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NEW JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH SENDS
OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY 2023!
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.
Servants for Sunday, February 5, 2023
Acolyte: Zoey Bokan
Altar Guild: Janis Hadley & Tina McCardle
Assistant to Pastor: Caroline Skuba
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Pat Leith & Tina Young
Lector: Denise Hoffert
Technology: Bill Young & Brady Skuba
Ushers: LeeAnn Malesky & Tammy Welch
February 5, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 5th Sunday after Epiphany.
Light shines in the darkness for the upright, the psalmist sings. Isaiah declares that when we loose the bonds of injustice and share our bread with the hungry, the light breaks forth like the dawn. In another passage from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus, the light of the world, calls his followers to let the light of their good works shine before others. Through baptism we are sent into the world to shine with the light of Christ.
Servants for Sunday, February 12, 2023
Acolyte: Cole Miller
Altar Guild: Sharon Bender & Tina Young
Assistant to Pastor: Terry Ravier
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Phyllis Reiss &
Kathy Shermetta
Lector: Marianne Zellner
Technology: Bill Young & Brady Skuba
Ushers: Rita Frey & Phyllis Reiss
February 12, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 6th Sunday after Epiphany.
In today’s reading from Deuteronomy we are called to choose life by loving and obeying God. Much of today’s gospel reading echoes portions of the Ten Commandments. Jesus’ instructions to the crowd reveal a pattern of behavior that honors both God and the neighbor, resulting in life and health for the whole community. We too are invited to embrace these commandments, not out of fear of retribution, but because God has promised that to do so means life for us.
Servants for Sunday, February 19, 2023
Acolyte: PJ Miller
Altar Guild: Sarah Acker & Kathy Shermetta
Assistant to Pastor: Pat Leith
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Angie Fulmer, Denise Hoffert, Brenda Leister, & Jayne Schrantz
Lector: Sharon Bender
Technology: Angie Fulmer
Ushers: Sharon Bender & Vickie McCue
February 19, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ Transfiguration of Our Lord.
Today’s festival is a bridge between the Advent-Christmas-Epiphany cycle that comes to a close today and the Lent-Easter cycle that begins in several days. On a high mountain Jesus is revealed as God’s beloved Son, echoing the words at his baptism. This vision of glory sustains us as Jesus faces his impending death in Jerusalem. We turn this week to Ash Wednesday and our yearly baptismal journey from Lent to Easter. Some churches put aside the alleluia at the conclusion of today’s liturgy. This word of joy will be omitted during the penitential season of Lent and will be sung again at Easter.
Servants for Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: TBA
Assistant to Pastor: TBA
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: N/A
Lector: TBA
Technology: TBA
Ushers: TBA
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 7:30 p.m. ~ Ash Wednesday.
On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Servants for Sunday, February 26, 2023
Acolyte: Abby Miller
Altar Guild: Sarah Parente & Barbara Young
Assistant to Pastor: Bill Young
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Quinette Brucker, LeeAnn Malesky, & Barbara Young
Lector: Amanda Bokan
Ushers: Joyce Leith & Tina Young
Sunday, February 26, 2023 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 1st Sunday in Lent. Today's gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. His forty-day fast becomes the basis of our Lenten pilgrimage. In the early church Lent was a time of intense preparation for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. This catechetical focus on the meaning of faith is at the heart of our Lenten journey to the baptismal waters of Easter. Hungry for God’s mercy, we receive the bread of life to nourish us for the days ahead.
THINK SPRING!
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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! 3
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