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NEW JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH SENDS
OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY 2023!
Click link below to listen to 'Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful' sung by Martina McBride
May God fill you will his New goodness every day and
may the love of Jesus overflow from you to others throughout the year!
In case of a pastoral emergency,
please contact Pastor Lisa Borrell at 610-838-0731 or email MizLKB@aol.com.
SERVANT SCHEDULES AND SERMON TOPICS
Greetings! Please consider volunteering to make our Worship Service safe and a success. We need you. We have several openings for volunteers. If you know someone who would love to help, and they do not have internet, feel free to give them my contact information. Robin (610-349-2586). Please help!
To Be Determined: Please use the sign-up sheets in the Narthex for volunteer opportunities, i.e., Acolytes, Pastor Assistants (Council Members), Assistant Ministers, Chalisters, Lectors, and Ushers. Thank you.
Click link below to listen to 'Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful' sung by Martina McBride
Servants for NO SERVICE Saturday, December 2, 2023
and
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Altar Guild: Sharon Bender & Tina Young
Assistant to Pastor: Pat Leith
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Gina Grekula, Terry & Carol Knauss
Lector: Jerry Latchic
Sunday School Leader: Marianne Zellner
Technology: Bill Young
Usher(s): Jerry Latchic
Sunday, December 3, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
1st Sunday of Advent ~ Stir up your power, and come! The psalmist’s plea in Psalm 80:2 has become familiar to us in the Advent prayers. Isaiah wants God to rip the heavens open. Both cry out for an apparently distant, angry God to show up, to save, to restore. When we hear Jesus describing the coming of the Son of Man with stars falling from heaven, it can sound dire and horrible, not like anything we would ever hope for. But when we really look at the suffering of people God loves, we can share the hope that God would tear open the heavens and come.
Servants for Sunday, December 10, 2023
Altar Guild: Sarah Acker, Kathy Shermetta
Assistant to Pastor: Robin Rooth-Fogel
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: NO Coffee Hour
Lector: Ben Fogel
Sunday School Leader: Sarah Parente
Technology: Bill Young
Usher(s): Robin Rooth-Fogel, Sharon Weisser
Sunday, December 10, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
2nd Sunday of Advent ~ John calls people to repent, to clear the decks, to completely reorder their lives so that nothing gets in the way of the Lord’s coming. The reading from Isaiah gives the context for this radical call: the assurance of forgiveness that encourages us to repent; the promise that the coming one will be gentle with the little ones. Isaiah calls us all to be heralds with John, to lift up our voices fearlessly and say, “See, your God is coming!” We say it to one another in worship, in order to say it with our lives in a world in need of justice and peace.
Servants for Sunday, December 17, 2023
Altar Guild: Sarah Parente, Barbara Young
Assistant to Pastor: Joanne Robbins
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Angie Fulmer, Jayne Schrantz, Kevin & Deb Schrantz
Lector: Frank Petak, Jr.
Sunday School Leader: Marianne Zellner
Technology: Angie Fulmer, Bill Young
Usher(s): Caroline Skuba
Sunday, December 17, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
3rd Sunday of Advent ~ “Rejoice always,” begins the reading from 1 Thessalonians. Isaiah and the psalmist make clear that God is turning our mourning into laughter and shouts of joy. “All God’s children got a robe,” go the words of a spiritual. It is not so much a stately, formal, pressed outfit as it is a set of party clothes, clothes we are happy to wear. We receive that robe in baptism, and in worship we gather for a foretaste of God’s party.
Servants for Sunday, December 24, 2023 for 10:00 a.m.
Altar Guild: Janis Hadley, Tina McCardle
Assistant to Pastor: Pat Leith
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Pat Leith, Tina Young
Lector: Sharon Bender
Sunday School Leader: NO Sunday School
Technology: Bill Young
Usher(s): Sharon Bender, Tina Young
Sunday, December 24, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
4th Sunday of Advent ~ God keeps the promise made to David to give him an everlasting throne. The angel tells Mary that God will give David’s throne to her son Jesus. She is perplexed by Gabriel’s greeting and by the news of her coming pregnancy, but she is able still to say, “Count me in.” We who know that Jesus is called king only as he is executed still find it a mystery hard to fathom, but with Mary today we hear the news of what God is up to and say, “Count us in.”
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Servants for Sunday, December 24, 2023 for 4:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: All
Assistant to Pastor: Bill Young
Lector: TBD
Technology: Bill Young
Usher(s): TBA
Servants for Sunday, December 24, 2023 for 8:00 p.m.
Altar Guild: All
Assistant to Pastor: Terry Ravier
Lector: Sarah Parente
Technology: NO Live Stream
Usher(s): TBA
Sunday, December 24, 2023 ~ Christmas Eve Family Worship Service at 4:00 p.m. AND
7:30 p.m. Brass Preludes
8:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Worship Service
In winter’s deepest night, we welcome the light of the Christ child. Isaiah declares that the light of the long-promised king will illumine the world and bring endless peace and justice. Paul reminds us that the grace of God through Jesus Christ brings salvation to all people. The angels declare that Jesus’ birth is good and joyful news for everyone, including lowly shepherds. Filled with the light that shines in our lives, we go forth to share the light of Christ with the whole world.
WISHING YOU A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!
Servants for Sunday, December 31, 2023
Altar Guild: Sharon Bender, Tina Young
Assistant to Pastor: Sarah Parente
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Phyllis Reiss, Kathy Shermetta
Lector: TBA
Sunday School Leader: NO Sunday School
Technology: Angie Fulmer & Bill Young
Usher(s): TBA
Sunday, December 31, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
4th Sunday of Advent ~ The psalmist calls on the natural world, celestial bodies, fire and earth, creatures, and all humanity, to praise God. The voices of Simeon and
84-year-old Anna join the chorus today, recognizing what God is doing in Jesus. Simeon’s song is often sung after communion, for we have seen God’s salvation in the assembled community and have held Jesus in our hands in the bread. Then, like the prophet Anna, we tell of Jesus to all who look for the healing of the world.
From New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church
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May the beauty of God be reflected in your eyes, the love of God be
reflected in your hands, the wisdom of God be reflected in your words,
and the knowledge of God flow from your heart,
that all might see, and seeing, believe.
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Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
God, the creator, Jesus, the Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the comforter,
bless you and keep you in eternal love.
The members of New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church wish you a blessed day and we pray that your day is filled with hope, love, peace, and good health!
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