Lutheran Church of Our Savior

Pentecost 2 - June 19, 2022 at the  Lutheran Church of Our Savior Festival Holy Communion 10:00 am Let us pray,  O Lord God, we bring before you the cries of a sorrowing world. In your mercy set us free from the chains that bind us, and defend us from everything that is evil, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.               Readings  Galatians 3:23-29 In baptism, clothed with Christ; no longer Jew or Greek Luke 8:26-39 Jesus casts out demons possessing a man of the Gerasenes Leading Our Liturgy This Sunday  Roger Berner, Pastor                                                    Federico Teti, Director of Music Linda Polizzi, Assisting Minister Nico Kothe, Acolyte Gulio Varsi, Lector The Grace Guild, Coffee Hour Laura Boehm, Gladys Dello-Iacono, Fabiola Knight, Irene Wood, Altar Care  Charles Kietzman, Michael Liu, Jerry Lockwood, Richard Swenson, Ushers This Sunday is Graduate Recognition Sunday. We ask that our Graduates to sit together during the worship service with their mortar boards (if available). They will also be asked to come to the altar rail at the conclusion of the service for prayer and the service of Godspeed and Farewell as they continue their education or start their careers.  High School Graduates, Class of 2022 Catherine C. Schreiber HS, PW University of Delaware Luke D.      Schreiber HS, PW Johnson and Wales University Sean D. Schreiber HS, PW Michigan State University Katie V-C. Schreiber HS, PW University of Buffalo Jenny V-C. Schreiber HS, PW University of Buffalo Annabelle R. Schreiber HS, PW   Tim W. Roslyn High School Stonybrook University   In Our Daily Prayers

Christ’s Church   
our Congregation, Lutheran Church of Our Savior
our Synod, Metropolitan New York Synod and Bishop Paul Egensteiner
our Church, the ELCA and Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton         
our Lutheran World Federation and President, Archbishop Musa Panti Filibus

God’s World   
especially for peace in: Afghanistan, China, Ethiopia, Haiti, Israel, Myanmar, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Taiwan, Tonga, Ukraine, Yemen, and the United States.

A Message from Bishop Egensteiner

                            

Dear Siblings in Christ,

Our hearts are broken, once again, at the most recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. With the psalmist, we cry out, “How long?” I pray God will once again bring comfort and we would resolve to end the conditions that cause such pain and loss. This prayer is from the ELCA worship resource, All Creation Sings: 

Lord Jesus Christ, your own mother looked on when your life ended in violence. Our hearts are pierced with grief and anger at the death of individuals lost to the mass shootings in Buffalo, NY; and Uvalde, TX. We commend the slain to your wounded hands, and their loved ones to your merciful heart, trusting only in the promise that your love is stronger than death and that even now, you live and reign forever and ever. 
Amen. 

Peace in Christ,
+Bishop Egensteiner 

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• Pastor Roger Berner

  Our Interim Pastor                                                                                             

  I grew up on the Great Plains, in the fifth largest (14,007 people) metropolitan area in South Dakota – Watertown.  We lived on the edge of  “town”, and had a huge garden – or was it a small farm?  We had a tractor and a plow to turn the soil over in the spring.  My father ordered 1,000 tomato plants and 3,000 cabbage plants from Georgia every spring.  We also grew carrots, onions, cucumbers, squash, corn, beans, peas, beets, and potatoes.  The entire garden was surrounded by hundreds of peonies.

  I enjoyed planting the corn and potatoes, because I did that with my father.  He dug the hole and I threw in a few kernels of corn or some old smelly potatoes cut up with “eyes” sticking out.  I did not enjoy weeding the garden.  In fact, the weeds usually won out toward the end of the summer, but the harvest was nonetheless bountiful and delicious.  Growing up, I never tasted sweet corn that was more than 15 minutes old.  My father picked the corn, I husked it, my mother cooked it, and we all ate it together.  My father would also take me with him to seine for minnows, or to go fishing and hunting.  While driving, my father quizzed me on what crop was growing in each field we passed.  He would point to the right or left and I would say:  corn, wheat, barley, flax, soy beans, rye or barley.  The most difficult to distinguish were wheat and oats – they look so much alike.  My favorite crop was flax (linen is made from flax, as is the fine paper used for Bibles), because when it was in bloom it looked like a blue sea.

  Joseph and Mary must have taught Jesus about agriculture because his parables were filled with images of “the farm” – mustard, sheep, grapes, goats, mint, wolves, wheat, doves, barley, dogs, olives, cows, and lilies.  My mother, Sunday School teachers, pastors, and professors taught me the parables of Jesus; but I came to understand his parables through what my father taught me in the garden and the fields.

  I studied history at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and continued on at Luther Seminary in St. Paul.  While at seminary I organized a “summer internship” outside of Phoenix, doing youth work and going door to door, inviting people to “Come and See!” the new mission church.  I also served as “the Vicar” at Zion Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, New York for my official internship.  Those two places were very different, but both were filled amazing, wonderful, and faithful members who were also my teachers.

  I was ordained in January at my home congregation in South Dakota, it was  -27 degrees (-69 degrees wind chill factor), and no one even suggested postponing the service.  St. John Mark Lutheran Church in Homestead (Pittsburgh), PA had called me as their Pastor and I served there for 9 years.  Then Trinity Lutheran Church in North Bethesda, MD called me, where I served for 28 years until October 2018.  Both were places of faith, hope, love, and great joy for me.  After a year of retirement, the Interim Bishop of New York asked if I would serve as the Interim Pastor of Emanuel Lutheran Church, Pleasantville, NY – a delightful experience to share the good news of Christ in Westchester County with a wonderful congregation, even through the challenges and learning opportunities of a pandemic. 

  Now I have begun a new adventure of faith in Christ Jesus – getting to know and love the people of the Lutheran Church of Our Savior in Port Washington.  I trust that we will laugh and cry, work and play, sing and pray together during this “in between” time for LCOS, as we continue to trust in God’s grace and mercy to lead us into a future of Spirit-led ministry.       

             

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