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Ascension Lutheran Church Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:30 A.M Ascension Lutheran Church Eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:30 a.m. ASCENSION STAFF AND LEADERSHIP PRELUDE Triptych for Organ, Piet Post Are You Visiting? I. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow II. Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word, Staff Council III Now Thank We All Our God Pastors President Date of Visit: ___________________ Rev. Christian W. Marien Nada Draeger [email protected] [email protected] OPENING HYMN How Great Thou Art (vs. 1,3,4) ELW 856 Time of Worship: ________________ st Rev. Angela T. Khabeb 1 Vice-President GREETING [email protected] Paul Wehmeier Names:________________________ [email protected] P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be Director of Administration with you all. Amy Gilgenbach 2nd Vice-President ______________________________ C: And also with you. [email protected] Cynthia Carlson [email protected] Director of Care Ministries Address: ______________________ PRAYER OF THE DAY Brenda Lytle, RN Secretary P: Let us pray… [email protected] Katie Voss ______________________________ C: Generous God, your Son gave his life that we might come to peace with you. Give us a [email protected] Director of Faith Formation share of your Spirit, and in all we do empower us to bear the name of Jesus Christ, our Tony Acompanado Treasurer Phone: ________________________ Savior and Lord. Amen. [email protected] vacant At-Large Board Members Email: ________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS Director of Music Ministries Al Gilgenbach Vicki Taylor [email protected] [email protected] How did God invite you to FIRST READING James 5:13-20 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of Administrator for Joyful Sheri Greger Ascension? praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray Worship and Spiritual [email protected] ______________________________ over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, Growth Becky Klotz and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore Amy Stryker ______________________________ [email protected] [email protected] confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer Administrator for Caring of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently Jeremy Poling How can we share the life of Relationships and Mission [email protected] that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he Outreach Ascension with you? prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest. My brothers and sisters, if Kate Mattson Cathy Rapp anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, you should know that [email protected] Newsletter [email protected] whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a E-mail or U.S. Mail multitude of sins. Praise Band Leader Ben Janzow Marcy Schaefer Children’s Ministry [email protected] A: The Word of the Lord. [email protected] JOLT (confirmation) C: Thanks be to God Pianist Director of Ministries Ray Kinney Kelly Hoeg CRASH (high school) GOSPEL ACCLAMATION [email protected] [email protected] Bible study (small groups) Organists Director of Operations Choirs and music ministry Vicki Taylor Peter Laper Rhonda Kwiecien [email protected] Serving others (local/global options) [email protected] Starting Point (membership) Nursery Staff Desire a pastor to call Rachel Stemper Carli Boyer Please place in the offering plate Ascension Lutheran Church during worship. Peace to you. 262.547.8518 www.ascensionelca.org GOSPEL ANNOUNCEMENT P: The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the 9th chapter. C: GOSPEL READING Mark 9:38-50 John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward. ‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched. ‘For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’ P: The Gospel of the Lord. C: CHILDRENS TIME/KINDERGARTEN STEPPING STONE CELEBRATION HYMN Baptized and Set Free (vs. 1,2) ELW 453 SERMON They Weren’t Following Us Rev. Angela T. Khabeb HYMN Baptized and Set Free (vs. 3,4) ELW 453 SERVICE OF BAPTISM FOR ELI ROBERT GEORGE GREGER Administration—Amy Gilgenbach, Director of Administration P: Matthew, Chapter 28, Verse 19 reads: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing ([email protected]) them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Today we gather to celebrate the miracle of life that is Eli Robert George Greger and honor the command of our RECEPTION FOR RHONDA: We give thanks for the ministry of Rhonda Kwiecien as organist and Lord Jesus Christ to baptize this child in God’s name so that they may be set a part in this choir accompanist. Today is her last day with us. She has accepted a fulltime position in Milwaukee. world for God’s glory. Please join us at a reception between services. C: Thanks be to God! STARTING POINT: If you are interested in joining our faith community and want to find out more P: In Holy Baptism God graciously delivers us from sin and death by joining us to the death and about the ministry of Ascension, please join Pastor Chris in his office at 9:45 a.m. today. resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through water and the word the Holy Spirit calls us to a VISION ARISE 2025: Please join the pastors, Craig Greenwood, wing leaders, and members of new life as children of God. By water and the Holy Spirit we are made members of the body of council as they present Vision ARISE 2025 on Sept. 27, from 12-2 p.m. This is your chance to learn Christ. As we live with God and with God’s people, we grow in faith, love, and obedience to about the exciting direction Ascension is planning to go in the next 10 years, to ask questions, and the will of God. Do you present Eli Robert George Greger for the sacrament of Holy to give your input. Lunch will be provided. Our group will take the additional input and use it to Baptism? put the final touches on ARISE 2025. We will have one more listening session Oct. 25, before our Parents: We do. Annual Congregational Meeting in November, when we will ask you to bless this vision. Lunch will be provided. P: In Christian love, you have presented Eli for Holy Baptism. You should, therefore, faithfully PHOTO DIRECTORY: This is a directory for you. The directory helps us to get to know each other. bring him to worship, and teach him about God’s great love for him. As he grows in years, you Please stop by the table to update your contact information and get your picture taken. You can should place in his hands the Bible and provide for him instruction in the Christian faith, that, either make an appointment, or get your picture taken today. Online appointments available at walking this journey of faith, he may lead a life that reflects God’s love into the world until the http://tinyurl.com/AscensionSignUps. day that Jesus Christ comes again. Do you promise to do these things? C: We do. COUNCIL NOMINATIONS: We are preparing for the 2016-2017 Church Council here at Ascension. The Church Council oversees the vision and business of administrating the congregation. If you P: We give you thanks, O God, maker of all things. Your voice thundered over the waters of would be interested in serving on the Church Council or believe you know someone who would be creation. Through the waters of the flood you carried those in the ark to safety. Through the a good fit for a term on the Church Council, please fill out a nomination form and put it in the of- sea you led your people Israel from slavery to freedom.
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