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WORSHIP 10:30 AM SUNDAYS
WORSHIP SERVICES IN SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
Season of Creation
14th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
Season of Creation – Welcome Students! Sunday
15th Sunday after Pentecost
Service of the Word
Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
Preacher – Johannes Chan, SCM York U Coordinator
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Season of Creation
16th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Season of Creation
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Service of the Word – Orange Shirt Day
Reconciling In Christ – Building an Inclusive Church Team
Food and Friendship – Faith and Future Lunch
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Season of Creation
18th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Communion – Blessing of the Animals
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ilze Kuplens Ewart
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Thanksgiving Sunday
19th Sunday after Pentecost
Service of the Word
Presider – Friedrich Brunzema
Preacher – Michael Rehberg
OCTOBER 15, 2023
20th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ilze Kuplens-Ewart
OCTOBER 22, 2023
21st Sunday after Pentecost
Service of the Word
Reconciling In Christ – Building an Inclusive Church Team
Food and Friendship – Faith and Future Lunch
OCTOBER 29, 2023
Reformation Sunday
Service of the Word
Preacher – Pastor Anne Morawski, English Lutheran Congregation, Budapest
Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
All Saints’ Sunday
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
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.R
LINKS TO RECORDED WORSHIP SERVICES
If you want to check-out what our ZOOM services are like, recordings can be found on this page.
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.
FAQ FOR IN-PERSON SERVICES
IS PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR IN-PERSON WORSHIP?
While proof of vaccination is no longer required by the Province of Ontario we encourage the unvaccinated to attend online
IS MASKING REQUIRED?
We encourage in-person worshippers to wear a mask except when communing. Our Eastern Synod Bishop, Michael Pryse, has encouraged worshippers to wear masks in all Lutheran Congregations.
IS SINGING PERMITTED?
Yes. We encourage singing and verbal responses while masked.
HOW WILL HOLY COMMUNION BE DISTRIBUTED?
People who wish to commune will be invited to receive the bread and wine (in individual glasses) at a communion station.
IS SOCIAL DISTANCING IN EFFECT?
We encourage individual worshippers or family units to maintain the two metre distance from others during worship.
HOW CAN I ATTEND ON-LINE?
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
CANADA SUMMER JOB OPPORTUNITY
Welcome to the Canada Summer Jobs intern, Nic Da Silva. Read more about Nic here: About Us
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