The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 1 - 2, 2021

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (LCMS) 11313 N Riverland Rd Mequon, Wisconsin 53092

Philip J. Hillenbrand, Pastor William H. Otto, Pastor Emeritus Gloria Hansen, Choir Director

Rachel Strand, Bell Choir Director BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS) 11313 N Riverland Rd, Mequon, WI 53092 Website: www.bslcmequon.com; Email: [email protected] Church Office: 262-242-6650; Pastor Hillenbrand (cell): 414-531-2461

THIS WEEK AT BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR Sunday 9:00 a.m. Worship with communion (Sanctuary & Zoom) 10:15 a.m. Bible Study 10:30 a.m. Family Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Confirmation Tuesday 1:30 p.m. Meadowmere Worship Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Willowbrook Worship Thursday 8:00 p.m. Bible Study Saturday 5:00 p.m. Worship with communion (Parking Lot) Sunday 9:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary & Zoom) 10:15 a.m. Bible Study 10:30 a.m. Family Sunday School

Cover Art by Rhoda Tews

ALTAR FLOWERS This weekend’s flowers are placed in celebration of Liz Schneider’s birthday this Sunday and in thanksgiving for all her work as our altar flower coordinator.

CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK Liz Schneider, Grace Moll, Rodney Stoehr, Wendy Geiger, Matthew Makiya, Tom Walz, Logan Williams, Pippa Buie, Lorna Beall

CELEBRATING AN ANNIVERSARY THIS WEEK Nate & Emily Larscheidt

GUEST ORGANISTS Last Sunday we had the pleasure of welcoming Concordia student Christal Zills to the organ and are happy to say she will be back with us again next week. This week’s organist is Carolyn Arndt’s mom, Karla, who will be returning again mid-May and starting May 23, Dr. John Behnke will be filling in many Sundays up through September. We also wish to thank Scott Meyer for playing multiple times in April.

2 THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER May 1 - 2, 2021

ORDER OF SERVICE DS 2 p. 167

HYMNS FOR THE DAY Saturday: 474 (vv.1-3), 826, 457 Sunday: 868 (vv.1-4), 474 (vv.1-3), 490 (vv.1-3)

Communion Hymns: 487, 480, 457

Psalm 150

PRAYER OF THE DAY Dear Father in heaven, as a faithful gardener carefully prunes the vines, bushes and trees entrusted to his care, so send Your Spirit to us to remove all that would hinder our journey of faith. Enable us, by that same Spirit, to produce the fruit which gives testimony to Your presence in our lives. Through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for- ever. Amen.

New Prayers

Students, faculty and families of Messmer High School - mourning the loss of a student tragically killed last weekend (Amy Canapa is a teacher at Messmer) Family of Mary (Sheila Jimenez’s friend) - passed away Bernard Bull and family - Bernard’s father passed away Dee and George (friends of the Hahms) - their son, Mike, passed away Barbara Franke - recovery following surgery Vicki (Tom Daub’s cousin) - stage 4 brain cancer Nancy (Caitlin Walz’s friend’s mom) - return of ovarian cancer Tim Yeadon (New England District’s LCMS President & Pastor Hillenbrand’s friend) - liver ailment Carl (Dick Meyer’s cousin) - recovery following shoulder replacement surgery

3 Prayer of the Church

Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus and for all people according to their needs.

Almighty Father, through Your Holy Spirit bring those who do not know You to repentance and faith. Grant all pastors, church work- ers and missionaries the skill, patience, and courage to teach the Scriptures as Philip did for the Ethiopian eunuch. Strengthen this and every congregation, that all Your children may be kept stead- fast in faith and love. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

Preserve our nation in peace through those You have placed in au- thority. Give them wisdom and courage to lead according to Your will. Protect us from all those who hate us. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

According to Your gracious will, grant healing to those who are sick, or give them strength to bear their infirmities with patience and grace. Comfort those who suffer from depression, disability, or loneliness, reminding them that they are never alone in Christ Jesus. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

We remember with thanksgiving those who have loved and served You in Your Church on earth, and who now rest from their labors. Keep us in fellowship with all Your saints, and bring us at last to the joys of Your heavenly kingdom. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.

All these things and whatever else You know that we need, grant us, Father, for the sake of Him who died and rose again and now lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

4 WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY We finished the books of 1 and 2 Kings last week and it left some of us wondering about “the rest of the story” as Paul Harvey would say. What happened after the Jews were taken to Babylon? How did they end up coming back? So on Thursday, May 13, we will have one final study where we’ll look at some of the wonderful, hopeful and encour- aging prophecies spoken to God’s people in exile and briefly go over the history of the Jewish people after they are taken away to exile. This study does not require having been to the previous ones, so you can always feel free to jump in!

If you need the Zoom link to join in on this study, please contact Amy Hillenbrand at 262-512-1067 or [email protected].

LUNCH BAG LUNCHES Attention lunch bag friends! We will begin meeting at church for lunch again starting Tuesday, June 15 at 11:30 AM! Bring a lunch and drink to enjoy outside with other women of BSLC. Chairs will be made available, but you can bring your own if you prefer. Registration is not required, so simply come and join us. We would love to see you! Please contact Carol Wawrzyn if you have any questions at 414-354- 4785.

RUMMAGE SALE The Rummage Sale Committee has scheduled a rummage sale for Sat- urday, June 5 from 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Masks will be required and social distancing practiced. Weather permitting, clothing tables and racks will be outside. Starting Saturday, May 15, people can bring their donations to church and place them on the pews on the east wall of the fellowship hall. No TV’s please!

HELP NEEDED Individuals wishing to volunteer their time to help with the rummage sale may sign up by using the sign up sheets in the entryway or by us- ing an online form that will be created and sent out soon in one of Pas- tor’s weekly emails. We need many strong helpers after church on Sunday, May 30 to set up tables and bring rummage items in from the garage and again on Saturday, June 5 at 1:00 pm to pack up and get the church back in order. Please contact Carol Wawrzyn if you have any questions at 414-354-4785. 5 MISSION OF THE MONTH THANKS Thank you to all who contributed to last month’s mission. $1,583 was collected and will go towards the mission work of Rev. Dr. Daniel Jastram and Dr. Joan Jastram as they continue to serve in Asia.

MISSION OF THE MONTH This month’s mission is Advocates of Ozaukee, which is the domestic and sexual violence agency in Ozaukee County. Advocates of Ozaukee provides emergency shelter, crisis phone counseling, restraining order assistance, medical advocacy, ongoing support groups and individual counseling to adults and children. They work with over 225 adults and children of sexual violence each year and also provide a wide range of preventions and training services to schools, churches and community groups.

The Beautiful Savior Service Club will be adding a hands-on element to our mission by putting together “welcome home baskets” which can help individuals transition back to independent living following a tem- porary stay with Advocates. Find out how you can help by turning to the back cover of your bulletin.

If you would like to make a monetary donation to specifically help cover the cost of the items that will be included in the welcome home baskets, please designate your contribution to the “BSLC Service Club”.

BULLETIN NUMBERS The amount for last week’s “with donor restrictions” amount is nega- tive because some money previously in restricted funds was released to pay relevant expenses. That action transfers the money from the second line to the first.

Contributions from Budget Year-to-Date last week per Week Over (Under) Budget Without Donor Restrictions $11,531 $7,308 $4,834 With Donor Restrictions ($3,659) $1,209 ($10,383) Total $7,871 $8,516 ($5,550)

6 Acts 8:26-40 1 John 4:1-6 26Now an angel of the Lord said to Phil- 1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, ip, "Go south to the road—the desert but test the spirits to see whether they are road—that goes down from Jerusalem to from God, because many false prophets Gaza." 27So he started out, and on his have gone out into the world. 2This is how way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an im- you can recognize the Spirit of God: Eve- portant official in charge of all the treas- ry spirit that acknowledges that Jesus ury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. Christ has come in the flesh is from God, This man had gone to Jerusalem to wor- 3but every spirit that does not ship, 28and on his way home was sitting acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This in his chariot reading the book of Isaiah is the spirit of the antichrist, which you the prophet. 29The Spirit told Philip, "Go have heard is coming and even now is to that chariot and stay near it." already in the world. 30Then Philip ran up to the chariot and 4You, dear children, are from God and heard the man reading Isaiah the proph- have overcome them, because the one et. "Do you understand what you are who is in you is greater than the one who reading?" Philip asked. is in the world. 5They are from the world 31"How can I," he said, "unless someone and therefore speak from the viewpoint of explains it to me?" So he invited Philip the world, and the world listens to them. to come up and sit with him. 6We are from God, and whoever knows 32The eunuch was reading this passage God listens to us; but whoever is not from of Scripture: God does not listen to us. This is how we "He was led like a sheep to the recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit slaughter, and as a lamb before the of falsehood. shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. John 15:1-8 33In his humiliation he was deprived 1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the of justice. Who can speak of his gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me descendants? For his life was taken that bears no fruit, while every branch that from the earth." does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be 34The eunuch asked Philip, "Tell me, even more fruitful. 3You are already clean please, who is the prophet talking about, because of the word I have spoken to you. himself or someone else?" 35Then Philip 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. began with that very passage of Scrip- No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must ture and told him the good news about remain in the vine. Neither can you bear Jesus. fruit unless you remain in me. 36As they traveled along the road, they 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a came to some water and the eunuch said, man remains in me and I in him, he will "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be bear much fruit; apart from me you can do baptized?" 38And he gave orders to stop nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in the chariot. Then both Philip and the me, he is like a branch that is thrown eunuch went down into the water and away and withers; such branches are Philip baptized him. 39When they came picked up, thrown into the fire and up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord burned. 7If you remain in me and my suddenly took Philip away, and the eu- words remain in you, ask whatever you nuch did not see him again, but went on wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to his way rejoicing. 40Philip, however, my Father's glory, that you bear much appeared at Azotus and traveled about, fruit, showing yourselves to be my disci- ples." preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea. 7

The Beautiful Savior Service Club is putting together "welcome home baskets" for Advocates of Ozaukee and we need your help! You can help by purchasing some or all of the suggested items in the calendar recently emailed out by Pastor (also listed below), you may purchase twin or full-size sheets to help with bedding, (which is also a large need) or you can make a monetary donation and have volunteers do the shopping for you. Please deliver your items to church by May 15, which is when our youth will be meeting to assemble the baskets. If desired, service club youth can pick up the donated items from your home before 2:30 PM on May 15. Please use the online form emailed out by Pastor Hillenbrand to sign up to help or contact Beth DeJongh at 608-332-1130 or [email protected]. Thank you for your help and support!  Paper towels  Toilet paper  Kleenex  Toilet brush  Toilet bowl cleaner  Multi-purpose surface cleaner  Dish soap  Laundry detergent  Hand soap  Disinfecting wipes  Glass/mirror cleaner  Reusable cleaning/dust cloth

 Shower cleaner 8  Trash bags