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Spring/Summer 2012 Vol. 2 | No. 2
Celebrating
liturgy and music Student view:
The heart of campus
Amazing ministry:
Sacristans
What does your faith inspire?
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Spring/Summer 2012 Vol. 2 | No. 2
Letter from the pastor
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6 Liturgy and Music The Rev. Franklin Wilson
Amazing ministry: Sacristans
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8 Looking at liturgical vestments Annette Mahler
The Rev. Franklin Wilson Angela Vitcenda
Liturgy and music: In appreciation 3
9 Fact or folklore: New altar in a new world Walt Miner
View from the bench: Meet the Moeller
10 Student view from the pew: The heart of campus Jamie Stark
The Rev. Jon Enslin
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Bruce Bengtson
Luther Memorial Preschool: Chapel time
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Book review: Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song
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Suzanne Du Chateau
Lisa Beckstrand
Poetry: For Thomas
The Rev. Brent Christianson
10 Meet Chelsie Propst The Rev. Brad Pohlman 12 Columbarium: The all-boy string quartet in the crypt Peter Strupp 12 What does your faith inspire? Lewis Bosworth and Judy Braham 13 Cantate Sunday
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Luther Memorial Church 1021 University Avenue . Madison, Wisconsin 53715 608.258.3160 Senior Pastor The Rev. Franklin Wilson Associate Pastor The Rev. Brad Pohlman Editor The Rev. Franklin Wilson Managing Editor Suelyn Swiggum Administration Kim O’Leary Designer Robin Wagner Photographers Neal Deunk, Suelyn Swiggum, Robin Wagner
Luther Memorial magazine is online at www.luthermem.org. To subscribe: 1021 University Avenue . Madison, WI 53715 www.luthermem.org/subscribe . magazine@luthermem.org . 608.258.3160 To submit articles: Email to magazine@luthermem.org by September 14, 2012, for publication in the next issue in fall 2012. On the cover: An assisting minister helps the presiding minister with the altar book.
Letter from the Pastor
Liturgy and music at Luther Memorial The angels sang when Christ was born, therefore the church sings. The church’s voice takes liturgical form in every season of life, and here at Luther Memorial, the church expresses her musical voice with angelic grace, beauty and joy. Whether you’re an every Sunday participant, a visitor who occasionally joins the congregation’s song, a lifelong member, or a student who drops in once a term, I suspect you know what I mean when I speak of Luther Memorial’s beautiful liturgical music. This issue of Luther Memorial magazine celebrates liturgy and music. But more than that, it invites all of us, young and old, to enter the glorious praise and thanksgiving that pervade worship at Luther Memorial. The great Orthodox liturgical scholar and teacher, Alexander Schmemann, liked to say that the liturgy begins when we leave home Sunday morning—that we bear witness to the faith when we come to sing and share in the church’s eucharistic song.
“ We bear witness to the faith when we come to sing and share in the church’s
eucharistic song.”
I think Father Schmemann is correct. The church’s liturgy precedes what occurs within the nave and chancel walls even as it extends beyond them. Like the body of Christ himself, which it both presents and forms, the liturgy knows no bounds, no limits, no constraints. And, yet, the liturgy orders the church even as it shapes us into the Lord’s crucified and risen body in and for the world. In this sense, liturgy at Luther Memorial is formal: it forms us into the one holy catholic and apostolic church. We are the church of the year 2012 on University Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. But we are also the church of every time and place, including the formative centuries in which the church was born, out of which liturgical tradition emerges, and by which we are shaped for ministry in this time and place. Liturgy sings for the ages: Christ is the melody, the harmony, the rhythm and ritual that moves and beckons us to share our bread with beggars like ourselves. In these pages I hope you will hear again the echo of angels: “All glory be to God on high! He is not here, he is risen from the dead. Alleluia!” Lend your voice. Join the song: Te Deum Laudamus! Thanks be to God! In Christ,
The Rev. Franklin Wilson Senior Pastor
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Sacristans: A new tradition
Sacristans: (L-R) Judy Braham, Lois Mueller, Sue Bangert, Angela Vitcenda, Peggy Baldwin and Kelly Olson. Below: Cynthia Vander Woude. Not pictured: Sandy Bertics, Tracy Bredeson, Cindy Cameron-Fix, Mary Powell.
Luther Memorial has a strong tradition of volunteer sacristans assisting with Sunday morning and special worship services. What many people may not know is that this is a relatively new tradition, having begun only a bit more than twenty years ago. Many members will remember the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, who served this congregation 1973–1990. While there was an Altar Guild in place for the set-up, care and cleaning of the glass communion cups, it was Pastor Bremer who organized the rest of the sacristy. Everything and everyone from the chancel to the sacristy fell under his care and watchful eye. He had even been known to say with a smile, “I don’t iron at home, but here, I do the Lord’s ironing.” On Pastor Bremer’s retirement, we began a long period of
interim pastoral leadership. The original sacristans were a very small group designed to help with this transition in leadership, offer assistance and support, and to help retain continuity in services and liturgy. The four sacristans, Lewis Bosworth, Angela Vitcenda, Brittany White and Marshall Crossnoe, helped with set-up, organization and oversight of three Sunday morning services each week during the academic year and two Sunday morning services during the summer months. Today, Luther Memorial is blessed with a dedicated group of sacristans (listed above) that continue the tradition of liturgical support and service. Sacristans continue to organize the sacristy, prepare the chancel, assist with vesting and training liturgical assistants, and coordinating with the pastors, the
music director and ushers to help keep services running smoothly. Please see a pastor to learn more about serving as a sacristan.
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Liturgy and music: ln appreciation The Apostle Paul suggests that we really don’t know how to pray, but God comes to our aid with “sighs too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). “Sighs too deep for words” is one way I think of music. I grew up in a musical home. My parents both served as church organists. I graduated from a conservatory two weeks after I graduated from high school. Music has always been a means for me to express and experience the emotions of the heart. This is why music is so important to my worship life. Listen to Bruce introduce a hymn as you read the words of the hymn. Delight in the wondrous exultation of the music on festival days. Sense the somber pathos expressed during Holy Week. Chant, physical posture, liturgical actions and
the diversity of musical groups are all vehicles enabling me to express and experience a range of emotions that often exceeds the words of the hymns and the liturgy. I rejoice that Luther Memorial understands the centrality of music in worship. It is a major reason why Cris and I decided to become members here. Jon Enslin served as the bishop of South-Central Synod of Wisconsin 1991–2001 and as interim senior pastor at Luther Memorial December 2006–May 2007. He and his wife Crystal joined Luther Memorial in 2010.
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View from the bench: Luther Memorial houses three organs and the two facades of the 1923 Moeller organ. The pipes and mechanisms of the original organ were housed in two levels of the tower, and the console sat in the west transept balcony, and it was from here that the choir also sang. It may surprise many to know that this instrument also had antiphonal divisions housed over the west and east portals at the north end of the building. The east portal area now houses the electric blower-motor for the Austin organ, and the west portal area (which I call the “Anne Frank Room”) sits vacant—cold in the
Meet the Moeller
winter and hot in the summer—but with a beautiful stained glass window. The Moeller organ was a victim of ice dams and the resultant water damage, suffering many mechanical problems because of this.
I would love to be able to hear what this instrument sounded like. Considering the year in which it was built, the organ would have had a sound that was round and warm, with many colorful, even orchestral, stops. The sound would not have been bright or direct, being placed in a separate room, with openings for the sound
Bruce Bengtson | director of music
to enter the nave. The antiphonal pipes would have helped to surround the nave with sound, supporting singers in the rear of the nave and providing interesting spatial effects in organ solos. At least portions of this instrument still sound—but at the House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin. I tell the choirs that the organ is a “mechanical choir”—the choirs are parts of the congregation that practice for Sunday singing. And for the congregation, regular attendance at service is preparation for the heavenly choir. See you at rehearsal!
Learn more about Luther Memorial’s organs online at www.luthermem.org/life-at-luther/music.
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Chapel time
Since the start of Luther Memorial Preschool, chapel time with the Luther Memorial pastoral staff has been a highlight of our weekly routine. Meeting on Tuesday and Thursday mornings throughout our school year with Pastors Wilson and Pohlman provides a time for reflection and reverence. Both pastors possess the gift of sharing the word of God in a way that is relevant and special to even the youngest child. One of my favorite aspects of chapel time is the way in which the pastors utilize the entire church building to teach the children. Depending on the church season or the topic, we change our meeting location. During the fall we receive a general tour of the nave, narthex, and even the pastors’ study/offices. Many of the beautiful artifacts and locations throughout the church become teaching tools: the crucifix, altar, stained glass, tapestries, statues, columbarium, baptismal font, choir loft, organ, flowers and candles. Providing this in-depth, hands-on look at Luther Memorial gives a clearer picture to our young preschoolers about our faith and the life of Jesus. Chapel time often concludes with a song, sung by
the children and the pastors together. However, it is rumored that even Music Director “Mr. Bruce” once played “Twinkle Twinkle” for us on his organ! Chapel time is a gift for our students and we welcome you to come and join us any time!
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book review
Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song by Brian Wren
Praying Twice: The Music and Words of Congregational Song is a broad summary and analysis of the congregational song that has permeated Christian thought, worship and spirituality from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Poet, pastor, theologian and teacher Brian Wren describes congregational song as anything that a congregation sings not as performance but as a “vehicle for its encounter with God.” He gives examples of how historical and cultural contexts have shaped people’s experience of singing and their expression of faith. In other words, some hymns may reflect wartime thinking and language, while others are written during times of relative peace. Wren also suggests that we often think of theology as a rational, left-brained activity that seeks to systematically explain the fundamental ideas of Christian faith. He reminds us that theology is powerfully expressed through music, drama and the visual arts, weaving image with sound, imagination with intellect, building finally its own spiritual and theological narrative. In this way, and through repetition of tune and lyric, some hymns are imprinted on memory for “sustenance, spiritual growth and recall in time of need.”
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expressed through music, drama and the visual arts, weaving image with sound, imagination with intellect, building finally its own spiritual and theological narrative.”
Poetry
For Thomas It was not your doubt, but your belief that frightened and amazed. In my more honest moments, Thomas, I admit that too. All speak of you as one who doubted. But faith crept in like a mouse into the grain bin and, nibbling a bit, brought life to the dead wheat you were. I long for that same mouse to feed but fear the invasion of my granary. Thomas, what shall I do?
Praying Twice is clearly written and will be of interest to any worshipper who loves to sing, worship and pray, or who comes to church to simply experience God. For examples of Brian Wren’s hymn texts found in our hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, see #317 “Jesus on the Mountain Peak”; #358 “Great God, Your Love has Called Us”; #383 “Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!”; #389 “Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing”; and #482 “I Come with Joy.”
THe REv. Brent Christianson is campus pastor and director of the Lutheran Campus Center.
Lisa Beckstrand joined Luther Memorial in 2007. She comes from a family of church musicians and has a deep appreciation of Lutheran worship.
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Liturgy and Music Like flowing streams, liturgy and music converge to sweep us into the judgment and mercy of God.
Font
In Holy Baptism our gracious heavenly Father liberates us from sin and death by joining us to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. ELW, p. 227
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The creative and redeeming Word of God both kills and makes alive as the church is called to account and set free to live and serve.
“Next to theology, I give music the highest place of honor.” -Martin Luther
Altar
The true body and blood of Christ our Lord makes us into the church, the living body of Christ in the world.
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around the baptismal font, hearing the scriptural Word proclaimed, and receiving the altar’s visible Word forms broken people into the body of Christ assembled in praise and thanksgiving, and sent out in loving service. Liturgy does the church’s primary work and, in the Lutheran tradition, music both bears and inspires the assembly’s liturgical voice. Even as music bears rhythm, melody, harmony, and voice, so also liturgy bears elemental order, fixed points of orientation, seasonal variety, and the perfection of error redeemed. As such, the church’s worship is ever the same and yet ever new, both ancient and modern, divine and human. Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending: four words signal the Ordo, the elemental structure of seasonal change and weekly variety. The Gathering is ever and always baptismal, the Word audible yet visibly eucharistic. The Word both sung and spoken embodies a dynamic movement between law and gospel, even as the Meal tastes of grace, forgiveness, sacrifice—the crucified and risen body and blood of Christ given and shed for you. The Sending beckons us into daily life as servants of Christ and the world he died to save—we are baptized, called, fed, and sent to serve, even as we return again to the font of rebirth.
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Looking at liturgical vestments Luther Memorial Church has a reputation for fine liturgy, what some might term “high church.” In common parlance, this means a more formal worship service that centers on Holy Communion, uses prescribed orders of service and music, and vests clergy and assistants in liturgical garb worthy of Christ the King. For the Lutheran church, with its catholicreformed roots, this return to more classic modes of worship was an outgrowth of ecumenical conversations following World War II. Dialogues with Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and the Orthodox churches enabled Lutherans to reintroduce some of what had been purged during earlier centuries. Especially following the Second Vatican Council, increased sensory stimuli within liturgical worship invited the use of more elaborate “clothes” during the service.
breath away. In Patrick’s hand, fabric and color awaken sensory delight; his creations enhance both devotion and celebration within Christian liturgy. The Advent set, for example, is dominated by a beautiful deep blue damask fabric, with accents of rich green and true red. The chasuble looks stunning on a celebrant, but comes to life with a raised arm in prayer or blessing. Such gestures reveal a glimpse of the bright pink and gold that lines the fabric: spotlight on, then off again as arms are raised and lowered. This sense of visual drama adds to our worship experience. Such description may seem overly poetic, even fanciful; but as personally experienced within worship, the visual drama is both subtle and powerful. Music at Luther Memorial goes to the core. But so does exceptional visual design.
As Luther Memorial’s older liturgical vestments have worn out, the Arts Group has been given the task of finding replacements. While there are several large catalogue suppliers of vestments, finding ones that are beautiful, distinctive and aesthetically worship-enhancing was and is a real challenge. An article from the New York Times became the key to finding vestment sets for Advent, Christmas, Easter, and other festivals, purchased since 2002.
Conduct your own experiment. Look at the vestments worn by the celebrant and lay leaders. Look at the panels hanging from the lectern and pulpit, look at the altar coverings. See if they play a role in your experience of the service. Do these things add a layer of interest, beauty, even pomp? Take a look and give it some thought.
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Annette Mahler is chair of the Arts Group. She joined Luther Memorial in 1987.
fact or folklore
New altar in a new world The most thoroughly chewed over decision in Luther Memorial’s life to date may have been about whether to build—and serve communion— around a new free-standing altar on a platform extending into the nave. For 50 years members had communed (a few times each year) at a stone rail within the apse, just below the altar built into the tall, columned stone reredos. The suggestion for a change had surfaced by the early 1970s. It was discussed and debated, without action, for over a decade. Then in 1985 came a six-month trial run with a temporary platform, a bit smaller and one step lower than the one we see today, after which it was stored and the debate continued. The stone communion rail remained in place. Finally in 1988 the present platform was built and approved by a congregational survey but still thought of as provisional, being built of wood painted to resemble the terrazzo of the central aisle floor. The stone communion rail was removed and much of it used for the columbarium when that was established in the 1990s. Today some 20 years later (and with communion offered every Sunday) the controversy has faded and largely been forgotten—except by those who took part in the 1970s and 80s. Was this rearranging of furniture a mere change in taste? Well, yes, partly: but surely also a response to the changes in the surrounding world that each follower of Christ is called to serve. Those changes were enormous. In 1907, Luther Memorial was focused on meeting a huge need for Lutheran worship in English, an effort that resulted almost instantly in extraordinarily rapid growth. With that came an urgent need for space to accommodate an astonishing number and variety of new members. When the present sanctuary was completed in 1923, it seated 1,650 people for a single service—even without counting the three original small balconies. Today it seats 600. Pews were more closely spaced and extended nearly to the foot of the pulpit, with the narthex half its present size, and the nave extended
The temporary platform in the late 1980s.
correspondingly further at the back. The transepts also were packed with pews, all originally facing forward, not toward the center, and including both the present columbarium and opposite storage room. Filling those pews was the challenge. Forming new congregations was felt to be necessary—and even threatening to the early Madison churches. The goal was gathering members to form a visible Christian presence in a still very new community. But the world changed, with a Great Depression, a second worldwide war and later wars overseas, hugely expanded Madison and world populations, and huge changes in work, families, sciences, new hopes and new anxieties. The free-standing altar, in retrospect, was just one of the congregation’s responses to changing needs both within and beyond its walls, the natural result of a lengthening history in turbulent times.
WALT MINER is a longtime Luther Memorial member and parish historian.
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student view from the pew
The heart of campus Luther Memorial’s history is far from typical. And atypical is good—it takes something unique to get a college student to drag himself out of bed before noon. One sunny Sunday during my freshman year I stumbled into Luther Memorial’s open doors. I plopped down in the back pew, wearing a wrinkled polo and holding a crisp dollar, unsure of what to expect from this palatial place. I found a home where traditional liturgy provides a peaceful juxtaposition to the breakneck life just outside. I found a church worth waking up for before noon on the weekend. Becoming a
part of the Luther Memorial family has been a central, binding theme in my life at UW. Luther Memorial’s roots are here on campus, where our congregation first began meeting as a Bible study. To this day, students are mentioned in the prayers and the sermon nearly every week. Given our historical beginnings and our relationship to campus, student life is deeply ingrained in Luther Memorial. For me, the reverse is true as well. Luther Memorial has been a tent pillar for the campus community and in my life. Our presence on University Avenue
connects us to downtown Madison life, from faculty and students to government offices to the homeless population to the driver just zipping by our front doors. We are blessed as a congregation to worship downtown, energized and inspired by university students for over a century, spilling God’s Word out our front doors and into the heart of campus each week. Jamie Stark is an associate member of Luther Memorial and a senior at UW-Madison majoring in journalism and political science. He has written on Luther Memorial and religious institutions across Madison for the Isthmus.
Meet Chelsie Propst The Rev. Brad Pohlman | associate pastor
You may recognize Chelsie as this year’s cantor at Luther Memorial’s Easter Vigil service. What you may not know is that this May concludes Chelsie’s first year as music director for the Lutheran Campus Center (LCC). The LCC provides Holy Communion services for students in the Luther Memorial nave on Wednesdays at 5:30 and Sunday evening services at the LCC. Chelsie directs the choir and instrumentalists and helps select hymns and music. When asked about her position, she said, “One of the most rewarding parts of my job is to help teach traditional a cappella hymns and chants to college undergraduates, many of whom grew up not hearing this type of sacred music.” In fact, many of the college students who come to services have little experience chanting psalms
and are unfamiliar with non-20th century hymnody. Chelsie has been encorporating Taizé chants, psalm chanting and classic hymn melodies as part of the service. She said that she really “enjoys working with young people and sharing sacred music with them; particularly those who have not experienced much music in the past.” Chelsie grew up in Hickory, N.C., and graduated from Lenior-Rhyne College with a bachelor of arts degree in vocal performance and sacred music with a minor in religion. She completed her master’s degree in vocal performance from the UW this spring and will be a doctoral student at the UW this fall. When not in class or leading music at the LCC, Chelsie sings in the Luther Memorial adult choir and enjoys reading, particularly books by Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien and Hildegard of Bingen.
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The all-boy string quartet in the crypt As a kid, I played first violin in a string quartet, unique in the greater Fond du Lac area at that time for being made up of only boys. Mike Bittner was on viola, the Ohlinger brothers played second violin and cello, and we were all ten or eleven years old. We were booked solid on the garden club and ladies luncheon circuit, our popularity admittedly owing far more to cuteness than to our musicianship. We had several standard playlists of popular folk tunes, beloved patriotic anthems, Christmas favorites, and an all-Carpenters lineup that we once played for a July wedding during which the maid of honor fainted twice. The highlight of our annual season was the Christmas Eve midnight mass in Fond du Lac’s St. Paul’s Cathedral. Like many other churches’ Christmas Eves, this was always a packed house affair, and the Episcopalians did not disappoint, with full “bells and smells” and extensive processing through the dim light of candles, casting gloomy shadows up over the carved faces of the apostles. Our little group supplemented the massed choirs of the congregation, plus bell choir, some brass, possibly a featured harpsichord. With all that, there wasn’t room for us in the loft or anywhere else, so they put us off in the transept chapel of St. Michael the Archangel, which also happened to be the final resting place of Bishop Grafton. There we sat on metal folding chairs, our little wire music stands before us, next to the bishop’s sarcophagus with the bishop himself stretched out life-size in marble on his cold funeral slab, as dead as a doornail and then some. Chilling stuff, truly terrifying, making it awfully hard to concentrate on “Away in a Manger”—did his hand just move? This was the whole appeal of the annual St. Paul’s gig, scaring ourselves silly. There was a dead guy, it was late at night, and the lighting was creepy. And we knew fully well that he wasn’t sleeping in heavenly peace, he was sleeping in dormant rage! We’d seen ghosts in movies! We knew! You didn’t have to look any further than Jacob Marley to know that dead guys’ spirits are bad news to be avoided. They had nothing to offer but intrusive torment, chronic insomnia, and, no doubt, a stubborn dank aroma. So how delightful it is to look back on all this from the perspective of Luther Memorial, a reliably rage-free zone. True, we lack the death-in-repose statues lying around for mood, but our columbarium really isn’t very frightening. Who can imagine the saints interred there being as disgruntled as Jacob Marley? I guess in the knowledge of life eternal “qualms” become awfully small potatoes. But suddenly that sounds awfully smug. I have to ask, how do you preempt a Jacob Marley? I don’t think it’s a rhetorical question.
Peter Strupp serves on the Columbarium Board, inspiring his contemplations on faith “where the rubber hits the road.”
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What does your faith inspire? Before the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer retired in 1990, he asked Lewis Bosworth to become Luther Memorial’s first sacristan. “What does a sacristan do?” Lewis asked. “It’s an arm of the pastoral ministry,” Pastor Bremer replied. Two years into the job, Lewis had come to believe that volunteering as a sacristan meant both arms, both legs and part sexton! Eventually training other sacristans, Lewis continued to serve as head sacristan for 10 years, giving shape to this important ministry. Lewis’ devotion to the liturgy reached beyond the sacristy walls. Judy Braham first noticed Lewis Bosworth in 1992 not as a sacristan, but as an assisting minister. She remembers that he was the first lay person she had ever witnessed assisting with worship. It left her with a strong impression: “To realize that a church actually valued and encouraged the ministry of the congregation in worship was strikingly powerful and wonderfully fulfilling.” Since that time, Judy has served, and continues to serve, in many worship assistant roles and also trains others. As a
Judy Braham and Lewis Bosworth are longtime members of Luther Memorial who assist with worship.
worship assistant trainer, she sees faith—a gift from God—inspire others to become servants of the liturgy. Reflecting on this, she says, “Robed so we can be one, yet serving as a community. Praying and eating together. The ancient words of the liturgy resonate within our gifted faith, drawing us into the wilderness of listening and responding to God’s voice, joining us with the voices of our ancestors. Come, let us worship the Lord.” Lewis and Judy were inspired by former pastors Stephen Bremer and Harvey Peters who believed in the power of the liturgy as the work of the people. Both pastors were instrumental in leading Luther Memorial in new directions: the free-standing altar, communion deacons, role of the sacristan, lay assisting ministers, worship assistants, the columbarium, the immersion font, social justice issues, sexually inclusive ministry, teens as ministers, and other current issues. Today our community of faith lives through the legacy of these apostles. Please see a pastor to learn more about serving as a worship assistant.
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. Acts 2:46-47
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Acknowledgments
Cantate Sunday | May 6, 2012
Each year on the first Sunday in May, Luther Memorial celebrates Cantate Sunday in recognition of the role of God’s gift of music in the worship life of the Christian church. Thank you to those musicians who take part throughout the year in Luther Memorial’s music ministry. adult choir Arren Alexander George Alexander Terri Alexander Wendy Boehm Gary Brown Ann Combs Milana Cox Paul Creswell Charles Craig Bruce Curtis Sandy Erickson Dale Fix Rebecca Forbes Alex Ford Bonnie Gruber Bev Haimerl Bob Haimerl Kathy Haubert Mike Heggeseth Tom Heikkinen Emily Heninger Barb Hughes Kyle Knutson Dale Lavelle Linda Brewer Lavelle Peter Mahler Tony Matthew Laura McGuire
Corin Menuge Walt Miner Jan Moore Carol Noreen Brian Ohm Kelly Olson Erik Pettersen Chelsie Propst Photina Ree Cat Smith Lynda Southwick Jay Suthers Lynne Svetnicka Douglas Swiggum Jonathan Woolums children’s choir Mia Campbell Natalie Curtis Sam Curtis Natalie Denlinger Drumm Lexie Greiber Calvin Guse Jonah Guse Abigail Gaard Micah Scarlett youth choir Kelly Engbring
Kavi Fix Andrew Gaard Ted Huwe Elizabeth Lavine Hannah Line Patrick Line Sam Marten Paul Miner Mia Rossi Asher Scarlett Caleb Scarlett Elena Zerger Emily Zerger bell choir Peggy Baldwin Sandy Bertics Emily Campbell Beverly Haimerl Robert Haimerl Helen Hartman Susan Hollingsworth Carl Messer Jessie Messer Kelly Olson Anne Palmer Lee Powell Mary Powell Debbie Raasch
Nancy Simpson-Younger Marsha Steffen recorders Bernie Brauer Sandy Erickson Margaret Greeno Bev Haimerl Kathy Haubert Marji Marion Kim O’Leary Kathy Seifert instrumentalists Paul Ahlquist, violin Cindy Cameron-Fix, bassoon Alex Ford, trombone Jeremy Fox, cello Abigail Gaard, flute Bonnie Gruber, violin Laura Guse, percussion Carrie Hendricks, horn Katie Koza, violin Harley Lemkuil, violin Laura McGuire, trumpet Paul Miner, trombone Kathryn Norby, tuba Carol Noreen, violin
Casey Oelkers, flute Anders Ohm, trombone Caleb Scarlett, cello Jon Schneider, trumpet Kristi Schneider, percussion Matt Sundell, trumpet Mark Sundquist, cello Lynn Washington, viola Rolf Wulfsberg, violin organists Sandy Erickson Alex Ford Kathy Haubert Mark Huth Mark Smith Chappy Stowe
Please see Director of Music Bruce Bengtson to learn more about music at Luther Memorial.
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Looking ahead June Prayer Shawls for High School Seniors: Sunday, June 3 |10:30 am Senior Day at Oakwood Village West: Monday, June 4 |10 am Men’s Group: Tuesday, June 5 | 7 pm Women Gathering: Wednesday, June 13 | 7 pm Youth Mission Trip: June 16–23 Bike Trip to Verona: Sunday, June 17 | 2 pm
July Women Gathering: Wednesday, July 11 | 7 pm
August Isthmus Choir Concert: Friday, August 3 | 7:30 pm Men’s Group: Tuesday, August 7 | 7 pm Women Gathering: Wednesday, August 8 | 7 pm Ice Cream Social at Oakwood Village West: Sunday, August 12 | 2 pm Senior Day at Oakwood Village West: Monday, August 27 | 10 am