Worship schedule
Our traditional worship schedule for Sept. 5, the 15th Sunday after Pentecost.
8:15 a.m. Pastor Bonnie Gerber. Organist Tom Gerke. Special Music: Pam Spade, Jubilate Quartet (Julie Claus, Charlotte Welch, Lori Ramirez and Dave Palsgrove.) Holy Communion.
9:30 a.m. Pastor Bonnie Gerber. Organist Tom Gerke. Special Music: Pam Spade, Jubilate Quartet (Julie Claus, Charlotte Welch, Lori Ramirez and Dave Palsgrove.)
11 a.m., All Saints' Blend: Pastor Bonnie Gerber. Organist Tom Gerke. Special Music: Pam Spade, Jubilate Quartet (Julie Claus, Charlotte Welch, Lori Ramirez and Dave Palsgrove.); Pam Wachtel, Contemporary Team. Holy Communion.
The lessons
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Psalm 1
Philemon 1:1-21
Luke 14:25-33
All Saints' Blend: 11 a.m. through Sept. 5
All Saints is excited to offer a blended 11 a.m. worship service featuring traditional and contemporary music, along with a modified liturgy, through Sept. 5. This service in the Sanctuary will replace both the 11 a.m. traditional service and The Gathering.
A similar service preceded our July 4 Family Picnic and was well received.
The change will not affect worship services at 8:15 and 9:30 a.m.
The schedule change will allow us to best use the invaluable resources of our pastors and volunteers, a necessity as the summer vacation season draws near its close.
We'll return to our regular schedule, welcome back our traditional and children's choirs and celebrate the start of adult and children's Sunday School on Rally Day Sept. 12!
Summer Family Worship
All Saints will offer family worship at 9:30 a.m. Sundays through the summer. Worship will feature a special children's bulletin and children's sermon.
Volunteer opportunities
All Saints welcomes the many volunteers who make worship special by devoting their time and talents, which include gifts of music, oratory, organization and hospitality.
Click here for opportunities to become more involved in weekly or special worship. Volunteers are especially needed to usher, greet and staff the nursery for special services during the holiday seasons.
All Saints offers Holy Communion every week, except for fifth Sundays or in the case of special events, during the 11 a.m. service in the Sanctuary and twice a month during its other services.
Why more frequent communion?: A review of
our historical roots and our understanding of the sacraments led
All Saints to the decision to offer the Eucharist more frequently. Martin Luther never thought of having a Sunday morning service
without communion because he understood that Christ was present
in both the visible and the spoken Word of God.
Some history: It was when our ancestors came to the “new world” and had too few ordained pastors to celebrate the Eucharist on a weekly basis that we started the practice of having it less frequently. Since the 1970s, the trend in Lutheran churches across the United States has been to increase the frequency of communion. This has been reflected in the past two hymnals that gave us liturgies that include communion as part of each service.
Other services: All Saints offers communion at its 8:15 a.m. service on the first and third Sundays of each month, and at its 9:30 a.m. service and the 11 a.m. Gathering on second and fourth Sundays of each month. On fifth Sundays, all services feature a service of healing.
