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ST. JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH
246 Benjamin Street......Romeo, Michigan 48065
Sixth Sunday of Easter.........May 9, 2010
Church Office....……586.752-4588
Pastor Mark Evans……586-752-2498
Hotline.........................752-1067
Website: www.stjohnromeo.org
Email Address.
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8:30 A.M.
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP P=Presiding, A=Assisting, C=Congregation
Prelude Jan Evans
Congregational Greeting and Theme of the Day:
“Going on a Serendipity Journey”
ENTRANCE HYMN (stand, if you are able):
“You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore” WOV No. 784
GREETING:
P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
C: And also with you.
KYRIE: .WOV Page 28
P: Kyrie eleison;
C: Lord, have mercy.
P: Christe eleison:
C: Christ, have mercy.
P: Kyrie eleison:
C: Lord, have mercy.
HYMN OF PRAISE: WOV Page 29
Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God in the highest;
glory to God, glory to God, and peace to God’s people on earth.
Lord God, heavenly king, almighty God and Father,
we worship You, we give You thanks, we praise you for your glory.
Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God in the highest;
glory to God, glory to God, and peace to God’s people on earth.
PRAYER OF THE DAY: WOV Page 30
P: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.
P: Let us pray…
C: Ever-guiding Spirit, open us to the paths you call us to travel. Open us to the ones with whom you would have us minister. May we welcome one another with hearts of grace, that together we may be hospitable to your purposes. Amen.
PRAISE HYMN: Awesome God
Our God is an awesome God; He reigns from heaven above,
With wisdom, power and love, our God is an awesome God!
Our God is an awesome God!
Our God is an awesome God!
Our God is an awesome God!
THE WORD OF GOD: Acts 16:9-15
9During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." 10After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. 11From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis. 12From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days. 13On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message. 15When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.
Psalm 67
1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine upon us.
2 that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.
3 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you.
4 May the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you rule the peoples justly
and guide the nations of the earth.
5 May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you.
6 Then the land will yield its harvest, and God, our God, will bless us.
7 God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.
SECOND LESSON: Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5
10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. 1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (stand, if you are able): WOV No. 612
C: Celtic Alleluia:
Al – le – lu – ia, al – le – lu – ia!
Al – le – lu – ia, al – le – lu – ia!
P: The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the 5th Chapter
C: Glory to you, O Lord.
THE HOLY GOSPEL: John 5:1-9
1Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. 2Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" 7"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." 8Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." 9At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.
P: The Gospel of the Lord.
C: Praise to you, O Christ.
SERMON: “Going on a Serendipity Journey” Pastor Mark Evans
OFFERING/OFFERTORY (stand and sing): WOV Page 35
C: Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
A: Let us pray. Merciful God
C: we offer with joy and thanksgiving what you have first given us--
ourselves, our time, and our possessions, signs of your gracious love.
Receive them for the sake of him who offered himself for us, Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen.
Announcements and Recognition of Visitors
People Concerns for the Week Pastor Mark
After the updates of the People Concerns, the Congregation will stand and sing together,
Bind Us Together
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together Lord, bind us together, bind us together with love.
There is only one God. There is only one King.
There is only one body. That is why we sing.
Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together Lord, bind us together, bind us together with love.
THE PRAYERS (stand): WOV Page 34
A: Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus,
and for all people according to their needs.
Each portion of the prayers concludes with these words:
A: Lord, in your mercy,
C: hear our prayer.
The prayers conclude with these words:
P: Into your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray,
trusting in your mercy; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
C: Amen
THE ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS:
P: Gracious God,
C: Our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to name; what our hearts can no longer bear,
and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a
past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed;
and grant us grace to grow more and more in Your likeness and image;
through Jesus Christ, the light of the world. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON:
P: Jesus Christ our Savior gave himself for us, redeeming us from all sin and cleansing us to be people who are eager to do what is good. Through the water of rebirth and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, God saves us, renews us in grace and bestows on us eternal life.
C: Amen
GREAT THANKSGIVING: WOV Page 36
P: The Lord be with you.
C: And also with you.
P: Lift up your hearts.
C: We lift them to the Lord.
P: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
C: It is right to give our thanks and praise.
P: It is indeed right and salutary that we should at all times and in all places
offer thanks . . . (Here the minister continues with the proper preface, concluding:) we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
Congregation sings
C: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna. Hosanna. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
P: In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, and gave thanks;
broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take and eat; this is my body, given for
you. Do this for the remembrance of me.
Again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying: This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me.
THE LORD’S PRAYER (stand if you are able)
COMMUNION (sit)
HYMNS DURING DISTRIBUTION ........................WOV Nos. 770, 702, 710
(All baptized Christians are welcomed to the Lord’s Table today. Children who have not yet been instructed for Holy Communion will be given a blessing. Please fill out one communion card per family and follow the direction of the ushers. White grape juice is available for anyone who would prefer to not drink wine. There are also gluten free wafers for those people allergic to wheat.)
(Stand, if you are able)
P: The body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in his grace.
C: Amen
POST-COMMUNION HYMN (congregation sings): LBW Page 72
C: Thank the Lord and sing his praise; tell ev’ry-one what he has done. Let all who seek the Lord rejoice and proudly bear his name. He recalls his promises and leads his people forth in joy with shouts of thanksgiving. Alleluia. Alleluia.
A: Let us pray. (The Assisting Minister says a short prayer.)
C: Amen
THE BENEDICTION:
P: Go into God’s world knowing that you are loved more than you can imagine. Show your love for God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Share God’s love with all you encounter. Care for them as God has cared for you and you will find and share the blessing of God Almighty.
C: Amen
CLOSING HYMN: “Pass It On”
It only takes a spark to get a fire going,
And soon all those around can warm in its glowing.
That’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it.
You spread His love to everyone, you want to pass it on.
What a wondrous time is spring when all the trees are budding,
The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming.
That’s how it is with God’s love, once you’ve experienced it.
You want to sing, it’s fresh like spring. You want to pass it on.
I wish for you, my friend, this happiness that I’ve found.
You can depend on Him, it matters not where you’re bound.
I’ll shout it from the mountain top, I want the world to know.
The Lord of Love has come to me, I want to pass it on.
I’ll shout it from the mountain top, I want my world to know.
The Lord of Love has come to me, I want to pass it on.
DISMISSAL:
A: Go in peace. Serve the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Postlude......................Jan Evans
To our visitors and guests, thank you for joining us for worship service today. Please fill out a visitor card and give to the usher, or sign our guest register book in the front entrance when you leave. Please come and join us again!
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VOLUNTEER MINISTERS FOR MAY 9, 2010
Assisting Minister: Karen Joyce
Acolyte: 1) Volunteers Please
2) Ryan & Aaron Schmidt
Greeters: 1) Earl & Kathie Proctor
2) Bob & Marjorie Neubacher
Reader: 1) Volunteer Please
2) Karen Joyce
Nursery: 1) Volunteers Please
2) Hilary Beyerlein
Comm. Care: 1) Herb & Karen Schroeder
2) Ann & Jeff Beyerlein
Comm. Bread: 1) Herb & Karen Schroeder
2) Karen Joyce
Ushers: 1) Herb Schroeder; Earl Proctor, Jr., Volunteers Please
2) Ron Weyersberg, David Dau, Volunteers Please
Counters: DROP BAG
Coffee Hour: Karen Joyce
THE WEEKLY BULLETIN MAY 8/9, 2010
GUESTS & VISITORS:
The members of St. John Lutheran Church and their Pastor extend to you a most cordial welcome and wish you a blessed worship hour with us. A staffed nursery is available for children 4 and under in the back of the church on Sundays.
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Volunteer Ministers for
May 16, 2010
Assisting Minister:
Rod Rohloff
Acolyte:
1) Volunteer Please
2) McKenna Witt
Greeters:
1) Steve & Jan Alling
2) Denise Bonner
Reader:
1) Joanne Banghart
2) Pam Colbert
Nursery:
1) Volunteer Please
2) Joyce Kelly
Ushers:
1) Ed & Kay Pauly; Pat Hahn; Volunteers Please
2) Ralph & Libby Wilson; Volunteers Please
Counters:
Don & Sue Schwartz
Coffee Hour
Scott Colbert Family
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Last Week’s Attendance:
Saturday, 5/1.....................51
Sunday, 5/2.
8:30am...............................52
10:30am...........................118
Total = 221
Sunday School...................26
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Join Pastor Mark on Sunday, June 6th for a 1-day retreat if you are interested in becoming a member of St. John or if you are simply curious about our beliefs and practices. We will begin at approximately 11:30am and it will last about 5 hours. Please call the church office to register.
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Gardening Angels Needed!
Volunteers needed for Tuesday and Wednesday mornings or on your own time. Please see the sign-up poster!
Also needed:
Hostas/Perennials
Grass Seed
Mulch
Lawn Bags
Thank You!
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Contributions from the Easter offering envelopes were divided and distributed as follows:
$200 to Tanzania
$200 to Stony Lake
LAST CHANCE to purchase tickets for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Fundraiser! We have gift cards to Sheena’s, Big Boy, Art & Jake’s, Times Square, Romeo Family Restaurant, Apple Orchard Inn, Panera Bread and Chili’s. The drawing will be held after the 10:30 service on Mother’s Day.
Kathy LeRoy and Mary Ann Mueller will have a yard sale starting June 10th to raise money for expenses for the trip to San Diego where we are walking. The money raised at this yard sale only, will be for the trip. If you have yard sale items you would like to donate, they can be dropped off at Kathy’s house on
June 9th only.
Thank you again, so very much.
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NOTICE:
Norine A. Appel, daughter of Rev. Edmund and Alvena Appel, passed away 11/28/09 in Columbus, OH. Interment will be at the Romeo Cemetery on Saturday, May 15th at 10:30am.
Stanley O. Ludtke, son of Otto and Jeanette Ludtke, passed away 1/31/10. Interment will be at the Romeo Cemetery on Saturday, May 15th at 10:30am.
DAY CAMP AND VBS
Mark your calendars!
St. John along with Living Waters Ministries will once again be holding Day Camp this year. Any child who has completed Kindergarten through 5th grade is welcome to attend. Day Camp will be help from August 2-6 here at St. John and will run from 9 am--3 pm. Also, we will be holding Vacation Bible School during the same time from 9 am-11:30 am. Vacation Bible School is for children entering pre-school and Kindergarten. Forms for both camp and VBS are available in the main hallway on the Youth Bulletin Board.
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Thanks for the 2 boxes of philatelic material you sent April 7. We are very pleased that you thought of us and are willing to take the time to collect and send it. We hope you continue to do so. All material is welcomed. We certainly want to carry on our work with Stamps for a Living at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and with the handicapped people who benefit from the efforts of the Deaf/REACH program. Both programs are aided by the sale of your donations. With your help, we should be able to do so for many years to come. Bless you!
June P. Heinz
Stamps for a Living &
Deaf/REACH
P.S. Card fronts are no longer needed – Thank You!
DTE Energy Gardens
DTE Energy is offering their buffer property located at 12700 30 Mile Road, Washinton to be used as a graden. The produce from this project will go to Macomb Food Program, St. Teresa of Avita Food Program, Salvation Army – Mt. Clemens, Samaritan House, and Turning Point. To make this project a success, help is needed; preparing the garden, creating walkways, plant seeds and seedlings, harvest the crops. Obviously this will be a spring, summer and fall project. If you or your group is interested in helping to grow fresh food for our low income clients, please contact Marc Zupmore, DTE Energy Gardens Project Manager at
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Tuesday Night Euchre
Sponsored by the
St. John Men’s Club
Tuesday, May 11th,
Starting SEPTEMBER and continues on the 2nd Tuesday each month (off during summer months.)
6:00 pm Registration
6:30 pm Start time
$10 Fee includes snacks
COME JOIN IN THE FUN!
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INTERESTED IN READING THE BIBLE?
HAVE YOU EVER READ THROUGH THE BIBLE FROM BEGINNING TO END? THIS MAY BE THEYEAR YOU CHOOSE TO BEGIN. THE ONE YEAR BIBLE (NIV) WILL BE GIVEN TO MEMBERS ON THE FIRST SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH. TO RECEIVE A BIBLE YOU MUST SIGN UP. LARGE PRINT BIBLES ARE AVAILABLE BUT YOU MUST ASK FOR ONE WHEN YOU SIGN UP (PLEASE PUT AN LP AFTER YOUR NAME). THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR THE BIBLE AS THEY WERE DONATED TO THE CHURCH.
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MAY PANTRY NEEDS
FOR SAMARITAN HOUSE
Cereal * Oatmeal * Pancake Syrup * Egg Noodles/Macaroni * Pasta * Ravioli * Sugar * Rice * Deodorant (men & women) * Bath Soap * Toilet Paper * Feminine Pads/Tampons
We appreciate any non-perishable food items and toiletries that you can donate. Drop off your food donations during our normal business hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, 10-6 and Friday 10 – 4. We are located at: 62324 Van Dyke, Washington, MI 48094, (586) 336-9956
Meijer Community Rewards for
MARCH 2010
$19.67
YTD for 2010: $53.24
Thank you,
Shoppers!
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St. John Lutheran
is a Stephen Ministry Congregation
Please call:
Jan Alling at 586-752-7016
or Jan or Bob Gallardo at:
586-781-5803 for more info.
Please save your pop can tabs and turn them in at the church for the purchase of kidney machines. Over 179 lbs. have been collected since February 2007! This fundraiser is for the purchase of kidney machines.
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NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE RECYCLING
Thank you for the tremendous response with this! In March we recycled 5.43 tons and received $95.21. Year to date for 2010 – $95.21. Landfill space saved – 16.94 cubic yards. The total collected since the program began in 2005 is $4,135.88. Thank you!
PLEASE, NO CARDBOARD or PHONE BOOKS
BENEFIT SPAGHETTI DINNER
For Terri Griffin
Terri is a 40 year old single mom who has been recently stricken with colon and lymph node cancer, Stage 3.
Friday, May 14th
K of C Creek Center Hall
72025 North Ave.
Armada, MI
586-784-8920
4pm-8pm
Freewill donation
Raffles & 50/50
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THIS WEEK AT ST. JOHN, MAY 8-16, 2010
Saturday -Worship, 5pm
-SWAT Meeting, 5:45pm
-Breast Cancer 3-Day Raffle
Sunday -Happy Mother’s Day!
-Worship w/Communion,
8:30 & 10:30am
- Breast Cancer 3-Day Raffle
& Drawing
-Blood Pressure Checks,
9:30-10:30am
-Sunday School, 10:15am
Monday -Can-Do Ringers, 6:30pm
-Stephen Ministry, 7pm
Tuesday -Weight Watchers, 4pm
-Men’s Club Euchre, 6:30pm
Wednesday -Tai Chi, 10:30am
-Praise Ringers, 6:30pm
-Praise Singers, 7:30pm
-Youth Choir, 7:30pm
Thursday -Finance Committee, 5:30pm
-Bible Study, 7pm
-AA/Alanon, 8pm
Saturday -Pre-Marriage Seminar,
8:30am-2pm
-Scrapbooking, 10am-10pm
-Worship w/Communion, 5pm
Sunday -Worship, 8:30 & 10:30am
-Sunday School, 10:15am
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