WELCOMES YOU!!
CHRIST IS RISEN
HE IS RISEN INDEED
ALLELUIA!!!
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
22 April
The image of the Good Shepherd shows us how the risen Christ brings us to life. It is the relationship between the shepherd and the sheep, one of mutual knowledge and love, that gives the shepherd authority. The shepherd's willingness to lay down his life for the sheep shows his love.
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
29 April
This Sunday's image of how the risen Christ shares his life with us is the image of the vine. Christ the vine and we that branches are alive in each other, in the mystery of mutual abiding that we read of in the gospel and the first letter of John. Baptism makes us a part of Christ's living and life-giving self and makes us alive with Christ's life. As the vine brings food to the branches, Christ feeds us at his table. We are sent out to bear fruit for the life of the world.
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
6 May
This Sunday's image of the life the risen Christ shares with us in the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John's gospel, the image of the servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit.
(from Sundays and Seasons, 2018)
COME JOIN FOR WORSHIP
WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU
Come join us to Walk Away the Pounds in a fun and comfortable surrounding. Starting time is 9:30 a.m. No Cost. We will meet on Fridays, 13 and 27 April.
We will have only one service on Sunday, 29 April, at 9:30 a.m. A lunch will follow. It will be a potluck.
The Quilting Group makes quilts to be shipped to third world countries. Once a year, Lutheran World Relief will pick up the quilts that were made during the course of the year. You are welcome to come and help with the quilts. The Quilting Group usually meets on the First, Third, and Fourth Thursdays.