Bulletin for January 11/12, 2025

Order of Service for 5:30PM, 8:30AM and 11AM

Prelude/Gathering Music

5:30PM
Steve Hale

8:30AM
Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters
Kenneth T. Kosche
Robert Lewis

11 AM
Come, Let Us Worship and Bow Down 
arr. Mark Hayes
Alvin Johnson

 

Welcome and Announcements

 

Thanksgiving for Baptism

 

Gathering Song/Opening Hymn

(5:30PM; 8:30 AM) ELW 445 Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters
(11AM) Great Are You Lord

 

Greeting

 

Kyrie

(8:30AM) ELW p. 203

 

Hymn of Praise

(8:30AM) ELW p. 204

 

Prayer of the Day

 

Anthem

(8:30AM) 
Carol of the Baptism
arr. George Brandon  
Alleluia Choir

(11AM)
This Little Light of Mine
arr. Kurt Meyer
Kinsmen Ringers
Robbie Green, Percussion

 Children’s Message (8:30AM; 11AM)

 

Reading: Isaiah 43:1-7

But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
For I am the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
I give Egypt as your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.
Because you are precious in my sight,
and honored, and I love you,
I give people in return for you,
nations in exchange for your life.
Do not fear, for I am with you;
I will bring your offspring from the east,
and from the west I will gather you;
I will say to the north, “Give them up,”
and to the south, “Do not withhold;
bring my sons from far away
and my daughters from the end of the earth—
everyone who is called by my name,
whom I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made.”

 

Gospel Acclamation

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW p. 205
(11AM) Shine on Us v.1

 

Gospel: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,  John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,  and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”

 
Message

Releasing
Jay Shailer

 

Hymn of the Day/Song of the Day

(5:30PM; 8:30 AM) ELW 304 Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized
(11AM) What a Beautiful Name

 

Apostles’ Creed ELW p. 105

 

Prayers of the Church

God of Grace, hear our prayer.

 

Peace

 

Offering

 

Offertory Prayer

 

 The Great Thanksgiving

  • (8:30AM) Dialogue and Preface 
  • (8:30AM) Holy, Holy, Holy ELW p. 207
  • Words of Institution
  • Lord’s Prayer

 

Communion

 

Communion Music

(8:30AM)
ELW p. 208 Lamb of God
ELW 455 Crashing Waters at Creation
ELW 453 Baptized and Set Free

(11AM)
I Speak Jesus

 

Sending of Lay Eucharistic Ministers

 

Blessing

 

Closing Hymn/Sending Song

(5:30PM; 8:30AM) ELW 456 Baptized in Water
(11AM) Sing Sing Sing

 

Dismissal

 

Postlude

8:30 AM
Prelude on “Bunessan”
James Southbridge
Robert Lewis, organ