7.21.24 Bulletin & Announcements
PRAYER REQUESTS- Arlene Haux, Rick & Traci Anderson and family, family & friends of Marie Moe, family & friends of Wesley Laframboise, Anderson family & baby Camden, Polly Roe, Carol Malone, Nate and Sam Simley and baby Wyatt, Garret Fenner & family, Shirley Berg, Harold Ebens, Pastor Phil Larsen and family, Trudy Torgerson, Bonnie Plath, Tanya Ausk, and Erickson family. Please pray for our elders.
As Pastor Katie and the 6 youth campers get ready to go to Red Willow soon, please keep them in your prayers.
Our thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Alex Anderson, son of Rick and Traci Anderson. May the Lord wrap His loving arms around the family at this difficult time.
Funeral information will be sent out when they become available.
A Celebration of Life for Marie Moe will be Friday, July 26th at 2:00pm at Boulger Funeral Home in Fargo. Visitation will be from 1:00-2:00pm. Thoughts and prayers to Evan and family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SUMMER WORSHIP Davenport Worship Wednesday at 7pm -- Norman Worship Sunday at 9:00am
**There will be no Wednesday Worship in Davenport this week!! Join us at Lindenwood Parks’ Rotary Shelter 6:00-8:00pm for Hymn Sing in the Park. Picnic meal, concert by Rachel Kurtz with playground nearby shelter. Free will offering..
*Newsletter photos, articles & information due to ndparishnews@gmail.com
*Bible Study Recap with Erin Wednesday, July 24th 12-1 at Norman Fellowship Hall.
*Day #3 of Parish VBS will be Wednesday, August 14th at 7pm during Davenport Lutheran Wednesday Worship. All kids are welcome!! Kids will start in Worship and be dismissed following children’s moment.
*KLC Senior Community Fellowship Meal on Monday, August 19 at 11:45am at Kindred Lutheran. All local seniors are invited. Please contact Leah at KLC office 428-3630 to register for the meal by Thursday, August 15th (so they know how much food to prepare). Free will offering. Meal served by Uptown Eatery.
*Kindred Community Days is approaching! August 9-10. Looking for members that would like to drive their “Oldie” in the parade. Please contact Pastor Katie (701- 429-3374) so that we can have a sign for your “Oldie” and candy for you for the parade. More info to come!
*Bone Builders Class at Davenport School. Monday and Thursday 9:30-10:30am. Kindred Class at City Hall Monday and Friday at 10:30am.
* The Kindred Area Food Pantry update- All food pantry donations can be dropped off at Kindred Lutheran Church Monday - Thursday 9am-4pm. Any questions please call Leah at 428-3630 or 701-388-2124.
Upcoming Fellowship opportunities… Group trip to Medora… UPDATE* ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD!! BUS IS FULL!!
Red Willow Bible Camp July 28-August 2 Castaway Camp 7-9 grade August 9-13 * High School 10-12 grade camp in Missouri August 1-8
Outreach opportunities for our members and community…
*There is a link for a Meal Train for the Simley family. Nate, Sam and Wyatt are home! They are practicing social distancing to prepare for Wyatt’s next surgery in the coming weeks. If you would like to provide a meal, please sign up on the link and then contact Nate or Sam before you drop off the meal on your chosen date.
LEND A HAND UP* There is a Lend a Hand Up account fundraiser for Wesley Laframboise family, Anderson Family, Polly Roe Family and the Simley Family. If you would like to support the family during their health journey. Please continue to lift these families up in prayer! *There are opportunities to purchase tshirts to support Wyatt & Camden with portion of sales going to their Lend a Hand Up Fundraiser account.
*There is a meal train link for Norman members, the Jorgene Alsager family. Jorgene has been diagnosed with liver, lung & colon cancer. Please lift her and the family in your prayers. https://mealtrain.com/k3vgmz
*VIKING VILLAGE- a non-profit organization with a goal to serve students by working with Kindred Public Schools preK-grade 12 to make hygiene items, food, athletic gear, shoes, and clothing available. Student needs will be confidential. Items will be available in each school building with a launch date of August 2024. Donate items during Kindred Days, August 10 in the collection bin at the Kindred Public Library. Full list on FB and thevikingvillage.org website. Monetary Donations are appreciated. More info email- vikingvillageclan@gmail.com or see thevikingvillage.org website.
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Norman Davenport Lutheran Worship
Sunday, July 21 2024
Pastor Katie Kringstad
PRELUDE/BELL
WELCOME/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CALL TO WORSHIP
Come. Wrestle with God, who receives us and welcomes us just as we are.
Come, let us worship!
Come. Look around with questions, look around with wonder, turning your head in every direction you can find.
Come, let us worship!
Come. God calls us into renewed relationships with one another.
Come, let us worship!
Come. God invites us into new beginnings.
Come, let us worship!
GATHERING SONG: Abide With Me (ELW #629) vs 1-3
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Let us pray. A brief silence is kept before the prayer.
O God, we aren’t always sure if we’re allowed to wrestle with you, or if this is some kind of trick invitation. Remind us that you are big enough for all our questions, all our doubts, all our fears. Give us new names, new identities, new callings, as we rest in the blessings you offer. Amen.
CONFESSION & FORGIVENESS
Gathered into one by God’s Spirit, we are bold to confess our sins, our shortcomings, our failures, right here in the open, in the presence of God and of one another.
(silence for reflection)
God of grace,
We confess that we have failed you, failed ourselves, failed one another. We assume the worst about those around us, rather than giving anyone the benefit of the doubt. We do the same to ourselves, and sometimes, even, we do the same to you. We are stubborn and determined to hold a grudge. We fail to exercise our imaginations, fail to recognize your works waiting to be born, if only we would step up to help, or sometimes, if only we would move out of the way.
Forgive us, O God, and show us another way forward. Amen.
Hear the good news of the risen Christ:
God is making all things new!
Your sins are forgiven.
God’s invitation is to another way of living.
Thanks be to God!
CHILDREN’S MOMENT
HYMN OF THE DAY: There is a Balm in Gilead #614
SCRIPTURE: Genesis 32:24-28
24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." 27So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." 28Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed."
SERMON:
OFFERING SONG: Great Is Thy Faithfulness (ELW #733)
OFFERING PRAYER:
God of abundance beyond measure, it feels like privilege to offer back to you even a portion of the blessings you have poured out upon us. Keep us ever-mindful of what we call our own, ever-seeking new ways to come alongside you in the creation of abundance for the world. Amen.
BLESSING
May you rest in the knowledge that God has got you in His strong and steady hands. May you delight in the grace and forgiveness of Jesus, inviting us again and again to repentance and repair.
May you recognize new birth all around, the spirit of God made manifest in abundant
imagination. Amen.
SENDING HYMN: Abide With Me (ELW #629) vs 4-5
SENDING
Go now in peace, Love your God, Serve your neighbor.
Thanks be to God!
POSTLUDE
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