Third Sunday in Lent
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In the temple He found those who
were selling oxen and sheep and
pigeons, and the money-changers
sitting there. And making a whip of
cords, He drove them all out of the
temple, with the sheep and oxen.
And He poured out the coins of the
money-changers and overturned their
tables. John 2:14–15
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TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
1010 North Webster,
Taylorville, IL, 62568-1277
(217) 824-8148
FAX: (217) 824-8149
E-mail:[email protected]
(Announcements & Calendars can be found @ our
Web Site: www.trinitylutherantaylorville.org
Pastor: Rev. Rodney Blomquist
(217) 824-4705
Trinity Lutheran Preschool: 824-8148
Trinity Lutheran ChildCarePLUS: 287-2229
[email protected]
Worship:
Saturday: 6:15 p.m.
Sunday: 9:15 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. (Located in the Preschool Rooms)
Sunday Morning Fellowship: 10:30 a.m.
Adult Bible Class: 10:45 a.m.
Office Hours:
Monday: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (Lunch Hour 12:30-1:30 p.m.)
Friday: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
“SHARING WITH OUR FAMILY IN CHRIST”
March 7 & 8, 2015
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+WORSHIP +
►ALTAR FLOWERS–Placed by Trinity Lutheran Church For
Blessings Received.
THE FLOWER CHART FOR 2015 has been posted and ready
for you to pick your dates for Flowers On The Altar. Dates open
March 22 & March 29.
RITUAL OF FRIENDSHIP REGISTER: We thank you for
the faithful use of the red booklet in the pews; please continue to
record your name; attendance at communion and also pass the
booklet to your neighbor; this can be done before the service
begins, during the offering or at the end of the service. Our visitors are encouraged to sign the red
booklet also; and if you would like us to make contact with you, please include your address and phone
number.
FOR OUR LITTLEST LAMBS: It is our joy as a congregation to have these little ones in our midst
during worship; but it is hard for these precious souls to sit all the way through the service. The
Preschool Room is available for them; the room is divided in two halves; the front half is for the Sunday
School; and the back half by the windows is for your use during the services; speakers are on so that
you, the parents, can still listen to the sermon; if you find the door locked or the speakers not working,
contact one of the ushers.
NEED LARGE PRINT OR UNFAMILIAR WITH OUR HYMNAL: Our ushers
have worship folders available for your use; you may simply request a copy from them;
HEARING ASSISTING RECEIVERS are available; just ask the ushers for one;
MARCH 2015 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, ANNIVERSARIES AND BIRTHDAYS
are available in the Narthex or just ask an usher for one as you enter the Sanctuary.
►THOSE RECENTLY HOSPITALIZED: Lois Cook @ Memorial Medical Center;
THOSE RECOVERING AT HOME: Lillian Greene; Janice Fouts, Omar Masters; Frances Beck;
Mary Ladage; Judy Rigdon; Larry Wheeler; Roberta Trelz; Carl Reed;
THOSE WITH ONGOING HEALTH CONCERNS: Prayer request for a nephew of a church
member; Lois Cook; Tricia Wells; Kim Tucker; Jan Fouts; Lisa Waller; Gary Sams; Hank Behrends;
Debbie Prehn;
NON-MEMBER CONCERNS: Marion Sparks for his brother, Tom Sparks, has stage 4 lung cancer;
Dee Wozniak; Denise Corso’s sister, Brenda; Janice Kettelkamp. Frances Beck’s son-in-law’s sister;
Delorus Shoup’s cousin; Judy Jacob’s grandson & granddaughter; Linda Hartig’s sister; Patti
Esswein’s Daughter; Norvella Arkebauer’s Mother; Those suffering from natural and manmade
disasters; Regina Wilderman; Carol Baumgartener’s husband, Dale; Lois Cook’s niece, Jackie; Chris
Owens, a stroke. Lillian Reller’s nephew, Lonnie, his cancer is back; Kitty Chance’s friend Billie
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Houghland, stage 3 lung cancer; Frances Beck’s son, Gary; Lillian & Lyle Reller’s son; Bill & Doris
Schroyer; Shirley Sam’s niece-Angela Snow; Shirley Sam’s & Rose Blackburn’s friend, Randy Green.
MILITARY MEMBERS: Marjorie Evans; Justin & Jared Misiorek; Andy Noblet; Andrew Wendling;
Richie Holmes; Shawn Masters; Hayle Wendling; Brandon Mills; Pete Knope II.
MILITARY PERSONNEL CONNECTED TO OUR WORSHIPING FAMILY: Nephews of
Pastor & Tammy Blomquist; Lyle & Lillian Reller’s 3 grandsons: Kyle, Josh, and Jake; Johnnie Coons
through the Inspirational Booklet Ministry; Patti Esswein’s sons, Gene & Billy Esswein; Ken &
Dorothy Gatton’s grandson, Josh; Barb McMahon’s son, Peter Koepp; Emily Gurley’s husband, Justin;
Joshua the husband of Annie Plant; Lyle & Lillian Reller’s grandsons – Drake
and Blake; Zach, Cory, Eric & Talon Bonacorsi – grandsons of Ella & Gary
Julius.
CARDS AND NOTES FROM HOME NEEDED: Josh & Annie Plant, 1078
Highland Blvd., Cabot, AR
72023-6001; Sr A Brandon Mills, 386
EOG/EOSS, APO AE 09855; Justin & Emily Gurley. Peter Knope, 3206
Santiago Ave., Box 332A, Fort Wainwright, AK 99703-6201; JT & Marjorie Evans, 6232 Dancing
Sky Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80911-8319. If your son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter is
in the service and would like to hear from us, submit their addresses to the Church office.
►LENTEN SERVICES are Wednesday evenings @ 7:00 p.m. This year’s theme will be the
Penitential Psalms. For those not able to drive at night, the Wednesday morning
Bible Class will look at these Psalms that draw our attention to the grace and
forgiveness God gives through Christ. We will also use parts of the evening service
in our discussion and opening prayer. Lenten meals will be served on Wednesdays at
5-6:30 p.m.; the cost is a free will offering with proceeds to go to a cause of the
host/hostess choice. ►On March 11 the Lenten Meal will consist of Pulled Pork
Bar-B-Que Sandwiches, Potato Salad and Dessert, and is provided by Kandy & Kristine Andruch and
they have made their charity the Day Care.
THE LUTHERAN INDIAN MINISTRIES – 2015 Lenten Devotions is available on the table in the
Narthex.
+ NURTURE & CARE +
THY STRONG WORD - on your Lutheran Radio Station Worldwide KFUO Radio. This week we
will finish up the Book of Matthew & begin the Book of Genesis. Monday, March 9 – Matthew 28
“The Resurrection”; Tuesday, March 10 – Ask The Pastor with Rev. John
Lukomski; Wednesday March 11 – Live Lenten Service; Thursday, March
12 – Genesis 1 “The Beginning of Creation” and Friday, March 13 – Genesis
2 “The Seventh Day, God Rests”. Join host Rev. Will Weedon and explore
God’s Word together, 11 a.m. –Noon CDT. Find us at kfuo.org and follow us at
Facebook.com/KFUOradio.
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►NEW AT THE MAGAZINE RACK:
Lutheran Bible Translators: The Messenger: Celebrating with All the Saints in Ghana
+ MERCY +
►CHARITY/MISSION OF THE MONTH FOR MARCH: TMA – Taylorville Ministerial
Association Emergency Fund
►OFFERINGS: February 25, February 28 & March 1, 2015: $ 1,773.00
Weekly Budget needs: $ 3,605.80
January Income: $ 12,148.00
January Expense: $ 15,081.13
Year to date receipts thru January: $ 12,148.00
Year to date expenses thru January: $ $15,081.13
Difference between Yearly Income and Yearly Expense: (- $2,933.13)
FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Nancy Tullis was received into membership by affirmation of faith;
Ed Janssen was appointed chairman of the Ad hoc committee to review the constitution;
The replacement of the tiles in the south room ceiling has begun;
The DayCare has begun to repaint their classrooms;
April 18 DayCare will be holding a Bazaar;
15 have registered for next fall’s 3 & 4 year old preschool;
Furnace repairs were made this past week. Thank you Yard Heating and Cooling.
2014 ANNUAL REPORT TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH – is available and can be
found in the magazine stand; on the table in the Narthex or on our website
www.trinitylutherantaylorville.org.
The April – June Portal of Prayers and the April – June Today’s Light are available on
the table in the Narthex.
LWML NEWS FROM THE DISTRICT – Our District President, Cheryl Long has just gotten word
from the District Treasurer with the Mite Updates; Funded in January: Camp CILCA-$8,000 and Feed
My Starving Children-$6,000; Funded in February: Beardstown Latino Ministry-Outreach Workers$10,000. This report shows what all of your pennies put together with all the other LWML ladies in our
District can do to help others. Anyone can help in the congregation at any time by placing your pennies
in our Large LWML Box in the Narthex. Thanks for what our congregation does in that effort.
► LIFE THOUGHTS IN THE CHURCH YEAR:
The Third Sunday in LentGod did not send Moses into Egypt with the Ten Commandments and say,
“Keep these and I will see what I can do about getting you out of here.” No, He
got them out of there. He redeemed them from the “house of slavery” (Exodus
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20:2). He tells them, “This is how redeemed people live.” Keeping the commandments and making
good choices in our lives is not the way of salvation. It flows from salvation.
Mid-Week Stewardship Thought
Serving Others
One of the real joys in life that God gives us is the
opportunity to serve and help others. A “thank you” from those we
help is nice but even more rewarding is the inner satisfaction
which comes from doing something for someone else.
Unfortunately, because of our human nature, we tend to focus on
our own needs and desires rather than being sensitive to the needs
of others.
Our primary example of service is the life that Jesus lived
while on earth. Jesus lived a perfect life of complete service to
those He came to save, and His death and resurrection were His
supreme acts of service. Jesus said that the most important
commandment is ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ ” (Mark 12:3031). Our service is made possible through love. If love is not the motivating force behind the service,
then our service is done for the wrong reasons.
Prayer: Lord, I thank You that You did not come to be served but rather to serve. Help me, Lord, to be
faithful in service to those in need and to see others as my brothers and sisters in Christ. Amen.
Blessings on your journey as a steward!
+ LIFE TOGETHER +
►March 8– March 15, 2015
Sunday
9:15 Worship Service with Rev. Mark Miller
10:30 Sunday School
10:45 Adult Sunday School (Presentation By Rev. Mark Miller, President
of the Central Illinois District)
2:30 Chapel Service @ Hickory Estates
Monday-Friday: 6:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. TLC ChildCarePLUS Daycare
Monday
8:45 4 yr. old Preschool
3:30 High School Bible Study
Tuesday
8:45 3 yr. old Preschool
9:00 Pastor’s Conference
3:30 Jesus Company
5:30 ChildCare Plus Board of Education
6:00 Girl Scout Meeting
7:00 LifeLight (Genesis Part II Lesson 6)
7:00 Trustees Meeting
Wednesday
8:45 4 yr. old Preschool
9:30 Chapel
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Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
10:00 Adult Bible Study (Penitential Psalms)
12:00 Taylorville Ministerial Assn Meeting
1:30 Prison Ministry & Communion
3:30 7th&8th Grade Confirmation Class
5:00 Lenten Meal
6:00 Chime Practice
6:30 Voice Choir Practice
7:00 Lenten Service IV
8:45 3 yr. old Preschool
9:30 Chapel
1:00 Bible Study - TCC
3:30 6th Grade Confirmation Class
6:00 Loving Arms Fundraising Banquet @ TMH AUDITORIUM
8:45 4 yr. old Preschool
6:15 Worship Service
9:15 Worship Service
10:30 Sunday School
10:45 Adult Sunday School (Beginning a New Study: Jesus’ “I Am”
Words)
►TAYLORVILLE FOOD PANTRY – has sent us a thank you for our recent gift to the Taylorville
Emergency Food Pantry; they were able to make good use of our donation.
REV. MARK MILLER, PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRAL ILLINOIS DISTRICT will be our
guest preacher on March 8th. He will also make a presentation on the work of the district throughout
central Illinois and the world. This presentation will be during the Sunday School hour beginning at
10:45 a.m.
IT’S THAT TIME, when we start thinking spring, gardens and Easter. The time to order Easter
Flowers for the Altar is fast approaching. We will be ordering from Kroger’s; the
flowers will be in 6” pots with foil and sell for $8 each; flowers available – Easter lily,
Daffodil, Hyacinth or Tulips. If paying by check, please make your check payable to
Trinity Lutheran Church and designate for your flower purchase. Orders need to be in
by Sunday, March 15th and payment is due with your order. Order forms are available
on the lectern in the Narthex.
REGISTRATON FOR THE 2015-2016 PRESCHOOL YEAR: Registration is continuing for
enrollment for our Preschool for the 2015-2016 school year. Any child who will be 3 or 4 years of age
on or before September 1st is eligible to register at this time. To register or for more information, please
call the church office or Jessica Mills, Director at 824-8148
LENTEN DINNER CAN BE FUNDED, please see or call Lois Hesse at 820-6064.
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SHADOW HOME has sent us a request for Clorox Wipes, Dawn Dish Soap, Fabric Softener
and a new mop (no rag mops, please!); these items can be brought to the church and deposited
in the plastic collection tub for Shadow Home.
IN CASE OF WINTER WEATHER: In case of inclement weather, listen to
WTIM 97.3 or any of the Miller Media Radio Stations for cancellations for the
church and Preschool. If you have any questions, please call the church (824-8148).
Child Care Plus closures and cancellations will be announced separately on the
radio. If you have questions, please call the Day Care (287-2229). Thank You.
MORE INFORMATION ON THE FOLLOWING EVENTS CAN BE SEEN ON OUR
BULLETIN BOARD IN THE NARTHEX.
LOVING ARMS CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ANNUAL FUNDRAISING BANQUET –is
Thursday, March 12, 2015, at Taylorville Memorial Hospital Auditorium.
Seating begins at 6 p.m. The featured speaker is Abby Johnson, today Abby
travels the globe, sharing her story and educating the public on pro-life issues.
If anyone from our church is interested in attending, contact Stacey
Wood, Administrative Assistant, at 824-7200 in order to make
reservations. There is no cost to attend; however, an opportunity to make a
financial gift will be extended.
►MARK YOUR CALENDAR – Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 204 N. Pine
Street, Nokomis, IL – Sunday, March 15, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., Spaghetti Dinner. Menu:
spaghetti, salad, breadsticks, dessert and drink; free will offering, proceeds
go to various charities and church projects.
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►Trinity Travel Agency brings you the deal of the year!
All expense paid “trip” to the Holy Land!
Saturday, March 21, 8:30-12
Sign up now for our package deal—Journey to the
Cross—and all this is included:
• Walk to Bible stations and meet witnesses to Jesus’ last days on earth!
• Get a brand new Passport filled with stickers of places you visit!
• Sample foods, experience cultural differences, see what Bible life was like!
Get your Journey start time now while space is still
available. Journey to the Cross a hands on Holy Week
learning experience for all ages at Trinity Lutheran
Church, 1201 W. Jackson, Auburn IL. To register for a
tour time, contact Donna Moldenhauer at 438-3872 for
more details.
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Journey to the Cross! Come and experience Easter like never before!
© 2009 Concordia Publishing House. Permission granted for purchaser to make
copies for Journey to the Cross.
►TRINITY PEORIA CONCERT SERIES (SPRING 2015)
The Story of Holy Week: An Easter Cantata for Handbells, Friday, March 27, 7 p.m., Peoria, IL;
Handbell Workshop, Saturday, March 28 – 10-1 p.m., Kristine Stout, clinician
LERT (Lutheran Emergency Response Training) Volunteer Training Events 8:00am-4:30pm
Registration begins at 8:00 am Sessions begin at 8:30 am The registration fee is $35 which includes
your disaster response training manual, LCMS volunteer vest, other helpful materials, and lunch. Plus,
you will receive your certificate of participation and volunteer certification badge from LCMS Disaster
Response and the Office of National Mission. Led by Randy Wolf, LCMS (CID) Disaster Response
Coordinator and Stephen Born, LCMS (CID) Disaster Response Regional Coordinator.
May 2, 2015
Trinity Lutheran Church, Taylorville
> Registration Form can
be found on the table in the
narthex or at the CID website.
Welcome to the Lutheran Early Response Team (LERT) volunteer training program provided by the
LCMS Office of National Mission. Together we will walk through a simple training program designed
to help you serve as a trained Christian volunteer when a disaster strikes. This training is part of a
Synod-wide disaster response program, facilitated by a network of District Disaster Response
Coordinators and Teams, under the direction of LCMS Disaster Response. At the close of the program,
you will receive a certificate of participation and a LERT volunteer credential issued by LCMS Disaster
Response. This 6 hour training event will equip you to be an effective volunteer should a disaster strike
your community.
►IN YOUR WORSHIP THIS MORNING, thank God for bringing into your life friends
who need to know Him. Ask God to give you the courage and opportunities to tell them the
Good News of Jesus Christ.
(►) Indicates new announcements for this week.
*If you would like to know about our ON-GOING MINISTRIES, ask the ushers for a copy of the Booklet that list
all the opportunities to hear the Word of God, care for others and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ.
*ANNOUNCMENTS ONLINE: Would you like to receive the Weekly Announcements by e-mail? Just add your email address by your name in the red Registry of Friendship book when you sign your attendance at church on
Saturday or Sunday or call the church office @217-824-8148. (If you decide to receive the Weekly Announcements
by e-mail, please ask for a Worship Note pamphlet only when you enter the Sanctuary).
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