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WORSHIP 10:30 AM SUNDAYS
WORSHIP SERVICES IN NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2023
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
All Saints’ Sunday
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
24th Sunday after Pentecost
Service of the Word
Reconciling In Christ – Building an Inclusive Church Team
Food and Friendship – Faith and Future Lunch
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
25th Sunday after Pentecost
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Last Sunday of the Church Year – Reign of Christ
Service of the Word – Commemoration of the Faithful Departed
“Totensonntag”
Guest Preacher: Pastor Adam Snook, Assistant to the Bishop
ELCIC Eastern Synod
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Advent Sunday
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Second Sunday in Advent
Service of the Word
Preacher: Professor Colleen Shantz
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Third Sunday in Advent
Advent and Christmas Story
Tree Decorating Party
DECEMBER 24, 2023
NO SERVICE AT 10:30 AM
Fourth Advent and Christmas Eve
5:00 pm
Lessons and Carols
DECEMBER 25, 2023
Christmas Day – The Nativity of Our Lord
Holy Communion
Preacher and Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
DECEMBER 31, 2023
Sunday after Christmas
Service of the Word
Preacher and Presider: TBC
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.
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