Fifth Weekend of Lent
Saturday Sunday
April 6, 2019
April 7, 2019
A congregation of the Southeastern Iowa Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
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Welcome
A special welcome to those new to worshipping with us—we’re glad the spirit has called you here!
If you don’t already have a church home and would like to join ours, please fill out a Welcome/Prayer Request card (Saturday cards are inside the bulletin; Sunday cards are in the pew hymnal racks), and place it in the offering plate.
Our Mission
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GATHER all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ GROW as disciples by worship, prayer and study of God’s Word GO into the world to share the gospel in word and deed Children are welcome! Age-appropriate activities during worship are available in “Busy Bags” at the main entrance to the Sanctuary. A staffed Nursery with private lactation room is available on the first floor Faith & Life hallway, across from Centennial Hall, each Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday. Holy Communion is available to all believers. Bread, wine (red), and grape juice (white) served. Gluten-free wafers available. Large-print editions of the weekend worship services are available. Please inquire with an usher. Sanctuary worship: Assistive devices for the hearing-impaired are available. Please ask an usher.
Worship Schedule
Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:30 pm MODERN First Saturday of each month Café Bethesda (fellowship/treats) . 5:00 pm Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 am TRADITIONAL Coffee Fellowship . . . . . . . . . 10:40 am SPLASH Faith Formation . . 10:40 am (Sunday School–Pre-K thru 8th) VOYAGER Adult Faith Formation LENTEN Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:30 pm
Grow in God’s Word
April 13/14: Luke 22:14-23:56 Palm Weekend
Lent • Easter Worship
Wed, Mar. 6–Apr. 10 . . . 6:30pm (preceded by 5:30 pm Lenten Soup Suppers) Lenten Worship Apr. 13/14 . . . 5:30pm/9:30am Palm Weekend Thurs, Apr. 18 . . . 7:00pm Maundy Thursday Worship First Communion Fri, Apr. 19 . . . 7:00pm Good Friday Worship Sat, Apr. 20 . . . 5:30pm Easter Vigil Worship Sun Apr. 21—Easter Sunday Worship . . . 8:00am Brunch . . . 9:00am Worship . . . 10:00am
Bethesda Opportunities
Easter Flowers
Honor or remember your your loved ones by adorning the chancel with flowers. $15 per honorarium/memorial . . . Deadline: April 16 Complete the special envelope, note “Easter Flowers” on your check memo line, made out to Bethesda. Please print clearly! Place envelopes in the mail slot outside the office door.
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Community Easter Egg Hunt
April 13 . . . 10-11:30 am We need volunteers to make this the most awesome outreach event of the year! Sign-up at the Welcome Center, or online at Sign-Up Genius (search for
[email protected]). Meanwhile, HELP OUT YOUR PEEPS by filling a plastic bag of eggs (or two) with wrapped candy (no peanuts)! Donations accepted in the church office and labeled bins around the church until April 12. Take a stack of postcards and share them with your friends and neighbors!
Worship Next Weekend
Experience a special reflection on the Passion.
Food Pantry is Fresh Thyme Recipient
Save these Youth Fundraiser Dates!
We have been chosen by Fresh Thyme as the latest non-profit to benefit from their Giving Bag Program. This means that for the entire month of April, the Bethesda Community Food Pantry will receive a $1 donation every time a Giving Bag is sold (unless otherwise directed by the customer). All you have to do to support the Food Pantry is go to the Fresh Thyme located at: 215 SE 5th St. in Ames, in April and pick up the bag! Thank you for your support. For more info visit http://freshthyme. bags4mycause.com.
VBS Team Needs Volunteers!
Please reach out to Dan Hinderaker (dhinderaker@ BethesdaAmes.org) with questions AND to volunteer with this amazing annual event.
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Saturday, April 6
GATHERING SONG 1: Amazing Love WELCOME Beloved people of God, why are you here? We are here to be fed by the bread that eternally satisfies, and to drink from the living water of life. Beloved children of the Creator, who is it that you seek? We seek Jesus the Messiah, the Son of the living God, because we are hurt and brokenhearted, discouraged by our lives and the world around us. Beloved heirs of heaven, what is it that you desire? We want to be made new, to hear the good news of forgiveness and love once again. GATHERING SONG 2: What a Beautiful Name PRAYER OF THE DAY Creator God, you prepare a new way in the wilderness, and your grace waters our desert. Open our hearts to be transformed by the new thing you are doing, that our lives may proclaim the extravagance of your love given to all through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. READING: John 12:1-8 CHILDREN’S MESSAGE SERMON SONG OF THE DAY: The Way AFFIRMATION OF FAITH PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION . . . Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. PEACE WORDS OF INSTITUTION LORD’S PRAYER INVITATION TO COMMUNION Come to the banquet, for all is now ready. Thanks be to God. COMMUNION SONG: Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) BLESSING AFTER COMMUNION PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Tender and merciful one, at your feast, you fed us who brought nothing, turning our emptiness into joy. Filled with your abundant grace, send us now to be ministers of reconciliation, mending broken hearts, working for justice, and striving for peace among all people, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. ANNOUNCEMENTS BLESSING SENDING SONG: Lord I Lift Your Name on High DISMISSAL Go in peace. Remember the poor. Thanks be to God.
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Sunday, April 7 GATHERING
PRELUDE: “O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß ” (J. S. Bach) PROCESSIONAL HYMN: In the Cross of Christ I Glory (Red #324) CONFESSION and FORGIVENESS (Red p. 94) GREETING (Red p. 156) KYRIE (Red p. 156) PRAYER OF THE DAY WELCOME
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READING: Isaiah 43:16-21 (Pew Bible p. 586) PSALM 126: “God Has Done Great Things for Us” (M. Haugen, D. von Kampen) - Sunday Choir GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Glory and praise… (Red p. 160) GOSPEL READING: John 12:1-8 (Pew Bible p. 874) CHILDREN’S MESSAGE SERMON HYMN OF THE DAY: My Song Is Love Unknown (Red #343) vv. 1-2, 5-6 APOSTLES’ CREED (Red p. 105) PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION . . . Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. PEACE: The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you.
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INVITATION TO COMMUNION All are welcome at the Lord’s table. Red is wine; white is grape juice. COMMUNION SONG: Lamb of God... HYMNS: As the Deer Runs to the River (Red #331) Beneath the Cross of Jesus (Red #338) COMMUNION BLESSING & PRAYER (Red p. 164)
SENDING
ANNOUNCEMENTS BLESSING Red p. 164) SENDING HYMN: There in God’s Garden (Red #342) vv. 1-3, 6 DISMISSAL Red p. 164) POSTLUDE: Praeambulum in F (V. Lübeck)
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Bethesda Opportunities
VOYAGERS Adult Forum: Apr. 28
“Listening to Jesus as a Jew” will be the April 28 VOYAGERS Adult Forum, led by Russ Melby. The class will read a 4-page Q&A article featuring Professor Amy-Jill Levine. Dr. Levine teaches New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt. She is a member of an Orthodox synagogue and author of The Misunderstood Jew: The church and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus. Copies of her March 27, 2019 Christian Century article on “Listening to Jesus as a Jew” will be available at the VOYAGERS Adult Forum.
Raising Readers Volunteers
Join the 2019 Harrison Barnes Reading Academy Summer Reading Buddies! The program runs June 10–July 25 (break July 1–5). Visit www.raisingreaders.org for more information and to apply.
Bethany Life Brunch; Bake/Craft Sale When: Sunday, April 14 . . . 10 am-1:30 pm Where: Story City Senior Center, 503 Elm St. Cost: Free Will Donation Come out and enjoy omelets, coffee cake and more! Support Bethany Life’s Chaplaincy program. We hope to see you there!
Prayer at Bethesda
Bread for the World Training
Members and friends of Bethesda are invited to attend an April 25, 9:30–11 am Bread for the World Training event at the SEIA office, Iowa City. Contact Russ Melby (
[email protected]) for info and ride request. Russ will be depart Bethesda at 7:00 am. Riders should bring lunch money, and we’ll return to Bethesda by 5:30 pm. Register by emailing:
[email protected] (no fee).
Palm Sunday Procession for Peace
Sunday, April 14 in Des Moines “To Love and Defend our Sacred Earth” 2:45 pm . . . Gather on the south patio & lawn at Central Presbyterian Church, 3829 Grand Ave. 3:00 pm . . . Proceed to Plymouth Congregational UCC, 4126 Ingersoll Ave. 4:00 pm . . . Worship at Plymouth Congregational UCC, 4126 Ingersoll Ave. We will be walking “To Love and Defend our Sacred Earth” in a Procession led by a donkey, followed by a Prayer Service for Peace. We will raise our prayers and strengthen our resolve to express a vision of peace and justice, a position against war and support forthe well-being of the sacred earth. Our speaker is Matt Russell, Executive Director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light. Participants are invited to carry placards with their commitments to love and defend the sacred earth.
Healing: Charlie Bishop- nephew of Kendra Gustafson; Bud Maakestad; Amy Pederson; Pauline Soderstrum (cards welcome: Bethany Life, 212 Lafayette Ave., Story City, IA 50248) Serving our nation: Colonel Mark Kappelmann, (D.C.), son of Glenn & Mary Kappelmann • Kristin Murray, Diplomat (US Embassy, Rabat, Morocco), daughter of Russ & Jan Melby
Current @ Bethesda
Saturday, April 6
9:00 am 4:00 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
Bethesda Choir Retreat . . Churchwide Praise Team Rehearsal . . . . Commons Café Bethesda . . . . . . . . . . Commons TIDES & TOTS Staffed . . . Nursery Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commons
9:30 am 9:30 am 10:30 am 10:40 am 10:40 am 10:40 am 11:00 am 1:30 pm
Sunday, April 7
TIDES & TOTS Staffed . . . Nursery Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Liturgical Dance Rehearse . Sanctuary Coffee Fellowship . . . . . . . Commons SPLASH Faith Formation . . . . . #209 VOYAGERS Adult Forum . Centennial First Communion Class . . . . . . . #209 Inquirers Small Group . . . Conference
Monday, April 8
6:30 am 9:00 am 9:30 am 10:30 am 1:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:00 pm
Tai Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #114 Community Food Pantry Community Clothing Closet Staff Weekly Meeting LWR Sewing Group . . . . . Centennial Memorials & Gifts Team . . . . . . #114 Boy Scouts Troop #140 . . Centennial
Tuesday, April 9 7:00 am 10:00 am 1:00 pm 3:45 pm 5:15 pm
Men’s Bible Study . . . . . . Conference Tai Chi for Arthritis . . . . . . . . . .#114 Community Food Pantry Tai Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #114 Emergency Residence Project Centennial 6:30 pm Church Council . . . . . . . . Conference 6:30 pm Community Food Pantry 6:30 pm Community Clothing Closet
6:30 am 9:00 am
Wednesday, April 10
Tai Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #114 Community Food Pantry
9:30 am 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm 5:45 pm 6:30 pm 7:30 pm 7:30 pm
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Community Clothing Closet Lenten Soup Supper . . . . . Commons Hosted by Women’s Ministries Choristers Rehearsal . . . . Music #100 TIDES & TOTS Staffed . . . Nursery 8th Gr. Confirmation Mentoring Lenten Worship . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary FLOOD–High School . . . #206/208 8th Gr. Confirmation Faith Statement Workshop . . . . Conference
Thursday, April 11 1:00 pm 1:00 pm 3:45 pm 5:45 pm 6:15 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Community Food Pantry Community Clothing Closet Tai Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #114 Carillon Choir Rehearsal . . . . . Music Ames Chamber Artists . . . Commons Bethesda Choir Rehearsal . . . . . Music Christian Education & Youth Board Conference
Friday, April 12 6:30 am Tai Chi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #114 12:00 pm Church and Office Closed Fridays Saturday, April 13
10:00 am 4:00 pm 5:30 pm 5:30 pm
Community Easter Egg Hunt Praise Team Rehearsal . . . . Commons TIDES & TOTS Staffed . . . Nursery Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commons
9:30 am 9:30 am 10:30 am 10:40 am 10:40 am 10:40 am 11:00 am
Sunday, April 14
TIDES & TOTS Staffed . . . Nursery Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Liturgical Dance Rehearsal . Sanctuary Coffee Fellowship . . . . . . . Commons SPLASH Faith Formation . . . . . #209 VOYAGERS Adult Forum . Centennial First Communion Class . . . . . . . #209
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Worship Participants Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pastor Ryan Arnold Saturday Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Brakke, Evan Bay Brakke, Weber Family Saturday Praise Band . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace Houge Brakke, Ben Bryne, Karter Ewing, Ed Kaizer, Nick Kaizer, Rod Kern, Kay Nelson, Kate Nettleton, Larry Prince, Jeff Widen Saturday Lay Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Brakke, Evan Bay Brakke, Jacob Weber Saturday Sound Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nick Kaizer Saturday A/V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joann Short-Byrd Sunday Lay Assisting Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathy Slocum Lay Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diane Hinderaker Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Choir, Mark Kretsinger-Harries Sound Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Stewart Greeters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mike & Kim Gaul Ushers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David & Sharon Anderson, Dean & Sharon Axland, Grace Nelson Communion Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stewart & Carol Melvin, Avery Mosher Sunday Coffee Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim & Jeanne Stewart
Contact Information Ron Morgan, Council President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Bryan Simmons, Lead Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Ryan Arnold, Associate Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Dan Hinderaker, Director of Youth and Family Ministries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Mary Nelson, Lead Organist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Mark Kretsinger-Harries, Choir Director/Associate Organist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Ed Kaizer, Saturday Music Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Nick Kaizer, Carillon Choir Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Maria Lopez, Nursery Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Mary Olson, Youth Education Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Melanie Trepa, Youth Ministries Specialist, Volunteer Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . mtrepa@ BethesdaAmes.org Lisa Ailshie, Communications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Lynn Anderson, Administrative Specialist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Cliff McDonald, Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Cathy Wright, Bookkeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Linda Fevold, Database Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[email protected] Curtis Malone, Assistant Custodian Office Hours Monday–Thursday 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Friday 9:00 a.m.–Noon
Bethesda Lutheran Church GATHER...GROW...GO
1517 Northwestern Ave. Ames, IA 50010 515-232-6256 www.BethesdaAmes.org
Worship Schedule Saturday . . . 5:30 p.m. Sunday . . . 9:30 a.m. Wednesday . . . 6:30 p.m.
