Bulletin - Trinity Lutheran Church
This Week at MONDAY H.C. at The Commons ........................... 1:30 pm Dartball .................................................. 7:00 pm Castalia @ V #1 V #2 @ UCC St P V #3 @ Bellevue WEDNESDAY Choir Practice ........................................ 7:00 pm “We All Belong” (Narcotics Anon.) ..... 7:00 pm THURSDAY Mission Webinar ....................................... Noon Adopt-A-School Mtg............................. 6:30 pm NEXT SUNDAY Worship ................................ 8:00 and 10:30 am Sunday School ....................................... 9:15 am Confirmation Class ...................Noon - 2:30 pm PASTOR: The Rev. Philip A. Gardner - office: [email protected] home: 419 625-6771...e-mail: [email protected] ORGANIST: Paul E. Bower CHOIR DIRECTOR: Nancy Vollmer CHURCH OFFICE SECRETARY: Carol Dahs congregation e-mail: [email protected] YOUTH & FAMILY MINISTRY COORDINATOR: Sally Warner PRESIDENT: Sally Warner VICE PRESIDENT: David Miller TREASURER: James Bertsch WEBSITE: www.trinityelca.com Our Response to God’s Current Expenses (first line) received February 15: No Worship Benevolence Fund (second line) received February 15: No Worship Building Improvements Fund (third line) February 15: No Worship AttendFebruary 15: No Worship Lessons for Sunday, March Genesis 17:1–7, 15–16, Psalm 22:23–31 Romans 4:13–25, Mark 8:31–38 Trinity We Are Evangelical Lutheran Congregation 502 Bardshar Road, Sandusky, Ohio 44870 (419) WELCOME! OUR WEEKLY GATHERING to offer praise and thanks to God is the central event of our life together, and we are happy that you have come to take part in it! Guests are invited to fill out a visitor’s card and place it in the offering plate. FIRST-TIME VISITOR? Or, would someone for whom you are asking prayer this morning like a gift to remind that he or she was remembered here at worship? Please take a peace candle with you as you depart. The candles are in small bags which hang from the “apple” shelf in the elevator lobby at the southeast entrance to our worship space. ENLARGED PRINT copies of the liturgy, lessons, and hymns are available at each entranceway. Ask any usher for assistance. PRAYER CONCERNS include Dan Miller, at Firelands; Drew Killingsworth and Norm Stierhoff, recuperating at home; Linda Gantz, continuing therapy; the ministry of the Sandusky Churches Adopt-aSchool Program, and our role in it; the people of Grace, Castalia, and their pastor, Kathleen Suggitt. PLEASE ADD YOUR PETITION of need or thanksgiving for yourself, your family, or others to today’s prayers by completing a blue “Prayer Concern” card found in the pew and giving it to Pastor Gardner when asked. We, the People of Trinity, Are Missionaries and “Signs of and Participants in the Inbreaking Kingdom of God in Christ Jesus” but, what does this mean? Let’s Talk! Winter Annual Congregational Meeting TODAY! 2:00 pm Get the latest on what’s happening in ministry and mission. Join in conversation over such things as whether Trinity should join other Lutheran congregations in celebrating Holy Communion weekly and how we should best decide if worship should be cancelled due to weather and road conditions. And, take the opportunity to meet our new office secretary, Carol Dahs. If you are able, bring a cherry dessert to share in celebration of Washington’s Birthday! OUR LENTEN WEDNESDAYS are designed to give something for everyone, families included. A light meal will be served at 6:00 pm, and at 6:35, adults and youth will engage in the conversation Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has asked us to hold on the nature and purpose of the Church. At this same time, children will have their own Lenten activities based on our Sunday Lenten theme: “The Radical Road to the Cross.” Then, the evening concludes with worship in the sanctuary from 7:30 to 8:00 pm. (Our Senior Choir will rehearse afterward.) It’s a different schedule, but for good reason...a chance for us to talk about who we are and why we are here. Please join in! VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED for one Lenten Wednesday and for Maundy Thursday to prepare meals for those attending worship. Food costs are reimbursed; what we need are folks with the time to prepare and serve these light meals. The Congregational Life Team’s Lenten meal sign-up sheet on the bulletin board right outside the sanctuary. Thanks for helping. SANDUSKY LUTHERANS IN MISSION has created a Lenten devotional booklet with daily meditations written by members of SALM congregations, including Trinity. We've printed some copies, and placed them at each door. If we've run out, and you would like one, ask Carol in the church office to prepare a copy for you. TODAY’S THE DAY TO DO SOMETHING about that sweet tooth! Venice Heights Elementary School is selling “World’s Finest Chocolates,” but we need your order and payment TODAY! This is Easter candy, and each item is $6.00. There’s an order form on a table in front of the Adopt-a-School Bulletin Board. Simply write your name and check what you would like to order. Money for your order can be paid to either Susanne Lemert or Cindy Norman. Thanks! THE ADOPT-A-SCHOOL MISSION TEAM will once again be participating in the Back-to-School Rally in August. The team is planning ahead for one of the craft activities. We're asking congregation members to give us your clean, label free metal cans. The team could use the following cans; 10 1/2 oz. condensed soup cans or 15 oz. fruit or vegetable cans. The metal cans may be placed in the yellow box labeled "Soup Cans" in the upper hallway of the educational wing by our Adopt-a-School Bulletin Board. Cans will be collected through March. Thank You. THE ADOPT-A-SCHOOL MISSION TEAM will be meeting on Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6:30 p.m. in the church Fellowship hall. YEAR-END FINANCIAL STATEMENTS are available outside the church office. Should you have any concerns regarding your statement, let the church office know. DO LUNCH OR DINNER AT APPLEBEE’S this Thursday, and you can help youth at Zion, Huron, attend the Churchwide Youth Gathering in Detroit this summer. Find the sheet you need to take with you elsewhere in this morning’s bulletin. SPACES REMAIN on the 2015 flower and bulletin chart. Sign up today to share your celebrations and remembrances with your sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus! A DESSERT SIGN-UP SHEET for the Project Share Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser at Grace Lutheran on March 7 is posted across the hall from the church office. Please bring your desserts to Trinity on Friday, March 6 during regular office hours or on Saturday, March 7 from 11:00 am to noon. We will be delivering them to Grace Lutheran at noon on March 7. Mark the date on your calendar serving will begin at 4:00 pm till 7:00 pm and carry out will be available. Thank you for your support of this fundraiser. If you have any questions, please contact Bonnie Lieb at 419-6847491. And, PLEASE JOIN US in supporting Project Share of Margaretta Twp. at a spaghetti benefit on Saturday, March 7, at Grace Lutheran in Castalia. Serving from 4-7pm, carry-out will also be available. Your free will donation will be matched by Thrivent Financial. So, come hungry, the spaghetti, bread sticks, salads and dessert will be waiting! meditation 8:00 & 10:30 am God Beyond Knowledge Pat Bennett Today’s Worship SLANE, ancient Irish melody First Sunday in Lent Year B =115 God be - yond know - ledge, yet close to us here, our God with - out lim - its, yet shar - ing our flesh, you Lord, to your pur - pose our liv - ing we pledge: to touch - stone, our lode - star in faith and in fear; your speak for the si - lenced, re - lease the op - pressed and go be - yond com - fort and stand at life's edge, to pre - sence we call us to love and to know in the dark be - fore dawn as fol - low, in all things to prove the live with - out safe - ty, and so to cou - rage is kind-led and hope is re - born. tools of your Spir - it, the signs of your love. shape and in - hab - it your King-dom of hope. Words © Pat Bennett from The Iona Abbey Music Book Wild Goose Publications, Glasgow. Reproduced by permission. February 22, 2015 Prelude Silent Prayer and Office of the Acolyte Invocation and Nine-fold Kyrie We make the sign of the Holy Cross in remembrance of our Baptism In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit Amen. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Confession and Forgiveness ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Mills at Perkins, Sandusky, will host its monthly “Welcome Table” meal today from noon to 1:30 pm. It’s a free meal for anyone who would like one. All are invited. Beloved in the Lord: let us draw near with a true heart, and confess our sins to God our Father, imploring him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us forgiveness. Blessing Silence for reflection and self-examination. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Almighty God, merciful Father: I, a troubled and penitent sinner, confess to you all my sins and iniquities with which I have offended you and for which I justly deserve your punishment. But I am sorry for them, and repent of them, and pray for your boundless mercy. For the sake of the suffering and death of your Son, Jesus Christ, be gracious and merciful to me, a poor sinful being; forgive my sins, give me your Holy Spirit for the amendment of my sinful life, and bring me to life everlasting. Amen. In the mercy of almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us, and, for his sake, God forgives us all our sins. To those who believe in Jesus Christ he gives the power to become the children of God and bestows on them the Holy Spirit. Grant this, O Lord, unto us all. Amen. Stand Sending Song “God Beyond Knowledge” (Next Page) Tune: ELW No. 793 Silent Prayer and Office of the Acolyte Postlude From Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2015 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #28914 New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. AT WORSHIP THIS MORNING: Call to Worship At 8:00… Your paths, O Lord, are steadfast love and faithfulness. Come, let us worship the Lord! Opening Hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” The LORD bless you, and keep you: The LORD make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace; In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. No. 733 Greeting The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. Prayer of the Day Holy God, heavenly Father, in the waters of the flood you saved the chosen, and in the wilderness of temptation you protected your Son from sin. Renew us in the gift of baptism. May your holy angels be with us, that the wicked foe may have no power over us, through Jesus Christ, 2 our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and Acolyte ....................................................................Halle Miller Lector..................................................................... Penny Solem Ushers ........................Barb Wobser, Rich Miller, Greg Norman At 10:30… Acolyte ....................................................................Jessie Opfer Lector.......................................................................... Barry Gill Ushers ................... Bill Bertsch, Bob Troike, Volunteer Needed March Altar Care: Ruby Stierhoff, Chairperson AT WEDNESDAY WORSHIP THIS WEEK: Acolyte - Kaitlin Miller, Lector - TBA, Ushers - Mark Wiedenheft, Rob Wiedenheft, David Wobser CHANCEL FLOWERS are given to the glory of God by Jim Bertsch in celebration of the 91st birthday of his father, Robert. 7 the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Hymn “Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” No. 808 Offertory Offertory Song (WOV No. 732) Cre - ate in me a clean heart, O God, and re - new a right spir-it with- in me. Cast me not a - way from your pres - ence, and take not your Ho - ly Spir - it from me; Re - store un - to me the joy of your sal- - (8:00) Anthem “Brighter Than Snow” Trinity Senior Choir First Lesson Genesis 9:8-17 8 Offering - the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. va-tion, and up - hold me with your free Spir-it. Parish Announcements and Prayer Concerns Prayers Lord's Prayer 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, 6 forever and ever. Amen. Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9"As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. 11I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." 12God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." 17God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth." The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Psalm 25:1-10 1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 2 My God, I put my trust in you; let me not be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. 3 Let none who look to you be put to shame; rather let those be put to shame who are treacherous. 4 Show me your ways, O LORD, and teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; in you have I trusted all the day long. 6 Remember, O LORD, your compassion and love, 3 for they are from everlasting. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions; remember me according to your steadfast love and for the sake of your goodness, O LORD. 8 You are gracious and upright, O LORD; therefore you teach sinners in your way. 9 You lead the lowly in justice and teach the lowly your way. 10 All your paths, O LORD, are steadfast love and faithfulness to those who keep your covenant and your testimonies. Second Lesson 1 Peter 3:18-22 18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, 19in which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. 21And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you — not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Gospel Acclamation The gospel is announced, and we respond: Glory to you, O Lord. Gospel Mark 1:9-15 9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. 11And a voice came from heaven, "You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased." 12 And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him. 14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, 15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near, repent, and believe in the good news." The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to You, O Christ. Children’s Meditation Reception of Blue Prayer Concern Cards Hymn “O Lord, Throughout These Forty Days” No. 319 Sermon Apostles Creed 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. 4 I believe in the Holy Spirit, 5
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