Dear Friends in Christ,
Pastor Twietmeyer has informed us that his final worship services at Messiah will be on Sunday, June 25 at 10:00 am and Monday, June 26 at 7:00 pm. Worship on those dates will include the rite of Farewell and Godspeed to a Pastor toward the end of the Divine Service. A farewell reception for Pastor and his family in the fellowship hall following the service on Sunday the 25th is also in the planning stages. We will share more details with you as they become available.
Please pray for each other and for Messiah as a whole in the days and weeks to come. Since this past Sunday's announcement by Pastor Twietmeyer, Paul’s encouragement of the saints in Philippi has been my prayer for Messiah as we face the challenges ahead:
Philippians 2:1–11
[1] So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, [2] complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. [3] Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. [4] Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [5] Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, [6] who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, [7] but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. [8] And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. [9] Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, [10] so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [11] and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (ESV)
Yours in Him,
Rick Krueger
Parish Assistant
Messiah Lutheran Church
