Bethany Lutheran Church welcomes you to worship!
March 3, 2019 8:00 & 10:00 a.m. • Transfiguration of Our Lord We invite you to join us next week as we start our Lent series based on Adam Hamilton’s book, 24 Hours That Changed the World!
Order of Worship We Gather Prelude (8:00) / Gathering Music (10:00) Welcome Holy Baptism (10:00) Kaden John Anderson Gathering Hymn (8:00) “Lift High the Cross” #660 (8:00) “Borning Cry” #732 Confession and Forgiveness (8:00) Apostolic Greeting Prayer of the Day Special Music “High Upon a Mountain” Bethany Choir We Hear God’s Word Gospel Reading Luke 9:28-36 Bible, 848 Message Bishop Bvumbwe Hymn of the Day “Come to the Mountain” Prayers of Intercession Sharing of Peace We Celebrate the Lord’s Supper Offering (8:00) “Fairest Lord Jesus” Spirit Alive Bells (10:00) “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” Joyful Ringers Text Giving Available: 715-303-3484 Offertory (8:00) “Create in Me a Clean Heart” #186 (10:00) “Everything That We Have” Offertory Prayer Holy Communion Distribution Hymns 8:00 10:00 “Lamb of God” Page 174 “How Great Thou Art” #856 “Beautiful Savior” #838 “Just As I Am with I Come Broken” “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound” #779 Prayer after Communion We Are Sent Announcements / In Remembrance Dorothy Veit Blessing Sending Hymn (8:00) “Shine, Jesus, Shine” #671 (10:00) “We Are Marching in the Light” #866 Dismissal We are so glad that you were with us for worship today! We invite you to join us next week for the first Sunday in our Lenten series!
The WeekAhead • March 3 - 9, 2019 Sunday
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8:00 AM Worship 9:00-9:55 AM Sunday School 9:10-9:55 AM CrossTalk/GR 10:00 AM Worship
4:30-7:30 PM Club 9 2-5 PM Red Cedar Symphony Rehearsal/GR
Monday 8:30 AM Staff Meeting/YR 9:30 AM Adult Bible Study/CR 10:45 AM Caring Community Coord./CR
1:00-4:00 PM Quilting/QR 5:30 PM Malawi Task Force/CR 7:00 PM Red Cedar Symphony Board/CR
Tuesday 7:30 AM Men’s Breakfast Bible Study/FH, CR 8:00 AM Bethany Belles 10 AM-12 PM Bandage Prep/QR
12:00 PM Lunch Box/FH
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Ash Wednesday 9:00 AM WELCA Board/FH Wednesday 12:00 PM Worship/SA 12:30 PM Lenten Lunch/FH 3:30-4:00 PM Learn-to-Ring Chimes 4:00-4:30 PM Here We Stand/GR
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4:45-5:20 PM 6th-8th Grade Bells 5:00-5:45 PM Lenten Dinner/FH 5:30-6:30 PM Vesper Bells 6:00 PM Worship/SA 6:30 PM Bethany Choir 7:30 PM HS Youth Group/YR
Thursday 10 AM-2 PM Synod Youth Workers Network/GR 7:00 PM Elizabeth Circle/ 6:30 PM Tapping into Faith/White Stag 7:00 PM Naomi Circle/NA
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Friday
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7:00 AM Men of Bethany at Maxine’s 7:30 AM Praise! Team Rehearsal/SA
Saturday 9 AM-4 PM Walking Together & Christ Jam/Davies Center, UW Eau Claire 5:30 PM Worship
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Main Level: CR-Conference Room GR-Gathering Room LI-Library NA-Narthex SA-Sanctuary NS-Nursery Lower Level: LL-Luther Lecture FH-Fellowship Hall QR-Quilting Room YR-Youth Room Upper Level: 3F-3rd Floor
Liturgical Acknowledgments: From Sundays and Seasons.com. Copyright © 2018 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS006893.
Text Giving Available: 715-303-3484
February 23 & 24, 2019 Worship Attendance
Offering: General - $9,381.20 Building - $1,815.00 Thank you for your participation in & support of the life & mission of Bethany Lutheran! Weekly Attendance TOTAL....................................................114
A Congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Bethany Lutheran Church 35 W. Messenger Street • Rice Lake, WI 54868 • Church Office: 715-234-9028 Email:
[email protected] Live Radio Broadcast: Sundays 8:00 a.m. WJMC 96.1 FM & 1240 AM Website: www.bethanyricelake.org Facebook: Bethany Lutheran - Rice Lake, WI Live Streaming: Sundays 10:00 a.m. on Bethany’s website
Cable Broadcast: Channel 69, 97 & 992 Sundays 11:00 AM & 7:00 PM; Thursdays 7:00 PM
Worship Schedule: Saturdays 5:30 PM; Sundays 8:00 & 10:00 AM
Prayer Ministry
New Prayers for Members: Sid Johnson • Maxine Williams Ongoing Prayers for Members: Sandie Anderson • Virgie Anderson • Shirley Bergthold • Dan Graff • Jim & Shirley Hagen • Paulette Hanson • Carol Ifkewitsch • Heidi Jacobs • Bruce Krogstad • Jeanette Thompson • Virginia Tronstad New Prayers for Family & Friends of Members: Julia Oelke Ongoing Prayers for Family & Friends of Members: Karen Kahl Burch • Wayne Dahl • Charles Kahl • Clara Kern • Marian Kern • Kaye Olson • Holly Thompson • Stephanie Zahrbock Active Military Duty: Tanner Cernick • Tanner Ely • Brandon Khardian • Samuel Krebs • Jonathan Marsh • Jason Randall • Mike Rath • Abby Ring Praise & Thanksgiving for the Baptism of: Kaden John Anderson, child of Brady Anderson & Alexis Wolf; Sponsors are Jake Schoenfuss & Alexis Anderson. A rose has been placed on the altar on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. In Sympathy and Grief: Jim Veit and family upon the death of his mother, Dorothy. Hospitality Hour: Sponsored in honor of the Emma & Claire Malawi Well Project by Bob & Roxie Berg. You may make requests for the Prayer Ministry by calling the Prayer Chain Coordinator, Lynn Sulackow at 715-418-3110 or the church office at 715-234-9028. You can also email
[email protected] or fill out a request form on Bethany’s website.
Prayers for Our Home Members
Virgie Anderson • Edie Berg • June Brunette • Nancy Brunner • Marian Chinnock • Kay Dahlgren • Foster & Shirley Dunwiddie • Pauline Eidahl • Gene Gilbertson • Shirley Hagen • Susan Heinecke • Dagmar Jacobson • Alice Johnson • Joyce Johnson • Regina Mueller • Slim Peterson • Howard Pitts • Randy Read • Nadyne Reiten • Janie Riggs • Phyllis Tappon • Jeanette Thompson • Colleen Timm • Jaci Willhite
2019 First Communion
Kaden John Anderson • Connor Ray Carr • Owen Robert Doebereiner Anderson Dennis Donze • Carson Jacob Donze • Marin Louise Donze • Lucas Steven Jondreau Nathan Timothy Jondreau • Dakota Jon Orth • Whitney Eve Prytz • Gracie Ann Schnacky Evelyn Louise Weimert • Luca James Weimert
Congregational Leaders & Staff
Ministers: All Members • Ministry Team: Grant Aaseng, Lead Pastor; Luci Sesvold, Associate Pastor; Director of Worship, Music & Congregational Involvement: Amy Brekke • Director of Education & Youth Ministries: Angie Buchli • Director of Business: Dawn Paul • Communications & Publications Specialist: Leah Hullinger • Custodian: Kim White-Christensen • Council President: Chick Feather • Other Council Members: Mal Bailey, Paul Baribeau, Julie Bever, Mike Diercks, Rachel Engel, Bill Evans, Alexa Giddings, Mike Husak, Jennifer Nelson, Ed Skaw, Brad Wiedmann, Dave Wilson
Pastor Grant Aaseng Cell: 715-205-8789
Pastor Luci Sesvold Cell: 715-225-0979
Children in Worship
Your children are welcome here! Find a seat that works well for your family. To help children learn and grow in their faith, we offer several activities and amenities: Activity Bags are located near the Sanctuary entrance. Creation Station is located on the west side of the Sanctuary and is a part of the Children’s Moment each week. Children are encouraged to color a picture and give it as their offering. Nursery is located by the bathrooms at the top of the Newton Street stairs. We offer a staffed nursery at both Sunday services for children five years old and younger. A Changing Table & Child-sized Restroom is located in the Nursery and is available at all times.
Join us at 9:10 a.m. in the Gathering Room for our adult education class, CrossTalk! March 3: Joan Benson presents “Churches, Chapels and Medieval Cathedrals of Germany & Austria.” March 10: Larry Brown presents “Toys That Teach.” March 17: Kyle Tomesh presents “The Career of a Professional Aircraft Pilot.” March 24: (Rescheduled from February 24) Jim Adams, an aerospace engineer who was on the re-entry team for the 1968 lunar landing, presents “How We Got to the Moon and Back.” March 31: Officer Andy “Bridges Gap Between Kids and Law Enforcement.”
Pick Up Your Dishes Please check the cart in the Narthex to see if any of the dishes are yours. Any unclaimed dishes will be donated.
March
Good NewsBreak The March Good NewsBreak is available! The full-color version can be accessed online on Bethany’s website at www.bethanyricelake.org/resources/ publications/ or the printed version can be pickep up at the church. Please contact the church office if you need assistance in getting your copy of the newsletter.
Ash Wednesday
Lent is once again upon us. Ash Wednesday is March 6. Midweek services will be held on Wednesdays, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3 and 10. Worship is at 12:00 & 6:00 p.m. with meals at 12:30 & 5:00-5:45 p.m.
L EN T 2019
24 Hours That Changed the World by Adam Hamilton A Congregational Study for Lent Companion books are still available in church office for $11.00 each. Kindle editions available at Amazon.com.
Devotion Booklets
Bethany’s 2019 Lent devotion booklets will be distributed at worship on Ash Wednesday. They will be available in the Narthex afterwards.
We Welcome Our Special Guests from Malawi! Thank you to Bishop Bvumbwe and his wife, Maria, for being with us at Bethany this weekend! We hope you enjoy your time with us! Bishop Bvumbwe is the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM).
Malawi Ministry Gift Offering:
In March, any offering given for Malawi Ministry will be matched by the Trust Fund, up to a total of $7,000! That means, if Bethany members give $7,000, the Trust Fund will contribute ANOTHER $7,000. There are envelopes in your bulletin this weekend as well as in the Narthex.
Tapping into Faith
meets Thursday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the White Stag on North Main Street. This month’s topic is “Christ and Culture.” What is the proper attitude of Christians, as it relates to society and culture? What does it mean to be “In the World but Not of the World?”
Special Envelopes The special Lent/Easter envelope packets are available for pick up. They are located next to the generic offering envelopes in the Narthex.
Holden Village Trip: Holden Village is a former copper mining town locat-
ed in a remote area of the Cascade Mountains of Washington that has been transformed to a vibrant place of education, programming and worship. Holden invites people of all ages to come and experience its rhythms, which inspire and equip travelers for a sustainable life of faith outside the Village. A group from Bethany is organizing a visit to Holden June 15-20, 2019. The group organizer is Eric Carlsen who will be in the Bethany library for informal discussion and questions between services on Sunday, March 3 and again on March 10. We need a firm commitment, including a partial down-payment, for our stay by the end of March. For those planning to go, we will meet at the Carlsen’s home the evening of March 22. If you have questions, please contact Eric Carlsen at
[email protected].
Noisy Collection
Watch for the Noisy Collection in March!
Save your noisy money as well as the ‘silent’ stuff! Donations will be going to WITC Students In Need.
