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Current Worship Season |
March Volunteers
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| Welcome ~ When you attend worship at Family of God, you take your place among the people of God gathered around Word and Sacrament. The worship format is grounded in our liturgical heritage and combined with the best of musical expression and new and cross-cultural resources. Both worship hours are alike--a sign of the unity of the body of Christ and an opportunity for all to worship with the best of the old and the new. |
Sunday Worship9:00 & 10:30 am |
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**Please join us for Lenten worship on Wednesdays at 7 pm through March 24.
Soup suppers will precede each
worship service beginning at 5:45 pm. |
Palm Sunday + Mar. 28 |
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Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Conventionally, it is described as being forty days long, though different denominations calculate the forty days differently. The forty days represent the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured temptation by Satan. Most followers of Western Catholicism observe Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday (midday, 40 days to Palm Sunday) and concluding at the Ninth Hour of Holy Thursday (44 days in the Catholic Church) or on Holy Saturday (46 days). Children are welcome in worship and encouraged to come forward for the Young Person's message. Rainbow activity bags are available for little ones. The nursery is also available for infants and toddlers, staffed by regular caregivers from September to May and by volunteer adult and youth members in summer.
The Lighted Globe at the back of the sanctuary is for the lighting of a votive candle by anyone wishing to express a particular prayer or hope in this symbolic way. Candles remain lit after all have gone, a visible sign of the prayers of our community of faith "for the whole people of God, and for all people according to their needs." Return to top |
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Family of God Lutheran Church This page last modified on 03/07/2010 |
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Holy Communion All
baptized persons are welcome who believe Christ comes to us in the bread and the wine to
bring forgiveness, life, and salvation. Children not yet communing come forward for
a blessing. Children receive instruction and usually have First Communion in Fifth
grade. We receive the sacrament standing. Grape juice is available.