ThiS week At st. peTer’s | 5-5-24

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05-05-2024

On the night that Jesus was betrayed, deserted, and denied by them, Jesus taught his disciples about the connection between abiding in him and keeping his commandments. His single command is this: to love one another as he has loved us. There is no greater love than Christ’s sacrificial death for his friends, as well as for his enemies. There is no better obedience than our genuine effort to love others, our friends as well as our enemies, and even strangers, with that same “greater love”. Martin Luther reminds us that faith moves our feet. In other words, we need to think about our actions, not just our mental attitudes and sentimental feelings. What will it cost to be faithful in our living and fervent in our loving in actual life situations? Don’t love others as others love you, but love others as Jesus Christ loves you. Be the difference in our world.

TODAY

  9:00AM         All Saints Choir warm-up for worship.

10:00AM       + EASTER SUNDAY WORSHIP +   (in person and online)

11:30AM        All Saints Choir rehearsal.

 

Express your Easter fai+h with deeds and dollars unblocked by tombstones!

Beyond support of our 2024 Budget ($179,787 is what we envision spending this year to bear Christ’s name, spirit, and mission) are those special opportunities for giving on behalf of others. They include:

  • ELCA World Hunger Appeal (meeting international, national, and local hunger and poverty needs)
    • $345 last week, $1,058 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 with various needs)
    • $85 last week, $459 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 visited and interacted there. It is a shelter facility and social ministry that works with homeless people to provide “spiritual, psychological, and material renewal”.)
    • $0 last week, $405 received to date in 2024, two more months to respond.

 

We welcome all who have come to worship!

4 important questions during Easter:

  • Do you believe that God loves you?
  • Do you believe that you are a sinner?
  • Do you believe that Jesus died for your sins?
  • Will you now trust Jesus as your Savior and Lord?

We invite you to join in our new life together as we hear God’s fresh word to us, grow in grace, and offer our God-given gifts in service to others. A heart that is open to Jesus Christ is a heart that is open to change. May we each live fully in the time and the place where God has called us.

 

  ThiS week At st. peTer’s

Wednesday, 9:30AM Senior Ministry “Study and Discussion” in Rhoda Hall. (Please note earlier start.)

Wednesday, 10:00AM Diane Hughes, volunteer office administration.

Wednesday, 11:00AM Whole Foods fresh produce distribution.

Thursday… ASCENSION OF JESUS – For 40 days the risen Lord appeared and spoke to them, then he was lifted up into   the sky. Read LUKE 24:50-53 and ACTS 1:1-14. Wait and pray…    

Thursday, 7:30PM                    AL-ANON PROGRAM. Find encouragement to end your own codependence!

Friday, 6:30PM Girl Scouts.

Saturday, 11:00AM Women’s Ministry “Gathering” (in person and online).

 

What’s Happening…   

May 12…  7TH SUNDAY OF EASTER. MOTHER’S DAY. Hybrid worship at 10AM.

Tyesha Love Blackshear, a St. Peter’s member, will be our guest preacher.

ELCA Youth Gathering, cheesecake orders can be picked up, 12 noon – 1PM.

May 13…  CHURCH COUNCIL meeting in Rhoda Hall, 7:00PM.

May 14…   Area Girl Scout leaders in Rhoda Hall, 7:00PM.

May 18…   ELCA Youth Gathering “Car Wash”, 10AM – 2PM.

May 18…   “Talent Show” by the Scholarship Committee, 12 noon – 3PM.

May 19…  DAY OF PENTECOST. Here comes Spirit-breath and Spirit-power!

Hybrid worship at 10AM (in person in the Sanctuary and online) with Pastor Bob Holum preaching.

    Picnic and fellowship in Rhoda Hall. 

    Fun and games with the children! 

    Wear bright red, yellow, orange, or pink as we celebrate the fire of the Holy Spirit that filled, fueled, and poured out of those 120 praying gathered believers when the Church was born! 

     Invite FAMILY, FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, STRANGERS!
Can we match the original Pentecost of 120?

     Sign up to help us estimate the attendance, sign up to contribute food items!