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Third Sunday in Lent March 12,2023

March 9, 2023 by Teruni Evans Leave a Comment

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7:30am Music  Warm Up

8:00am Sound Check All Worship Participants Present

8:25am/11:00am Please Prepare for Worship Pastor Wesley 

Prelude: 

8:30am Welcome Pastor Wesley

Grace Lutheran Church, Upland, CA

Pastor Wesley Menke

Accompanist: Tatiana Thibodeaux

www.graceupland.org

https://www.youtube.com/live/AhX0JTBg88o?feature=share

Lay Participants 8:30

Lector: Ingrid Thom

Ushers: Brian and Sue Karric

Communion: Roberta Thom

Cantor: Joisanne Dailey

Acolyte: Grace and Katherine Morton 

Sound: John Holmgren

Broadcast: Charles Menke

Sunday School:  Kevin and Carrie Macias, Sheri Menke

Lay Participants 11:00

Lector: Lois Dieter

Ushers & Counters:  Jerry Uhler

Communion:  Aurora Steuer

Assisting Minister: Ralph Dieter

Acolyte: Rebecca, Alan, Paxton & Sophie Grace Menke

Free masks are available in the narthex.

Live feed of service available in the Fellowship Hall.

Prayer Request please fill out the card and give it to the usher during the Hymn of the Day.  Your request will be included on the prayer list for two weeks.

Gathering

CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS

The assembly stands. All may make the sign of the cross, the sign that is marked at baptism, as the presiding minister begins.

Blessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God,

who forgives all our sin,

whose mercy endures forever.

Amen.

Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another.

The assembly kneels or stands. Silence is kept for reflection.

Gracious God,

have mercy on us. We confess that we have turned from you and given ourselves into the power of sin. We are truly sorry and humbly repent. In your compassion forgive us our sins, known and unknown, things we have done and things we have failed to do. Turn us again to you, and uphold us by your Spirit, so that we may live and serve you in newness of life through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.

Amen.

God, who is rich in mercy, loved us even when we were dead in sin, and made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. In the name of ☩ Jesus Christ, your sins are forgiven. Almighty God strengthen you with power through the Holy Spirit, that Christ may live in your hearts through faith. Amen.

Gathering Hymn

Greeting

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And also with you.

KYRIE

Canticle of Praise

Prayer of the Day

Merciful God, the fountain of living water, you quench our thirst and wash away our sin. Give us this water always. Bring us to drink from the well that flows with the beauty of your truth through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Amen.

Children Sermon

First Reading:   

 Exodus 17:1-7

1From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” 4So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm: Psalm 95

1Come, let us sing | to the Lord;

  let us shout for joy to the rock of | our salvation.

 2Let us come before God’s presence | with thanksgiving

  and raise a loud shout to the | Lord with psalms.

 3For you, Lord, | are a great God,

  and a great ruler a- | bove all gods.

 4In your hand are the caverns | of the earth;

  the heights of the hills are | also yours.

 5The sea is yours, | for you made it,

  and your hands have molded | the dry land.

 6Come, let us worship | and bow down,

  let us kneel before the | Lord our maker. R

 7For the Lord is our God, and we are the people of God’s pasture and the sheep | of God’s hand.

  Oh, that today you would | hear God’s voice!

 8“Harden | not your hearts,

  as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah | in the desert.

 9There your ancestors | tested me,

  they put me to the test, though they had | seen my works.

 10Forty years I loathed that gener- | ation, saying,

  ‘The heart of this people goes astray; they do not | know my ways.’

 11Indeed I swore | in my anger,

  ‘They shall never come | to my rest.’ ” R

Second Reading: Romans 5:1-11

1Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. 6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die. 8But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. 9Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God. 10For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. 11But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Gospel Acclamation* All Creation Sings Setting 11

The Holy Gospel according to John 4:5-42

Glory to you Oh Lord.

5[Jesus] came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

 7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

 16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”

 27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29“Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” 30They left the city and were on their way to him.

 31Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

 39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you Oh Christ.

Sermon                 Pastor     

Hymn of the Day    

APOSTLE’S CREED

The lector or assisting minister leads the creed.

With the whole church, let us confess our faith.

I believe in God, the Father almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

born of the virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, died, and was buried;

he descended into hell.

On the third day he rose again;

he ascended into heaven,

he is seated at the right hand of the Father,

and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

the holy catholic church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and the life everlasting. Amen. 

Prayers of Intercession* Assisting Minister (Lector)

Merciful God,

receive our prayer.

Amen.

Passing of the Peace* Assisting Minister (Lector)

The peace of Christ be with you always. And also with you.

**You may make your offering or donation through our website HERE.

Offertory

PEACE

The peace of Christ be with you always.

And also with you.

MEAL

God feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ.

TESTIMONY

Offering Prayer

God of abundance,

receive and bless these gifts we have offered.

Join our hearts with the song of the angels,

and gather us at your table of celebration.

Strengthen us to share with all the world

the abundance of your grace upon grace,

poured out in Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh

Amen.

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

Great Thanksgiving Pastor

Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord.

Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give God thanks and praise. 

It is our duty and delight | that we should everywhere and always offer thanks and praise to you O God, | through Jesus Christ | 

who calls us to follow his way of humble servíce and love,

And so with the church on earth, all creation and the host of heaven| we praise your name and join their unending hymn.

Lord’s Prayer*

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.  

Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo, santificado sea tu nombre. Venga tu reino. Hágase tu voluntad en la tierra como en el cielo. Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada día. Perdona nuestras ofensas como también nosotros perdonamos a los que nos ofenden. No nos dejes caer en tentación y líbranos de mal. Porque tuyo es el reino, tuyo el poder y tuya la gloria ahora y siempre. Amén.

Invitation to Communion

Glory to God in the highest!

Come to the table of peace.

Please come forward for communion.  Open your hands to receive the bread. You may intinct the host into the common cup, or take a little cup of either wine or grape juice. All who wish to participate are welcome.

Communion Hymn

Prayer After Communion 

Holy One,

we thank you for the healing

that springs forth abundantly from this table.

Renew our strength to do justice,

love kindness,

and journey humbly with you.

Amen.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

March 12 Worship 8:30am & 11:00am Bilingual (Spanish & English) 

March 12 Choir, all ages welcome 9:30am

March 12 Sunday School 9:45am Forum 

March 12 Potluck Lunch 12:00pm all ages welcome

March 12 Youth Group & Confirmation 1:00pm

March 12 Darlene Thom and family sponsoring dinner for CCLM

March 13 Pastor’s Day Off

March 15 Spanish Class for adults 8:30-9:30am 

March 15 Alcoholics Anonymous for Women 6:00pm 

March 15 Lent Worship 7pm (March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29)

March 16 Estudio bíblico 8:30am via Zoom

March 16 Bible Study 10:30am

March 16 Spanish for Kids 3:15pm

March 17 Piecemaker’s Quilting Group 9:00am

March 17 Outreach Committee 1:00pm

March 18 Colleen Mertz Funeral 11:00 am

March 28 Council 7:15pm

April 1 Campus Cleanup 8am – 12pm

April 2 Palm Sunday 8:30am & 11:00 am

April 4 Staff Meeting 9am

April 4 Worship Committee 10am

April 4 Education Committee Vacation Bible School Open House 6 – 8pm

April 6 Maundy Thursday 7:00 pm

April 7 Good Friday 7:00 pm

April 8 Easter Vigil 8:00 pm

April 9 Easter Sunday worship 8:30 am & 11:00 am

Potluck Brunch and Easter Egg Hunt 9:30 am

April 13 Bonhoeffer Festival 12:30 pm Good Shepherd Lutheran, Claremont

April 22 Communion Class 9am-11am 

April 23 Annual Meeting 9:45am

April 30 First Communion Sunday

May 4-6 Synod Assembly in Palm Desert

May 6 “Tacos and Talent” Spring Benefit Concert 4pm

June 10 Toastmasters Event

June 19-23 Vacation Bible School

June 24 Dia Playero con El Espíritu Santo Beach Day with the Holy Spirit

We would like to wish Happy Birthday to the following:

Kimberly Wanner, Heidi Wanner, Bella Sander, Brian Karrick, Billy Green, Harlean Estrada, John Ortega, Joe Giachetti, Sophia Padilla, Jim Hobgood, Carlee Gardiner, Alieha Padilla, Pat Fox, Rochelle Teagle, Sandy Haun, Jens Hovland, Monessa Padilla

Happy Anniversary !

Jerry and Ingrid Uhler and Sergio and Anne Prest- Porto

Testimonies at Grace Lutheran!

Our goal is to have at least one testimony per month by a member of the church. We will follow the guidelines we studied at Sunday School: Three minutes in length, during the time of offering, with the topic: How has Grace Lutheran made a positive difference in your life? How have you seen God? Thank you Jeff and Ingrid Thom for sharing your testimonies. We look forward to Kevin & Carrie Macias in March, Rollie Myrold in April, Jerry Uhler in May, and Loretta Estu in June. Please let Pastor Wesley know if you’d like to share a testimony.

Podcast of Sermons

Thank you to John Holmgren for recording the audio of the sermon each week!

Sunday 26 February 2023 “What a Wonderful World”

It’s A Wonderful World

Sunday 19 February 2023

On the Transfiguration

Earthquake Relief Offering

The total amount given from Sundays 2/12 and 2/26 was $1102. Thank you! A donation of that amount will be sent to Lutheran World Relief.

Notes on Communion Distribution from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:

“Communicants may stand or kneel to receive the bread and wine. In many congregations the minister stands at the center front of the aisle, so that there can be continuous communion. The ancient practice was to receive by standing. In the present time, in some congregations, communicants kneel during Lent and/or Holy Week, but stand during the remainder of the year. Certainly they should stand during the Easter season, enacting the season of Christ’s Resurrection.”

The season of Lent and Holy Week are a good time to kneel as we repent of our sin and prepare for Easter. We will resume standing with “continuous” distribution during Easter.

Building and Grounds News

         We hope to trim the grape vines in the next few weeks stay tuned! If you’d like to help talk to Jim Zimmer.

The electrical for the parking lot light pole was run Thursday 3/2 and concrete poured 3/3! Thank you to the Young Family for funding the project in honor of Wayne and Joanne. Thank you Paul Dropp for concrete and John Plemmons for electrical, and to Jim Zimmer for overseeing the project.

Soup Supper & Worship Workshop

“Design Thinking for Ministry” 

7:00 pm Worship and Workshop in Sanctuary

7:30pm Soup Supper in Fellowship Hall

Join us for Delicious Soup on Wednesday March 8 at 7:30pm immediately following Lenten Worship and Workshop. This year for Lent Wednesday nights we are practicing “Design Thinking” which is a way of organizing our community for discernment for how we can relate to the world and offer ministry for growth!

Potluck-Brunch and Egg Hunt

April 9th at 9:30am

Every year we do an Easter egg hunt on the lawn. We need plastic eggs already packed with candy.  If you can donate, please bring them to church or the office!

We’re also having brunch on the patio between services. Please join us! The brunch has been a nice part of Easter over many years at GLC.

 Services at 8:30am and 11:00am  – Choir will perform

Blessing*

The God who faithfully brings forth justice

and breaks the oppressor’s rod

☩ bless, strengthen, and uphold you,today and always. Amen.

Sending Hymn   

Dismissal 

Go in peace. Follow the way of Jesus

Thanks be to God.

Postlude

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