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Glimpses of Glendale
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| | Glendale Lutheran Church Newsletter | March 26, 2017 |
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| Sunday, March 26 9:15am -- Worship 10:30am -- Sunday School/Adult Education | | Monday, March 27 6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool 5:30pm-6:30pm -- CCLS Basketball 6:00pm -- Lightroom Fundamentals
| | Tuesday, March 28 6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool 9:15am -- Women's Bible Study 12:00pm-8:00pm -- LFCS Counselor 5:00pm-6:00pm -- CCLS Basketball 6:00pm-7:00pm -- L'arche Faith & Light 6:30pm-7:30pm -- Basketball (L. Little) | | Wednesday, March 29 6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool 9:00am-8:00pm -- LFCS Counselor 5:30pm -- Potluck Dinner 6:30pm -- Midweek Lenten Worship 7:30pm -- Choir | | Thursday, March 30 6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool 8:00am-4:00pm -- LFCS Counselor 1:00pm -- Nifty Knitters/Clever Crocheters 7:00pm -- AA Mixed - FLC | | Friday, March 31 6:30am-6:00pm -- CCLS Preschool 6:15pm -- AA Women - FLC 8:00pm -- AA Men - FLC | | Saturday, April 1 8:00am-4:00pm -- LFCS Counselor 5:00pm -- Worship | | Sunday, April 2 9:15am -- Worship 10:30am -- Sunday School/Adult Education |
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| | Pastor Biermann's Message On Saturday, the people of Glendale will gather for a very significant time of worship. What will bring us together for this special worship is not a festival but a funeral. Funerals are hard. The tears, the sadness, the hurt, the finality of a funeral are not pleasant. Death is not a good thing. Death is never a good thing. It is an abrupt and tragic invasion of life and a disruption in God's good plans. But, in spite of the distasteful and hated reality of death and the damage it brings, we come together eagerly and expectantly to worship on Saturday. We come because this is what Christians do when one of their brothers dies, and when that brother in Christ is also the shepherd of the flock, the importance of our time together in worship is all the more important. It is important that we come together to hear God's Word proclaimed. It is important that we come to encourage and comfort Julie and all of Pastor Wise's family with our presence, our words, our touches, and our prayers. It is important that we build up one another by together facing the hard reality of death with the certain promises of God. It is important that we give thanks to God for those promises and thank him also for the gift of Pastor Wise and his faithful proclamation of God's promises to this congregation. It is important that we are living and acting as the people of God, intently focused on our certain Christian hope, and proclaiming that hope to the world around. Christ has triumphed. The horror of the grave has been destroyed. Death is not the end. Resurrection is our certain, guaranteed, hope. This is what we confess. This is why we worship together on Saturday.
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| No Saturday Evening Service This Weekend There will be no 5:00pm evening worship this Saturday, March 25.
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Faith Formation Ministry Bible Class and Sunday School
Join us as we grow in our faith and knowledge of God's word.
Stewardship Sentence  Psalm 142:5 - I cry to you, O LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." The Lord is our portion, our refuge, our everything. His mercy preserves through all our days in the land of the living. This confidence frees us from the fear that so often leads to sins of greed and coveting. We have the Lord, we have a Father, He is in control - so we can follow His Word in confidence.
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| Easter Breakfast Our annual Easter Breakfast will be held Easter Sunday, April 16! This is a joyous occasion for our church and a wonderful meal together. Please see the sign-up poster on the kiosk to volunteer breakfast items. We appreciate your help!
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| Easter Eggs To Be Filled In preparation for the Palm Sunday Fair on April 9, the eggs for the hunt need to be filled. Please help out by taking one or more bags from the basket outside the church office. Each bag has approximately 30 eggs in it. The eggs need to be returned to a basket which will be marked "Filled Eggs" by Wednesday, April 5. We will have the egg hunt inside as we did last year if the weather is not good. Thanks for your help!
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| Easter Lilies Easter lily orders are now being taken. Call or email the church office, or use the bright green order form in your mailbox. As in the past, the price per lily is $7.50. Orders must be received by Monday, April 10.
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| Internet Broadcast of Worship Services AND Bible Class As you are aware, we have broadcast worship services for many years and, more recently, started to broadcast our Sunday morning Bible classes through our church web site. Thanks to the generous underwriting of members donating a specified amount to make these broadcasts "ad free," we have seen a dramatic increase in viewers. Sometimes during the time of the service we have had three or four viewers. Other services as well as Bible classes have received 14 to 20 views from the web site archives. Any past event can be viewed by accessing our church web site glendalelutheranchurch.org and then clicking on the orange button labeled "Live worship webcast". You will be immediately connected to a live broadcast, if the time is right, or immediately connected to all stored videos. Select and click on the one you would like to review and it will stream for you. (You will need Adobe Flash Player--a free download that many people already have on their computers.) Please consider a contribution to the $100.00 monthly cost of this outreach ministry |
| Community Living Lord's Supper You are invited to the annual Living Lord's Supper at historic Trinity, 8th and Soulard Streets, on Maundy Thursday, April 13, at the 7:00pm communion service. The entire drama will be presented by Trinity's Music and Drama ministries. Tickets and reservations are not required. An offering for Trinity's ministries will be taken. Farewell to the Millers John and Ellen Miller have been teaching and conducting young musicians in the Lutheran South Instrumental Music Program and the LHSS Elementary Band Program since 1998. As the Millers retire at the close of the 2016-2017 school year, we invite you to join them at their last concerts, acknowledging their service, dedication, and commitment to excellence. - Jazz Band Concert - Friday, April 28, at 7:30pm at LHSS
- Final Farewell Spring Band Concert - Friday, May 5, at 7:30pm at Concordia Kirkwood (featuring Wind Symphony, Concert Band, and Junior Winds)
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| The Word Within The Word 
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| Funnies (used with permission)  |
| Pastoral Care If you need pastoral care for any reason, don't hesitate to contact the church office or one of the vacancy pastors directly. Pastor Biermann will be at the church on Monday and Thursday mornings most weeks, and Pastor Erkkinen is available on campus on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. |
| Worship Attendance Saturday 3/18, 6; Sunday 3/19, 99 = 105 Total |
| Worship Leaders
Worship Leaders
| This Sunday (3/26)
| Next Sunday (4/2)
| Preacher/Celebrant
| Pastor Biermann | Pastor Biermann | | Liturgist | Pastor Biermann | Pastor Biermann | Lector
| Tim Cosby | Miriam Lee | | Pianist (Saturday) | N/A | Joy Elowsky | | Organist (Sunday)
| Joy Elowsky
| Joy Elowsky
| | Acolyte | David Moore | Anna Rawlings | Communion Assistant
| Nate McCarty | Nate McCarty | | Lay Assistants
| Frank & Charlotte Moret | Steve Phelps | Greeters
| Steve & Phyllis Phelps | Theresa Canania & Sue Schmidt | Sound/Video
| Ken Clark, Layton Wille | Jerry & Beth Nicolaus | Ushers
| Ron Froesel, Joel Bergt, Ben Lee, Grant Lee | Carol Froesel, Jeanne Lipinski, Beverly Dixson, Lisa Grossenheider | Nursery
| Cyndi & Spencer Moore | Mary Skouby, Grace Ortstadt | Children's Message
| Sue Schultz | Nate McCarty |
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| Next Sunday's Bible Readings PREPARE FOR NEXT WEEK'S WORSHIP through a careful, prayerful reading of the appointed lessons for the day: Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:1-11; John 11:1-53 |
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