deadline
2:00p.m. Hymn Sing at
Central Lutheran
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8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible
Study
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8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible
Study
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8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible
Study
Saturday
1
8:00 a.m. Men’s Bible
Study
9:00 a.m. Women’s
Bible Study
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6
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10:30a.m. ELC Chapel
9:30a.m. LifeLight Bi3:30p.m. Staff Devo. &
7:00p.m. Confirmation Meeting
ble Study
Class
5:15p.m. Stephen Min.
10:30a.m. & 1:00p.m.
5:45p.m. Praise Team
ELC Chapel
7:00p.m. Choir
Friday
4-Election Day
Thursday
2-Daylight Saving
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9:30a.m. Ladies Bible
Time Ends
Study
8:00a.m. Worship
9:15a.m. Congregational Voters’ Meeting; 1:00p.m. Quilters
No S.S., A.B.C.
10:30a.m. Worship
Wednesday
2014
Tuesday
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church
Sunday
Monday
8:00 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion
10:30 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion
9:15 a.m. S.S. = Sunday School
A.B.C. = Adult Bible Class
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ELC Christmas Store
December 11 & 12, 2014
Beautiful Savior
Early Learning Center Fundraiser
Each year the children from the ELC are given the opportunity to pick Christmas gifts
for family members with money sent from home. The items in the store are donated so
that 100% of the funds received at the store go back into the school.
Each item that is chosen by a child is placed in a wrapped bag to ensure it remains a “surprise” until Christmas. There is no minimum amount the child needs to bring in order to pick gifts. The event is just as much
about teaching the children the spirit of giving at Christmas as it is raising funds for the school. We need
your help to make sure we have plenty of items for all the children this year.
Below are suggestions of ways you can be involved. Starting November 1st there will be a large labeled
container in the Fellowship Hall and at the base of the main stairs where you can bring donated items.
We will also need parents to volunteer to help children shop. Please check with the teachers for sign-up
sheets. Thank you!
Ideas on how to help…
Themed Bags - Christmas-themed treat bags filled with cocoa and marshmallows for a family Hot Chocolate Night; Golf balls, tees and gum for dads to take to the course; Crayons, markers, paper and stickers for
creative pictures…are just a few ideas to give you inspiration!
Homemade Craft Items - Fleece or knitted scarves, hats and baby blankets, Cookie Mixes, Stationary and
Stamped Items, Candles, Soaps or any other item you enjoy crafting at home!
New and Like New Donated Items - Candles, Coffee Mugs, Girls Accessories, Small Toys, Stuffed
Animals, Baby items…anything else you think a Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother or Grandparents would like
to receive as a gift!
Wrapping Supplies - Please save your paper grocery sacks and shopping bags, small gift bags, cellophane
wrapping, bows and ribbons for assembling donated items.
Other Donations - Individual Hot Chocolate Packets, Individual Popcorn Packages. Bags of Individually
Wrapped Candy, Transparent Treat Bags with ties.
For more information, speak to any of the teachers:
Pam Larson, Anna Cantu or Dena Ward.
Or contact Laura DeMersseman (939-1840)
and Heather Audet (701-238-0998)
Christmas Store Coordinators.
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Please help Mission Community Outreach Center
provide Children’s Christmas Joy!
They would like to provide gifts of new boys and
girls blue jeans or outfits for younger kids, underwear, hats, gloves and scarves. And they want to
give each child an age appropriate book.
You can donate items at the Outreach Center, 1906
East Mission Ave., Spokane, between November 3
and December 5. Beautiful Savior also has donation
bins in the cabinet at the back of the sanctuary.
Cash donations are also welcome.
For more information call 536-1084.
Lutheran World Relief Quilt Campaign 2013
Nearly Half a Million Quilts!!
As of the cutoff date of May 2014, 485,931 quilts
were sent to LWR. Melanie Gibbons, LWR’s Quilt
& Kit Ministry Manager sent the following message: “To you who have quilted, donated fabric or
money for thread or batting, or transported quilts
all over the country, thank you. Thank you for taking the risk of giving so very much of yourselves
away for the sake of the world, to embody the love
of Christ that runs through your hearts. And thank
you for sharing how God has turned those gifts
into transformation and change and growth. We thank God for each and every one of you!”
And a special “thank you” to Beautiful Savior’s quilting ladies who donated dozens of quilts to
Lutheran World Relief.
ADVANCEnet
Mission Stories and Practice Worth Spreading
November 8, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 7307 North Nevada St., Spokane
ADVANCEnet is a day long retreat — no, not a retreat, an advance! It’s for anyone who has a heart and
a passion for God’s lost people in our community. The event offers nationally recognized speakers,
breakout sessions where local mission leaders share practical insights on being involved in the mission of
Jesus right here in our community, time for networking with other mission-minded people, and worship
uniting us all in mission in the footsteps of our savior. Sessions with the speakers will be live-streamed
over the web. The cost is $25 per person, includes lunch, and registration is required. Go to:
www.holycrosslcms.net and register under Events at Holy Cross or call 509-483-4218.
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WHAT IS A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY GARDEN?
by Tom Lucke
At the beginning of the year I had people come up to me and ask that
very same question. What is a successful community garden? How
would Christ answer this question? Some people explained that a certain
number of vegetables had to be harvested before the garden could be
called successful. I do not consider that to be the only definition of a successful garden. Yes, we were able to harvest 1,000 pounds of produce
for the food bank, but what besides this can we use for an evaluation of a
successful year in the garden? Would it be some of the following?
A person who had a bed was so excited she is going to take the idea and start a garden in the central part of
Chicago where depression and despair are common. This person wishes to change lives by helping to raise
food and also share the message of the Gospel. Isn’t that success?
Or is it the person that comes to the garden to sing the psalms?
How about those people who come to the garden to pray? After all, isn't it a great place to see and experience God's creation?
How about the conversations that centered around God's Word or friendship developed over a common interest in gardening?
How about all the ELC children who received pumpkins?
How about all the potatoes the ELC children were able to dig up?
Has the garden been successful? Yes, in so many ways!
I wish to thank all those individuals that helped in one way or another to make the 2014 an overwhelming
success. Hope to see you next year.
THE (SMASHED) MASHED POTATO INCIDENT
by Tom Lucke
Last year my wife and I harvested an abundant crop of potatoes form our home garden. The question was,
"What do we do with them?" After reading our handy garden manual, we took them and laid them all out on
our garage floor to "cure" for a couple of days. The potatoes were happy until Becky forgot they were there
and drove into the garage. What a sound that was! It seemed potatoes were popping left and right. After
Becky got out of the car we looked over the damage and had a good laugh. We had just found another way
to process potatoes. Anyone for smashed potatoes?
Speaking of “smashed” potatoes, Tom has a great recipe for “Prince Edward Island Potato
Chocolate Cake.” Ask him to give you a copy. (It has mashed potatoes in it. Really.)
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Celebrating an
Anniversary
November
Birthdays
Ellie Goetzinger
Nov. 2
Louisa Skoog
Nov. 2
Cindy Secor
Nov. 4
Lorraine Schneider
Nov. 6
Marty Tornquist
Nov. 12
Michael Bageant
Nov. 14
Wanda Black
Nov. 19
Jan Pochis
Nov. 29
Mary Drew
Nov. 30
Virtus & Donna Young
Nov. 24
Out-to-Lunch Bunch
Thurs., Nov. 13th
11:30 a.m.
Frankie Doodles
30 East 3rd Avenue
ELC Thanksgiving
Programs will be on Friday, Nov. 21 at 10:45 a.m.
and Monday, Nov. 24 at
2:00 p.m. You are all invited to join us at our programs in the Fellowship
Hall. There will be no
classes on Wednesday,
Nov. 26.
DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
If you would like to put something in the
December BSLC newsletter, please give it to
Marty in writing by 5:00 p.m. Monday,
November 17th. Thanks!
BSLC Staff Employment Anniversary
Anna Cantu - 13 years
 Tell Me It Ain’t So 
A minister was walking down the street
The ELC children will sing for the 10:30 a.m.
when he came upon a group of about a dozen
worship service on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.
boys, all of them between 10 and 12 years of
age. The group had surrounded a dog. ConAn inexperienced preacher was to hold a
cerned lest the boys were hurting the dog, he
graveside burial service at a pauper’s cemetery
went over and asked, “What are you doing
for an indigent man with no family or friends.
with that dog?”
Not knowing where the cemetery was, he
One of the boys replied, “This dog is
made several wrong turns and got lost. When
just as old neighborhood stray. We all want
he eventually arrived an hour late, the hearse
him, but only one of us can take him home. So
was nowhere in sight, the backhoe was next to
we’ve decided that whichever one of us can
the open hole, and the workmen were sitting
tell the biggest lie will get to keep the dog.”
under a tree eating lunch.
Of course, the reverend was taken
The diligent young pastor went to the
aback. “You boys shouldn’t be having a conopen grave and found the vault lid already in
test telling lies!” he exclaimed. He then
place. Feeling guilty because of his tardiness,
launched into a 10-minute sermon against lyhe preached an impassioned and lengthy sering, beginning, “Don’t you boys know it’s a
vice, sending the deceased to the great beyond
sin to lie? And ending with, “Why, when I was
in style.
your age, I never told a lie.”
As he returned to his car, he overheard
There was dead silence for about a mione of the workman say to the other, “I’ve
nute. Then the smallest boy heaved a deep
been putting in septic tanks for 20 years and I
sigh and said, “All right, give him the dog.” 
ain’t never seen nothin’ like that.” 
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UNION GOSPEL MISSION 2014 FALL FOOD DRIVE
OCTOBER — NOVEMBER
Fill the barrel, fill the pantry, fill empty stomachs.
Once more our church is taking part in the UGM Food Drive.
Donations given to the Mission every October and November last
throughout the year. UGM has four shelters in the Spokane & Coeur d’Alene areas and are
now serving 1,000 meals per day. In addition to the shelters, the Mission also supports 100
food banks and soup kitchens.
This year we are asking our Beautiful Savior family to bring canned fish and meat. Large
cans are preferred for the Mission, but the food banks use the small cans in their distribution
to clients. So, when you go to the grocery store, pick up extra cans of tuna, salmon, chicken,
spam or corned beef and bring it to the barrel in the church foyer. For the clients of food
banks, a can of fish or meat may be their main dish for supper. We help feed people who
would otherwise go hungry. Thank you for your help.
A Veterans Day Prayer
God of all nations, you are our Strength and Shield. We give you thanks today
for the devotion and courage of all those who have offered military service for
this country. We ask today that you would lift up by your Spirit those who are now at war; encourage and heal those in hospitals or mending their wounds at home; guard those in any need or trouble;
hold safely in your hands all military families and bring the returning troups to joyful reunion and
tranquil life at home. Give to us, your people, grateful hearts and a united will to honor these men
and women and hold them always in our love and our prayers until your world is perfected in peace
and all wars cease. Through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen. ~ Dr. Jennifer Phillips
 Bulletin Bloopers 
“We’ll collect a lover offering.” 
“Bible study is from the book of Gelatins” 
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“3-Year-old Teacher needed.” 
“Pastor is on vacation. Massages can be given to church secretary.” 
KQNT
KSPO
Nov. 2
The Lutheran Hour Radio Ministries
Spokane
590 AM
Sunday
7:30 a.m.
Spokane
106.5 FM
Sunday
8:00 a.m.
“Blessed in Hard Times”
Rev. Gregory Seltz
Nov. 9
“God is Not Against You”
Rev. Gregory Seltz
Nov. 16
“S.O.S. . .Call Upon Jesus”
Rev. Gregory Seltz
Nov. 23
“Clean—And Thankful”
Rev. Gregory Seltz
Nov. 30
“Watching and Waiting”
Rev. Ken Klaus
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BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR
LUTHERAN CHURCH
OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON
4320 South Conklin Street
Spokane, Washington 99203
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Gestures of Gratitude
In 2005, a female humpback whale became entangled in a web of
crab traps and lines just east of the Farallon Islands, off the San Franciso coast. Hundreds of yards of line rope were wrapped around her
body, tail, torso and mouth, weighing her down so much that she
struggled to stay afloat.
A fisherman spotted the whale and radioed for help. Rescuers determined that the only way to save the
creature was to dive in and untangle her. This was a dangerous proposition, as one slap of the tail could be
deadly.
Rescuers worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed the whale. What she did next surprised the divers: she swam in what seemed like joyous circles, coming back to each person, one at a time,
nudging them gently, in what rescuers assumed was a beautiful gesture of
thanks.
May you and those you love be surrounded by people who help you get untangled from whatever is binding you and my you always know the joy of giving
and receiving gratitude.
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Sundays at Beautiful Savior:
8:00 a.m. Worship
9:15 a.m. Sunday School and Adult Bible Class
10:30 a.m. Worship