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Fourth Sunday in Lent
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March 2013
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 The story of Lazarus and the rich man is found in Luke as Jesus continues his journey toward Jerusalem. We see the extremes of wealth and poverty - and the reversal in the world to come. As we are looking toward the crucifixion and resurrection, we wonder - is the chasm between wealth and poverty as fixed as we think it is, if even the finality of death is challenged? Social Justice conversation after the liturgy! |
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This Week
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Click here for our online calendar!
Presider: Sanna Reinholtzen
Preacher: Sanna Reinholtzen
Assisting: Steve Schultz
Narrator: Eva Jaeger
Musician: Tom Poynor
Sacristan: Ron Kresge
Council Rep: Margaret Moreland
Prayer Minister: Martha Backstrom
WOFL: Jennifer Doebler
Click here for this week's prayers!
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Worship Times
11:00 am Sunday
Eucharist
6:30 pm Magnificat Thursday
weekly campus service and meal
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Please return communion boxes!
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Taking communion bread home to loved ones who can't make it to the Sunday eucharist is a great way of sharing in sacrament and community.
We have several small boxes for this purpose. If you've taken communion home in one of our boxes, would you please return them to the Chapel so we can continue to reuse them?
We appreciate your help in this matter and look forward to sharing communion with everyone!
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Lent
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February 20 - March 27th
During Lent we will have morning prayers at the Chapel on
Wednesdays, 7 am - 7:30 am (followed by breakfast)
March 28-31 Stay tuned for more information on Easter Week, including our great Easter Vigil! |
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Easter Flowers
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 Holy Week and Easter is coming up soon.
Please consider donating to the Easter Flower fund in honor of or in memory of loved ones.
Please let us know the name of those you would like to honor or remember for the citation in the bulletin. You can email Annika at administrator@ulcberkeley.org
Sign up here! |
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Seder at the Chapel
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This year Passover is on Monday, March 25, the day after Palm Sunday. We will gather at 6:30pm and be finished by about 8:00. "Serious" celebrators may stay later. Everyone is invited. There will be activities and special Haggadah books for the little kids. If you can help with setup or have questions, please talk to Margaret Moreland, Locke Jaeger, or Martha Backstrom.
Click here for the sign-up sheet! |
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New Members on Easter Sunday
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This Easter Sunday we are excited to be welcoming new members into the congregation.
Are you interested in becoming a member? Want to learn more about the Chapel?
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March to a Breakthrough Conversation
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 The number of religious communities that openly welcome and support LGBT congregants is growing, but news of this not yet reaching the greater society.
We are hoping to find two people from the Chapel interested in training to change this!
Saturday, March 23 in San Francisco training sponsored by the Breakthrough Coalition From 9am-12:30 (Continental breakfast at 9am, training begins at 9:30am) RSVP here or via email to info@cafaithforequality.org
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Coming Out of the Shadows
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This Sunday we are joining undocumented led organizations around the nation in a day of action for the National Coming Out of the Shadows Month.
We invite you to join us in solidarity this Sunday March 10th in front of Oakland City Hall at 11:00am
Join us in witnessing the power our undocumented families contain!
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Community Meal
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Our community meal for the homeless is coming up on
Saturday, March 23
We need your help! Please let us know if you can help prepare, cook, or serve.
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Ordination of Nels Flesher
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 You are invited to witness and celebrate as Nels Benjamin Flesher is ordained by the church to the ministry of Word and Sacrament.
Nels was our PLTS teaching parish student two years ago. We're delighted that he will be ordained!
The Sunday, March 10th 4pm worship in Tacoma, Washington, will be followed by a casual dinner and Nels' favorite...pie! All are welcome. Please RSVP here! |
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CROP Hunger Walk
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 This year's CROP Hunger Walk is coming up soon!
April 21 in Berkeley
Location: St. Mary Magdalen Parish, 2005 Berryman St
Registration: 1:00 p.m., Walk: 1:30 p.m.
Visit the Crop Hunger Walk online! or contact Jennifer Afdahl Rice
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Colla Voce Concert
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Colla Voce announces its next concert to benefit the Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride to raise funds for their educational film project "Coming Out, Coming Home".
St Aidan's Episcopal Church
101 Gold Mine Drive, San Francisco,
April 6, 2013 at 4pm
Click here for more information!
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Supporting ELCA mission
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Did you know that the Chapel supports the ELCA's mission efforts in various ways every year? Our gifts support not only the Sierra Pacific Synod and its work through the Sacramento, Fresno, and
Bay Area offices of the Bishop, but also Lutheran Social Services, the Lutheran Office of Public Policy, Lutheran
Outdoor Ministries (Mt. Cross), Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, California Lutheran University, new and
renewing congregations within our Synod, and the work of the ELCA.
Click here for the letter from the ELCA
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 Prayers this week |
Help. Thanks. Wow. These are the essential prayers. As you pray these prayers each day, please include these friends and members of the Chapel:
Pray for the members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, a 252-year-old ELCA congregation in Pomaria, S.C., as they seek to recover after their building was destroyed in a recent fire.
Pray for the Chapel community as we work together for justice in our community and in the world
Pray for healing
- For those facing surgery: for Pepe's father, Jose, who will have heart surgery again soon, and those recovering from surgery or illness: Don, Frank, Joel, and Betty
- For those living with and fighting cancer: for Pepe's mom, Juana; Kristen's mom, Geri; Annika's friend, Ian; David Johnson; Ray Stumpf; Anne
- In relationships, especially where those relationships are challenged by issues of mental health or by the day-to-day struggles of life
In light of the decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus to sever its relationship with the ELCA and other churches, pray for the global ecumenical movement and for a healthy dialogue among the varied Christian traditions around the world.
In thanksgiving for our new chef Erika Ikemoto who has been cooking for our campus ministry
For those venturing into new vocations, that their gifts may be used for the glory of God
Pray for discernment and the Holy Spirit's guiding as the Roman Catholic Church, and especially the conclave, seeks its next papal leader.
If at any time you have someone you would like the community to pray for, please email Pastor Sanna, sannabeth@gmail.com
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Contact Information
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University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley 510-843-6230 www.ulcberkeley.org Annika Mongan: administrator@ulcberkeley.org Pastor Jeff Johnson: pastor@ulcberkeley.org Pastor Sanna Reinholtzen: sannabeth@gmail.com Campus Intern Logan Rimel: logan.rimel@gmail.com Council President Nancy Ulmer: nkulmer@sbcglobal.net Music Director Andy Bouman: andybouman@yahoo.com |
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