Bent over? Weary? Sometimes that happens by events that happen to us that are out of our control. Sometimes that happens because of our own bad choices and/or stupidity. In either case, God can speak to those situations, because God is in the business of lifting up and freeing people to be who they were made to be. Click here to listen to Pastor Shelly's sermon about this!
Speaking of being lifted up to be who God made us to be, Sunday School will be resuming with classes for all ages beginning Sunday Sept. 15. In preparation for that, there will be an Open House/Pizza Party this Wednesday beginning at 6pm for all families who have children entering Sunday School this year. This is a great way to get acquainted with teachers and each other.
Normally the Sunday School year begins the weekend after Labor Day, but this year, on that weekend of September 7-8, we will be a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 25th Anniversary celebration by taking part in a congregation wide service project. Throughout the ELCA congregations are doing many and various service projects that weekend. For us, after worship on Saturday and during the Sunday School hour on Sunday, everyone will have the opportunity to help put together personal hygiene kits to be distributed to local organizations for those in need. Along with putting the kits together, personal notes of encouragement will be written to be enclosed.
This coming Labor Day weekend we get a glimpse of God's big welcoming banquet table! (FYI...this is the last weekend of our summer worship schedule: Sat. 6pm, Sunday 9:30am.) As a part of our worship we will be celebrating the many ways people share their gifts in their daily work. As has become a tradition here at Our Savior we will have a bulletin board in church for people to put their business cards or a note as to what they do in their daily lives. We also invite folks to wear to worship what they normally wear to work. It's a great way to be reminded of how many different gifts are gathered around God's banquet table.
Another way we will get a glimpse of God's great banquet table will be at noon on Saturday of that Labor Day weekend at St. Timothy Roman Catholic Church in Lutz FL as our newly elected bishop of the Florida Bahamas Synod, Bishop Robert Schaefer, will be installed. (It's at that church, because there is no Lutheran church in the area with a sanctuary big enough for such an event. We're grateful to St. Timothy for their ecumenical spirit and hospitality of letting us have the installation there.) Our Minister of Music, Ryan and Pastor Shelly will be there Friday and Saturday, since Ryan is the Chairperson of the installation service and Pastor Shelly is on the committee as well. Needless to say, we can be very proud (in a humble Lutheran way of course) of these two. :-)
For more info about life at Our Savior, visit www.oursaviorelca.com and keep on scrolling down for other info and to sign-up for Fall Ushering!
Peace and Joy, Pastor Jack +
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