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WORSHIP 10:30 AM SUNDAYS
SEASON OF PENTECOST 2024
Sunday Worship times are at 10:30 am at 116 Bond Street, unless otherwise noted.
JULY 7, 2024
SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
JULY 14, 2024
EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider: Pastor Ralph Carl
Preacher: Stephanie von Bargen
JULY 21, 2024
NINTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Jonathan Schmidt
JULY 28, 2024
10 th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider: TBC
Preacher: TBC
AUGUST 4, 2024
11 TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
AUGUST 11. 2024
12 TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider: Pastor Ralph Carl
Preacher: Michael Rehberg
AUGUST 18, 2024
RECEPTION INTO MEMBERSHIP BY AFFIRMATION OF BAPTISM
13 th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
AUGUST 25, 2024
14 TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher – Friedrich Brunzema
SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
SEASON OF CREATION I
15th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
SEASON OF CREATION II
WELCOME STUDENTS SUNDAY
16 th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher: TBC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
SEASON OF CREATION III
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher: Pastor Ralph Carl
Zoom Links for online worshiping: Please use this link for the regular Sunday worship services. You may also contact the pastor to get zoom links for specific events.
LINKS TO RECORDED WORSHIP SERVICES
If you want to check-out what our ZOOM services are like, recordings can be found on this page.
HIRING!
Part time Church Musician
Beginning September 1, 2024
Click here for full job description.
RECONCILING IN CHRIST
First Lutheran Church adopted this statement of welcome and affirmation to queer and trans people on April 14, 2024:
We appreciate and celebrate the participation of all members of our diverse and multicultural community in the ongoing life of First Lutheran. As an ever-reforming church we recognize this has not always been the case. In light of this, we strive to value and respect people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions, to work against racism and colonialism, and to welcome all people. God loves each of us as we are, and all are invited to join us as we try to live into that good news.
By this action First Lutheran joins the Reconciling-In-Christ program, a ministry of ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation ReconcilingWorks advocates for the full welcome, inclusion, and equity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (LGBTQIA+) Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church, congregations, and community.
First Lutheran also adopted a motion to replace its 2005 statement opposing same-sex blessings with the new statement of welcome. First also committed itself to ongoing study and regular renewal of the commitment to this, other forms of inclusion.
HYBRID SERVICES
First Evangelical Lutheran Church offers hybrid (in-person at 116 Bond Street and on Zoom) worship. Unless otherwise noted you can attend in person or online.
The in-person/zoom services will take place Sundays at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
If for any reason you prefer to worship at home, please use the following the Zoom link to join our Sunday service.
ONLINE HOLY COMMUNION
If you would like to participate in our online Holy Communion — first and third Sundays — you my wish to read Pastor Wushke’s discussion paper – click here to read it .
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
CRISIS IN THE HOLY LAND
A prayer from the bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
“God of peace, we pray for peace between Israel and Hamas. We pray for leaders on both sides that their hearts would be changed and there would be a peaceful ending to this war. God of comfort and strength, we pray for all those who have suffered in this war – those who mourn, the injured, those who live in fear. We pray for those who continue to try to provide aid and medical care – workers who risk their lives. Bring us all hope, bring us all strength, bring us all peace. In your holy and life-giving name we pray, Amen.”
Please find updated resources here: https://elcic.ca/holy-land/
LITTLE FREE PANTRY MINISTRY
Click here for more information.
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
For spiritual resources and practical ways to support the people and churches in Ukraine, please go to the Lutheran World Federation site.
SPIRITUAL RESOURCES
The ELCIC Council of Bishops has shared this prayer from the Lutheran World Federation which we commend to you: Lutheran World Federation Prayers during COVID-19 .
We lament the tragic deaths of Indigenous children now revealed at the Kamloops and Marieval Residential Schools, the many more such deaths yet to be exposed, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and all violence experienced by First Nations peoples. Let us live into Truth and Reconciliation.
Statement from the ELCIC bishops:
https://mailchi.mp/842aeb34aa15/a-renewed-call-to-reconciliation?e=5095907467
A Prayer for Kamloops Residential School Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRKJAZ-Hxo