Dear Brothers and Sisters at Messiah,
May gives way to June this week, and the season of Easter gives way to The Time of the Church beginning this coming Sunday! We hope that the following information will will be helpful as you look ahead.
WORSHIP AND CLASS SCHEDULE:
From now through Sunday, September 3rd (Labor Day weekend), there will be one Divine Service held at 10:00 am on Sundays, with Bible Class beforehand at 9:00 am; Sunday School is in recess. Monday night Divine Services will also be held from June 5th through August 28th at 7:00 pm (with the exception of Monday, July 3rd). The Sunday service is scheduled to be livestreamed at
Our website www.messiahgr.org
Our Facebook page www.facebook.com/messiahgr.
Bulletins formatted for use with our livestream are available for downloading and/or printing at home. These are posted at least two days before each service at www.messiahgr.org/worship-resources
Readings and hymns for each service are also listed in the informational note found on the same pages as our livestreams.
Bible Class is also livestreamed at www.messiahgr.org/adult-bible-class.
WHAT'S NEWS & WHAT'S NEW:
(Details in our weekly announcements and our June newsletter)
NEW! Once again, congratulations to our 2023 graduates:
Eli Kaminski and Aiden Mannor (high school)
Noelle Kaminski, Taylor Trotter and Cooper Tyson (college)
NEW! Summer Golf begins on Sunday, June 4th at 3:00 pm at Scott Lake Golf Course. We will play the Par 3 Short Course of 6 holes. Cost is $17 with a golf cart or $11 to walk. Please sign up at the welcome center. (Please be at the course by 2:45 pm). See Mark Altemann or Dwight Anderson for more information.
“Not Choir” begins next week. Join Rick Krueger on Wednesdays at 7:00 pm beginning June 7th for conversation, singing tips, skill building and previews of the music for the following weekend. Like singing hymns but wish you could do it better? Wish you could like it? Love it so much you wish could do it more? Whatever your starting point, “Not Choir” is for you!
On Monday-Friday, June 19th - 23rd from 9:00 to 11:45 am, Messiah holds our annual Vacation Bible School. This year’s theme is God’s Living Water: Covered in Jesus’ Grace! Kids age 4 as of August 1st through grade 6 are invited to join us for lessons, music, crafts, snacks, activities and more! Can you help with VBS this year? Sign up at the Welcome Center, contact Steve Ledbetter (our VBS Director) or go online to volunteer at vbsmate.com/messiahgr2023 (click on the blue “Become a volunteer” button). You can also register children or grandchildren online by clicking on the blue “Register your child” button.
NEW! Our annual Community Picnic sponsored by the Board of Outreach will be held on Sunday, August 27th after the Divine Service.
NEW! Pastor Steven Mahlburg, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod missionary, and his family will visit Messiah for a Mission Festival on Sunday, September 17th.
JUNE NEWSLETTER
Our June 2023 newsletter is now available online, with more on the above items and much more! Click here to preview or download it in its entirety. A reminder that:
Paper copies of the newsletter are available for members and guests at the Welcome Center. We also continue to mail the newsletter to homebound members. If you want to continue receiving the newsletter, please contact the church office to make arrangements.
We also post the newsletter (including monthly calendars) online at www.messiahgr.org/news; calendars are also online separately at www.messiahgr.org/calendar.
LOOKING AHEAD (from Pastor Twietmeyer's newsletter message):
"We are tempted to think that we are missing out on something. The world seems to be having a lot more fun than we are. They have more money, more romance, more things, more fame, more fortune. They have the meat pots and all we seemingly have is this worthless bread. But don’t let the world fool you! You are the rich one! You are the laborer who will be paid the wages of faith. You are the righteous one who will be delivered from Sodom. You are the child of God who has been saved through the Red Sea Waters of your baptism. You are not missing out on anything."
"Repent of your love for the world and replace it with your love for Christ. For Jesus Christ is the only one who truly missed out on something. He was the only one who can truly say that He was slighted. Although He was righteous and knew no sin, He became sin for us. He forsook all that He had and was forsaken on the cross by the Father. If we have the love of Christ in our hearts, then we are truly missing out on nothing. God be praised."
Yours in Him,
Rick Krueger, Parish Assistant
