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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

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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

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