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Reformation Day, Oct 26th
Homecoming Day,
Oct 19th
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November 23rd was
Christ The King Sunday. This is the final Sunday of our church year.
Please look at the 2009 page for more recent
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| Epiphany Day
January 6th.
On Sunday, January 6th, we were fortunate to have Bishop
Robert Driesen, from the Upper Susquehanna Synod return to us to share
in Word and Sacrament. The bishop grew up in our congregation before
moving northward.
The Myers family provided a traditional
dinner of pork roast, sauerkraut, triffle and the Three Kings cake, along
with all the fixin's.
Photo of the bishop by Kristina Wittich |
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Sunday, January 20th was our first of
a series of special services celebrating our 100th anniversary of ministry
in this location. Pastor Don Sause returned to preach. Pastor Sause was an
associate pastor here at Epiphany some 50 years ago. His sermon included a
great history along with inspiration to continue this ministry, sharing
God's Love. |
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congregation met for lunch and our annual meeting. Our constitution requires
that we elect 1/3 of the representatives to the church council each year.
They then serve a three year term. We also adopt the budget for the coming
year. |
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| Palm Sunday
and Easter |
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Above:Palm Sunday
Celebration Service |
Below,the Chancel is ready for
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traditional service on
Palm Sunday.
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"Chosen" serves as musicians at Easter
Celebration Service. |
Below: Easter Sunday, New Life!
 He IS Risen! |
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Left, Our traditional cross covered in white lillies is
placed outside, witness to our community that He Is Risen Indeed! |
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Rev. Raymond C.
Myers Sunday,
May 18thWe continued our
Centennial Celebration by remembering Pastor Raymond C Myers, who was with
us from 1954 until his untimely death in 1970. His son, Rev Carl Myers
preached. Click any picture to see a full sized version of it.
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Pastor Carl Myers' daughter,
Christine, received a gift from the Hightman Fund, to help further her
studies at seminary, so that she too may serve in ordained ministry. |
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children, explaining about Christine and her study at seminary school. |
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Photo at left: Pastor Kay, Pastor Gohl,
Mrs Myers, Pastor Carl Myers, seminarian Christine Myers. |
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| Baptism of Abigail Bennett
Kay, May 25th, first baptism of a pastor's child
at Epiphany in over 50 years!
Photo shows Pastor Bill Gohl, mom Lisa and young Abigail.
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Grace Anna
was baptized on Sunday, June 8th, . Click this photo to see a
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| June 22 - Pastor John Yost Day
Pastor John Yost served as the Senior Pastor of
Epiphany for 23 years, retiring in 1993. |
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Pastor Karen Brau, Amazing Grace
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Baltimore, provided the sermon and her good
company. Pastor Brau first came to Epiphany a number of years ago as our
Vicar Intern. |
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included many of his family and friends, as well as many former members who
returned for a visit. |
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A representative from the Lutheran
Seminary at Gettysburg was present to receive a gift in Pastor Yost's name.
Also, President Linda Gruzs, Pastor Gohl, Pastor Brau, Pastor Yost, Mrs.
Yost and Pastor Kay share a moment. |
| Mrs. Stevens poured at the very lovely
and special coffee hour that followed the service. |
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Our Mission
Team Is Off to New Orleans!
Tuesday morning (June 24) dawned sunny, cool and dry in Baltimore.
Most of the team met up at Epiphany to carpool to the airport. Pastor Gohl
lead the team and many family members in prayer and to wish everyone well
and success.
They
arrived in New Orleans to 95 degrees and high humidity.
Follow the entire
mission trip, click on this line.
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| June 29 - Ice Cream Social |
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| July 6 - God and Country |
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JULY 13th
Mission Report |
New Orleans - Mission Accomplished! |
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for worship on July 13th. They used the sermon time to report on their
thoughts, feelings and work while they were in New Orleans, showing God's
Love in Word and Deed! |
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Click this Link to hear the comments from our team. |
Click HERE to see more pictures of the New Orleans Trip. |
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| At 8:30 AM, the report was provided by
Pastor Ed Kay, Amber, Jacob, Kristina and Larry. |
At 10 AM, the report was provided by
Tracey, Edna, Jack, April and Pastor Ed Kay. |
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| July 13 - We got "Pinked" |
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| On Sunday, July 13, we were "Pinked" by our
friends from St Luke's Lutheran Church on Harford Rd. Pink Flamingos
showed up on our lawn.
Read about Pinking on page 10 of St Luke's newsletter by clicking on this
underlined sentence . Click the picture to see a big copy
of it! |
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| JULY 20th |
Centennial Celebration. Remembering
Pastor Luther Schulz |
| The photo at right is from Pastor Schulz's portrait, which
hangs in our parlor corridor, across from the music room. |
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At the 10 AM service, the sermon time was taken with
rememberings of Pastor Luther Schulz and his wife Ruth. John Miller (left in
photo) spoke of the time during 1970 when Pastor Schulz served as interim
Senior Pastor after the untimely death of Pastor Myers. Edna and Carl Rau
spoke in dialog fashion of their life as neighbors of the Schulz's and being
invited by their neighbors to visit the God Is Love church. |
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| Vacation Bible School |
July 20-24
See and read all about our
vacation bible school by clicking this sentence. |
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| Pastor Gohl introduces the theme of
the evening, "Sharing". |
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TUESDAY Evening
Pastor Kay says our theme is
WE GROW |
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Evening Theme was "We Love"
All the Pictures from
Wednesday are on this link. |
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Thursday, the
theme was
"We Praise"Right, Pastor Bill
introduces Chleo the monkey, and our theme of the evening, "We Praise". |
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| August 3rd |
Baptism of
Taylor Ruff and Turner Ruff |
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| August 10th
Christmas in August
Click each photo to see a large one, suitable for
printing. We received
an offering of many toys to be shared with the children of Baltimore City
this coming December Christmas. |
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| August 17th
Centennial Celebration. Remembering
Pastor Keith R. Hardy
Pastor Kathy Rohrbach of Trinity Lutheran Church
in Westminster brought memories of Pastor Hardy and also meditation on the
Gospel of St Matthew, discussing mega-faith. Pastor Rohrbach was our
intern back in 2001, under the supervision of Pastor Hardy.
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On August 17th, we also
bid farewell to our friend and long time member, Mary Jane Skuhr, as she
prepares to move with family in North Carolina. Left, Pastor Gohl pins a
coursage, below, Pastor Ed Kay and John Miller stand by as the congregation
concludes prayer. Below left, Alycyn Gruzs
and her dad, Kent Gruzs had a moment to prepare before the service. |
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| August 24th
The Blessings of the Backpacks.
School packs, work briefcases, tools and
computers were brought for the blessings of the tools of our toil.
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The afternoon of August 24th found the Prime
Timers (social group of middle-aged adults) hosting a crab feast that over
40 people enjoyed, in our courtyard. |
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Hightman Hall, which is used as a recreation and occasional worship space
for our church as well as a significant space for the charter school has had
it's floor refinished by Quality Plus. At right, the crew of Van
Jones, Warren McCormick and Joe Jones worked three days to complete the
work. |
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| August
31st
Right, the antique keyboard for our tower
chimes. The chimes were repaired this week, so once again, the call to
worship was heard over the streets of our neighborhood.
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Photo at left, Emmie Shelsby, Pastor Kay,
Gil Shelsby visit with Kelley Baxter, as she returns from seminary for a
visit |
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Sept 3,
Baby Gohl Arrives |
Joyanne Grace Gohl was born on September 3rd at 7:25am
weighing 8lbs
11oz and was
22in long |
| Your first chance to meet Joyanne is at our next
Centennial Sunday on September 21st 10am for Pastor Gohl Sunday!
Pictures taken on Joyanne's birthday.
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| Pastor Ed Kay visits with Pastor Bill the dad
and Pastor Arwyn the mom. |
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| Sunday, Sept 21st |
Celebrating the
ministry of
Pastor William J. Gohl |
| With Pastor Gregg Knepp (below), former intern
at Epiphany (1998) preaching |
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And meeting Baby Joyanne Grace Gohl for the
first time.
(Shown in photo above, Pastor William J Gohl, Pastor Arwyn Gohl and baby
Joyanne). |
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at right, holding Joyanne). |
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Above, Pastor Gohl Family, including his
father, William Sr, and Pastor Gregg Knepp and his family. |
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| Sunday, Sept
28th |
Blanket
Sunday |
| Edna Rau presented the Children's Time,
explaining Blanket Sunday. |
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Sunday,
October 5th |
St Francis
Day - Blessing of the Animals |
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Left, Vicki with Buster,
Leslie with Dippy. Below, Kristina with Orion-Taz. |
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And also,
Women's Thankoffering Sunday |
With Pastor
Norma Schenning, preaching |
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Left Pastor Norma
Schenning with her husband, Pastor Matt Schenning. Below, visiting
with Chet Haack. |
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the afternoon with a concert by Rachel Kurtz of Minneapolis, Mn. |
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Sunday,
October 12th |
Mission Sunday |
| Right: Our contemporary service.
Hear the sermon on this
link. Below: The
Koenigs and Gladys Ilgenfritz in the newly painted Cloisters hallway
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Above, choir warms up
Left: Acolytes listen
to Pastor Gohl's sermon.
Click here to
listen to Pastor Gohl sermon from Oct 12th.
Below, President Linda Gruzs and daughter Alycyn. |
| Come Celebrate With Us
8:30 Contemporary
10:00 Festival Service
5 PM Saturday Alive at Five
Note: Service times will be changing, beginning
November 11th |
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Homecoming
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Above left, Seminarian Kelley
Baxter, Amber Leber and April Crosby having fun. Above, Amber with
Caroline Leber and Donna Endrich. Left, Nancy and John Cucina
celebrated their 5th anniversary the same weekend. Below, Dane Krich plays
timpani during the service.
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Reformation Day
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Above, Katherine and
Walter Koepper hand out bulletins. Left, the congregation at worship. Below
left, Roy Turner, Sax, with the choir. Below, Pastor Ed Kay during the
Children's Time |
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All Saints Day Nov 2nd
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November 2nd, we remembered the faithful that have
departed this life, especially during the past year. Photos of the Saints
from our own families are on display throughout the church. |
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Above 2, Pastor Gohl takes children on a field trip of all the pictures
of saints, our dear departed. Above left and bottom right, Astrid
Walscot-Stapp plays the harp with the choir singing. Left, Pastor Gohl
during a reflective moment in his sermon that called to mind God grace and
comfort given us during mourning. |
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| After worship, we had a great
lunch and Basket Bingo. |
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November 9
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Contemporary
Service moves to Hightman Hall |
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Above Left, congregation listens to the sermon.
Above, our altar and projection screen for hymn and lesson text. Left-
Pastor Gohl preaches. Below- Serving Holy Communion (at every service).
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Photos below, our youth group meets the 2nd and
4th Sunday evenings. On 11/9, they painted their space and each other in the
balcony of Hightman Hall. |
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| Shanna Babbidge was with us again to sing with
the choir and a solo for the offering time. |
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| Next Saturday, November 22, is our Christmas
bazaar. |
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| Drawing for prizes (sample, to the right ->, Santa, breakfast, lunch,
Christmas
decorations, nuts and candy. We promise you a good time. |
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| November 22 |
Christmas Bazaar
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| Above, Chairman Pat McGowen with Amanda.
Below, April and Kelley with Santa and Mrs. Right: Heather with Skyler.
Below Right, our youth took the pictures of youngsters with Santa |
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November 23
Christ The King Sunday,
celebrating the Past Presidents |
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Above: Jim Wilmer visited and brought
the sermon. He reminded us of some of our history. Left: Bill
Momberger recognized the Past Presidents (below Left) and all the other
people that make Epiphany function. Below,
Bill "Pops" McGraw is recognized by Soldiers Angels for his ministry. He has
sent over 7200 greeting cards to soldiers, every one with "God is Love"
written on them along with his message. |
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