Our Mission is Fishin’ 

Prayer Cards - Each morning our teachers meet for devotions as we prepare for our day. We also regularly pray for our students and each school family. The students we prayed for this week included Logan Dietel (1^st), Haylee Basting (Pre-K), Dawson Lichty (Pre-K), and Connor Knoblauch (2^nd).

Washington, DC Trip – The 7^th and 8^th grades are visiting Washington, DC this week. Keep them in your prayers as they explore our nation’s capitol.

Teachers’ Conference - Donations to help Cambodian Missionaries will continue to be collected on the gym stage up until Friday, September 24th. Mr. Hoyer and Mr. Staub will then deliver all of the items to Indianapolis when the teachers go down for their teachers’ conference.

Ablaze - The chapel offerings for the months of October and November will go to help Ablaze. The following information about Ablaze is from LCMS World Mission:

Ablaze!® began as a vision of LCMS World Mission to involve every member of the LCMS, its partner church bodies, and partner mission agencies in one focused and concentrated effort to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with those who do not yet know Him. By joining together in this effort, not only would those who hear and receive the message of salvation in Christ be transformed by it and brought into the body of Christ, but our own church bodies, mission organizations and congregations would be strengthened as members grow in discipleship through mission involvement. Additionally, all our Lutheran resources would be strategically coordinated, so that more can be accomplished in mission to the glory and honor of our one, true God. It was the desire of LCMS World Mission to give this vision away—to ignite a spark that would become a mission movement of individuals, groups, congregations, etc., all committed to the goal of reaching 100 million unreached and uncommitted people with the Gospel by 2017, which is the 500^th anniversary of the Reformation.

The figure of 100 million was chosen intentionally after much research, prayer, and deliberation with our missionaries and mission partners. In our Lutheran understanding of conversion, God does the work of converting the unbelieving heart through His Holy Spirit. By setting this goal, we are not limiting the Holy Spirit. Ultimately, the

Holy Spirit will determine how many people will be touched by the Gospel through our efforts, but we will be faithful sowers of the seed and will hold ourselves accountable to sowing the seed of the Gospel in the hearts of at least 100 million people in North America and around the world by 2017.

The vision of igniting a worldwide Lutheran mission movement to share the Gospel with 100 million people is expressed by the word, Ablaze! LCMS World Mission’s goal is to ignite a movement that will change the culture of our Lutheran church bodies to be one in which every member is fully engaged in personal mission involvement through the Seven Mission Responses: Go, Pray, Learn, Give, Tell, Send and Celebrate. While this is the expressed vision of LCMS World Mission, it is the organization’s intention to give this vision away, because it is God’s desire that all people be saved, and He has called all His children to participate in the task! This is a “Quantum Leap” forward in how we approach doing the work of the Lord’s mission.

Ablaze! is not a program or a campaign. It began as a mission vision with the hope of starting a mission movement. Each participating congregation, group, mission society, partner church, individual, etc. is challenged to pray about its own particular situation and the part of the mission endeavor it can impact and to design its own strategy to contribute to reaching 100 million people. LCMS World Mission is asking the church to develop mission models that work and can be shared with others. Ablaze! is not an answer…it’s an invitation. Additional information is being handed out to the students after next week’s chapel service, where the student will also watch a video of the Ablaze vision.

WLS Alumni Testimonials -  Mr. Hoyer is looking for WLS alumni to write testimonials to place on the WLS website – www.wlsedu.org.  In these testimonials, write your graduation year and then a little about just how WLS affected your lives.  You might check the website to look at the samples that are already posted there.  You can drop your testimonials off in the school office or e-mail them to Mr. Hoyer at dexhoyer@comcast.net.

WLS Association Informational Meetings - Two informational meetings have been set to get information out to all interested parties about the future of WLS. These meeting will be held in the WLS gym on Sunday, October 5^th, beginning at 4:00. For those unable to attend that meeting, another meeting will be held in the WLS library on Monday, October 6^th.  This will be part of the Back-to-School Night beginning at 7:00. Tentative plans have been made to have a WLS Association meeting on Sunday, Nov. 16^th. The time and location of that very important meeting will be announced as we finalize all of those plans.

Scrip News -  The weather is changing and the leaves will be here soon.  It’s never to early to start thinking about all of those Holidays coming up.  Halloween is coming up fast.  Are you a parent who makes their kid’s costumes?  Then you will probably need to buy fabric and supplies.  We have JoAnn Fabric scrip available to order.  If you are thinking of somewhere closer to home Wal-Mart has a fabric section and we have those on hand.  Don’t forget to get scrip for buying your candy for the kids.  We have Scott’s/Kroger, Wal-Mart and Woodburn Fresh Foods.  We also have some scrip you could give to your favorite trick or treaters.  Scrip is sold every day from 7:30-9 in the kitchen.

JV Volleyball –  The girls’ JV volleyball team is down to its last game. They will be playing at St. John, Kendallville on Monday at 4:15.  We wish them luck!

Football News –  Now that Nick Sharrar and Spencer Osborn are back from the Washington D.C. trip, they are all rested up and will be ready to play a home game against Leo on Tuesday, October 7^th, starting at 4:30.  

Jr. High Volleyball -  Morgan Gerig is also back from the D.C. trip and ready to win more games.  Woodlan has been doing very well this year.  Go out and support the Warriors:  Wednesday at Churubusco 4:25, Thursday at home vs. Southern Wells 5:00, and Saturday at Garrett is a tourney starting at 8:00 a.m.  Good luck Morgan!

Target -  Thank you to all who participate in the Target “Take charge of Education” program.  We just received a check in the amount of $389.72 to put towards our PTL committee.  Here’s how it works: When you sign up for a Target card, simply tell them to designate Woodburn Lutheran as your eligible school and any time you make a purchase on that card 1% of the purchases will come back to WLS.  

Thank you to Christ Church for the hot dog buns and goodies left from Family Fun night. 

Lifetouch Picture Company -  This week SmileSafe Kids safety ID cards were sent home with every student (exception: 2-Day Preschool who will have picture day on October 16^th).  The SmileSafe Kids program is a partnership between Lifetouch, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and thousands of schools nationwide to help families stay safe.  The two photo ID cards were send home for you to put in your purse or wallet in case of an emergency.

Acolytes -  Sunday, October 5, acolyte for Zion Lutheran Church – Torie Moore.

Chapel News -  Next Wednesday’s chapel service, October 8^st, will be held at Christ at 8:15 a.m. Pastor Adams will lead.  Chapel offering for the months of October and November will be designated to Ablaze in God’s Word – LCMS World Mission Project.

LUNCH MENU

10/6- Ham & cheese sandwich, carrot curls, apple 1/2, cookie

10/7- Burrito, corn, pears, Mexican rice

10/8- Baked spaghetti, salad, peaches, garlic bread

10/9- Cheese toasty, scalloped potatoes, jello, frosted graham

10/10- BBQ drumstick, celery w/PB, grapes, bread & butter

WEEKLY CALENDAR

October

4- JH Volleyball at Garrett, 8 a.m.

5- WLS Association information meeting 4-6

6- Back to School Night 7 p.m.

    WLS Association information meeting 7 p.m.

    JV Volleyball game at St. John, Kendallville 4:15

7- JH Football home game vs. Leo, 4:30

8- 1/2 hour early dismissal, 2:15