T HIS W EEK AT P ILGRIM : N OVEMBER 9 – 15
Missionary support is given today by Charlotte Nelson
in memory of brother Tim Nelson.
Today
8:45 am
10:00 am
4:00 pm
Monday
9:30 am
10:15 am
12:00 pm
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
Cinnamon Roll Breakfast
Worship
Worship
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ATTENDANCE LAST WEEK
The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
November 9, 2014
10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30 pm ~ 16
Morning Prayer
Villa Marina
Al Anon
Power Walk and Tone
Fit Ball
Sunday, November 2nd
8:00 am ~ 50
10:00 am ~ 71
Tuesday
5:30 pm Pilgrim Choir
6:45 pm Metabolic Conditioning
Wednesday
9:30 am Bible Study
5:30 pm AAL
6:30 pm WOW
Thursday
9:00 am
11:30 am
5:00 pm
6:00 pm
6:45 pm
SERVING TODAY
Ushers:
Asst. Minister:
Sound:
Driver:
Altar Guild:
Hospitality:
Quilters
Assemble Bulletins
Power Walk and Tone
PLCW
Metabolic Conditioning Ushers:
Saturday
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Christmas Sale & Vendor Show
Team 1: Ted Nelson, Capt.
Jenny Carey
Jack Notenberg
Kent Bergum
Elaine & Nancy
Stewardship Committee
SERVING NEXT SUNDAY
Asst. Minister:
Lector:
Sound:
Driver:
Altar Guild:
Hospitality:
Team 2: Tad Matheson, Capt.
Paul Martin
Don Miller
Sue Winner
Greg Elonen
Charlotte, Joan, Lucy, & Julia
Sue Winner
Todd Sletten, Organist
Cedric Johnson, Custodian
Curt Hanson, Choir Director/Office Manager
Laura Swanson, Lay Ministry Coordinator
Rev. Will Mowchan, Pastor
Rev. Donald Berg, Pastor Emeritus
Dr. Steven & Bethany Friberg, Missionaries in Tanzania
Pilgrim Lutheran Church
820 Belknap St.
Superior, WI 54880 ~ (715) 392-4731
www.plcsuperior.org
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P ILGRIM L UTHERAN
C HURCH
We are lovingly Lutheran.
We worship, learn, serve, and support.
Welcome to Pilgrim! We are glad that you are with us today. If you are seeking a church
home or would like the pastor to call, please fill out one of the information cards in the pew
back in front of you and place it in the offering plate. We also invite you to sign our guest
book located in the narthex near the elevator.
Holy Communion is offered for everyone. This morning, communion will be served by
intinction. As the ushers invite you, please walk down the center aisle, receive a wafer, and
dip it into the chalice of either red wine or white grape juice. Gluten-free wafers are
available. Please indicate to the Pastor if you need one. You may then return to your pew
by the side aisle.
For Our Visitors — Using the Hymnal: Nearly all congregational responses are printed in
the bulletin. If you wish to follow along in the hymnal, page numbers are indicated as “p.”
and are at the front of the hymnal. Hymn numbers are indicated as “#” and begin following
the Psalms about 1/3 into the hymnal.
Refreshments are available before and after worship. Please enjoy in the narthex.
ORDER OF WORSHIP FOR THE SEASON OF PENTECOST
ELW SETTING 1
* Please stand as you are able. Congregation responses in bold print.
P — Pastor
L — Leader
C — Congregation
Prelude
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CINNAMON ROLL BREAKFAST ~ Today sponsored by the Stewardship Committee.
CAMP AMNICON FALL VOLUNTEER RETREAT ~ Help us close down the camp for winter! A group from Pilgrim will be venturing out on Saturday afternoon, November 22,
from 2:00 until after dinner (a thanksgiving-style feast!) and you’re welcome to stay
as long as you like; the retreat goes all weekend, and food and lodging are provided. Tasks range from simple cleaning and sorting tasks to more technical jobs requiring carpentry or other skills. When: November 21-23. Who: Friends of all
shapes, sizes and ages, so long as they're willing to work! Sign up on the kiosk if
you’d like to pitch in!
2015 PLEDGE DRIVE ~ Please prayerfully consider your giving pledge for 2015 and
help us to plan next year’s budget. Even if you do not wish to make a pledge, your
estimate of giving helps in preparing next year’s budget. You may turn in your pledge
through November 23rd.
ATTENTION: PILGRIM WOMEN ~ We’re starting a new format of only four meetings a
year. While we don’t live in the past, we have wonderful ties to our past of being
“lovingly Lutheran” and providing funds for our local/global community. Some of our
projects have supported Lutheran World Relief, Global Health Ministries, Missionary
Support, Lutheran Social Services, Mission Trips, Seafarers, Salvation Army, Boys
& Girls Club, and many more. Our first meeting will be this coming Thursday,
November 13th at 6:00 pm in the library (note new day and time). A light supper
will be provided. If we want to continue our Santa Lucia / Vesper Tea and a few
fundraisers during the year, it’s going to take many of us, not just a few. We want to
keep our faith work vibrant! If you would like a ride please contact Laura in the office.
COMMUNITY HYMN SING ~ Next Sunday, November 16th at 6:00 pm, Zion Lutheran
Church, 2022 E 2nd St. (by Culvers). Free-will offering.
Welcome & Announcements
GATHERING
* Confession and Forgiveness
P: Blessed be the Holy Trinity, one God, the Sovereign over all the earth, the
Wisdom from on high, our merciful Judge and Savior. C: Amen.
P: Let us boldly approach the throne of grace, trusting in God’s mercy and
love. Generous and faithful God,...
C: ...we confess to you all the ways, known and unknown, that we reject
and undermine your steadfast love. Though you made us your people, we treat strangers with suspicion. Though you forgave our debts,
we collect without mercy. Yet we are quick to pass judgment on oth2
WHO WRITES YOUR STORY? ~ Superior Christian Women’s Gathering, Tuesday,
November 18th, 11:30 am—1:00 pm at Barker’s Island Inn, Michigan/Ontario Room.
Main Speaker, Linda Stai, Buffalo, MN: “Who Is Writing Your Story?”. Special Feature: Annie Lepper from Superior Choice Credit Union, Superior: “Identity Theft,
Scams, and Fraud Tips”. Reservations to Lois at 715-398-3175 by November 14th.
UKRAINE SLIDE SHOW ~ Pastor Mowchan will show slides and narrate his trip to the
Ukraine next Sunday, November 16, following the 10:00 worship service.
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C:
L:
C:
P:
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
(spoken) It is indeed right, our duty and our joy,…..we praise your name
and join their unending hymn:
C: (sung) Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
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Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
* Words of Institution
“In the night in which he was betrayed…”
* Lord’s Prayer (spoken together)
p. 112
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,
thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For
thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
Lamb of God (sung)
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Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world; have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world; have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world; grant us peace (2x).
Holy Communion
Distribution Hymns: # 694, 695
* Prayer
L: O God, the host at every meal, at this table you spread out a feast for all
peoples, the bread of life and the cup of salvation. Send us from this banquet to invite others into these good things, to let justice roll down like waters, and to care for the least of our sisters and brothers; through Jesus
Christ, our Sovereign and our Savior. C: Amen.
SENDING
* Benediction
* Dismissal
L: Go in peace. Christ is with you. C: Thanks be to God.
* Closing Hymn
For the Beauty of the Earth
Postlude
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# 879
ers. Have mercy on us, O God, and remember your promise to us, for
the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
P: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. Through the living Word, Jesus Christ, God forgives your every debt,
your every sin, and gives you a new heart and a new spirit. C: Amen.
* Opening Hymn
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
# 693
* Greeting
P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of
the Holy Spirit be with you all. C: And also with you.
* Hymn of Praise
O God beyond All Praising
# 880
* Prayer of the Day
WORD
First Lesson: Micah 3: 9-12 (The Message translation)
The leaders of Jacob and the leaders of Israel are leaders contemptuous of
justice, who twist and distort right living, leaders who build Zion by killing people, who expand Jerusalem by committing crimes. Judges sell verdicts to the
highest bidder, priests mass-market their teaching, prophets preach for high
fees, all the while posturing and pretending dependence on God: “We’ve
got God on our side. He’ll protect us from disaster.” Because of people like you,
Zion will be turned back into farmland, Jerusalem end up as a pile of rubble,
and instead of the Temple on the mountain, a few scraggly scrub pines.
The Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Psalm 100 (sung responsively)
L: Make a joyful noise to the Lord, / all the earth. *
Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his pres- / ence with singing.
C: Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and / we are his; *
we are his people, and the sheep / of his pasture.
L: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his / courts with praise. *
Give thanks to him, / bless his name.
C: For the Lord is good; his steadfast love en- / dures forever, *
and his faithfulness to all / generations.
L: Glory to the Father, and / to the Son, *
and to the / Holy Spirit;
C: as it was in the begin- / ning, is now, *
and will be forev- / er. Amen.
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Second Lesson: Philippians 4: 10-13 (The Message translation)
I’m glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess — happy that you’re
again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and
thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don’t have a
sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content
whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with
much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry,
hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it
through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
The Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
* Gospel Acclamation (sung)
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
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* Holy Gospel: Matthew 6: 19-21, 24-34 (The Message translation)
C: Glory to you, O Lord.
“Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded
by rust or — worse! — stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where
it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where
your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
“You can’t worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you’ll end up hating the
other. Adoration of one feeds contempt for the other. You can’t worship God
and Money both.
“If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don’t
fuss about what’s on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your
stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your
body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description,
careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.
“Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as
an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion — do you think it makes
that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields
and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen
color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the
country look shabby alongside them.
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers — most of
which are never even seen — don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in
you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not
be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People
who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you
know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative,
God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday
human concerns will be met.
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“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get
worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal
with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
The Gospel of the Lord.
C: Praise to you, O Christ.
Scripture Hymn
Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me
Sermon
* Hymn of the Day
Be Thou My Vision
# 767
Rev. Will Mowchan
# 793
* Apostles Creed (spoken together)
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I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by
the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was
crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third
day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right
hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of
saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life
everlasting. Amen.
* Prayers
* Sharing the Peace
MEAL
Offering
Musical Offering
Carry the Light
Pilgrim Choir
* Offertory Hymn
We Praise You, O God (v. 1)
We praise you, O God, our redeemer, creator;
In grateful devotion our tribute we bring.
We lay it before you; we kneel and adore you;
We bless your holy name; glad praises we sing.
Eilers
# 870
* Offertory Prayer (spoken together)
Merciful God, as grains of wheat scattered upon the hills were gathered
together to become one bread, so let your church be gathered together
from the ends of the earth into your kingdom, for yours is the glory
through Jesus Christ, now and forever. Amen.
* Great Thanksgiving (sung responsively)
L: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.
L: Lift up your hearts.
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