Emanuel Lutheran Tiger Talk

  Emanuel Lutheran sixth and eighth graders use their guitar skills learned in Mrs. Tiefel's music courses to accompany our kindergarten, first, and second-grade students.

  School health is fairly good. Our staff is healthy, and students are healthy for the most part. We do seem to have a mild stomach bug starting to circulate, so be on the lookout for symptoms. Remember, if your child has a temperature of 100.4 or higher or is vomiting, they must be symptom-free without medication for 24-hours before coming back to school. Please click here  to see our important dates that are coming up this week and beyond. The Monday Update will be added to the Tiger Talk blog moving forward; I will still email it out as well for the remainder of the school year, but we will transition to blog-only for the 2022/2023 school year. Important bus update!  The CDC has changed the definition of "public transportation" to exclude school district busing. Effective immediately, face masks will be OPTIONAL on New London school district buses. This includes our field trip to FVL tomorrow, and any regular bus riders. If you have questions, you can contact the ...

Events This Week Monday MAP testing grades 3-8 Luther Prep basketball practice @ 4:45-6:15 Tuesday K-8 field trip to FVL musical @ 11:30-3:00 Wednesday Blood drive @ 12:00-5:00 (Community room) Ash Wednesday worship @ 3:30/7:00 Supper between services (Church basement) Luther Prep basketball practice @ 4:45-6:15 Thursday School Board meeting @ 6:30 (Office conference room) Friday School chapel @ 8:15 JAM @ 8:15-9:15 Saturday Men of the Outdoors Sportsman's Breakfast @ 8:00-12:00 (Gym/Commons) Worship @ 5:15 Sunday Worship @ 8:00/10:30 4th grade sings at both services Bells Alive @ 5:00-7:30 (Church balcony) Upcoming Important Dates 3/7 Coordinating Council meeting - 7:00 3/8 Starting Point Bible class - 6:30 3/9 Midweek Lenten worship - 3:30/7:00 (supper between 5th grade sings 3/11 Luther Prep basketball tournament JAM - 8:15 3/12 Luther Prep basketball tournament 3/13 Daylight Savings Time (clocks forward 1 hour) 3/14-3/18 No School - Spring Break

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  From the desk of Mrs. D :) A happy heart makes the face cheerful! Proverbs 15:13 Call, text, email Anytime 920-407-3000/mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org Upcoming Events: Come and See-Join us in church February 25, 2022 - 3P/4K Track 'n' Field Night - TONIGHT!! February 27, 2022 - 8:00a&10:30a 3P&4K Sing in Church! February 26, 2022 - 5:15p - Worship Opportunity                         February 27, 2022 - 8:00a,10:30a - Worship Opportunity          February 28, 2022 - 6:30p - Worship Opportunity                               March 2, 2022 - Ash Wednesday Worship - Serve Lenten Supper March 4, 2022 -  8:15-9:15a -  JAM! Time   March 14-18, 2022 - No School Spring Break Track 'n' Field Night is TONIGHT!!  This is a great evening of celebrating our little people from the Lord!...

Do you sometimes feel “crushed”? In a broken world, it is simply a matter of time before we feel crushed. This is why we need Lent. Sin is the ultimate source of all the crushing moments within life, and our sin even crushed Christ. Yet on Easter Sunday morning, Jesus took up his life again and crushed both death and the serpent’s head. Yes, Lent is a solemn season. But it is also a season of great hope.

Don't wait; order your 2021-2022 yearbook today! Orders must be submitted by March 28 and can be completed online. Simply CLICK HERE and enter the following yearbook ID:  11282322 If you have any issues, contact the school office.

If you would like to order pictures from our 02/23/22 session, use the following information. You only have 48-hours to order! The Event Code is:  EVTH86HHB Direct link:   https://my.lifetouch. com/mylifetouch/#/prepay- student-info

One of my favorite books of the Bible is the book of Judges. Judges has a lot of action in it, with famous people like Samson and Gideon. Whenever I would teach this book to my students, they would get excited, and when students are excited to hear God's Word, that makes me excited too! Throughout the book of Judges, the Israelites fell into a pattern. The great leaders Moses, Aaron, and Joshua had died, and the Israelites were effectively leaderless. As such, they started to wander from God and worship false idols. That made God angry, who then allowed the Israelites to be defeated by their enemies. The Israelites realized the error of their ways and repented, and God sent a judge, a champion in battle, to lead them to victory against their foes. "Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hands of these raiders" (Judges 2:16, NIV 2011). This cycle repeated time and time again. Fast-forward thousands of years, and here we are, suffering from the same cycle...

 Emanuel Lutheran School and Tiger Cub Care are closed today, February 22, 2022, due to inclement weather. Lord willing, school will resume on February 23.

Events This Week Monday No School Tuesday MAP testing grades 3-8 Wednesday MAP testing grades 3-8 Winter/Spring sports pictures Thursday MAP testing grades 3-8 Friday School chapel @ 8:15 JAM @ 8:15-9:15 MAP testing grades 3-8 3P/4K Track 'n Field Night @ 5:30-7:30 Saturday Worship @ 5:15 Sunday Worship @ 8:00/10:30 3P/4K sings at both services Bells Alive @ 5:00-7:30 (Church balcony) Upcoming Important Dates 2/21 NO SCHOOL - Professional Development Day 2/22-3/4 MAP testing in grades 3-8 2/23 Winter/Spring sports picture day 2/25 JAM at 8:15-9:15 EC Track/Field Night at 5:30-7:30 2/27 3P/4K sing at church at 8:00 AND 10:30 3/1 K-8 field trip to FVL for "Little Mermaid" 3/2 Blood drive at 12:00-5:00 (Community Room) Ash Wednesday worship at 3:30 and 7:00 Meal between 3/3 School Board meeting at 6:30 (office conference room) 3/4 JAM at 8:15-9:15 3/5 Men of the Outdoors Sportsmen's Breakfast at 8:00-12:00

    It is a scheduling week! The sign-up is now open to sign up for your care needed for the weeks of February 28-March 11! Please complete the sign-up as soon as possible, but no later than this Thursday(2/24/22) at midnight to allow for the schedule to be completed in a timely manner.  Click here to sign up for care needed ! Any questions, please see Mrs. D or message her at mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org or (920)407-3000.

  From the desk of Mrs. D :) A happy heart makes the face cheerful! Proverbs 15:13 Call, text, email Anytime 920-407-3000/mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org Upcoming Events: Come and See-Join us in church February 19, 2022 - 5:15p -  Worship Opportunit y     (click in for a video about Epiphany)                     February 20, 2022 - 8:00a,10:30a -  Worship Opportunity           February 21, 2022 - 6:30p -  Worship Opportunity                                February 25, 2022 -  8:15-9:15a -  JAM! Time   February 25, 2022 - 3P/4K Track 'n' Field Night - See Below! February 27, 2022 - 8:00a&10:30a 3P&4K Sing in Church! March 2, 2022 - Serve Lenten Supper The Christmas DVDs are available in the office.  Please stop by the office at your earliest convenience to pay the $2/copy a...

Nobody likes to be in debt. Most people will do whatever they can to avoid owing someone else money. When Mrs. Fuerstenau and I were married, I was still in school at Martin Luther College, so before our wedding, we attended a pre-marriage workshop that the school did for engaged students. Much of the time was spent discussing finances because MLC knew that most of our called workers have debt to deal with when they graduate. For most of the couples there, this was doubly true because both people in the relationship were training to be called workers. If you want to go to college and get a degree, debt is almost unavoidable these days. Having debt hang over you is not an ideal situation. What other debts do we owe? Car loans, mortgages, credit cards? What about the debt our sin creates? There's one debt we can never pay off! If you thought about sin as a loan, it would be the worst loan ever. Think about all the times you sin during the day: each sinful thought, word, or action. Th...

Events This Week Monday Pajama Day A Girls' basketball practice @ 3:15-4:30 A Boys' basketball practice @ 4:45-6:15 Worship @ 6:30 Coordinating Council meeting @ 7:00 Tuesday Crazy Day A-Team cheer practice @ 3:15-4:30 Wednesday Career Day A Girls' basketball practice @ 3:15-4:30 A Boys' basketball practice @ 4:45-6:15 Thursday Class Color Day First-grade field trip to Mosquito Hill @ 9:35-12:15 A-Team cheer practice @ 3:15-4:30 Friday Black & Gold Day School Chapel @ 8:15 (Church) JAM @ 8:15-9:15 (Commons/Gym) Spelling Bee @ 1:30 (Church) Pep Rally @ 2:00 (Gym) Saturday A-Team basketball tournament - Times TBD (FVL) Worship @ 5:15 Sunday A-Team basketball tournament - Times TBD (FVL) Worship @ 8:00/10:30 Bells Alive @ 5:00-7:30 (Church balcony) Upcoming Important Dates 2/14-2/18 Spirit Week  Pep Rally/Spelling Bee on Friday 2/14 Coordinating Council meeting at 7:00 2/17 1st Grade field trip to Mosquito Hill 2/18 JAM at 8:15-9:15 2/19-2/20 A-team basketball tourname...

   From the desk of Mrs. D :) A happy heart makes the face cheerful! Proverbs 15:13 Call, text, email Anytime 920-407-3000/mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org Upcoming Events: Come and See - God's Word  February 12, 2022 - 5:15p -  Worship Opportunit y     (click in for a video about Epiphany)                     February 13, 2022 - 8:00a,10:30a -  Worship Opportunity           February 14, 2022 - 6:30p -  Worship Opportunity                                February 14&15, 2022 - Valentine's Day Celebrations (More info below) February 14-18, 2022 - Spirit Week and Penny War February 18, 2022 -   JAM! Time February 25, 2022 - 3P/4K Track 'n' Field Night - Details coming soon! Save the Date! February 27, 2022 - 8:00a&10:30a 3P&4K Sing in Church! We were reminded all week to c...

I was searching for some inspirational quotes to use in my message today, and I came across this one by Beau Taplin, who is apparently an author/poet of some sort (don't ask me anything else about him; I have no idea): "Whoever says the small things don't matter has never seen a match start a wildfire." I also stumbled upon this one from Vincent Van Gogh (him I know!): "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Both quotes have the same basic idea: we often underestimate the impact something small may have on the big picture.  Let me give you a ridiculous, over-exaggerated example. The CEO of a multi-billion dollar company forgets to stop and get creamer for his morning coffee on the way home from work one evening. Not a big deal, right? The next morning, he wakes up like usual, but when he goes to have his coffee, there is no creamer. He can't drink black coffee, so he rushes out the door, planning to stop at the local coffee ...

Events This Week Monday School Board staffing meeting (closed) @ 6:30 Worship @ 6:30 Tuesday C Girls' basketball practice @ 3:15-4:45 Basketball games AWAY vs St. Paul Appleton @ 4:15 (BG/AG/BB/AB) Wednesday Basketball game HOME vs Immanuel Greenville @ 4:15 (CG) A Boys' basketball practice @ 4:45-6:15 Thursday NO SCHOOL Friday NO SCHOOL Saturday Worship @ 5:15 Sunday Worship @ 8:00/10:30 Bells Alive @ 5:00-7:30 (Church balcony) Upcoming Important Dates 2/8 AWAY basketball games vs. St. Paul Appleton, first game at 4:15 2/9 HOME basketball game vs. Immanuel Greenville, C-girls only at 4:15 2/10-2/11 NO SCHOOL - Northern Wisconsin District Teachers' Convention 2/14-2/18 Spirit Week  Pep Rally/Spelling Bee on Friday 2/14 Coordinating Council meeting at 7:00 2/17 1st Grade field trip to Mosquito Hill 2/18 JAM at 8:15-9:15 2/19-2/20 A-team basketball tournament at FVL, times TBD 2/21 NO SCHOOL - Professional Development Day

 Be sure to check out our new Tiger Spot playlist on YouTube . We have some fun things happening at Emanuel!

      It is a scheduling week! The sign-up is now open to sign up for your care needed for the weeks of February 14-25! Remember there is no school on Monday, February 21, 2022. Please complete the sign-up as soon as possible, but no later than this Thursday(2/10/22) at midnight to allow for the schedule to be completed in a timely manner.  Click here to sign up for care needed ! Any questions, please see Mrs. D or message her at mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org or (920)407-3000.

 

  From the desk of Mrs. D :) A happy heart makes the face cheerful! Proverbs 15:13 Call, text, email Anytime 920-407-3000/mdobberstein@emanuelnl.org Upcoming Events: Come and See - God's Word  February 4, 2022 - About 6:30pm - Perform the Pledge of Allegiance (See below!) February 5, 2022 - 5:15p -  Worship Opportunit y     (click in for a video about Epiphany)                     February 6, 2022 - 8:00a,10:30a -  Worship Opportunity           February 7, 2022 - 6:30p -  Worship Opportunity                                February 10,2022 - No School - Teachers' Conference February 11, 2022 - No  JAM! Time February 14&15, 2022 - Valentine's Day Celebrations (More info below) February 14-18, 2022 - Spirit Week and Penny War February 24, 2022 - 3P/4K Track 'n' Field Night - Details c...

If you haven't sat down and watched the movie Encanto with your family, I highly recommend it. Of course, the animation is eye-catching and you will never stop singing the songs (Google "We Don't Talk About Bruno"), it is a Disney movie after all. There is a great message about an individual's worth running deeper than their outward gifts and talents (hello, redeemed children of God!). When I watched the movie with my family, I couldn't help but connect with one of the characters, and if you are an administrator, manager, or the one who keeps your household running, you probably will too: Luisa. Long story short and with as few spoilers as possible, Luisa possesses superhuman strength. Throughout the course of the movie, you find out that Luisa is feeling overwhelmed with the burdens and responsibilities she is asked to carry and ascribes her worth to whether she can carry them without buckling under their weight. "Who am I if I can't carry it all?...

  FVL is hosting their annual music fundraiser "MusicFest" this Sunday, Feb. 6. Admission is FREE! Come and enjoy an afternoon of music from the FVL middle school and high school bands and choirs (featuring many of Emanuel's young musicians!). The event runs from 1:30-4:00pm at FVL. Event and donation information can be found at fvlhs.org/musicfest.

"Starting Point" is Emanuel's Bible basics course taught by Pastor Marcus Schulz, Tuesday nights at 6:30pm.  A new class kicks off on Tuesday, Feb. 22.  We spend a few minutes each night finding the foundations of our faith and discussing how these teachings apply to our lives.  Have you ever asked yourself, “how well do I know the basics of the Bible?” “How well do I know what my kids are being taught about God in School?” “How can I get better motivated to attend worship and bible class?” or, “How can I learn God’s direction for my life and my family?” We’ve got the answer for you! We invite everyone: new members, long-time members, teenagers, grandparents, and everyone in between. This course will be available both in person, and online via Facebook Live - go to  Facebook.com/emanuelnl Registering in advance by contacting the office at 920-982-5444 is encouraged, however, walk-ins are welcome. Childcare will be provided upon request.