Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iowa City

The Our Redeemer Comfort-tiers in Iowa City found they had made and distributed a record number of mission quilts in 2010. The total was just under 700 quilts besides the 106 baby quilts and other sewn items! Most of the kudos belong to Lillian Moyer, who did the majority of the sewing.

Pictured from left to right, front row, are Dixie Walker, Linda West, Carol Schuldt, and Cheryll Davisson. Back row-Lillian Moyer, Betty Redeker, Bev Prem, and Ruth Langehough. Besides LWR, other recipients included the Ronald McDonald House, Domestic Violence House, Orphan Grain Train, Concern for Women, Boys' Ranch, Camp IODISECA, fire victims, Navajo reservation, Shelter House, Hope Lodge, Salvation Army and Afghanistan. A member of Prince of Peace in Coralville, lA, Leona Sidmore, also generously contributed some of the backs and tops. Two other younger members of Our Redeemer, Angie Hotz and Rhonda Waters (not pictured), helped in hemming the comforters.

Rev. E. L. Stuempfig, 100, died Sunday, March 20, 2011

VINTON: Rev. E. L. Stuempfig, 100, died Sunday, March 20, 2011 at the Vinton Lutheran Home following an extended illness.


Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, March 25, 2011 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Vinton with Rev. Clarke E. Frederick officiating. Friends may call at the Phillips Family Center (605 Second Avenue) from 4-7 p.m. Thursday and from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the church Friday. Interment will be held at the Keystone Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the family to be distributed to several of Ewald's favorite charitable organizations.

Ewald Leonard Stuempfig was born May 14, 1910 in Saginaw, MI to William and Eleanora (Ewald) Stuempfig. He graduated from Concordia Seminary - St. Louis, MO in 1933. On June 6, 1937 he was united in marriage to Ruth Brauer in Keystone.

Rev. Stuempfig served Redeemer, Elkader 1934-1941; St. John/Trinity, Washington/Wellman 1941-1944; St. Paul, Farmington, MI 1941-1948; St. Paul, Bennett 1948-1952; St. John, Reinbeck 1952-1957; Concordia, Waterloo 1957-1965; and St. John, State Center 1965-1975. After his retirement in 1975 he served vacancies at Redeemer-Marshalltown, St. John-Victor, Trinity-Dillon and St. John- Marengo. Rev. Stuempfig also served as the Lutheran Home Chaplain from 2000 - 2006. He was an avid gardener and loved traveling and his daily walks.

He is survived by his wife Ruth of Vinton; his two sons, Paul (Sue) Stuempfig of Sun City West, AZ, Dan (Maureen) Stuempfig of Chico, CA; his three daughters, Eunice (Walter) Kirkpatrick of Big Timber, MT, Lois Bonefas of Waterloo, Mary (John) Baughman of Palm Springs, CA; his eight grandchildren, Mark (Kathleen) Stuempfig, Suzanne (Randy) Ballard, Joshua (Tisha) Kirkpatrick, Tim Kirkpatrick, Brandon Bonefas, Zachary (Becky) Bonefas, Shayna (Dany) Stuempfig-Vitale and Nathan Stuempfig; and his ten great-grandchildren.

In addition to his parents Rev. Stuempfig was preceded in death by two brothers, Roland and Carl Stuempfig and his son-in-law, Thomas Bonefas.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at: www.phillipsfuneralhomes. com.

Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids

Trinity Lutheran Church Presents: 

The Last Supper

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 

 
7:00pm (show is approx. 1 hour) 

 
Trinity Lutheran Church
1363 1st Avenue SW
  Cedar Rapids, Iowa 

 
Free

www.trinitycr.org or contact
      Jeni Miller, 319.360.1435

Lutheran Laymen's League

The Lutheran Laymen’s League Gathering / convention  will be at ZION Lutheran Church, in Hiawatha. Registration starts at 9:30. At 10:00 Rev Krueger will welcome all of the Lord’s People. Schawn Starfelt, from Mission U, will be the speaker, sharing with us how to use our words and say them in a style that suits our personalities. Her  presentation is titled:  Witnessing Methods: Seven Styles of Faith-sharing.

Instead of having a banquet meal at the end of the day we will have the meal at noon, and you can be home before dark. The $15.00 Registration cost will cover Zion’s expenses for the day. WE KNOWN IF YOU CAN READ THIS than you can find your way to our blog site to find all the info you need.  Why not spend a few hours with your friends finding more nuggets of spiritual  truth.  http://idelutheranlaymensleague.blogspot.com/

Trinity Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids

Discover Trinity Program: A Leap of Faith

“Faith is a living, 

daring confidence in God's grace, 

so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” 

Martin Luther

It was this certainty in God’s Grace that led Trinity Lutheran School in Cedar Rapids to create its new program, Discover Trinity. Trinity had a long standing reputation of providing an excellent education. The church and school were known in the community for their outreach. But after the flood of 2008 that ravaged the city and its neighborhoods, a change began to take place. This urge to become even more instrumental in the community became even more pressing with the economic downturn. An idea that would bring more students to Trinity was tossed around but it would take a leap of faith. And what a leap it has turned out to be.

The basis of Discovery Trinity was simple: give families new to the school a waiver on their first year’s tuition. The waiver would allow them the opportunity to discover why Trinity was the school for their child(ren) to attend throughout their elementary and middle school years without the cost of tuition.

New families were to be financially responsible for application, registration and lunch fees as well as any additional fees (i.e. field trips, Life Skills).The program would give first priority to Trinity Lutheran Church members but is open to LCMS sister members and non Lutheran families. Eighth grade students were to be exempt, unless they were part of a family entering the school with students in other grades.

Forty one students walked through the doors of Trinity Lutheran School in August 2010. Of those students, four families did not have a church home. Four students have now been baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church. Three families have joined Trinity Lutheran Church.

Twenty seven students are returning to Trinity Lutheran next year. Three additional students will be attending Trinity due to the experience their sibling, a Discover Trinity participant, received. The program was planned as a two year investment but, due to its overwhelming success, we are considering continuing the program after the two year period is done. It is the continued hope of Trinity Lutheran School to educate the whole child, in mind, body and spirit.

I Peter 1:6 says “Be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead!" It is our faith that will continue to strengthen the Discover Trinity program and it is this joy that continues to bless Trinity Lutheran School as we continue to share the good news of Jesus.

Jodi Jonasson
Development Director
Trinity Lutheran School
1361 7th Ave. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
319-362-6952
www.trinitycr.org
jjjonasson@msn.com