8.18.24 Bulletin & Announcements
PRAYER REQUESTS- Wyatt Simley & Family, family & friends of Melvin Anderson, Arlene Haux, Rick & Traci Anderson and family, Anderson family & baby Camden, Jorgene Alsager, Polly Roe, Carol Malone, Garret Fenner & family, Shirley Berg, Harold Ebens, Pastor Phil Larsen and family, Trudy Torgerson, Bonnie Plath, Tanya Ausk, and Erickson family. Please pray for our elders. As the school year begins this coming week, let us pray for our students, teachers, parents, faculty & all school staff, bus drivers, administration, and our communities.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUMMER WORSHIP Davenport Worship Wednesday at 7pm -- Norman Worship Sunday at 9:00am
**Wednesday Worship in Davenport this week August 21 at 7pm. Last Wednesday Worship will be August 28.
**There will be no worship at either church on Labor Day Sunday, September 1
Fall Worship Schedule begins Sunday, September 8th
Norman will Worship at 9:00am and Davenport 11:00am. All are welcome to attend either service time!
Rally Sunday September 15th Meal following worship. Sunday School class begins Sunday September 22.
*Norman families- With school starting and fall festivities beginning, "Coffee Hour/Snack Time" will begin September 8 after the 9:00 a.m. Service at Norman. Please sign up online.
*September Newsletter information, photos, articles due to ndparishnews@gmail.com.
*Blessing of the Backpacks! Kids bring your backpacks to worship for a Blessing as we prepare for a new school year! During Normans Worship on Sunday August 25
*Bible Study Recap with Erin at Norman Fellowship Hall Wednesday, August 28th 12-1pm.
*Davenport Lutheran will have a potluck following Rally Sunday Worship. All welcome!
*Blessing of the Animal Worship Service - Sunday, September 22. Davenport Lutheran 11:00am. Bring your animal friends to Worship or you may bring a photo of your beloved pet. (please use a leash). There will be a meal following the service! This is such a fun, wonderful day, and we want you to know that you are all welcome!!
*Are you able to help provide treats for the AA Meeting group? Please consider, sign up at ndparish.net
* 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.
Outreach opportunities for our members and community…
*There is a link for a Meal Train for the Simley family. Nate, Sam and Wyatt are home! They are practicing social distancing to prepare for Wyatt’s next surgery in the coming weeks. If you would like to provide a meal, please sign up on the link and then contact Nate or Sam before you drop off the meal on your chosen date.
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.
*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
VIKING VILLAGE- a non-profit organization with a goal to serve students by working with Kindred Public Schools preK-grade 12 to make hygiene items, food, athletic gear, shoes, and clothing available. Student needs will be confidential. Full list on FB and thevikingvillage.org website. Monetary Donations are appreciated. More info email- vikingvillageclan@gmail.com or see thevikingvillage.org website. *There is a room set up at the elementary school for items. Walk in Faith will still continue between our churches for other needs (shoes, hats, mittens, etc.) Boxes for donations of clothes (new or gently used), will be at each church for both Walk in Faith and Viking Village.
UPCOMING DATES- MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Sept 11- Confirmation Parents Meeting 6:30pm at Norman
Sept 12- BINGO begins at Davenport Supper Club 7pm
Sept 15- Rally Sunday
Sept 18- Confirmation Class begins
Sept 22- Sunday School begins
October 19- Table Fest
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Norman Davenport Lutheran Worship
Sunday, August 18 & Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Pastor Katie Kringstad (Joan Pratt)
PRELUDE/BELL
WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CALL TO WORSHIP
We gather in the name of the Creator,
inviting us always to risk the unknown.
We gather in the name of the Christ,
fully human, fully divine, full of gift and mystery.
We gather in the name of the Spirit,
unveiling for us what feels long-hidden. Amen.
GATHERING SONG: Be Thou My Vision (#793) vs 1-2
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Let us pray. A brief silence is kept before the prayer.
Ever-loving God, your Son gives himself as living bread for the life of the world. Fill us with such a knowledge of his presence that we may be strengthened and sustained by his risen life to serve you continually, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.
CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS
HYMN OF THE DAY: God of Grace, and God of Glory (#705)
SCRIPTURE: John 6:51-58
[Jesus said,] 51“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; 55for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
SERMON: Video - https://youtu.be/hfUm-29-kFE?si=K1Es80ftU0P8cwu4
OFFERING SONG: Praise and Thanksgiving (#689)
OFFERING PRAYER: God of every good thing, you provide for us in every season of our lives. Help us to open our hands, open our lives, to your whole creation, that we might prioritize justice over wealth, truth over reputation, people over profits. Amen.
BLESSING “May the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord look upon you with favor and give you peace.”
SENDING HYMN: Be Thou My Vision (#793) vs 3-4
SENDING Go now in peace, And serve the Lord. Thanks be to God!
POSTLUDE
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