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NEW JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH SENDS
OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY 2024!
May God fill you will his 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.
PLEASE NOTE: Our Saturday worship service will be held on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Servants for Sunday, February 4, 2024
Altar Guild: Sarah Acker, Kathy Shermetta
Assistant to Pastor: Sarah Parente
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Angie Fulmer, Brenda Leister, & Denise Hoffert
Lector: Brenda Leister
Sunday School Leader: TBD
Technology: TBD
Usher(s): TBD
Sunday, February 4, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 5th Sunday after Epiphany ~ In Isaiah the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars also strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work, we see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and service (diakonia). Like Simon’s mother-in-law, we are lifted up and healed to serve. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer.
Servants for Sunday, February 11, 2024
Altar Guild: Sarah Parente, Barbara Young
Assistant to Pastor: Pat Leith
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Pat Leith & Tina Young
Lector: Sharon Bender
Sunday School Leader: TBD
Technology: TBD
Usher(s): Sharon Bender
Saturday, February 10, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 4:30 p.m.
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Sunday, February 11, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
Transfiguration of Our Lord ~ The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s story of Jesus’ baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending and hears the words from heaven. But now Jesus’ three closest friends hear the same words naming him God’s Beloved. As believers, Paul writes, we are enabled to see the God-light in Jesus’ face, because the same God who created light in the first place has shone in our hearts to give us that vision. The light of God’s glory in Jesus has enlightened us through baptism and shines in us also for others to see.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 ~ 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 18, 2024
Altar Guild: TBD
Assistant to Pastor: Ben Fogel
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Kathy Fenstermacher & Robin Rooth-Fogel
Lector: TBD
Sunday School Leader: TBD
Technology: TBD
Usher(s): TBD
Sunday, February 18, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
1st Sunday in Lent ~ On Ash Wednesday the church began its journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This year, the Sundays in Lent lead us to focus on five covenants God makes in the Hebrew Scriptures and to use them as lenses through which to view baptism. First, Peter connects the way God saved Noah’s family in the flood with the way God saves us through the water of baptism. The baptismal covenant is made with us individually, but the new life we are given in baptism is for the sake of the whole world.
Servants for Sunday, February 25, 2024 for 10:00 a.m.
Altar Guild: TBD
Assistant to Pastor: TBD
Coffee/Fellowship Hour: Gina Grekula, Carol & Terry Knauss
Lector: Mark Brownson
Sunday School Leader: TBD
Technology: Ben Fogel
Usher(s): Sharon Weiser
Sunday, February 25, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~
2nd Sunday in Lent ~ The second covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the one made with Abraham and Sarah: God’s promise to make them the ancestors of many, with whom God will remain in everlasting covenant. Paul says this promise comes to all who share Abraham’s faith in the God who brings life into being where there was no life. We receive this baptismal promise of resurrection life in faith. Sarah and Abraham receive new names as a sign of the covenant, and we, too, get new identities in baptism as we put on Christ.
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!
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