Join us Each week in person or online
Sundays at 9:30am
SCRIPTURE: LUKE 17:1-10
SERMON SERIES:
LUKE & THE LOST AND FOUND
OCTOBER BUDGET UPDATE
October Budget Scaries?
Planning for the church’s next calendar year budget begins in November. It is a well-known fact that a disproportionate share of our full-year’s giving is received in December, making the budget process very challenging. Through the end of September, our current income is $170,000 behind our year-to-date budget.
Trusting God
This week’s Men’s Bible Study group discussed passages in Luke 12 admonishing us not to worry. Heeding further the guidance in Philippians 4 to not be anxious about anything but to submit to prayer and petition, I look to God to guard my heart and mind from what I call the ‘October Budget Scaries’. I encourage each of you to be in prayer with me for the Lord to help us meet this year’s financial commitments and to guide our planning for 2026.
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
“DRAWING NEAR TO GOD
THROUGH SPIRITUAL WRITING”
Professor Nicole Mazzerella
OCTOBER 12 & 26
This week we are pleased to welcome Nicole Mazzarella,
Professor at Wheaton College to lead the 2nd in our series “Drawing Near to God”.
Nicole has taught creative writing at Wheaton College for the past 23 years. One of her joys is helping writers of all genres make writing a regular part of their lives. Nicole has published and produced flash fiction, short stories, and a screenplay. Her first novel This Heavy Silence won the Christy Award and Christianity Today’s novel of the year.
As part of her ministry at Church of the Resurrection, Nicole has led small groups through the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. In addition she has spoken at colleges, churches, and conferences about spiritual practices for artists. She has a forthcoming contribution to The Way of Dante on a spiritual practice for artists inspired by Mary’s role in Purgatorio.
She is married to a local therapist and the mother of a college student and two high schoolers, who all attended the Ark Preschool.
We hope you can join us for this special Sunday school!
Please bring a notebook and pen as you’ll be doing some writing exercises!
WOMEN OF THE WORD
JOIN US FOR WEEK 2 OF OUR STUDY ON RUTH
Please join the women of GE Covenant for WOW bible study.
Next meeting is October 13/14:
Monday October 13 at 7pm at the home of Pastor Dawn and
Tuesday October 14 at 9:30am in Higher Grounds - childcare provided.
We are using The Daily Grace Company study on the book of Ruth.
If you need a book or would like to join
please contact Pastor Dawn at Dawn.lauber@gecovenant.org
COLLEGE STUDENT MINISTRY DINNERS:
DINNER IN HOMES—2nd SUNDAY at 5pm
WORSHIP & DINNER—4th SUNDAY at 6pm
2025 FALL SCHEDULE:
Sunday October 12 at 5pm at the home of Bruce and Julie Munson
Sunday October 26: Worship at 6pm in the sanctuary/Dinner to follow
Sunday November 9: at 5pm location TBD
Sunday November 23: Worship at 6pm in the sanctuary/Dinner to follow
Thanksfeeding coming November 21-22
Last week we kicked off the promotion of our Feed My Starving Children MobilePack event scheduled for the weekend before Thanksgiving. Our goal is to pack 100,000 meals for children in desperate need of food with the help of 480 volunteers.
We already have 43% of the volunteer slots committed (PRAISE THE LORD!).
Our hope is that our entire church family will be part of this amazing opportunity to bring people into our church to experience our warmth and energy in service to give hope through food to children. Please be in prayer for this event. Let’s fill all of the available slots for hospitality and hosting activities
and invite friends to come pack with us.
Like to be involved? Click here for more info and to register
https://www.fmsc.org/volunteer-listing/?mobilepack=2511-189SC
Thursday Evening Justice Book Club
oCTOBER 16
Our Justice Book Club’s theme is “Creation Care”. Our current book is “What if We Get it Right” by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. We’d love you to join the Zoom discussions.
We meet most Thursdays 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. New people are welcome!
For the Zoom link or more information,
please contact Mary Crickmore or the church office.
THE ARK PRESCHOOLFUNDRAISER
OCTOBER 20
YOUNG ADULT BIBLE STUDY — NEW!
Beginning this Fall, in addition to the Young Adult Supper Club, we will be gathering around God’s Word for a Bible study once a month at the home of Pastor Dawn.
Our first Young Adult Bible Study is Monday October 20 at 6:30pm.
Please join us!
For questions, please contact Pastor Dawn
MENS BIBLE STUDY
EACH WEDNESDAY
Men of GEECC, come join us each Wednesday at 6pm in the Atrium
as we continue our study of the book of Luke.
It’s a rich time of prayer, fellowship, and time in the Word.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES
We hope you will join us for Sunday school each Sunday morning
AND for Kids Midweek EVERY Wednesday!
Some FUN events are coming up for our GE Covenant Kids!
If you have any questions please contact Elissa Schauer.
STUDENT MINISTRIES
OCTOBER EVENTS
**COMING SOON: GIRLS BIBLE STUDIES
SUNDAY SCHOOL EACH SUNDAY 11-11:45AM
October 9 — Jr/Hi League 7-8:30p
October 14 — BOYS BIBLE STUDY 6:30p at the Stupe
October 16 — Jr/Hi League 7-8:30p
October 21 — BOYS BIBLE STUDY 6:30p at the Stupe
October 23 — Jr/Hi League 7-8:30p
October 29 —FALL FEST!
October 30 — NO Youth Group
Contact Joseph with any questions
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR
* FALL FEST 2025 *
OCTOBER 29 AT 5:30
Fall Fest Is coming complete with our annual CHILI COOK-OFF, TRUNK OR TREAT event, COSTUME CONTEST FOR KIDS and an OUTDOOR MOVIE!
And we need volunteers! Sign up here to share a "trunk" of treats or a pot of your award-winning chili, and to help with set-up or clean-up.
Questions? Contact Joseph Sawyer (joseph.sawyer@gecovenant.org)
or Elissa Schauer (elissa.schauer@gecovenant.org).
ARTWORK WANTED
SERMON SERIES “LUKE & THE LOST AND FOUND
Calling all artists! Thank you to those who shared their artistic responses to
our sermon series on Romans.
We are now creating a display that reflects an artistic response to our
current sermon series “Luke & The Lost and Found”.
Please email Kriste Sveen for more details as needed.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
OUR FOCUS THIS FALL:
COMMUNION SERVERS & FRONT DOOR MINISTRIES
AND CHECK OUT ALL THE SERVING OPPORTUNITIES
AT GE COVENANT!
If you are a regular attendee to GE Covenant and willing to serve during our Sunday morning worship service, please access the serving page on our
GE Covenant website:
1. choose “Serve” from the top right pull down menu.
2. then click on the orange box “Sunday Serve Sign-Up”
Or you can simply click SERVE right here!
And for your convenience, please see the QR code on the Sunday bulletins, which takes you to the same “Serve” site on our website :)
MONDAY NIGHT ZOOM PRAYER MEETINGS
AT 7PM
“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.
With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
Eph 6:18
We’d love to have you join the Prayer Meeting via Zoom!
Contact Jayne Bishoff or the church office for the Zoom ID and Password.
