Lutheran Church of Our Savior

Weekend Update for 4 Pentecost

June 20, 2021

Anchors Aweigh

A fleet of boats cross the Sea of Galilee. Windstorm arises and waves beat against the boats.  The boat Jesus is in starts to swamp.  Asleep in the stern, disciples wake the Lord  up.  “Teacher, don’t you care…?”  Of course, He cares!  He rebukes the wind and the waves.  There’s dead calm.  This is one reason why you always want the Lord in your boat! 

 We welcome tomorrow the Reverend Mr. Ronald Klose as our guest presiding minister.  As a retired U.S. Navy Reserve chaplain, he has some ships in a storm stories to tell as part of his testimony to the Lord.

This week’s Agnusday strip relates to tomorrow’s Second Lesson, a reading from St. Paul’s second epistle to the Christian community in Corinth which reads, in part,

We are putting no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, ⁴but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, ⁵beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ⁶by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, ⁷truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; ⁸in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

          As we also celebrate Father’s Day, Janice Crawford is the Assisting Minister and Bill Gordon the Lector.  Diana Truss makes her debut as Cantor assisted by Pia Haselbach.  They’ll be singing, “Eternal Father, Strong to Save,” the Navy hymn, a prayer-hymn for those in peril on the sea.                 

NYS Department of Health COVID Safety Protocols

Until there’s greater clarification about amending protocols for funerals and religious organizations, the Bishop recommends congregations unsure of everyone’s vaccination status and congregations with children under the age of 12 should continue following the safety protocols of masks, safe distancing and no singing. 

Soli Deo Gloria!