7.14.24 Bulletin & Announcements
PRAYER REQUESTS- family & friends of Marie Moe, family & friends of Wesley Laframboise, Anderson family & baby Camden, Polly Roe, Carol Malone, Nate and Sam Simley and baby Wyatt, Garret Fenner & family, Shirley Berg, Harold Ebens, Pastor Phil Larsen and family, Trudy Torgerson, Bonnie Plath, Arlene Haux, Tanya Ausk, and Erickson family. Please pray for our elders.
Today, we welcome in Holy Baptism Cayden Jameson Chambers, son of Mairin and Trystan Chambers. Cayden was born July 24, 2023. Godparents are Lindsey & Parker Metz and Brooke & Patrick Thiel. Jesus Loves you Cayden!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUMMER WORSHIP Davenport Worship Wednesday at 7pm -- Norman Worship Sunday at 9:00am
**There will be no Wednesday Worship in Davenport on July 24.
*Newsletter photos, articles & information due by July 20th to ndparishnews@gmail.com
*Bible Study Recap with Erin Wednesday, July 24th 12-1 at Norman Fellowship Hall.
***THIS WEDNESDAY- Parish Vacation Bible School during Wednesday, July 17th Worship at Davenport. “Jonah and the Whale” is bound to be a whale of a good time!! Kids, you may get wet, please dress accordingly. All kids are welcome!! Kids will start in Worship and be dismissed following children’s moment. There will be VBS also on Wednesday August 14th at 7pm
*Stop by Bethany Homes for their Salad Extravaganza this week. more details to come.
*KLC Senior Community Fellowship Meal on Monday, July 15 at 11:45am at Kindred Lutheran. All local seniors are invited. Please contact Leah at KLC office 428-3630 to register for the meal by Thursday, July 11th. (so they know how much food to prepare). Free will offering. Meal served by Uptown Eatery.
*Would you be able to provide a treat for the Monday evening AA meetings? Please signup at ndparish.net
*Davenport Lutheran is sponsoring, (along with several Fargo ELCA churches) a Hymn Sing & Concert in the Park with Rachel Kurtz on Wednesday, July 24th from 6:00-8:00pm at the Rotary Shelter in Lindenwood Park. Our items to bring for the picnic are drinks, plates, napkins, silverware. This wonderful event is open to the public for all to enjoy! There will be a free will offering. See flyer insert. THERE WILL BE NO WEDNESDAY WORSHIP 7/24 IN DAVENPORT. Come join us at Lindenwood Park and enjoy the music of Rachel Kurtz!
LEND A HAND UP* There is a Lend a Hand Up account fundraiser for Wesley Laframboise family, Anderson Family, Polly Roe Family and the Simley Family. If you would like to support the family during their health journey. Please continue to lift these families up in prayer! *There are opportunities to purchase tshirts to support Wyatt & Camden with portion of sales going to their Lend a Hand Up Fundraiser account.
*Bone Builders Class at Davenport School. Monday and Thursday 9:30-10:30am. Kindred Class at City Hall Monday and Friday at 10:30am.
* The Kindred Area Food Pantry update- All food pantry donations can be dropped off at Kindred Lutheran Church Monday - Thursday 9am-4pm. Any questions please call Leah at 428-3630 or 701-388-2124.
Upcoming Fellowship opportunities… UPDATE** ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD!! BUS IS FULL!!
*Group trip to Medora!
Red Willow Bible Camp July 28-August 2 Castaway Camp 7-9 grade August 9-13 * High School 10-12 grade camp in Missouri August 1-8
*There is a meal train link for Norman members, the Jorgene Alsager family. Jorgene has been diagnosed with liver, lung & colon cancer. Please lift her and the family in your prayers. https://mealtrain.com/k3vgmz
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Norman Davenport Lutheran Worship
Sunday, July 14th and Wednesday, July 17th 2024
Pastor Katie Kringstad
PRELUDE/BELL
WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CALL TO WORSHIP
Come. Wrestle with God, who receives us and welcomes us just as we are.
Come, let us worship!
Come. Look around with questions, look around with wonder, turning your head in every direction you can find.
Come, let us worship!
Come. God calls us into renewed relationships with one another.
Come, let us worship!
Come. God invites us into new beginnings.
Come, let us worship!
GATHERING SONG: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (ELW 631 vs 1-2
PRAYER OF THE DAY Let us pray. A brief silence is kept before the prayer.
O God, we look backward all the time, for every reason under the sun. We make assumptions, too – about Lot’s wife, about other people’s wives, about other people, about ourselves. Grant us a new curiosity, a measure of gray in our black-and-white thinking, a crack in everything we thought to be true. Amen.
CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS
Gathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another.
(silence for reflection)
God of grace,
We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather than giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. We do the same to ourselves, and sometimes, even, we do the same to you. We are stubborn and determined to hold a grudge. We fail to exercise our imaginations, fail to recognize your works waiting to be born, if only we would step up to help, or sometimes, if only we would move out of the way.
Forgive us, O God, and show us another way forward. Amen.
Hear the good news of the risen Christ:
God is making all things new!
Your sins are forgiven. God’s invitation is to another way of living. Thanks be to God!
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
BAPTISM – Baptism of Cayden Jameson Chambers at Norman Lutheran Church
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.
HYMN OF THE DAY: There is a Balm in Gilead #614
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 19:15-17, 24-26
SERMON: Pastor Katie Kringstad
OFFERING SONG: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing (ELW #807)
OFFERING PRAYER:
God of abundance beyond measure, It feels like privilege to offer back to you even a portion of the blessings you have poured out upon us. Keep us ever-mindful of what we call our own, ever-seeking new ways to come alongside you in the creation of abundance for the world. Amen.
BLESSING
May you rest in the knowledge that God has got you, like the strong and steady hands of a midwife on a slippery newborn baby. May you delight in the grace and forgiveness of Jesus, inviting us again and again to repentance and repair. May you recognize new birth all around, the spirit of God made manifest in abundant imagination. Amen.
SENDING HYMN: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (ELW 631 vs 3-4
SENDING Go now in peace, Love your God, Serve your neighbor. Thanks be to God!
POSTLUDE
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