07/04/21 Congregational Weekly Update
Here are several updates to pass along to you:
- The July/August edition of the Messenger was mailed out yesterday (Tuesday). Hopefully, you will receive your copy soon.
- Saturday, we will gather in Fellowship Hall at 10:00 a.m. to assemble the sandwiches for the Saturday Servants project to feed those hungry in the Anderson area. If you have used plastic grocery bags you want to donate, bring them with you. Otherwise, please do not bring any bags on Sunday morning, as we have all we will need. For those who would like to participate in the distribution, we will carpool over to the Anderson Soup Kitchen (on Franklin Street) at 10:50 a.m. and finish up around 11:30 a.m.
- We will return to singing hymns this Sunday in worship, just in time for a few patriotic favorites. The hymnals have been returned to the pews.
- At the Late Service this Sunday, we will be receiving new members into our congregation. Mila Emmons will be baptized, and her parents, Scott and Joann, will join our church membership.
- Sunday, we will grapple with, “When God Says No,” to our prayer requests. Our message/sermon is based on the Second Reading from 2 Corinthians 12:2-10, specifically, Paul’s “thorn in the flesh.”
- We keep in our prayers, Steven Goodson, upon his recent rotator cuff and torn bicep surgery.
- I am saddened to inform you of the death of Ron Carlson earlier this morning. You are encouraged to keep his wife, Kathy, and family, in your thoughts and prayers. The funeral arrangements are pending and are being handled by Gray Mortuary of Pelzer, SC.
“Into your hands, O merciful Savior, we commend your servant, Ronald Keith Carlson. Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a sheep of your own fold, a lamb of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming. Receive him into the arms of your mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace, and into the glorious company of the saints in light. Amen.” – Evangelical Lutheran Worship, p. 283
In Christ,
Pastor Fischer
