Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost August 12, 2018 FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 43 West Washington Street Chambersburg, PA 17201 Website www.felcc.org Email office@felcc.org Church Office (717) 264-2015 @FirstEvangelicalLutheranChurch @felccyouth Pastor Director of Church Music Director of Children, Youth & Family Ministry Parish Administrator Treasurer Financial Secretary Custodian The Rev. Jane Nicholson Freda J. Dorand, Deacon Kathleen Getaz Christie Brown Bonnie McKenrick Carol McCoy Josh Dorand Church Office Hours: Monday Friday 9 a.m. 12 p.m. We welcome our visitors this morning. Please pick up a visitor s packet. They are located at the top of the steps at the rear of the church or on the table at the elevator entrance. Our Mission The mission of First Lutheran Church is to be the light of Jesus, burning brightly and vigorously in our community. We invite ALL to hear and receive God's blessing in Jesus, and to worship with us: Worship Schedule Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and Friday at 9:00 a.m. for Communion and Healing Services. 20 1
WELCOME VISITORS We invite you to pick up a Visitor s Packet as you leave the service today. Thank you for joining us this morning! We are blessed by your presence. Children are always welcome in church, but if desired, there is a nursery for those age 4 and younger located downstairs past the elevator, across the hall from the bulletin board. Sunday (Today) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Large print bulletins for today s worship are available, please feel free to ask an usher if interested. 9:30 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion Blessing of students, teachers, and backpacks 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Girl Scouts Council Meeting - MR2 Ladies Breakfast at Johnnies LWR Quilters Bellfest Meeting Bible Study FNF Deadline Friday 9:00 a.m. Worship Service of Communion and Healing Saturday THIS WEEK AT FIRST Sunday 9:30 a.m. Worship with Holy Communion Hymns with * are requested favorite hymns 2 WORSHIP ASSISTANTS forms are available Today 8/12 Next Sunday 8/19 Acolyte at LutheranCamping.org or by calling the Camping Office Nancy Hamilton Christy Burkholder Nursery at p Deb Fleegal Nicki Johnson Driver Gary Fleegal Mike Ross Memorial Hall Greeters Narthex Greeters Nancy Hamilton Karin Woods Joe Hunt Marcia Hunt 19 Jim Brown Ruth Ann Brown Bob Wildeson Nancy Wildeson Lector Rose Wilson Celena Casseday Prayers Rose Wilson Celena Casseday Sound Board Mike Dent Ben Yaukey Opening Custodian Jeff Dorand Jeff Dorand Closing Custodian Bob Hammer Jeff Dorand Money Depositor Gerry Wilson Gerry Wilson Altar Guild Ushers Communion Assistants Gerry Wilson Rose Wilson Jeff Dorand Rick Gates Paul Holbrook Bill Huber Gerry Wilson Kathleen Getaz Tim Gotwald Tom Kriner Amanda Rankin GIVE AND TAKE BOX - The bright red box out front is a distribution for personal care items for our neighbors. Helpful items include shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste and brushes, toilet paper, tissues, soap, dish detergent, laundry detergent, Band-Aids, etc. Thank you for being a part of sharing with our neighbors. Gerry Wilson Rose Wilson Jeff Dorand Rick Gates Paul Holbrook Bill Huber Gerry Wilson Aloma Dawkins Deb Fleegal Charles Kampmeyer Gertrude Kampmeyer Tom Kriner Dalton Paul
YOUTH & PARENTS - as you start to get activity schedules for the fall, please let Kathleen know about any games, concerts, or other events so that the congregation can support you as you use the talents with which God has gifted you. ADULT CHOIR AND ROSE RINGER S KICK OFF PICNIC will be held on August 30 at Tim and Mary Gotwald s home. Let us celebrate the return to our fall season! Both groups welcome new people to this event. Come out and let us mix and mingle before we get serious with our rehearsals. Drinks, burgers and hot dogs will be provided and others may bring a dish to share. Time is 6pm. There will be a sign-up sheet on the choir bulletin board. Let us know if you will be joining us. WORSHIP TIME CHANGE - Our summer worship schedule will continue through the weekend of September 2 with worship at 9:30 a.m. ROSE RINGER AND ADULT CHOIR - will begin rehearsals on September 6 and continue every Thursday evening. Rose Ringers: 6-7 p.m. and Adult Choir 7:15-8:15 p.m. All are welcome to join us as we proclaim Christ in our music. We work with your schedules and appreciate any time that you can be with us. See Freda or any choir member to express your interest in sharing your musical talents that have been graciously given to you. BIBLE PRESENTATION - During worship on September 9, Bibles will be presented to some of our church family's younger readers. In this way, parents, baptismal sponsors, and the congregation together get a chance to live in to our baptismal promises to nurture these children in their growth in faith. If you have a rising 3rd grader (or a 4th grader who may not have received a Bible last year!) please let Kathleen know or email or call the church office. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS NEEDED - If you are interested in teaching Sunday School this school year please see Kathleen. Child protection clearances will be needed, the church can give direction in how to acquire these. UNITED LUTHERAN SIGN DEDICATION - Our congregation has been invited to attend a short service of dedication of the United Lutheran Seminary Chapel sign, followed by the weekly communion service on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at the Gettysburg Campus. Following the 11:45 AM worship, the seminary would treat all who attend to lunch on campus with the students. Our congregation has contributed $25,000 to the sign, so it would be wonderful to have a nice representation from our congregation there. Please sign up on the bulletin board if you would have an interest in attending. Please indicate if you would be willing to drive, or would prefer to ride with someone. LAUNDRY DAY #6- is scheduled for Saturday November 10, 2018 in conjunction with a shoe distribution and a Hats Scarves and Mittens give away. Please continue to keep those quarters rolling in. Our goal is again to have 60 packages of $5.00 worth of quarters for this event. We are accepting shoe donations and hats, scarves and mittens anytime. You may leave your donations in Memorial Hall. Many volunteers will be needed for this outreach. The Neighborhood Task Team would love to have you join us for this event. You will enjoy meeting our neighbors. Guaranteed. Contact Mary Gotwald or Nancy Fricke. 18 WELCOME PRELUDE Gathering CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Please stand as you are able. Blessed be the holy Trinity, one God, full of compassion and mercy, abounding in steadfast love. Amen. Trusting God s promise of forgiveness, let us confess our sin against God and one another. Please kneel or sit as you are able. Silence for reflection and self-examination. Eternal God our creator, in you we live and move and have our being. Look upon us, your children, the work of your hands. Forgive us all our offenses, and cleanse us from proud thoughts and empty desires. By your grace draw us near to you, our refuge and our strength; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. God s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us. In the mercy of almighty God, Christ died for us while we still were sinners; and for his sake, God forgives you all your sins. Amen. PEACE The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you. Please stand as you are able. "God of Grace" 3 arr. by Paul Manz
* ANNOUNCEMENTS BLESSING OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND BACKPACKS - will take place at the time of the children s message today. As our students and teachers eagerly await the new year, we will ask for God s blessing upon them as they return to the classroom that their year of teaching and learning will be a meaningful one. LADIES BREAKFAST-The Women s Fellowship Breakfast will be on August 15 at Johnnies at 8:30 a.m. All ladies of the church are invited for food and fellowship. LOWER SUSQUAHANNA WELCA SYNOD CONVENTION Saturday August 18, 2018 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Carlisle. The Ingather offering will be going to Carlisle CARES to serve the emergency needs of those without a home with compassion, respect and resources. Joyce Ray is President of this convention and Jean Reed will be our voting delegate. All women are invited. Also to be collected at this event are gift cards for Giant, Weis, and Walmart for use at the Seminary Food Bank. Nearly 80% of the students at the seminary make use of the Food Bank. Cost of attendance at the seminary is now $28,000 annually, and the opportunity to use the Food Bank is invaluable to the students. In addition, recyclable shopping bags (not plastic) are in need. Registration form is available on Synod website. BACK TO SCHOOL SOCIAL FOR NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS We are now collecting new underwear and socks for children in grades K - 5, as well as school and art supplies. Our second give-away for families in need in our neighborhood is set for Saturday, August 25 from Noon 3:00 p.m. We have learned from the nurses in neighborhood schools that many children come to school wearing the same pair of underwear all week. Shoes are often worn without socks, even in cold weather. We can help! There is an UNDERWEAR TREE in Memorial Hall with tags indicating sizes and styles needed and a basket to receive the items. You are invited to take a tag or two, purchase the items, and place them in the basket. Other items we will be collecting include school and art supplies and children s books (gently used books are fine). These were very popular at last year s event! YOUTH & FAMILY PICNIC - Come out and celebrate the end of summer with a youth and family picnic on August 26 at 5 p.m. at Gerry and Rose Wilson s house. ALIVE will be September 28-30 at Camp Nawakwa. Alive is an event for middle school youth. There will be friends, games, worship, faith conversation, and a campfire. Theme - Dear Hate... Responding to hate in ways that reflect the love, grace and forgiveness we share in Christ. Registration is open NOW -- please talk to Kathleen before August 26. WINTERFEST will be on December 8 & 9, 2018 at Spooky Nook. Winterfest, a weekend away for high school youth. Space is extremely limited! Please RSVP with Kathleen before August 26! 4 17
DISMISSAL Go in peace. The Spirit sends us forth to serve. Thanks be to God. POSTLUDE Aurelia From Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright 2018 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #33504. Hymns reprinted by permission under One License #A-727079 and CCLI #11318988 Graduate blessing adapted with permission from Jeff Kelty, Joy Lutheran Church, Parker, CO arr. by Lani Smith GREETING AND CANTICLE OF PRAISE The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. Please remember in your prayers Chip Barnes Ann David 8/17 Esther Beaver Aloma Dawkins 8/22 Dick Blair 8/15 Barb Evans 8/8 Howell Hammond 8/29 Pastor Neal Hively 8/15 Sloan Huber 8/17 Nancy Jacobs 8/15 Elva Kroeger Susan Llabres 8/15 Judy Mayer 8/15 Natalie Newcomer Edward O Gara 8/15 Pat Plasterer Grace Shindle 8/15 Bev Rebok 9/5 Sandy Starliper Klaus Schwed 8/15 Kristi Varner 8/15 Dr. James Vinson 8/17 Jim Woods 8/15 Amanda Zitzelman Seth Cody - Military Altar Flowers are given to the Glory of God in honor of our dedicated choir and in praise and thanksgiving to God for his many blessings by Freda and Jeff Dorand. Stewardship Snippet Ephesians 4:31-32 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. As God s called and blessed community, Christians live by different rules than the world, which is too-often angry and blameful. We are good stewards of community and relationships when we do our best to live with kindness and love. 16 5
PRAYER OF THE DAY The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. Gracious God, your blessed Son came down from heaven to be the true bread that gives life to the world. Give us this bread always, that he may live in us and we in him, and that, strengthened by this food, we may live as his body in the world, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen * Please be seated. WORD BLESSING OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, & BACKPACKS FIRST READING 1 Kings 19:4-8 4 Elijah went a day s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors. 5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, Get up and eat. 6 He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you. 8 He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 6 15
LAMB OF GOD PSALM Psalm 34:1-8 1 I will bless the Lord at all times; the praise of God shall ever be in my mouth. 2 I will glory in the Lord; let the lowly hear and rejoice. 3 Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; let us exalt God s name together. 4 I sought the Lord, who answered me and delivered me from all my terrors. 5 Look upon the Lord and be radiant, and let not your faces be ashamed. 6 I called in my affliction, and the Lord heard me and saved me from all my troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear the Lord and delivers them. 8 Taste and see that the Lord is good; happy are they who take refuge in God! POST COMMUNION BLESSING May the Bread of Life nourish you forever. Amen. PRAYER SENDING Gracious God, thank you for quenching our hunger and thirst. Help us to share you with others so in coming to you, they may believe and never hunger or thirst again. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. BLESSING May God, whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine, grant you the gifts of faith and hope. Almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, bless you now and forever. Amen. 14 SECOND READING Ephesians 4:25--5:2 25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not make room for the devil. 28 Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Please stand as you are able. 7
Let us pray the Lord s Prayer together. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION LORD S PRAYER Gathered into one by the Holy Spirit, let us pray as Jesus taught us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. INVITATION TO COMMUNION Come and receive. Thanks be to God. Please be seated. All Christians who believe that Jesus is truly present in the bread (body of Christ) and in the wine (blood of Christ) are welcome at the Lord's Table. To receive Holy Communion, please come down the center aisle, take a glass (the prefilled glasses contain grape juice), and gather at the altar. Non-communing children and adults may come forward for a blessing. 8 13
OFFERTORY GOSPEL John 6:35, 41-51 The Holy Gospel according to St. John the 6 th chapter. Glory to you, O Lord. 35 Jesus said to the crowd, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, I am the bread that came down from heaven. 42 They were saying, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, I have come down from heaven? 43 Jesus answered them, Do not complain among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. Please be seated. OFFERING PRAYER Let us pray. Merciful God, you open wide your hand and satisfy the need of every living thing. You have set this feast before us. Open our hands to receive it. Open our hearts to embrace it. Open our lives to live it. We pray this through Christ our Lord. Amen. HOLY COMMUNION And so we remember. As Jesus gathered his disciples for a meal on the night before his death, he blessed the bread and wine and spoke these words to them. Take this bread and eat, this is my body, given for you. And this cup of wine is the new covenant in my blood, shed for everyone for the forgiveness of sin. Remember me as you eat and drink, for I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 12 DIALOGUE Silence for reflection follows the sermon. PASTORAL PRAYER Please stand as you are able. Jesus is the Bread of Life written by The Rev. Brent Kuhlman edited by The Rev. Jane Nicholson used with permission 9
APOSTLE S CREED Let us confess our faith in God. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION Hear us, O God, Your mercy is great. Please be seated. OUR RESPONSE GATHERING OF GIFTS An offering is gathered for the mission of the church, including the care of those in need. Online giving is available at felcc.org SPECIAL MUSIC Please stand as you are able. 10 11