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Holy Cross DayHoly Cross DayHoly Cross DayHoly Cross Day 100100100100thththth Anniversary Anniversary Anniversary Anniversary
CelebrationCelebrationCelebrationCelebration
September 14, 2014September 14, 2014September 14, 2014September 14, 2014 9:30 a.m.9:30 a.m.9:30 a.m.9:30 a.m.
Festival WorshipFestival WorshipFestival WorshipFestival Worship
All Are Welcome Here!All Are Welcome Here!All Are Welcome Here!All Are Welcome Here! Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church proclaims that the Gospel is God’s gift to all people, to be shared unconditionally. We rejoice in the manner in which diversity has enriched, nurtured and challenged the life and ministry we share in Christ. We know that the world is often an unloving place and that the experience of alienation is all too common. Because Christ reconciles us, we welcome people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities, physical and mental abilities, educational levels, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We strive to be an evermore welcoming community. Following the example of Christ, we extend a most heartfelt welcome to all. We at Gustavus Adolphus love to have children attend our worship services. That is why we don’t have Sunday school during church! Children are always welcome to sit with their families close to the front of the sanctuary so they are able to see the altar and the action up close. It is always OK to leave during a service to comfort your child. There is a comfortable room downstairs immediately below the narthex for you to take your child.
Welcome toWelcome toWelcome toWelcome to
Gustavus Adolphus!Gustavus Adolphus!Gustavus Adolphus!Gustavus Adolphus!
GA is a diverse community of faith.
If you are a guest today, please fill out the Blue Insert in the bulletin and drop it in the offering plate.
Everyone is invited to remain
after worship today for fellowship time and a brief anniversary program in the fellowship hall downstairs.
This afternoon you’re invited
back for a hymn sing at 3:30 p.m. and a brief service of evening prayer at 4:00 p.m.
Please join us again. Our
regular Sunday worship time is 9:30 a.m.
We ask everyone to power off
their cell phones as they will sometimes interfere with our sound system.
A Reconciling in Christ Congregation
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GATHERINGGATHERINGGATHERINGGATHERING PRELUDE Trumpet and Organ A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Setting by Diane Bish
+ PROCESSIONAL HYMN All Are Welcome
Stanza 1 … All voices Stanza 2 … High voices Stanza 3 … All voices Stanza 4 … Low voices Stanza 5 … All voices
+ Please stand as you are able.
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+ GREETING
P The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
CCCC And also with you.
+ KYRIE
Introduction to the DayIntroduction to the DayIntroduction to the DayIntroduction to the Day This festival, which originated in the fourth century, celebrates the triumph of the cross. Paul reminds us that Christ crucified is the power and wisdom of God. As Moses put a serpent on a pole to be a source of healing for the Israelites, we lift high the cross as the sign of our health and salvation. Each time we make the sign of the cross we remember our baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ.
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+ CANTICLE OF PRAISE This Is the Feast
+ PRAYER OF THE DAY
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WORDWORDWORDWORD FIRST READING Numbers 21:4b–9 4bBut the people became impatient on the way. 5The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food." 6Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD to take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live." 9So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
L Word of God Word of life.
CCCC Thanks be to God. PSALM 98: Sing to the Lord Setting by Nancy Raabe
Senior Choir SECOND READING 1 Corinthians 1:18–24
18For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, 23but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
L Word of God. Word of life.
CCCC Thanks be to God.
+ GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
When the people spoke against God and Moses, the Lord sent poisonous snakes against them. Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord ordered him to erect a serpent of bronze on a pole. All who looked at it after having been bitten by a serpent would live.
At the heart of the Christian mes-sage is the word of the cross. This proclamation seems foolish to many because it reveals true divine power in the absolute weakness of Christ's crucifixion. True wisdom understands how ours is a God who suffers for and with human-kind in the cross.
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+ GOSPEL John 3:13–17
P The Holy Gospel according to John, the 3rd chapter.
CCCC Glory to you, O Lord.
13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
P The Gospel of the Lord.
CCCC Praise to you, O Christ. ANTHEM Senior Choir Grace Abounds for All Thomas Keesecker Emily Olson deAlvarez, clarinet Draw a wider circle or, perhaps, erase. Spiral t’ward God’s center, gravity of grace. Raze former fences marking out and in, holy and unholy, sanctity and sin. Planets spin in orbit, centered on a star; some will circle closely, some revolve afar. From any distance light illumines each. Through the void of darkness none is out of reach. Do we measure margins just to feel secure, casting out the diff’rent, hoping to be pure? Christ is our center...bound’ry lines must fall. God’s light flows unhindered; grace abounds for all.
Adam M.L. Tice
SERMON
After explaining to Nicodemus that one must be born of water and Spirit, Jesus speaks of being lifted up on the cross, with refer-ence to the bronze serpent lifted up by Moses in the desert. Here the Son of God is revealed as the source of healing.
Commissioned AnthemCommissioned AnthemCommissioned AnthemCommissioned Anthem
“Grace Abounds for All”“Grace Abounds for All”“Grace Abounds for All”“Grace Abounds for All” Composer Thomas Keesecker, a seasoned church musician with a background in Lutheran and Roman Catholic parishes, was chosen to compose an anthem for our congregation’s 100th anniversary celebration. The text was chosen to reflect the mission of GA, where all are welcome and where God is at the center of our community. The music was written with the current voicing of our choir in mind, along with the fact that we have a very talented clarinetist in the choir. The funding for this composi-tion was made possible by generous donations from GA’s memorial funds and from individual donors whose names are printed on the copies of the anthems.
+ HYMN OF THE DAY Rise, O Church, Like Christ Arisen
+ APOSTLES’ 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;
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Welcome Back, Former Welcome Back, Former Welcome Back, Former Welcome Back, Former Pastors and Music DirectorsPastors and Music DirectorsPastors and Music DirectorsPastors and Music Directors We are happy to welcome former pastors and staff back to GA for our 100th anniversary celebration worship today. Three of our former pastors are participating in worship today: • Pastor Mark Ditmanson • Pastor Kelly Lewis • Pastor Roger Schwartz Three former music directors are also participating today in the Senior Choir: • Phillip Johnson • Marilyn Lueth • Joyce Moen These six people, along with any other former staff members present today, will be introduced at the fellowship time downstairs following worship.
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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 INTERCESSION
A With the whole people of God in Christ Jesus, let us pray for the church, those in need, and all of God's creation.
Petitions follow. Each petition ends…
A Lord, in your mercy,
C hear our prayer. Following the final petition...
P Into your hands, O Lord, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
C Amen.
+ PEACE
P The peace of Christ be with you always.
CCCC And also with you.
CHILDREN’S SERMON
MEALMEALMEALMEAL
OFFERING (An offering is gathered for the mission of the church,
including the care of those in need.)
OFFERTORY ANTHEM Senior Choir Rise, Shine, You People! Setting by Michael Burkhardt
Marilyn Lueth, organ Please join the choir in singing the final stanza...
Continuing Prayer ConcernsContinuing Prayer ConcernsContinuing Prayer ConcernsContinuing Prayer Concerns Sundra Arvidson; Roy Aeschlimann; Paul Banitt; Jane Bjorge; Jean Boyce; Gail Bradford; Charline Burns; Kris Campbell; Mike Diem; Ron Dorumsgaard; Vi Dorumsgaard; David Evans; Katie Falang; Ed Femrite; JoAnn Femrite; Ted Femrite; Renae Frasee; Kara Fraser; Kimberly Garner; Betty Honl; Beth Huble; Olive Kohlan; Brian & Eileen Kopp; Matthew Kroschel; Irene Mattson; Lloyd Marengo; Jeff McQuarrie; June Mondeng; James Ott; Cathy Pearl; Kayleen Pederson; Karl Pope; Evie Ramin; Jim Rorwick; Carol Ryan; Imogene Schopf; Arden & Joyce Swanson; Vi Tefft; Ardyce Titus; Alvina Vaughn; Marion White; Andrew; Jesse and family; Sveah; Patty and family; members who are homebound or in nursing homes. Our continual prayers are offered for peace. We pray for the all of the world’s governments, leaders, and peoples, especially for those who work toward peace.
To have someone’s name added to or removed from this list, contact Pastor Marggi or Phil Holzman.
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+ OFFERTORY Let the Vineyards Be Fruitful
+ GREAT THANKSGIVING
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P It is indeed right, our duty and our joy….we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
+ THE WORDS OF INSTITUTION
+ THE LORD’S PRAYER
CCCC 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 AND DISTRIBUTION
COMMUNION SONG ELW page 154 Lamb of God
COMMUNION SONG ELW HYMN 487
What Feast of Love Andy Sobiech, pianist
Please join us for Please join us for Please join us for Please join us for The Lord’s SupperThe Lord’s SupperThe Lord’s SupperThe Lord’s Supper
All are invited to join us in the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christ is present in the bread and wine and that we receive God’s grace and forgiveness through this meal. Those adults and children not communing with us are invited to come forward to receive a blessing. Please receive a wafer and dip it into the larger chalice containing wine or into the smaller chalice containing grape juice. In order to be more welcoming to all, we use only gluten-free bread. This morning there will be four stations for communion. Please follow the directions of the ushers to the station closest to your seating area.
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COMMUNION SONG ELW HYMN 729 The Church of Christ, in Every Age
+ POST-COMMUNION PRAYER
A O God, the host at every meal, at this table you spread out a feast for all peoples, the bread of life and the cup of salvation. Send us from this banquet to invite others into these good things, to let justice roll down like waters, and to care for the least of our sisters and brothers; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
C Amen.
SENDINGSENDINGSENDINGSENDING
+ BLESSING
+ RECESSIONAL HYMN Lift High the Cross
+ DISMISSAL
A Go in peace. Christ is with you.
CCCC Thanks be to God. POSTLUDE Trumpet and Organ Trumpet Voluntary John Stanley
Everyone is invited back this afternoon for a hymn sing Everyone is invited back this afternoon for a hymn sing Everyone is invited back this afternoon for a hymn sing Everyone is invited back this afternoon for a hymn sing at 3:30 p.m. and a service of evening prayer at 4:00 p.m.at 3:30 p.m. and a service of evening prayer at 4:00 p.m.at 3:30 p.m. and a service of evening prayer at 4:00 p.m.at 3:30 p.m. and a service of evening prayer at 4:00 p.m.
FlowersFlowersFlowersFlowers The flowers are presented by the Krapohl family wishing a happy 90th birthday to Eleanore Miller and remembering Eleanore’s twin sister, Vera Woll, our mother and grandmother.
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• Hymns and Songs printed by permission of CCLI #1955062 and One License.net license #A-708093.
• New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Serving TodayServing TodayServing TodayServing Today
Ministers The Baptized people of GA Church Presiding Minister and Preacher Pastor Marggi Pleiss-Sippola Assisting Minister Andrea Carter Minister of Worship and Music Phil Holzman, Associate in Ministry Trumpet Kyle Burbey Crucifer Josh Doerr Book Bearer Nancy Johson Lector Kristin Tangen Acolyte Brandon or Connor Arneson Bus Driver Jon Stoewer
Ushers Gary Arvidson, Bev Moody, Eric Prawalsky, Paul Sandell, June Schafer
Our Core Values at Gustavus Adolphus
Lutheran Church
love joy
hope compassion spirituality forgiveness acceptance
respect
God’s Mission for Gustavus Adolphus Church – To build community where God is at the center.
Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran ChurchGustavus Adolphus Lutheran ChurchGustavus Adolphus Lutheran ChurchGustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church 1509 27th Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Website: www.gachurchmpls.org Email: [email protected]
Church Phone: 612-789-7256 If you reach the voicemail system, dial a staff member’s extension
or remain on the line to leave a general message.
Church Staff
The Rev. Dr. Marggi Pleiss-Sippola, Pastor (Ext. 10)
Phil Holzman, Associate in Ministry (Ext. 11)
Worship & Music, Children’s Ministries, Parish Administration
Diane Ott-Hager, Lay Minister (Ext. 12)
Nicholas Tangen, Minister of Welcome & Community (Ext. 13)
Paul Frank, Finance Manager (Ext.14)
Joel Lurvey, Contemporary Choir Director
