12.8.24 Bulletin & Annoucements
PRAYER REQUESTS- Wyatt Simley & Family, Joan Pratt, Arlene Haux, Anderson family & baby Camden, Jorgene Alsager, Polly Roe, Carol Malone, Garret Fenner & family, Pastor Phil Larsen and family, Trudy Torgerson, Bonnie Plath, Tanya Ausk, and Erickson family. Please pray for our elders.
ANNOUNCEMENTS- December Worship-
Norman 9:00am & Davenport 11:00am. All are welcome to either service time!
Confirmation Class Wednesdays 6:30pm at Norman
Sunday School class during Worship time at both churches. (practice for Christmas
program)
Norman and Davenport Sunday School Christmas Programs Dec 15th during Worship
Christmas Eve Candlelight Worship Davenport 3:00pm and Norman 5:00pm
Today- New member Sunday
Welcome to Norman Davenport Lutheran Parish! We are so happy to have you with us!
Today, Lights of Love Christmas Tree Lighting. Let the memory of a loved one shine bright, each light shining in memory of someone very special.
*Bible Study Recap with Erin December 11th and 18th at Norman Lutheran Church 7:00-7:45pm. Contact Erin Westby for more information at 701.730.0779 or erin.westby@hotmail.com
*Advent Candle Lighting- Our sermon series on The Story- will resume after the holidays so that we can worship through the beautiful Advent Season. If you would like to be a part of the Advent Candle Lighting during Sunday worship, please see the sign-up genius for both churches. There are still a couple spots available. Link to Sign up for Advent Candle Lighting: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B4AA8AF23A5FF2-53371131-advent
*BINGO at the Davenport Supper Club Thursday, December 12th at 7:00pm. All welcome!!
*Kindred Lutheran Senior Community Meal- Monday, December 16th 11:45. Please rsvp to Leah by December 12th 428-3630.
*Next Sunday- December 15th- Sunday School Christmas Programs at each church. Gingerbread manger scene to be made.
Norman will have a hot chocolate bar following program and Davenport potluck lunch following 11am.
* Santa Claus is coming to Davenport!
On Sunday, December 15th, 1-3pm at the Senior Citizens Center (in the Davenport Fire Hall)
This event is for everyone…young and old and in-between. You are invited for cookies, treats, hot chocolate and hot coffee as you socialize with others and enjoy the Christmas Spirit.
*KAMA Christmas Community Food Basket items needed. Each church is asked to provide 20 boxes of mac-n-cheese and 10 cans of fruit cocktail. There is a box in the entryway at either church. Thank you! Items due to our churches by Sunday, Dec 15th.
* January newsletter information, articles, and photos due by December 20th or earlier (due to holiday). Thank you! Send to ndparishnews@gmail.com
*Fun Parish winter events could you help sponsor? Please contact Pastor
Katie
Gingerbread Manger Scene Event- $125
Sleigh Rides & Cider Event- $100 per hour – 6 hours needed. Skating & Pizza at The Lights in West Fargo- $500
*Norman Members- you may find a form in the entryway to sign up for automated giving. Any questions please see Sarah Baumgarten, Norman Treasurer.
*Please consider signing up to help provide AA Treats, ushering, reading, coffee fellowship following Normans 9am Service. Go to ndparish.net for signup links.
*Coffee Hour Fellowship sign up for Norman families- "Coffee Hour/Snack Time Fellowship" after the 9:00 a.m. service at Norman. Please sign up online. Unsure of how to set up for serving and would like to serve with another family? That is absolutely wonderful and a great idea! Feel free to reach out to any member for serving together. Any questions please contact Gail or Heidi.
*WALK IN FAITH- Walk in Faith allows us to walk alongside and help each other in the community.
December collections- New men’s & women’s gloves, Cash donations for gas cards to fill up their tanks. . Basket in entryway at the churches.
* The Kindred Area Food Pantry
NEW Items needed at this time- Canned fruit and canned meat (chicken, tuna and spam).
All donations can be dropped off at Kindred Lutheran Church Monday - Thursday 9am-4pm. Any questions please call Leah at 428-3630. You can also use Venmo…. @kindredfoodpantry.
There are many Outreach opportunities for our members and community… Please go to ndparish.net to learn more of ways you can help our fellow members and people in our communities. There are lend a hand up accounts, Walk in Faith, Viking Village and meal trains opportunities.
UPCOMING DATES- No Sunday School Class during winter break December 22 and 29. Class will resume in January.
January 2025 Worship time changes. Davenport will have 9:00am and Norman 11:00am.
January 12-ND Parish Youth group meatball dinner. More details to come.
January 19- Norman Lutheran Annual Meeting
Reports due to normandavenportparish@hotamil.com by January 12. Please send in Word format.
January 26- ND Parish Youth group ski trip. More details to come.
January 26- Davenport Lutheran Annual Meeting.
Reports due to normandavenportparish@hotmail.com by January 19. Please send in Word format.
Norman Davenport Lutheran Worship
Second Sunday of Advent - December 8th, 2024
New Member Sunday-Lights of Love
Pastor Katie Kringstad
PRELUDE/BELLS
WELCOME: P: “The Lord be with you! R: And also, with you GATHERING This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
GATHERING SONG: Joy to The World (ELW 267) vs 1-2
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT WREATH –
Wilson Family – Norman Lutheran Kujala Family – Davenport Lutheran
LIGHTS OF LOVE TREE LIGHTING
Peace (ELW p. 152)
Confession and Forgiveness (ELW p. 94).
PRAYER OF THE DAY: Let us pray. A brief silence is kept before the prayer. ALL- Stir up our hearts, Lord God, to prepare the way of your only Son. By his coming give to all the people of the world knowledge of your salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
NEW MEMBER WELCOME –
We are blessed that these wonderful followers of God have found a home here, have heard God call them beloved, and feel beloved by this congregation. Now they seek to deepen their relationship and commitment to this church community.
WELCOMING PRAYER
P: Almighty God, we thank you for the life journey that has brought them here today to join our church, your church Lord. We celebrate the unique impact they will make here and already have made here, through their presence, gifts, and talents. May this congregation offer support in times of trouble and rejoice with them always. May our church home strengthen their faith and deepen their discipleship. All this we pray in Christ’s Holy Name. Amen.
Norman Lutheran Church
Greg & Connie Urness
Chelsie & Taylor Ritterman – Kids: Paisley 3rd grade, Harper 1st grade.
Corinda & Travis VanDyke – Grady 3rd grade, Decker Preschool.
Carmen & Brad Duerr– kids: Decker 3rd grade, Archer 1st grade, Braya Preschool.
Davenport Lutheran Church
Devra Gooden
We joyfully welcome you into the common life of our church. We promise you our friendship and prayers as we share in the hopes and labors of this church. By the power of the Holy Spirit, may we grow together in faith and be witnesses to the love of God and the peace of Christ.
Pastor: Let us pray, Loving God, give to these your beloved ones-- strength for life’s journey, courage in times of suffering, the comfort of faith, love that cannot die, laughter in the company of friends, and the hope of new life; through Jesus Christ, who makes us one. Amen.
HOLY COMMUNION
LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those
who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
forever and ever. Amen.
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
1st Reading: Malachi 3:1-4
1 See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. 2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap; 3 he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the descendants of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, until they present offerings to the Lord in righteousness. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
Psalm: Luke 1:68-79
68 Blessed are you, Lord, the God of Israel, you have come to your people and set them free. 69 You have raised up for us a mighty Savior, born of the house of your servant David. 70 Through your holy prophets, you promised of old to save us from our enemies, 71 from the hands of all who hate us, 72 to show mercy to our forebears, and to remember your holy covenant. 73 This was the oath you swore to our father Abraham: 74 to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship you without fear, 75 holy and righteous before you, all the days of our life. R 76 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare the way, 77 to give God’s people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. 78 In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, 79 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
2nd READING: Philippians 1:3-11
3 I thank my God every time I remember you, 4 constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, 5 because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. 7 It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. 9 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight 10 to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, 11 having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
Hymn of the Day: O Come, All Ye Faithfull (283) vs 1-2
Gospel: Luke 3:1-6
The holy gospel according to Luke.
Glory to you, O Lord.
1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’ ”
The gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.
SERMON:
Hymn OF THE DAY: O Come, All Ye Faithfull (283) vs 3-4 APostles’ creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.*
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION
As we prepare for Emmanuel, God-with-us, let us pray for all people and places that long for God’s presence. A brief silence.
Refining God, move through your church. Root out practices that harm your people, and kindle a fire for sharing the gospel among bishops, pastors, deacons, and all the baptized. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Renewing God, transform your creation. Steer us from habits that harm what you have made, and guide us in practices that preserve and restore creatures and habitats. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Ruling God, teach the nations your ways. Strengthen organizations and communities that broker peace and care for refugees, immigrants, and all caught in the center of conflict. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Rescuing God, restore your people who are in any need. Heal all who are suffering. Provide comfort and strength, and nurture sustained wholeness for the future. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Reforming God, fill this congregation with your presence. Enrich our seasonal preparations, and bless the efforts by worship committees, music ensembles, staff, clergy, and lay leaders as they work in the weeks ahead. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Reassuring God, we remember those who have died and rest in you. Guide us in deep gratitude for their life, and allow us to learn from their faithful witness. Lord, in your mercy,
ALL-receive our prayer.
Savior of the nations, come, and receive these prayers and the pleas of our hearts, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
OFFERING SONG – Oh Little Town of Bethlehem (279)
OFFERING PRAYER:
ALL- Blessed are you, O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts: our selves, our time, and our possessions. Use us, and what we have gathered, in feeding the world with your love, through the one who gave himself for us, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.
Sending God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world.
Blessing -The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord’s face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and ☩ give you peace. Amen.
Sending Song: Joy to The World (ELW 267) vs 3-4
Dismissal Go in peace. Serve the Lord. Thanks be to God.
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