Weekly Worship Opportunities
- 8:00 a.m. Early Morning Worship
- 9:15 a.m. Sunday School, Youth and Adult Bible Studies
- 10:30 a.m. Late Morning Worship
Holy Communion is celebrated at every Sunday service. Click
here to download the four articles concerning Holy Communion that have recently appeared in our worship bulletins. The two Sunday services are almost always identical.
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The slide show presents a visual overview of our santuary, choirs, children's messages, pastor's messages and our worshippers.
To assist parents with small children, we have church bags just outside the Sanctuary filled with toys and fun items to entertain little ones. There is a modern, spacious, bright, well equipped nursery at the end of the educational wing; it has speakers so that you you do not miss the service if you need to take your children to the nursery. The nursery is for those children under three years old. It is staffed on an "as needed" basis.
Our building is rich with signs and symbols. Click here to learn about our stained glass windows and other art that aids our worship.
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Lord of Life's worship services are printed in their entireties in user friendly worship bulletins. Hymns and liturgies are developed with Lutheran Service Builder (which is based on the LCMS Lutheran Service Book). Worship is enhanced with a pipe organ, grand piano, electronic keyboard, and various instruments. While we offer worship at 8:00 and 10:30, please note that these two services are almost always the same. (The only exceptions are when there is a baptism in one service and not in the other, etc.) We think our services are family friendly. They often include a message just for the children, and more often than not, prayer requests are solicited from the congregation prior to the Prayer of the Church. Because of its great importance and benefits, Holy Communion is celebrated at every Sunday service.
As can be seen on our "About Us" page, Mr. Matthew Janssen leads the music ministry.
He directs our Sanctuary Choir as well as our Handbell Choir. These choirs rehearse on Thursday evenings. The choirs are open to those of high school age and older and presents a variety of choral music. The Youth Choir rehearses at 5:00 PM. The Handbell Choir rehearses from 6:00 PM until 7:15. The Sanctuary Choir rehearses from 7:30 PM until 8:45. The period of 7:15 - 7:30 will is a time of evening devotions for both choirs.
Lord of Life regularly incorporates instrumental music in worship services. If you play an instrument and are interested in playing for worship, please contact Matt Janssen through the "Contact Us" page.
Anna Brandt assists Matt in playing for some of the services, accompanying the choir, and directing the family hand chimes choir. Anna can be reached through the "Contact Us" page.
Lord of Life has a very active Altar Guild. These dedicated people coordinate everything in the chancel area. This includes preparing for the the Lord's Supper, changing altar papaments when appropriate, making arrangements for baptisms, picking up and placing flowers, keeping the sanctuary lamp burning, hanging banners, and the like.
The Guild is always seeking additional members. Even as all areas of ministry are open to women at Lord of Life, so also the Altar Guild is open to both women and men. To find out more, contact office manager Sharon Koch via the "Contact Us" page.
On duty in February is Team 1 -- Carol & Denis DuMontier, Kristin Dye, and Linda Rosemann
A "Prayer Page" is printed each week for inclusion in the Sunday bulletin. Listed on the page are petitions and thanksgivings concerning members, friends and relatives of members, world and national events, service men and women, and the like. Worshipers are encouraged to take the Prayer Page home with them and make use of it in their daily prayers.
If you have a prayer request you would like to have listed on the Prayer Page please contact Pastor Jim Rogers. If you have a more private request for the congregation's prayer chain, please contact Lay Minister Carla May. Both these people may be contacted through the "Contact Us" page.
Lay people often read Scripture in the public worship services.
Here is the Lay Reader schedule for the next few Sundays.
February 12, 2012: Mark Kammeyer at 8:00 and Carla May at 10:30
February 19, 2012: John Koski at 8:00 and Marty Schamber at 10:30
February 26, 2012: Judie Koski at 8:00 and Robbie Doebert at 10:30
March 4, 2012: Mark Bossi at 8:00 and Sue Erbe at 10:30
March 11, 2012: Connie Threewitt at 8:00 and Sharon Delmore at 10:30
"Serving Teams" play an important role on Sunday mornings at Lord of Life. Primary duties include greeting arriving worshipers, distributing worship bulletins (including chidren's bulletins and large print bulletins), gathering the offering, collecting participation cards, and ushering for Holy Communion.
A smiling face and a positive attitude are primary qualifications for serving team members.
If you would like to join a Serving Team, please contact Pastor Jim Rogers throught the "Contact Us" page.
Here is the Serving Team schedule for the next several weeks.
Sunday February 12, 2012: Team 2 (Stan Roux, captain) at 8:00 and Team Youth at 10:30
Sunday February 19, 2012: Team 3 (Mary Kinzel, captain) at 8:00 and Team 8 (John Dye, captain) at 10:30
ASH WEDNESDAY February 22 at 7:00 PM: Team 11 (Linda Rosemann, captain) and Team 10 (Denis DuMontier, captain)
Sunday February 26, 2012: Team 5 (Tom Zeigler, captain) at 8:00 and Team 6 (Sue Erbe captaion) at 10:30
WEDNESDAY February 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM Midweek Lent: Team 1 (Darrell Schelp, captain) and Team 4 (Bob Krause, captain)
Sunday March 4, 2012: Team 2 (Stan Roux, captain) at 8:00 and Team COGS (Gordon Watson, captain) at 10:30
WEDNESDAY March 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM:
Team 3 (Mary Kinzel, captain) and
Team Youth
Sunday March 11, 2012: Team 11 (Linda Rosemann, captain) at 8:00 and Team 8 (John Dye, captain) at 10:30
We encourage you to read in advance the Scripture readings scheduled for the upcoming Sunday. With that in mind, we include the readings for the coming Sunday as well as for the previous Sunday here.
Here are the readings for this coming Sunday February 12, the sixth Sunday after Epiphany.
2 Kings 5:1-14
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.” And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.”
So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.” And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”
But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.” So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
1Corinthians 10:31-11:1
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Mark 1:40-45
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.
Below are the readings for this past Sunday February 5.
Isaiah 40:21–31
21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
23who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
25To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.
26Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?
He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name,
by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.
27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
29He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
31but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
1 Corinthians 9:16–27
16For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. 18What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
19For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
Mark 1:29–39
29And immediately [Jesus] left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
30Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 31And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
32That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. 33And the whole city was gathered together at the door. 34And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
35And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 36And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 37and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” 38And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” 39And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
