Family Bible Circle

Women of Pilgrim,

           In Family Bible Circle this month, we are comparing and contrasting Old Testament Laws with our freedom granted through Christ's life and death. Today we covered our roles as priests and the Sabbath in 2012. We delved into how a day of worship and reflection is relevant and necessary this day of age, even though it is no longer a law. As we finish 2012, we will continue to study Pastor Jeske's Grace Moments, Old and New.
          In 2013, we will be shifting gears. We are looking into a focused study of parenting topics, i.e. the Love and Logic series, home organization skills, or parenting books. We will follow this with our new Bible Study. We look forward to welcoming women of all ages for fellowship!

-Dara

WELS Marriage Enrichment

The ladies at the Thursday Morning Parenting Discussion said how much they enjoyed the women's retreat and they wished there was a Marriage Retreat too.  Here is some information I've found on some upcoming WELS congregation sponsored events.
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“With This Ring” Weekend Marriage Retreat

February 8-10, 2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oshkosh, WI. The retreat agenda will include the featured speaker, Pastor Mark Jeske, from Time of Grace Ministries and the nationally-renowned Christian comedian, Brad Stine. Registration is available online at www.withthisringretreat.com. Sign up today for a weekend of fun and enlightenment.
Sign up by January 15: $155
Sign up after January 15, 2013: $170
To reserve a hotel room, call the Hilton Garden Inn at 920-966-1300 and let them know you are part of this retreat to get a discounted rate of $89/night (includes breakfast).

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"Distracted Mariage" Marriage Retreat

March 8-10 at the Heidel House Resort & Spa, Green Lake, WI.
Please visit www.facebook.com/WIMarriageRetreats for more info and continual updates.
(You do NOT need a facebook account to access the information here.)
Standard Suite: $270

Northwoods Suite: $305

Lodging includes the two-night stay, breakfast both mornings, and lunch onSaturday.

Saturday evening you’re on your own for a date night!

Family Bible Circle

Next Thursday, December 6th, Family Bible Circle will be starting a new Bible Study series using the Grace Moments booklet "Old and New". 

Does God have two completely different systems for dealing with people, and does He have two completely different sets of expectations and laws for human believers? Are the commandments in the Old Testament binding on people today?  How do both halves of the Bible fit together in a loving God's mission to regain his lost children? This study will help you appreciate God's presence in past millennia and help you know how you fit into his plans today.

Family Bible Circle is part of our Thursday Mornings For Moms

8:00 am Church is open for moms to visit and their toddlers to play in the basement (OR they can join the Prayer Gathering upstairs from 8:15-8:45)

9:00 am Moms have a half hour discussion on parenting topic

9:30 am Family Bible Circle - the one hour Bible Study "Old and New"

10:30 am Moms can continue to chat and kids can play until 11:15 when it's time to leave for pickup at the pre-school across the street

You can come for any part of our Thursday Mornings for Moms and leave whenever you'd like!

Women's Retreat 2012

Our retreat in Sturgeon Bay, WI, at the Wave Pointe Marina and Resort was a wonderful experience! The speakers were great and the location was beautiful!

View of the Bay

         

 

Bunco Night Fun!

Karen Spiegelberg

Pastor Donald Moldstad

Jane Schlenvogt-Dew

  Key Note Speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Presenters

  Food, Fun, and Fellowship     

 

Singer Tom Mulinix (assisted by Joan Meier)

Celebrating Kathleen's Birthday

Bible Study on Esther

Esther Bible Study Our second Bible study on Esther will be held on Oct. 1^st at 6:30 p.m., with dinner at 6:00 p.m. If you missed the first Bible study we’d love for you to join us at Val Klika’s home to see how God uses good and evil to further His divine plan. Sorry Pilgrim School mom's, I didn't realize that our first Bible study was in conflict with a PTO meeting, hope you can make it to our next Bible study.

P.S. Servin' up beef and chicken enchiladas and nachos, so bring your appetite!

We have been blessed with a group of 45 women attending our retreat on Nov. 2&3! I'm including an updated version of our agenda along with the menu items that will be offered at Wave Pointe's restaurant, Gilmo's. We will all be enjoying lunch at Gilmo's, but you can choose to have your supper at Gilmo's, in your own suite, or at a restaurant in town.

Agenda

Friday Evening

7:00-9:00                Bunco with great prizes (appetizers and punch served)

Saturday

8:15-9:00                 Muffins, coffee, and juice served

9:00…9:30              Welcome & Opening Devotion

9:30…10:30            Breakout Session 1 (Pastor Don Moldstad, Jane Schlenvogt Dew)

10:45…11:45          Women Walking Together With Christ

                                 Presentation by Karen Spiegelberg

11:45…12:00          "Chapel Drama" & Recess to Lunch

12:00…1:30            Lunch at Gilmo’s Bar & Bistro in Wave Pointe

1:30…2:30              Breakout Session 2 (Cindi Holman, Jane Schlenvogt Dew)

2:45…3:15              Concert by Tom Mulinix (Local Christian Singer)

3:30…4:00              Closing Devotion

7:30...10:00             Movie/ Bible Study (optional)

                                  Confessions of a Shopaholic  

Sunday

10:00                        Church service at Resort

Prefixed Menus (At Gilmo’s Restaurant in resort)

Lunch  $12.95  

(Served with choice of fries or soup)

Wave Club Sandwich

Gilmo Burger

Ruben or Rachael

Cherry Chicken Wrap

Veggie Wrap

Dinner $16.95                                                                                            Desserts $5.95

(Served with baby red potatoes & vegetables)                                             Cheesecake

White Fish or Perch Platter                                                                          Chocolate Torte              

Swiss Steak Special                                                                                     Hazelnut Cake                    

Brochette Pasta (Vegetarian)

Chicken Brochette Pasta

Final Payment Due On Suites

The final payment on your suite for the Women's Retreat is due August 31^st. Please be sure that your checks are made out to Pilgrim Lutheran Church and are placed in box #173. If you haven’t already signed up to attend the retreat, or have a friend you'd like to invite to join your group, there is still time to sign up. Please contact Peggy Prekop at jpprekop@gmail.com, or 262-781-0338 with any questions.

I am happy to say that we have filled all of the suites for the retreat!!! You should have received a confirmation on your room reservations this past week. (Thank you Nicole Balza for taking care of  the confirmations.) Please let us know if there are any errors or changes. If your suite is not full and you'd like to add people in the future, they are very welcome to join us! They just need to turn in a registration form and their $30.00 registration fee. I have extra forms if needed. We are so blessed and look forward to seeing all of you at the retreat!

The date for the down payment deadline has been extended to June 27th. We have 2 suites we still need to fill so we can make the most of the wonderful speakers we are blessed to have presenting to us!!! Get your reservations in ASAP!

Registration Form

 The link below will take you to Pilgrim's website where you can access a copy of the registration form for the retreat.
http://www.pilgrimcares.org/

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Information on Women's Retreat

Agenda
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.

Friday, Nov. 2

7:00…9:00               Social Mixer

Saturday, Nov. 3

9:00…9:30              Welcome & Opening Devotion

9:30…10:30             Breakout Session 1

10:45…11:45           Women Walking Together With Christ

                               Presentation by Karen Spiegelberg

11:45…12:00          "Chapel Drama" & Recess to Lunch

12:00…1:30             Lunch at Gilmo’s Bar & Bistro in Wave Pointe

1:30…2:30               Breakout Session 2

2:45…3:15               Concert by Tom Mulinix (Local Christian Singer)

3:30…4:00              "Chapel Drama"& Closing Devotion

Sunday, Nov. 4

10:00 a.m.             Worship Service           

  

 

Registration/Reservations

Hotel Reservations

Rooms will be reserved through Pilgrim Lutheran to make it possible to receive them tax free. You will need to fill out the room reservation form in the retreat brochure. Copies of the brochure will be in the narthex by Sunday April 15^th. Please see room rates listed here on our blog. Room choice will be on a first come first served basis. In order to receive the reduced resort rates, all retreat participants are required to stay at the Wave Pointe Resort.

Registration fees

 There will be a $30.00 registration fee per person to cover the cost of speakers, entertainment, and other expenses.

Registration deadline

 The hotel requires half down by the beginning of June because we are reserving the entire resort for our group. Registration fees and half down on the resort reservations will be due by May 30^th. Full refunds will be issued for cancellations received through Aug.1, 2012. Cancellations received Aug.2 through Oct. 1 will be issued a full refund minus a $30.00 cancellation fee. The remainder of your resort reservation fee will be due by Sept. 1, 2012.

 

General Information on Retreat

Meals

One of the reasons the Wave Pointe Resort was chosen for our retreat was to cut down on cost for our participants. Each suite is equipped with at least one or more kitchens, which allows you the option to bring food to eat in your room rather than dining out, and will save the added cost of catered food for the retreat. The Wave Pointe is opening its restaurant especially for us Saturday noon to take care of your lunch. You will have the freedom to dine in your room or eat at a restaurant for all of your other meals. The Wave Pointe restaurant will be open both Friday and Saturday evenings. There are many other places to eat in Sturgeon Bay, which is about 15 minutes away.

Roommates

All of the suites at the resort are equipped with 2 separate bedrooms with either queen or king sized beds, 2 to 2 and ½ baths, and the option of 1 or 2 people sleeping on a sofa sleeper. If you have a friend you would like to stay with and need to find more people to fill a suite, just let us know, we’ll be happy to try to find you suite mates. The more the merrier and the cheaper the suite!

Questions

Please direct your questions about the retreat to Peggy Prekop at jpprekop@gmail.com.

                                 

Speakers For Retreat (Nov. 2&3, 2012)

Karen Spiegelberg of "A Word For Women" will be our keynote speaker. She will present               

"Women Walking Together With Christ"

 

Discover the power, through God’s word, to walk confidently as a woman of Christ in his purpose for your life.  Find encouragement in the support of your Christian sisters as you navigate in a busy, hectic, and sometimes confusing world that leaves you wondering what direction you’re going in and why you sometimes feel so alone in your journey.  Bring your passport, but leave your baggage behind as we explore ways to build each other up in our purpose for the Lord!

Jane Schlenvogt-Dew from Westside Christian School will present 

"Prayer 101"

“The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” James 5:17. Great! Now, if I knew what prayer was, who is right with God and when my prayer has been successful, I’d be in business! We will focus on Daniel’s prayer in Daniel 9 for our answers.

"Eat, Drink and Be Mary"

Are you feeling like butter these days: churned up, spread thin and high in fat? Whether you are overworked, under appreciated or have trouble balancing your time, we all can learn from Mary, the mother of Jesus, and others in the Bible, to put God at the top of every to-do list.

 

Pastor Don Moldstad, chaplain at Bethany Lutheran College, will present

 "Return to Eden...?"

 The one institution God has retained from prior to the Fall into Sin is marriage. You can see what a blessing marriage is intended to be by how much the devil, the world and our flesh seek to destroy it. In our fallen world we can never expect paradise, but how can we reclaim many of the blessings God provides for us through this sacred gift?

Cindi Holman, national coordinator of early childhood ministries, will present 

"A Time for Everything…Really?: Walking with God in Each Season of Your Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1"

The seasons of our lives are complex, full of highs and lows, expectations and disappointments, challenges and failures. How do we manage it all? How do we as women face the expectations of our friends, family, society and ourselves? Together we turn to the One with all the answers. Together we search the Word for our guidance, our reassurance, our peace in all the seasons of our life. In Him we can learn what it truly means to “have it all”.

We are so blessed to have these wonderful speakers who are willing to share their God given talents and insights!  

Christian Contemporary Singer At Retreat

Tom Mulinix

 

Tom is a local Door County performer doing acting, singing, music performance, and modeling.  He has appeared in two movies filmed in Door County, “Feed the Fish” and “Confessions of a Sailor”.  He has had many roles in community theater productions including “The Sound of Music”, “The Christmas Schooner” and “The King and I”.  He currently is leading the Praise and Worship at Salem Lutheran Church.  He is also a member of a local Christian Band called “Parks, Phillips & Co.”  Although Tom plays many styles of music, his main influences in Christian Contemporary music are Chris Tomlin, Paul Baloche and Michael W. Smith.  He also enjoys the old gospel songs.  Tom is a songwriter and has had one song “Lift Me Up” recorded by two Christian artists.   

Tom is asking for song requests for the retreat. Please include them with your registration form.