ThiS week At st. peTer’s | 3-24-24
PALM PROCESSION / SUNDAY OF THE PASSION 03-24-2024
Welcome to worship. God loved you enough to send Jesus, and Jesus loved you enough to be humble, obedient, willing, self-giving, and executed. We have not earned our salvation; you and I will never deserve it. But if you want to live fresh right now, with abundant joy, abiding peace, true meaning, and beyond your physical death, then receive God’s gift with an open, humble heart. Resurrection is on the way! Don’t let anything get in your way. We invite you to join in our new life together which is being shaped by the good news of Jesus Christ crucified and now risen among us.
TODAY
9:00AM All Saints Choir warm-up for worship.
10:00AM + PASSION SUNDAY WORSHIP + (in person and online)
11:30AM All Saints Choir rehearsal.
We welcome all who have come to worship
Giving in 2024
Beyond support of our 2024 Budget ($179,787 is what we envision spending this year) are those opportunities for special giving on behalf of others. They include:
- ELCA World Hunger Appeal (meeting international, national, and local hunger and poverty needs)
- $527 received to date in 2024;
- Lutheran Charities Appeal (assisting three local social ministry organizations – KenCrest Services, Lutheran Settlement House, and Gemma Services – that serve thousands of neighbors in need
- $267 received to date in 2024.
- Mission Offering (For January – June we have selected Loaves and Fishes, Capetown, South Africa, suggested by Pastor Bob Holum after he had occasion to visit and interact there. It is a shelter facility and social ministry that works with homeless people to provide “spiritual, psychological, and material renewal”.)
- $250 received to date in 2024.
ThiS week At st. peTer’s
Each day… Women’s History Month. Remember. Celebrate. Step forward.
Tuesday. 5:30PM *SEPTA Meeting at Finley Recreation Center, 7100 Mansfield Avenue!
Wednesday, 9:30AM Senior Ministry “Study and Discussion” in Rhoda Hall. (Note the earlier start!)
Wednesday, 10:00AM Diane Hughes, volunteer office administration.
Wednesday, 11:00AM Whole Foods fresh produce distribution.
Thursday, 7:00PM + MAUNDY THURSDAY Hybrid Worship.
We remember Jesus washing feet, breaking bread, offering the cup, betrayed, arrested.
Thursday, 7:30PM AL-ANON PROGRAM. Find encouragement to end your own codependence! Friday, 8:00AM Senior Food Box distribution ministry.
Friday, 7:00PM + GOOD FRIDAY Hybrid Worship.
We remember Jesus suffering, submitting, and dying to love us (his 7 Last Words).
What’s Happening…
March 31… EASTER SUNDAY RESURRECTION. Still dead? No, he rose!
Hybrid Worship in person and online at 10:00AM. BAPTISMS! NEW MEMBERS! Speak to our Pastors. There will be a meal (no cost) after worship, provided by Jerona Jackson-Rice. Please sign up.
Come and be blessed in worship… come and be blessed with food and fellowship!
April 1… Don’t be nobody’s fool, even on April Fool’s Day! May you believe that God loves you and that you need God’s love. May you find peace, power, and promise in the GOOD NEWS message of Jesus Christ crucified and now risen among us. Stay Easter –alive!
April 5… Senior Food Box distribution ministry at 8:00AM.
April 7… 2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER. Hey, is somebody at the door? Yes! Hybrid Worship at 10:00AM.
Eastern Star rental event in Rhoda Hall, 3:00PM.
April 8… CHURCH COUNCIL meeting, 7:00PM.
April 13… Women’s Ministry “Gathering” at 11:00AM. (in person and online).
April 14… 3rd SUNDAY OF EASTER. A risen Lord with wounds and hunger! Hybrid Worship at 10:00AM.
AGAPE (Christian rapper) and Joe Davis (he wrote our Christmas Eve drama) at Trinity Lutheran
Church, Lansdale… $20 adults, $10 youth… fundraiser for ELCA Youth Gathering 2024.
May 3, 4… Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod Assembly at Franconia Mennonite Church, Telford PA.