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Resurrection Lutheran Church
Website News - www.ResurrectionPeople.org
Maundy Thursday, April 1st 2010 - Issue 50
In This Issue
Holy Week Schedule
April Newsletter Posted!
Snowfall Shortfall
Food of the Month
Middle School Youth
Global Links
Join Our Mailing List!
Quick Links
A Prayer for Maundy Thursday
 
Lord God,  you left to us in a wonderful Sacrament the memorial of your Passion.   Grant to us that we may so partake of this Holy Sacrament of your precious Body and Blood, that the fruits of your redemption may continually be manifest in us as we walk with you through this painful journey unto life everlasting. 
  Amen! 
 
Adapted from the Collect for Holy Thursday in the Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America  

Last Supper
Holy Week Schedule at Resurrection
 
Our Schedule of Holy Week Worship is available on-line.  Please make every effort to participate fully in worship this evening, on Good Friday, and on Easter.
 

 
April Newsletter Posted!
 
NewsletterOur April Newsletter has been posted to:
 
 
Save this link as a favorite and open it on your mobile communications devices as a ready reference!
 
 
 
Help us catch-up after our "Snowfall Shortfall"
 
Please remember to bring your Snowfall Shortfall envelopes with an extra gift this week! 
 
snowfall shortfall 
Where can we get 3 additional weeks worth of offering to give?  How about your 2009 state and federal income tax refunds?  Not getting a refund?  You can fix that problem next year by giving more to your church in 2010!
 
 
Additional details on financial giving are available on-line at:
 
Food of the Month
  
The Food of the Month this month is...
 
CANNED MEATS (Chicken, Spam, Ham, Tuna, Salmon, etc) 
 
Bring a can to worship and leave it in the Food of the Month basket in the narthex.  These donations go to our Christ Lutheran foodbank in downtown Fredericksburg.
 
 
Middle School Youth Group
 
Our Middle School Youth group just completed a very successful Lock-In this past Sunday.  The youth stayed up all night watching movies, stuffing Easter eggs for the Youth Easter hunt and generally bonding with one another in the spirit of good Christian fun. 
 
Our next big event occurs on April 25, 2010.  This will be our spring fundraiser titled "Rent a Youth for Spring".  For a donation, our youth can be "rented" for a two hour block to visit a congregational member's home to assist with spring cleaning chores such as washing windows, mowing the lawn, spreading mulch, etc.  Starting this Sunday a sign-up sheet will be placed on the bulletin board and parishioners can bid on individual youths to assist in their spring cleaning chores.  Bidding will cease on 18 April 2010 and the youths will be visiting the home of the winning bidders on 25 April 2010 immediately after the afternoon services at a time mutually agreed upon by all parties.  All chores picked out for our youth must be able to be completed within the two hour window and must not pose a hazard to the health and safety of our youth. So bid early and bid often.  If you have any questions, the point of contact is Kenneth Gall at 804-892-9957.
 
Global Links
 
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GLOBAL LINKS
Connect to the global church through elca.org 

 
 
CHILE EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
Less than two weeks after the strongest quake in over 50 years hit central Chile, an earthquake with a 7.2 magnitude again rocked Chile on March 11 with two major aftershocks recorded within 30 minutes. See www.elca.org/disaster.

MOVE OVER EASTER BUNNY...EASTER HORSE IS HERE!
The front cover features a cross surrounded by rainbows..."Then I opened the card and SOLed (Snorted Out Loud)."  Read more at http://blogs.elca.org/handinhand 
 
MISSION PERSONNEL NEEDED IN JERUSALEM
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) is seeking a Communication Assistant for the Bishop's Office, and a pastor for the ELCJHL English-speaking congregation in Jerusalem.  Application deadline: April 15.  See www.elca.org/globalserve and click Jerusalem, Pastor or Communication.
 
HARVESTING HOPE IN LATIN AMERICA
We know that it's the poor who suffer most ...Fluctuations in grain prices on the world market are challenging farmers everywhere. See www.elca.org/hunger click the link at the bottom.
 
OUR DAILY BREAD:  Women's voices
Women throughout the Lutheran communion pray for daily bread in distinct voices. Yet there is unity in their petitions to God.  Listen to the voices of women from nine countries around the globe and you will hear the Lord's Prayer anew.  See www.elca.org/lwf and click In the News for 3.1.2010 Our Daily Bread...Voices from the Regions
 
SPONSORS SOUGHT FOR MEDICAL MISSIONARY
A former missionary physician and international health consultant, Dr. Ruth Goehle returns to service to assist the Lutheran Communion of Southern Africa (LUCSA) provide health programs in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Learn more and find a ready-to-share invitation to sponsor Dr. Goehle at www.elca.org/handinhand click Summer issue.
 
THE AFRICANA BIBLE
The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on every book in the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window onto the world of interpretation on the African continent and in the multiple diasporas of African peoples.  Available at www.Fortresspress.com
 
THE BLESSING OF SEEING:  Not even the ostrich...
When I decided to leave mission work in Africa after more than 20 years, many people asked me, "why?"...A few year years later, while serving an international congregation in the heart of Europe, the "why" dawned on me...Read more at http://blogs.elca.org/handinhand/post/seeing-12032010/
 
GLOBAL VILLAGE CAMP in Waupaca, Wisconsin, July 7-10, 2010
See www.elca.org/globalevents click ELCA Regional and Synod Events
 
COMPANION SYNOD VOLUNTEERS
Learn how your synod can send volunteers to your international companion, in a Shared Personnel Placement with the ELCA Global Mission unit.  See www.elca.org/companionsynods click the link at the bottom
 
GLOBAL HEADLINES at www.elca.org/news (click News Releases)
+ Lutherans Inspired at Ecumenical Advocacy Days
+ ELCA Presiding Bishop Participates in Religious Leaders Summit on HIV
+ USAID to Purchase Cancer Equipment for Jerusalem Lutheran Hospital
+ LWF Executive Committee Welcomes Middle East Quartet Statement
+ Liberian Lutheran Addresses Members of Congress
+ ELCA New Fourth Largest Member Church of the LWF
+ Lutherans Visit Senegal to Learn about Peace-Building
+ Lutherans Visit Earthquake-Ravaged Concepcion, Chile
+ Lutherans in Canada, United States to Engage in Global Service Together
+ Lutheran Women Address Gender Equality Topics at U.N. Conference
+ ELCA Joins National Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS March 7-13
+ ELCA Responds to Chile Earthquake, Ecumenical Team to Visit Concepción
 
IN OUR PRAYERS
Pray for Carolyn and Jim Brown, who are serving at the Ngaoundéré Protestant Hospital in Cameroon, Carolyn in nursing and Jim as surgical program director. (This prayer for April 7, World Health Day, is available along with daily prayers from around the globe at http://archive.elca.org/prayerventures/)
 
 
This issue of Global Links (April 2010) contains highlights from elca.org of ELCA ministry or connections in other countries.  Please forward Global Links in whole or in part to others, use it in publications with attribution, or encourage others to read it or sign up to receive it at www.elca.org/globalmission/engage.  Please send your suggestions and comments to lanny.westphal@elca.org  or to Pr. Lanny Westphal, ELCA Global Mission, 8765 W. Higgins Rd., Chicago, IL 60631.
 

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Grace, Mercy, and Peace in our Lord and Savior Jesus, who for us humbled himself unto death...even to death on a cross. 
 
Eric Carlson
Resurrection Lutheran Church
 
"Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fullness and riches of his own faith."