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Grace Lutheran Church Companion Congregation: Msindo Parish in Tanzania

Welcome to Worship Second Sunday After Pentecost

June 3, 2018

9:00 a.m.

Liturgical worship with organ

Setting 4

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OUR STATEMENT OF MISSION

Grace Lutheran Church is a community of faith, centered in worship, held in grace, strengthened in love, sent forth in mission, in Jesus’ name.

Welcome! If this is your first time worshipping at Grace Lutheran, the Visitor Center in the

Gathering Hall (right outside the sanctuary) has information for you about our congregation. Please sign the guest book, ask questions, say hello! We invite you to join us for coffee, tea, and donuts in the Gathering Hall after the service. The greeters, ushers, or announcement sheet will happily fill you in on education hour offerings, Sunday school, and the teen hangout. If you are interested in finding out more about membership at Grace, please contact Pastor Mike at Mike@gracedm.org, 515-276-6873. We worship together in many ways: Standing, sitting, singing, speaking, listening. You are invited to worship in as many (or few) ways as you are comfortable and able. When following along in the bulletin, the congregation is invited to read the items in bold (often marked with a C:) aloud. Here at Grace we worship in two alternating styles, organ-led liturgy or piano-led liturgy. The style for today, as well as which liturgical setting is used, is listed on the front cover of your bulletin. Large print bulletins are available from the ushers. Prayer Request Cards are available in the pews, behind the offering envelopes. You can list a prayer concern and note how private you would like that concern to be. All prayer concerns will be kept confidential by Pastor unless you request it be shared. Simply fold the card and place in the offering plate. The other side is for giving the office contact information and requesting in-formation. Children belong and are welcome in worship! Children’s bulletins are available from the ushers, and activity bags are available outside the doors to the sanctuary. If your children become restless, the service is broadcast in the Gathering Hall so you may still watch and participate together. Communion – We welcome all people to the Lord’s table to receive Holy Communion. Children ages 3 and above are welcome at the parents’ discretion, after meeting for instruction with the pastor. Children not instructed are invited to come forward for a blessing. If you are not able to come forward to take communion, please notify an usher before the service. Then try to sit by the aisle and the pastor will commune you in your pew.

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Prelude

Improvisation on “Morning Has Broken/Praise and Thanksgiving”

Burkhardt

Welcome Please stand as you are able Confession and Forgiveness P: Blessed be the holy Trinity, one God, full of compassion and mercy,

abounding in steadfast love.

C: Amen.

P: Trusting God’s promise of forgiveness, let us confess our sin against God and one another.

Pause for silence and reflection.

P: Eternal God our creator,

C: in you we live and move and have our being. Look upon us, your children, the work of your hands. Forgive us all our offenses,

and cleanse us from proud thoughts and empty desires. By your grace draw us near to you, our refuge and our strength; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

P: In the mercy of almighty God... the name of the Father, and of the +Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen.

Gathering Hymn “When Morning Gilds The Skies” #853

Greeting P: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. C: And also with you. Kyrie

Kyrie "Lord have mercy" is a translation of the ancient Greek “Kyrie Eleison” (pronounced KEE-ree-yay e-LAY-son) which is an ancient prayer sung in response to the

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Canticle of Praise

forgiveness of sins. The Kyrie is not asking forgiveness: rather it is sung in awe of Christ Jesus who has overcome sin and death.

The Hymn of Praise One of two hymns of praise are generally sung after the Kyrie. The hymns, “Glory to God in the highest” and “This is the feast

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P: The Lord be with you.

C: And also with you.

of victory,” give the congregation the opportunity to praise God and express joy because Jesus is our victorious Savior. “Glory to God in the highest,” Luke 2:14; “This is the feast of victory,” Rev-elation. 5:12

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Prayer of the Day

P: Let us pray, C: Almighty and ever-living God, throughout time you free the oppressed, heal the sick, and make whole all that you have made. Look with compassion on the world wounded by sin, and by your power restore us to wholeness of life, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

Please be seated

Reading Deuteronomy 5:12-15

12Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 14But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you. 15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

L: The Word of the Lord

C: Thanks be to God

Voluntary “Make a Joyful Noise” Taylor Davis

Muscatine Youth Choir

Psalm 81:1-10

You are invited to sing the response and read the lines in bold

responsively.

1Sing with joy to God our strength and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob. 2Raise a song and sound the timbrel, the merry harp, and the lyre. R 3Blow the ram’s horn at the new moon, and at the full moon, the day of our feast; 4for this is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob. 5God laid it as a solemn charge upon Joseph, going out over the land of Egypt, where I heard a voice I did not know:

Prayer of the Day This prayer is a bridge to the next part of the service. It also sets the tone for the day. It is related to the prescribed lectionary readings for the day.

Reading notes Part of the Ten Com-mandments, these verses instruct the Israelites to keep the Sabbath. The Israel-ites are to rest and they are to allow their slaves, their livestock, and the foreigners living among them to do the same. They were once slaves, and so they are to treat their own slaves just-ly.

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6“I eased your shoulder from the burden; your hands were set free from the gravedigger’s basket. R 7You called on me in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you from the secret place of thunder and tested you at the waters of Meribah. 8Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you: O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not worship a foreign god. 10I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. R

Please stand as you are able Gospel Acclamation

Gospel Acclamation

P: The Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark, the Second Chapter.

C: Glory to you, O Lord.

Gospel Mark 2:23--3:6

23One sabbath [Jesus] was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” 25And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food?

26He entered the house of God, when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions.” 27Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; 28so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.” 3:1Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. 2They watched him to see whether he would cure him on the sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” 4Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5He looked around at them with anger; he

Gospel Acclamation We stand for the reading of the Gospel as a way to show respect. The Gospels share with us the story of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Gospel Notes Jesus challenges the prevailing interpreta-tion of what is lawful on the sabbath and tells his critics that the sabbath was made for humankind, not the other way around. Healing the man with the with-ered hand is work that cannot wait until the next day.

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was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him. P: The Gospel of the Lord

C: Praise to you, O Christ

Please be seated

Sermon “Take it Easy”

Please stand as you are able

Hymn of the Day “O God of Mercy, God of Light” #714

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 the People

L: Hear us, O God.

C: Your mercy is great.

P: By the sure guidance of your Holy Spirit, O God, we lift up our prayers in trust and thanksgiving; through Jesus Christ our Lord. C: Amen.

All: God of love, have mercy on us. Pour out your Spirit upon us. Center us in worship. Hold us in grace. Strengthen us in love. Send us forth in mission. In Jesus’ holy name. Amen.

Creed The Apostles’ Creed is in a way the “Reader’s Digest Bible”. If you took the Bible and did to it what Southern chefs do to green beans (cook them for 24 hours), you would find the Apostles’ Creed at the bottom of the pot when you lifted the lid.

Prayers of the People We respond to God's love by speaking to God, and expressing our concern for the whole church, for all people in the world, and for people in our congregation.

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Passing of the Peace

P: The peace of the Lord be with you all,

C: And also with you!

Please be seated

Announcements

The Offering

Offertory “Simple Song” Leonard Bernstein

Josh Lary, tenor

Please stand as you are able

Offering Prayer P: Merciful God, you open wide your hand and satisfy the need of every living thing. You have set this feast before us. Open our hands to receive it. Open our hearts to embrace it. Open our lives to live it.

We pray this through Christ our Lord.

C: Amen

Great Thanksgiving

Preface

The Great Thanksgiving: These are among the oldest words in the liturgy. We lift our hearts to give attention to God.

Preface: We praise God for God’s mighty acts. These words change with the seasons of the church year and serve as an invitation into the Sanctus.

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Holy, Holy, Holy

Thanksgiving at the Table

P: In the night in which he was betrayed...

P: Lord, remember us in your kingdom and teach us to pray. 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

Invitation to Communion

P: Come, let us eat, for now the feast is spread.

Please be seated

Lamb of God

Sanctus: Latin for "Holy." The congregation responds to hearing of God's mighty acts by singing Holy, Holy, Holy which Isaiah and Revelation say is sung by all the angels in heaven and will be also sung by all crea-tures and people here on earth.

The Lord's Prayer is, in a way, our table grace before the meal. As we gather in this meal, the table, or altar, becomes the collection of all of our tables for meals at home.

Lamb of God As we sing together the Lamb of God, we ask God to have

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Music during Communion “At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing”

Muscatine Youth Choir arr. Ric Smith

Distribution Hymns 472(3x), 515, 522, 542, 592

Please stand as you are able

Prayer after Communion

P: Jesus Christ, host of this meal, you have given us not only this bread and cup, but your very self, that we may feast on your great love.

Filled again by these signs of your grace, may we hunger for your reign of justice, may we thirst for your way of peace, for you are Lord forevermore.

C: Amen Blessing P: The Lord bless you… in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. Sending Hymn “To Be Your Presence” #546 Dismissal P: Go in peace. The Spirit sends us forth to serve. C: Thanks be to God. Postlude Prelude on “Sent Forth By God's Blessing” Behnke

mercy on us, and grant us peace as we prepare to receive the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ. We will receive by pouring chalice this morning: Receive a cup. Receive and eat the bread. Proceed to the wine or grape juice. Communion bread is gluten free

Dismissal With the dismissal from worship, we are sent to serve the Lord through the unique gifts, talents, and relationships of each one of us. This is not a conclusion of ser-vice, but a start to what the next week will bring in our walk with Christ. So it is fitting that the re-sponse is a resound-ing “Thanks be to God.”

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Grace Lutheran Church 5201 Urbandale Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50310 Pastor Michael Schmidt

515-276-6873 mike@gracedm.org

www.gracedm.org

Welcome to Grace!

Ministers —the people of Grace

Pastor –

The Rev. Michael Schmidt ............................ mike@gracedm.org

Minister for Worship and Music –

Emma Stammer ........................................... emma@gracedm.org

Minister for Youth and Family –

Ellen Rothweiler ............................................. ellen@gracedm.org

Organist –

Rich Snyder ...................................................... rich@gracedm.org

Grace Kids’ Care Director – Brooke Howsare……………………………brooke@gracedm.org

Minister for Administration –

Denise Friesth ............................................... denise@gracedm.org

Minister for Communications –

Michelle Voelker ..................................... michelle@gracedm.org

Office Assistant for Worship

Jessica Flannery…..………………………..jessica@gracedm.org

Custodian – Todd Haugen

Ushers – Linda Biegger,Tim Nelson, Mike Carney, & Jay Wangerin

Acolyte –

Liturgist – Matt Jordahl

Lector – Carol Woodruff

Altar Guild – Marion Nehmer & Rita Davis

Communion – Carla Peterman, Julie Honsey, Alex Davik

Counters – Tom McCleary & Mike Carney

Coffee – Norm & Lenore Iverson