PRELUDE S T. ANDREW S CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Lutheran Church 1416 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC 29210 Fifth Sunday in Lent March 18, 2018 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) is the red worship book found in your pew racks. Service music, indicated with a page number, can be found in the front portion of the book. Hymns, indicated by number, are found in the back portion of the book. Congregational responses are printed in bold type. b GATHERING b All may make the sign of the cross, the sign marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen God calls on us to honest confession, before God and one another. Let us search our hearts and consider all that we have done, or left undone, to be the disciples that Christ desires. Silence for reflection and self-examination. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgement. 5 Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.
6 You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. We remain kneeling as the pastor offers God s absolution and forgiveness. Following absolution we stand for the hymn, facing the processional cross as we begin. GATHERING SONG: Tree of Life and Awesome Mystery ELW Hymn 334 Stanzas 1-3 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, in the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you. KYRIE
PRAYER OF THE DAY The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us pray. O God, with steadfast love you draw us to yourself, and in mercy you receive our prayers. Strengthen us to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, that through life and death we may live in your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. We sit. b WORD b CHILDREN S SERMON (11:00 a.m.) FIRST READING: JEREMIAH 31:31-34 431The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. 33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. SECOND READING: HEBREWS 5:5-10 5 Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him, You are my Son, today I have begotten you ; 6 as he says also in another place, You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. 7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, 10 having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
We stand. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: The following refrain will be sung first by the cantor/choir and then by the congregation, and by all after the verse. Cantor/choir: O serve the Lord and follow his way, and follow his way. REFRAIN The Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, O Lord. GOSPEL: JOHN 12:20-33 20Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, Sir, we wish to see Jesus. 22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus answered them, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. 27 Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say Father, save me from this hour? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven, I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again. 29 The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, An angel has spoken to him. 30 Jesus answered, This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ. SERMON We sit.
We stand and sing. HYMN OF THE DAY: As the Sun with Longer Journey ELW Hymn 329 NICENE CREED: Please turn to the back inside cover of your hymnal. PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION Each intercession will end with Lord in your mercy, to which we respond: Hear our prayer. b MEAL b PEACE The peace of the Lord be with you always. And also with you. We greet one another with a gesture of peace using these or similar words: Peace be with you. We sit. OFFERTORY ANTHEM: Create In Me Terre Johnson Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit in me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit. We stand.
OFFERTORY HYMN OFFERTORY PRAYER THE GREAT THANKSGIVING ELW page 129 8:30 a.m. Spoken 11:00 a.m. Sung THE LORD S PRAYER ELW page 134 We sit. HOLY COMMUNION All are welcome to commune. Communion will be received at the altar rail by intinction; we receive the consecrated bread and dip it into the chalice. Those unable to partake of wine or wheaten bread are assured that the Church affirms our Lord s presence in, with, and under each element alone; however, gluten free wafers and grape juice are available. Please let the Pastor or Lay Assistant know of your need.
COMMUNION HYMN: As We Gather at Your Table COMMUNION HYMN: Let us Break Bread Together ELW Hymn 471 We stand. POST-COMMUNION BLESSING AND PRAYER BENEDICTION b SENDING b SENDING SONG: Christ, the Life of All the Living ELW Hymn 339 Go in Peace. Serve the Lord. Thanks be to God. In observance of Lent, there will be no Postlude.
1416 Broad River Road, Columbia, South Carolina, 29210 Tel: (803) 772-6034 Website: www.salutheran.com E-Mail: officemgr@salutheran.com Pastor: The Rev. John P. Trump Deacon: Sandra Holland Director of Music Ministries: Jenny Walrath Choir Director: Nicholas Shumate Office Manager: Lina Gann COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS: Prayer of the Day and other liturgical from Sundays & Seasons, copyright 2006, Augsburg Fortress. Used by permission. Kyrie setting by David Haas, copyright 2003 by GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission, OneLicense.net #A-717852. Psalmody from The Lyric Psalter copyright 2014 by GIA Publications, Inc. The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass copyright 1969,1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL). All rights reserved. Psalm verses are The Revised Grail Psalms, copyright 2010, Conception Abbey and The Grail, admin by GIA Publications, inc. Music copyright 2014, GIA Publications, Inc. Used by permission. Time of fulfillment by James J. Chepponis, copyright 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.. As the Sun with Longer Journey text by John Patrick Earls, copyright Order of Saint Benedict, admin Liturgical Press. Used by permission, OneLicense.net #A-717852 Music: French folk tun, 17 th century; public domain. Seed that in earth is dying Text by Svein Ellingsen, tr. Hedwig T. Durnbaugh,, Music by Harald Herresthal. Translation copyright Hedwig T. Durnbaugh; music copyright Norsk Musikforlag, admin. Augsburg/Fortress. Used by permission Onelicense.net #717852. As we gather text by Carl P. Daw Jr. 1989 Hope Publishing Company, used by permission Onelicense.net #717852. Music HOLY MANNA, by W. Moore, Columbian Harmony; public domain.
In Our Prayers Marjorie Fulmer, undergoing cancer treatments Iva Metze, Hospice Care Bill Sease, Lexington Extended Care Linda Sease, Lexington Extended Care S T. ANDREW S Lutheran Church March 18, 2018 Join us, and invite a friend! Wednesdays in Lent - March 21 6 p.m. Dinner Tom Henry, recovering at home Keenan Shealy Rachel Potts, undergoing cancer treatments Deepest Sympathy We are saddened to share with you that Robin Aldrichs' brother, Robert W. Aldrich, passed away on Monday, March 12. Please keep the Aldrich family in your prayers as they grieve. Flowers The flowers are placed on the altar today by Beth Mullins to the glory of God and with a thankful heart for this church family. This week s delicious meal is provided by Ron Walrath. Menu: Pork Loin, Cheese and Macaroni Pie, Salad and Dessert (Suggested donation $3/person, max $10 family, children 2 and under are free) 7 p.m. Holden Evening Prayer and Drama (Nursery is provided) Wednesdays at Noon at Westminster Presbyterian Church - Worship & Lunch LOVE IN THE TIME OF LENT Five Dramas presented Wednesday Evenings Our drama series presented on Wednesday evenings continues through March 21. These plays are NOT sequential. You can come to any or all of them. Each stands on its own. They do consider how we are called to love one another, as God loves. This is, of course not always an easy task. The value of drama is that through it one is able to explore all sides of an issue or situation. One can present honest feelings that people might be afraid to express in a church community, between friends, or before God. Join us! Gluten Free Wafers and Grape Juice Available for Communion Going forward there will be a ceramic chalice of grape juice on the altar for those who choose not to partake of the wine. Gluten free wafers are also available. Please let the pastor or lay assistant know that you desire grape juice. Deadline Extended for Easter Lily Orders Today is the deadline for Easter Lily orders. It is a tradition at St. Andrew s to decorate the sanctuary with lilies on Easter morning. You may purchase these plants in memory of or in honor of loved ones and to the glory of God. Lilies are associated with Easter and they lend beauty to worship on this special Sunday. If you would like to purchase an Easter lily, please fill out the form included in your bulletin, put the form, along with your check, in the offering plate. In the Meantime Today at 5:30 p.m. In the Meantime is a monthly get together to simply talk about faith and life. We will be meeting today at THE FLYING SAUCER (931 Senate Street.) Come join us and bring a friend! Resurrection Garden On Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018, all children are invited to make a Resurrection garden. We will meet in the Fellowship Hall during the Sunday school hour. The gardens will be used to decorate for the Easter breakfast, after which the children may take their gardens home. Please understand that making a Resurrection garden will result in dirty little hands. Volunteer Opportunities! On Saturday, March 31, we will celebrate the Great Vigil of Easter at 7 p.m. here at St. Andrew s. On this holy night we gather with Christians throughout the world to celebrate Christ s Passover from death into life. Beginning in darkness, and ending in glorious light, this moving service tells some of the greatest stories of the faith and culminates at the Lord s table, where we meet our risen Lord. If you would like to participate in this service as an acolyte, crucifer, usher, or reader, please contact Judy Venturella at jventur319@att.net or 553-8047 (call or text) by March 21 so that assignments may be made.
April 1, 2018 Immediately after the 8:30 a.m. worship service Please join us in the Fellowship Hall to connect with friends and family during St. Andrews annual Easter breakfast. If you want to contribute, but are not sure what to prepare, recipes are available on the table in the Narthex throughout the Lenten season. For planning purposes, please let the Witness and Fellowship team know what you plan to bring. The Easter breakfast sign-up sheet is located next to the recipes in the Narthex. Any questions, please ask Mandy Glowacki. If you prefer call 351-5738 or email aglowacki@bellsouth.net. Ministry Assignments March 18 Counters: Bobbie Bell & Kathie Nixon Greeters: 8:30 a.m. Lula Wilson 11:00 a.m. Barbara Galarneau, Jean Lail Flowers: Beth Mullins Reader: 8:30 a.m. Theresa Henry 11:00 a.m. Nathan Mullins Communion Assistant: 8:30 a.m. Mary DeHihns 11:00 a.m. Youth Lay Assistant: Kasarah Boiter Acolyte: Makenna Schodowski Crucifer: Eric Young Nursery: LaSalle Grounds: (March 17) Curtis Amick Council Collections: Deborah Slice, Tom Henry, Paul Osmundson Recycling: Josh & Paulene Cruse March 25 Counters: Sharon Berger & Barbara Weaver Greeters: 8:30 a.m. Mary DeHihns 11:00 a.m. Mary Ann Jacobs Reader: 8:30 a.m. Hal Ray 11:00 a.m. Tom Bane Communion Assistant: 8:30 a.m. Becca Kelly 11:00 a.m. Bob Venturella Lay Assistant: Brian Teusink Acolyte: Rebecca LaSalle Crucifer: Kaitlyn Berger Nursery: Casey Grounds: (March 24) Layne Birdsong, Justin Varco Council Collections: Deborah Slice, Tom Henry, Paul Osmundson Recycling: Chris & Jessica Daly Weekly Schedule Sunday, March 18 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.... Worship 9:45 a.m.... Sunday School 12:00 p.m.... Ensemble Rehearsal 12:00 p.m.... Little Lutherans,... Luther League and... Youth lunch and Zoo trip 5:30 p.m.... In the Meantime Monday, March 19 7:00 p.m.... Handbell Practice Wednesday, March 21 5:00 p.m.... Discipleship Bible Study 6:00 p.m.... Dinner 7:00 p.m.... Holden Evening Prayer... and Drama 7:40 p.m.... Choir Rehearsal Sunday, March 25 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.... Worship 9:45 a.m.... Sunday School 12:00 p.m... Youth to Pets Inc. Outside Groups using the Building: AA Meetings: Monday-Friday at 5:30 p.m., Saturday at 10:30 a.m. OA Meetings: Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. AL Anon: Monday & Thursday at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday at 12:00 p.m. & Saturday at 10:30 a.m. SA Meetings: Sunday & Monday at 7 p.m. Karen Baptist Church: Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22 9:30 a.m... WELCA Quilters 11:00 a.m.... Bible Study 1416 Broad River Road, Columbia, South Carolina, 29210 Tel: (803) 772-6034 Website: www.salutheran.com E-Mail: officemgr@salutheran.com Pastor: The Rev. John P. Trump, 803-920-2722 Deacon: Sandra Holland Director of Music Ministries: Jenny Walrath Choir Director: Nicholas Shumate Office Manager: Lina Gann