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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.
Servants for Sunday, July 7, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Pat Leith
Lector ~ Tim Fulmer
Ushers ~ PJ Miller & Micah Miller
Altar Guild ~ Sarah Parente & Tina McCardle
Technology ~ Bill Young/Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ TBD
Sunday, July 7, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 7th Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus does great deeds of power and gives his disciples authority over demons. Yet none of this power is unilateral; it all must be received by faith. Jesus asks His disciples to go out without money or supplies, so that they will be dependent on how others receive them. When we are sent from the assembly to witness and to heal, we are asked to be vulnerable, to be dependent on the reception of others. The Spirit always operates in the “between”: between Jesus and His Abba, between Jesus and us, between you and me, between us and those to whom we are sent.
Saturday, July 13, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 4:30 p.m.
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Servants for Sunday, July 14, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Terry Ravier
Lector ~ Bill Young
Usher ~ Joanne Robbins
Altar Guild ~ Sharon Bender & Tina Young
Technology ~ Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ TBD
Sunday, July 14, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 8th Sunday of Pentecost
When Amos reports his vision of God judging Israel for its mistreatment of the poor, he becomes a threat to the power of the priests and the king. John the Baptist also speaks truth to power, and Herod has him killed. In Herod’s fear that Jesus is John returned from the dead, we may hear hope for the oppressed: all the prophets killed through the ages are alive in Jesus. We are called to witness to justice in company with them, and to proclaim God’s saving love.
Servants for Sunday, July 21, 2024
Assistant to Pastor ~ Sharon Bender
Lector ~ Cathy Peoples
Usher ~ Sharon Bender
Altar Guild ~ Kathy Shermetta & Sarah Acker
Technology ~ Angie Fulmer
Coffee Hour ~ TBD
Sunday, June 21, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 9th Sunday of Pentecost
Mark’s Gospel makes clear how great is the press of the crowd, with its countless needs to be met, on Jesus and His disciples. Yet in today’s gospel Jesus advises His disciples to get away and rest, to take care of themselves. Sometimes we think that when others are in great need, we shouldn’t think of ourselves at all; but Jesus also honors the caregivers’ need. We are sent from Christ’s table to care for others and for ourselves.
Servants for Sunday, July 28, 2024 for 10:00 a.m.
Assistant to Pastor ~ Jesse Hart
Lector ~ Jerry Latchic
Usher ~ Sharon Bender
Altar Guild ~ Barb Young & Dave Moser
Technology ~ TBD
Coffee Hour ~ TBD
Sunday, July 28, 2024 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ 10th Sunday of Pentecost
Today is the first of five Sundays with gospel readings from John 6, the first four of which focus on Jesus as bread of life. Today Jesus feeds thousands of people with five loaves and two fish. What we have, what we bring to Jesus’ table, seems like it is not nearly enough to meet all the needs we see around us. But it is not the adequacy of our supplies or our skills that finally makes the difference: it is the power of Jesus working in the littlest and least to transform this world into the world God desires, a world where all the hungry are satisfied.
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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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