St. Paul's Lutheran Church 120 N. Easton Road Glenside, Pennsylvania Weekly Tidings Fifth Sunday in Lent March 22nd, 2015 Good morning and welcome to St. Paul’s. We are glad that you have chosen to worship with us this morning. We ask visitors to please sign the visitor’s book in the Great Room so we can get to know you. Help Tom Lackman & friends decorate the sanctuary with the Easter Lilies and Tulips for Easter morning worship Saturday, April 4th at 9:00 a.m. Both sets of altar flowers this morning are given to the Glory of God and in loving memory of my nephew, Gabriel Greene, by Roberta Kremer. HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Presiding this Morning: Pastor Henrik Sonntag Acolyte: 8:00 Crystal Guzzi 10:30 Emma Christensen Assisting Ministers: 8:00 Timothy Hearn, Paul Ziegler 10:30 Timothy Hearn, Pat Lackman, Caelan Donahue Altar Guild: Cheryl Doyle, Traci Freed-Najbrt, Gretchen Frederick Musicians: Rae Ann Anderson, Music Director; Adult Choir Ushers: 8:00 Walt Thompson Team: Pat McGlinchey, Paul Ziegler, Keith Darrow 10:30 Fred Livezey Team: Endom Robertson, Don Lawrence, Ashley Daniel, Rob Gerlach Greeters: Roberts Ave. 8:00 Ed & Linda Hayes 10:30 Rica Foerster, Laura Campbell Easton Road: 8:00 Jeanne Lewis 10:30 Peter Kurilla Lead Counter: Steve Reiff Assistants: Ronny Kosempel, George Neveil 8:00 a.m. Pauline Petrie, 10:30 a.m. Alex Sickert Hospitality: Linda Hayes, Monica Embery Flower Delivery: Greg Markham Church Opener: George Neveil Nursery Attendant: Sherrie Campbell Nursery Assistants: Ruth Fricker, Carson Campbell Nursery care is available for infants through kindergarten in Room 100. Mid-Wednesday attendance and member giving: 7:30 42; $337 Last week’s attendance and member giving: 8:00 39 10:30 a.m. 110; $7,325 The Gospel Acclamation verse was inadvertently left out of the bulletin. The words are: Glory and praise to you, O Lord Jesus Christ. Or, go to page 160 in the front of your hymn book. Youth Gathering Fundraiser! All are invited to participate in a fundraiser to benefit the youth gathering trip participants. On Tuesday, March 24th from 4 – 10 p.m. TreVi Restaurant (the old Rizzo’s on E. Glenside Ave) will donate 15% of all proceeds from any take-out, delivery, or eat in order to St. Paul’s Youth Gathering. All you have to do when you place your order is mention St. Paul’s Fundraiser. Couldn’t be easier. We hope that you will take part in this tasty fundraiser. Thank you for considering it. PALM SUNDAY 8:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. The Blessing of the Palms with St. Luke’s RC Church and Lighthouse Methodist Meet on Easton Road in front of St. Luke’s 7:30 p.m. Prayer around the Cross – Taize Service HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND 7:30 p.m. Holy Thursday Worship Service with Eucharist – Living Last Supper Portrayal and First Communion GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD 11:45 a.m. Good Friday Community Walk through Glenside – interdenominational worship service – meet in the St. Paul’s parking lot 7:30 p.m. Good Friday Worship – The Living Last Words of Christ SATURDAY, APRIL 4TH 9:00 a.m. Set up for Easter Services in the sanctuary 10:00 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt in Fellowship Hall EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 5TH 8:00 & 10:30 a.m. The Resurrection of Our Lord Worship Services with Eucharist 9:30 a.m. Easter Breakfast in Fellowship Hall Join us for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4th at 10:00 a.m. We will meet in Fellowship Hall prior to beginning the egg hunt. Volunteers are needed to help hide the eggs before the hunt, and to assist with arts & crafts. Bring a basket or something in which to carry your collected Easter Eggs. This is for children ages three through six grade. Join us for our annual Easter morning breakfast at 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, April 5th. Sign-up sheets are out in the Great Room. Please know that we feed 100 plus people and we would like to make sure that there is enough food for those at the end of the line as well those at the beginning. Many donations of breakfast casseroles, fruit, beverages, and bagels/Danish are needed. (Nut free goodies, please.) Our flower delivery volunteers are dwindling. Please consider volunteering once a month, once a season, two times a year, etc. You can tell us when you are available – we make the schedule out a month in advance. Sometimes these visits are the only visit or human contact our homebound members might have during a day or week. Our current volunteers are desperate for help. Please contact the office if you would be willing to help. We used to have two people each week to deliver flowers on an 8 week schedule. Now, we have about 6 volunteers for the entire rotation. Like to golf? Join the Artman 31st Annual Gold Outing held on May 11th at the North Hills Country Club. For more information please see Nevin Mann or contact him at 215-887-4538, [email protected] Help needed! Our Holden Evening Prayer bulletins which we use at the Mid-Week Lenten services have started to tear at the staples. We are looking for someone to tape them as needed after Lent is over so we can put them away ready for next year. This can be done at the office or at home. Contact Laura Campbell if you can help. Thank you. Opportunity to Share your home through Ken Crest Life Sharing program: The Ken Crest LifeSharing program provides a stipend ($1700 per month) for inviting a person into their home. Information in the Great Room or call member Julie Sandblade 267-278-2354, for more information about assisting refugees with transitional housing needs. Thank you to those who continue to support our food pantry. This week we served three families. If you would like to help we could use: canned chicken & meat; jelly; cereal; staples like flour, cooking oil & spray, seasonings; condiments, juice, and snack foods like pretzels and crackers. Toiletries are always appreciated. Please note that most of our patrons look for instant coffee when donating coffee. St. Paul’s is a Stephen Ministry Congregation. Thank you for remembering those on our prayer list during the upcoming week. Please contact the office with any changes to the prayer list. Rev. Don Anderson Young Bai Stephanie Corbin Joe Daughen Bernice Dicker Pat Dieni Abigail Dietz Alicia Ehret Everett Cynthia Foley Hilda & Danielle Graf Anna & John Gump Nancy Hadley Merill Hakim Chris Hunsicker Veronica Imsick Kristen Jacobus Ed Klein Marvin Landes Alberta Lang Michael Lavin Jonathan Lotman Judy Lunde Naomi Marr Marie McCarthy Jack McCleary Katherine Mitchell Melanie Moletzski Nancy Necker Jean Nickle Katie Noga Stephan H. Putnam Vicki Sbrocco Carol Sitko Dolores Stair Betty Stevens Geneva Stevens Carolyn Stuetz Henry Thompson Rita Vorsari Kathleen Wallace The Werner Family Katie Wilson Santi Zaffore Please continue to pray for our members and friends in the military: Jason Carr Grant Kerrick Andrew Sickert THIS WEEK AT ST. PAUL’S Sunday 8:00 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 10:30 A.M. 12:15 P.M. 3/22/2015 The Eucharist Sunday School Adult Education Rm. 101 Living Last Supper Reh. Rm. 200 The Eucharist Children’s Choir Rehearsal Nave Monday 11:30 A.M. 5:45 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 3/23/2015 NS Pizza Days Pack 48 Trp. 48 Deborah Circle Rachel Circle Tuesday 10:00 A.M. 10:30 A.M. 11:30 A.M. 6:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 3/24/2015 NS Chapel Staff Meeting NS Pizza Days Pack 48 Yoga Wednesday 10:00 A.M. 6:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 3/25/2015 NS Chapel Soup Supper Holden Evening Prayer Thursday 4:00 P.M. 5:30 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 3/26/2015 Kids Club/Supper Cherub Choir Children’s Choir G. S. Trp. 793 Pack 48, Den 11 Adult Choir Sunday 8:00 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 10:30 A.M. 3/29/2015 Palm Sunday The Eucharist Sunday School Adult Education Rm. 101 Living Last Supper Reh. Rm. 200 The Eucharist/Blessing of the Palms Meet in front of St. Luke’s RC Church Prayer around the Cross 7:30 P.M. FH FH/101 GR Nave Rm. 200 FH GR Nave FH Rm. 101/K/FH Rm. 104/Nave Rm. 104/Nave Rm. 101 FH Rm. 104/Nave Office Hours Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Our Website: www.stpaulsglenside.org Staff emails: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Church Office Phone Number: 215-884-3005 Nursery School Phone Number: 215-884-8995 Church Fax Number: 215-884-6199 WEEKLY LECTIONARY Monday Isa. 43: 8 – 13 Tuesday Isa. 44: 1 – 8 Wednesday John 12: 34 – 50 Thursday Hag. 2: 1 – 9 Friday 2 Cor. 3: 4 – 11 Saturday Ps. 51 Sunday Isa. 50: 4 – 9a; Ps. 31: 9 – 16; Phil. 2: 5 – 11; Mark 14: 1 – 15: 47