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WORSHIP 10:30 AM SUNDAYS
EASTER AND PENTECOST 2024
Sunday Worship times are at 10:30 am at 116 Bond Street, unless otherwise noted.
APRIL 21, 2024
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
APRIL 28, 2024
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher: Friedrich Brunzema
MAY 5, 2024
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
MAY 12, 2024
SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Service of the Word – Messy Church
Presider: Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
Preacher: TBC
MAY 19, 2024
PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
MAY 26. 2024
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher – TBC
JUNE 2, 2024
SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
JUNE 9, 2024
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY SERVICE
THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher – TBC
JUNE 16, 2024
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Holy Communion
Presider and Preacher:
Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
JUNE 23, 2024
FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Service of the Word
Presider and Preacher – TBC
JUNE 30, 2024 – PRIDE
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Reconciling in Christ Celebration
InKlooSiv Voices Guest Choir
Presider – Pastor Ralph Carl Wushke
Preacher – Masha Koyama
Zoom Links for online worshiping: Please use this link for the regular Sunday worship services. You may also contact the pastor to get zoom links for specific events.Ste
LINKS TO RECORDED WORSHIP SERVICES
If you want to check-out what our ZOOM services are like, recordings can be found on this page.
RECONCILING IN CHRIST
First Lutheran Church adopted this statement of welcome and affirmation to queer and trans people on April 14, 2024:
We appreciate and celebrate the participation of all members of our diverse and multicultural community in the ongoing life of First Lutheran. As an ever-reforming church we recognize this has not always been the case. In light of this, we strive to value and respect people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions, to work against racism and colonialism, and to welcome all people. God loves each of us as we are, and all are invited to join us as we try to live into that good news.
By this action First Lutheran joins the Reconciling-In-Christ program, a ministry of ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation ReconcilingWorks advocates for the full welcome, inclusion, and equity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/aromantic (LGBTQIA+) Lutherans in all aspects of the life of their Church, congregations, and community.
First Lutheran also adopted a motion to replace its 2005 statement opposing same-sex blessings with the new statement of welcome. First also committed itself to ongoing study and regular renewal of the commitment to this, other forms of inclusion.
HYBRID SERVICES
First Evangelical Lutheran Church offers hybrid (in-person at 116 Bond Street and on Zoom) worship. Unless otherwise noted you can attend in person or online.
The in-person/zoom services will take place Sundays at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise noted.
If for any reason you prefer to worship at home, please use the following the Zoom link to join our Sunday service.
ONLINE HOLY COMMUNION
If you would like to participate in our online Holy Communion — first and third Sundays — you my wish to read Pastor Wushke’s discussion paper – click here to read it .
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
CRISIS IN THE HOLY LAND
A prayer from the bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
“God of peace, we pray for peace between Israel and Hamas. We pray for leaders on both sides that their hearts would be changed and there would be a peaceful ending to this war. God of comfort and strength, we pray for all those who have suffered in this war – those who mourn, the injured, those who live in fear. We pray for those who continue to try to provide aid and medical care – workers who risk their lives. Bring us all hope, bring us all strength, bring us all peace. In your holy and life-giving name we pray, Amen.”
Please find updated resources here: https://elcic.ca/holy-land/
LITTLE FREE PANTRY MINISTRY
Click here for more information.
SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
For spiritual resources and practical ways to support the people and churches in Ukraine, please go to the Lutheran World Federation site.
SPIRITUAL RESOURCES
The ELCIC Council of Bishops has shared this prayer from the Lutheran World Federation which we commend to you: Lutheran World Federation Prayers during COVID-19 .
We lament the tragic deaths of Indigenous children now revealed at the Kamloops and Marieval Residential Schools, the many more such deaths yet to be exposed, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and all violence experienced by First Nations peoples. Let us live into Truth and Reconciliation.
Statement from the ELCIC bishops:
https://mailchi.mp/842aeb34aa15/a-renewed-call-to-reconciliation?e=5095907467
A Prayer for Kamloops Residential School Victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRKJAZ-Hxo