Celebrate Recovery
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed” (James 5:16). Every week we hear from people in and outside our church family who are struggling terribly with issues: heartbreak, grief, porn, addiction, gaming, diet, insecurity, depression, anxiety, health, struggling family members, and more. We may want to hide from our issues, but we find healing from God when we confess our sins to each other. Infected wounds of the heart can only heal when they are cleaned out. At Celebrate Recovery you will find no condemnation, no one trying to fix you (except Jesus), or shame you. We are all working on our issues together. Who attends and what is said is completely confidential. Why not give it a try? Celebrate Recovery is at St. Andrew on Mondays at 6:30 PM. More information is found here. Questions about Celebrate Recovery can be sent here.

Impact—A St. Andrew podcast
Promise fulfilled! Jesus definitely crushed the devil’s head! Listen to the details of the very first promise of a Savior in part two of Genesis 3 with Tim Rimpel of Illinois Lutheran High School. New Impact episodes are released every Monday. Past episodes are also available. Give Impact a listen and share this nurture resource with others. Impact is now on Apple.

Musikgarten
Welcome a friend to Musikgarten, where caregivers and infants through age three join in music and rhythm activities on Sunday mornings at 9:20.  Questions? Contact Karen Hong.

Plugged into Jesus
Try this home activity for “An Ascending Truth”: See how high your family can get balloons into the air. Talk about how Jesus was lifted up into heaven. Remember that he will come back again one day to take us to be with him in heaven. Click here for the Bible teaching video. Videos are easily shared, and you can request a kit to ship to kids you know and love.

“A Telling Truth: Pentecost” will be this week’s lesson. Who will you invite? Kids in Pre-K3 – grade 5 are welcome to PiJ every Sunday morning at 9:20. Questions? Contact Jane Dew.

Spark
Spark is the new name for our middle school Sunday morning ministry. Will there be flames on heads and the sound of wind in Spark this week? Come and learn about Pentecost and find out! Grades 6 – 8 meet in room 108 on Sunday mornings at 9:30 for Spark. Contact Lance Hill with questions.

November Monthly Mission Partner | WELS Prison Ministry
“Remember those in prison . . .” (Hebrews 13:3). This November we are partnering once again with WELS Prison Ministry, a group that is serving more than 35,000 incarcerated inmates with the gospel. There is great hunger for the Word of God with those who are in prison. For more information about how you can help, contact WELS Prison Ministry Administrator Dave Hochmuth.

A big thank you from MOM
Middleton Outreach Ministry serves as a partner in the greater Middleton area for a number of community services. St. Andrew is participating this year in a collection of MOM’s Top 10 needed food items. Sunday is our last day for collection. On Monday the items will be transferred to MOM. Thank you to all who have participated in this much needed ministry.

St. Andrew Giving Tree
Beginning Thursday, November 4, you will have an opportunity to participate in our 2021 Giving Tree. We will be giving gift cards to families this year, allowing them to purchase gifts before Christmas. Numbered gift tags (families’ names are kept anonymous) will soon be available on a Christmas Giving Tree table outside the Service and Outreach office in the atrium. You will be able to pick a tag and buy a gift card for just one person or for a whole family. Thank you!

Mission Trips 2022
2022 is not that far off, and Mission Trip planning is underway. Do you find yourself enthusiastically discussing what is going on around the globe? Do you enjoy working with people? Are you mission minded? Our planning team has set tentative mission locations for 2022: Greater Madison, Wisconsin; Sure Foundation Church, Brandon, South Dakota; Citrus Grove Church, Wesley Chapel, Florida; Illume Church, Seattle, Washington; and Mahahual, Mexico. Interested adults, teens, and families should watch the Weekly for more information and plan to attend a Mission Trip informational meeting in January. Questions can be directed to Amy Kohlstedt, Mission Trip coordinator. “A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed” (Proverbs 11:25).