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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.
Saturday, August 3, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 4:30 p.m.
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Servants for Sunday, August 4, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Sarah Parente
Lector ~ Sharon Bender
Ushers ~ Linda & Jerry Latchic
Altar Guild ~ Sarah Parente & Tina McCardle
Technology ~ TBA Coffee Hour ~ Council
Sunday, August 4, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Apparently not satisfied by Jesus’ feeding of thousands, some who were there to press Him for a sign of His power; perhaps it is daily manna they want. As always in John’s gospel when people want a sign, Jesus offers Himself. He is the bread come from heaven to give life to the world. He calls us to come to Him and believe in Him, and through that relationship to know the one who sent Him.
Servants for Sunday, August 11, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Terry Ravier
Lector ~ Denise Hoffert
Usher ~ Denise Hoffert
Altar Guild ~ Sharon Bender & Tina Young
Technology ~ Bill Young & Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ Quilters
Sunday, August 11, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 12th Sunday of Pentecost
Jesus says that the bread He gives for the life of the world is His flesh, and whoever eats this bread has eternal life now and will be raised on the last day. In Ephesians, Paul tells us what this life Jesus gives us looks like, this life we live as those marked with the seal of the Holy Spirit in baptism. We live in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us. The whole purpose of life is giving yourself for the other.
Servants for Sunday, August 18, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Pat Leith
Lector ~ Amanda Bokan
Usher ~ Zoey Bokan
Altar Guild ~ Kathy Shermetta & Sarah Acker
Technology ~ Bill Young & Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ Choir
Sunday, August 18, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 13th Sunday of Pentecost
Wisdom prepares a feast, sets her table, and invites all to come and eat her bread and drink her wine. The first chapter of John’s gospel owes much to the biblical tradition that imagined Wisdom as existing before anything was created and having a role in the work of creation. Christ, the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 1:24), today invites us to eat His flesh and drink His blood. John’s gospel includes no account of the institution of the Lord’s supper, but here we can't help hearing Jesus’ words as an invitation to the meal of bread and wine we share.
Servants for Sunday, August 25, 2024 for 10:00 a.m.
Assistant to Pastor ~ Sharon Bender
Lector ~ Cathy Peoples
Usher ~ Joyce Leith
Altar Guild ~ Barb Young & Dave Moser
Technology ~ Bill Young & Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ TBA
Sunday, August 25, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 14th Sunday of Pentecost
In today’s gospel, many people take offense at Jesus’ invitation to eat His flesh and drink His blood; even many of Jesus’ disciples peel off. This is the backdrop in John’s gospel for Peter’s confession of faith. “To whom can we go?” asks Peter, in words we sometimes sing just before the gospel is read. “You have the words of eternal life.” In order to take such a stand, as Peter and Joshua did, Paul tells us to arm ourselves with the word of God. We pray in the Spirit that we might be bold ambassadors of the gospel.
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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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