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NEW JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH SENDS
OUR BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
FOR A HAPPY, HEALTHY 2022!
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS ON MARCH 13, 2022
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May God fill you will his New 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.
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Servants for Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: TBA
Assistant to Pastor: TBA
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Fellowship Hour: NO
Lector: TBA
Ushers: TBA
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 ~ Worship Service at 7:30 p.m. ~ Ash Wednesday. On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.
Servants for Sunday, March 6, 2022
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: Sarah Parente & Barbara Young
Assistant to Pastor: Terry Ravier
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Fellowship Hour: TBA
Lector: Cindy Ziegler
Ushers: TBA
Sunday, March 6, 2022 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ First Sunday of Lent. These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist temptation at every turn. This is no small pilgrimage on which we have just embarked. It is a struggle Jesus knew. It is a struggle Jesus shares. The nearness of the Lord, in bread and wine, water and word, will uphold and sustain us.
Servants for Sunday, March 13, 2022
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: Janis Hadley & Tina McCardle
Assistant to Pastor: Robin Rooth-Fogel
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Fellowship Hour: TBA
Lector: David Moser
Ushers: Sarah Acker
Sunday, March 13, 2022 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ Second Sunday of Lent. Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called and gathered into a God-initiated relationship that will endure. Lent provides the church with a time and a tradition in which to seek God’s face again. Lent provides another occasion to behold the God of our salvation in the face of the Blessed One who “comes in the name of the Lord.”
Servants for Sunday, March 20, 2022
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: Sharon Bender, Cindy Hart, Tina Young
Assistant to Pastor: Sarah Parente
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Fellowship Hour: TBA
Lector: Cindy Ziegler
Ushers: TBA
Sunday, March 20, 2022 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ Third Sunday of Lent. The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God!
Servants for Sunday, March 27, 2022
Acolyte: TBA
Altar Guild: Sarah Acker & Kathy Shermetta
Assistant to Pastor: Caroline Skuba
Assisting Minister: TBA
Chalister: TBA
Fellowship Hour: TBA
Lector: David Moser
Ushers: Sarah Acker
Sunday, March 27, 2022 ~ Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. ~ Fourth Sunday of Lent. The psalm sets the tone this day: “Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away!” Happy are those who have “become the righteousness of God” in the merits of Christ Jesus. Happy are those for whom the forgiveness of God has “rolled away . . . the disgrace” of former times. Happy is the father at the return of his prodigal son. Happy are we that our sins are forgiven for Jesus’ sake. Rejoice!
TO JOIN US AT NEW JERUSALEM EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 3233 APPLES CHURCH ROAD, BETHLEHEM, PA 18015 ON SUNDAY MORNING AT
10:00 A.M. FOR OUR INDOOR WORSHIP WITH PASTOR LISA AND ITS MEMBERS.
IF YOU DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE ATTENDING SERVICES IN PERSON, YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US ONLINE AT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL CLICK HERE.
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Any virus outbreak in the "in person" worshipping community will necessitate the
closing of the church until further notice when it is deemed safe to re-enter.
The Council understands if you do not feel comfortable attending in person worship just yet. We respect your decision and invite you to tune into the service (via the church’s website at Youtube livestream link) as it will be live streamed each Sunday.
Hope to see you there!
Peace be with you.
Thank you to those that have been sending offerings in the mail or have been using the online Vanco portal. Click this link Vanco Website. Please continue to support the ongoing work of New Jerusalem by sending in your offerings.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6 (NIV)
You can also visit New Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church on Facebook at
SPRING IS HERE!
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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!