Greetings from Church of Peace - April 19, 2012

Greetings from Church of Peace!

The littlest Sunday School kids are singing in worship this Sunday and, boy, do they sing this one with gusto! Joining us in worship leadership will be the Rev. Dave Moyer, the Wisconsin Conference President of the UCC, who asked to come and share with the re-enlivened Church of Peace community.  Alek Giese will be baptized.

Diner’s Club at Blanke’s Lake Aire Supper Club will begin at 5:30 on this Sunday evening.  Sign up on the narthex bulletin board so we make sure to save a chair for you.

We have one person in the hospital: Peggy Laehn is a patient.  Please pray for her returning strength and health.  Elaine Hamberger and Marie Michalowske are in hospice care and nearing the end of their lives.  Please remember them in prayer as well.

Mid-Week Faith Boost resumes tonight with Bible study as a conversational focus.  Join us for this time of spiritual and emotional renewal.

Have you thought of stopping in to a Shawl Ministry meeting, just to say “hi” and see if you’d be interested?  They meet this Saturday morning at 9:30 in the Upper Room and would love to greet you.

Be on the lookout: the flocks of flamingos are coming to your neighborhood soon.  If they land in your yard, please give a generous donation. Thanks! Our youth and their leaders will be busy working at the Fond du Lac dog show this weekend.  If you attend, be sure to greet them.  They’ll be wearing their yellow shirts. 

That’s the news from Church of Peace.

We’ll see you in church!  Pastors Jenny and Jim

A prayer for today: Source and spring of all our joy and hope, by your Spirit my spirit is fed.  Touch my life with your healing love this day and renew within me all that is beautiful and good.  Give me the courage and faith to reach out in love to the people who need my help.  I pray for Peggy Laehn, Elaine Hamberger, and Marie Michalowske.  May each one feel your nearness and experience your grace.  I pray in the name of the One who brings new life to every day. Amen. 

Greetings from Church of Peace - April 5, 2012

Greetings from Church of Peace on this Maundy Thursday morning!  We look forward to greeting you in person at tonight’s service which is at 7:00 p.m.  We will have worship in the candle-lit sanctuary and celebrate communion at tables.

Tomorrow night our Good Friday service will begin at 7:00.  This service commemorates the trial, suffering, and death of Jesus through word, picture, and song.  There will be a tenebrae (putting out of candles).  Pastor Jim will provide special music.

Saturday the church will be buzzing with activity as the youth prepare for their “Alleluia!” social hours the next morning (at 8:00 and 9:45) and the Worship Enhancement Team transforms our sanctuary into a resplendent garden.

Easter Sunday’s first service will begin at 7:00 a.m. and the second service at 8:45 a.m.  The music will be festive and triumphant.  Holy Communion will be served at the altar. 

PARENTS: The Sunday School children will NOT be wearing robes as originally planned. Please have your child sit with you in worship at the 8:45 Easter service, then send them up to the front when it is time for the anthem, “O Happy Day.”  There will be no Sunday School on Easter.

Esther Fiebig and Virginia Reimer have been hospitalized this week. Please remember them in your prayers. 

If you purchased flowers for the Easter service, you may take them home after the second worship service.  The plants are labeled by name. Thank you. 

We’ll see you in church!  Pastors Jim and Jenny

A prayer for today: On this Maundy Thursday, O God, I pray for an awareness of your presence with me.  Show me the people whom I can love and help in Jesus’ name.  Shine your comforting, peace-filled light upon Virginia Reimer and Esther Fiebig.  I pray in confident trust.  Amen.