January 23, 2022 Bulletin by St. Luke's UMC

1.23.2022

THIS WEEKEND CONNECTIONS BOOKSTORE OPEN SUNDAYS • 9AM - NOON CONNECTION CENTERS OUTSIDE THE SANCTUARY & ROBERTSON CHAPEL Stop by the Connection Centers to get your questions answered, sign up for groups, serving opportunities, and events, and learn about ways to connect here. RESTLESS CHILD AREA GATHERING AREA (LEFT OF SANCTUARY) & CENTRAL PASSAGE Enjoy our live services in these spaces if your child needs a break during worship. NURSING MOTHER’S AREA E126 (EAST PASSAGE) Enjoy our live services in these spaces if you’d like to nurse in private and/or if your child needs a break during worship. DONUTS & COFFEE FELLOWSHIP HALL • 10AM – NOON After service come meet new people while grabbing a coffee and donut. ARTIST RECEPTION GALLERY (2ND FLOOR BY THE SANCTUARY) • 10:30AM-12:30PM Artist Brinton Farrand returns to our gallery space with an exhibit featuring many pieces about our life with technology. Each piece is accompanied by a story about the piece. Come talk with Brinton at the Artist Reception!

PLEDGES

We are less than $300,000 away from meeting our pledge goal of $4,885,000. If you have not submitted your pledge, please know how important it is in assisting our Finance Committee in finalizing our 2022 budget. To return your pledge you can mail in or drop off the physical card that was mailed to your home, call it in to (317) 8463404, or submit it electronically at stlukesumc.com/give.

CONNECT

HIGH SCHOOL INVITE NIGHT: GAME FRENZY SUNDAY, JANUARY 23 • 4PM • THE LODGE Invite Night is an on-campus event with crazy themes open to 9th-12th graders and their friends in the community. We always have snacks, worship, teaching, and shenanigans all evening long! This fun party will include food, candy, games, and time to hang out with your friends. The cost is only $5 but guests are FREE! If you are a guest, just leave the payment section in the registration blank. Registration is strongly encouraged but we will always accept walk-ins! Signup at stlukesumc.com/ students. FREEDOM SCHOOL ORIENTATION MONDAY, JANUARY 24 • 6PM • COMMUNITY ROOM Freedom Schools© are five-week summer programs designed to increase literacy, self-esteem, socio-emotional skills, and a love of learning for children in elementary school. St. Luke’s Freedom School in July will need dozens of volunteers and donors to support 100 scholars from Washington township schools. Register at stlukesumc. com/events. KIDS NIGHT IN/PARENTS NIGHT OUT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 • 6-9PM What if Parent’s Night Out meant Kids Night In? Guess what? It does now! Here’s how it works. • Register at stlukesumc.com/kids. • Drop your kids off with us on Friday, February 11 from 6-9PM. • Go out! While you’re out, your kids will be eating pizza, playing games, making crafts, bouncing in a bounce house, and more. This is for Infants - 4th graders! So, no matter who you are, how many kids live in your house, this is for you! EXPLORING MEMBERSHIP SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13 • 12:15PM • GREAT HALL This class will help you learn more about the United Methodist Church and the process for formally joining St. Luke’s. Here you’ll learn more about who we are, our beliefs, and our mission. You’ll also get to hear the story of our church and discuss what it means to be a member of this local congregation through serving, growing in your faith journey, moving toward generosity, and more. The class runs from 12:152:45PM. Lunch will be served in the Great Hall. Please note childcare needs on the registration at stlukesumc.com/events.

MIDDLE SCHOOL INVITE NIGHT: NEON NIGHT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 • 6:30PM • LODGE Invite Night is an on-campus event with crazy themes open to 5th-8th graders and their friends in the community. We always have snacks, worship, teaching, and shenanigans all evening long! These events are only $5, but guests are free! Dress in your best neon gear and prepare for some Fodgeball (dodgeball + fog machines), laser tag, and more! Signup at stlukesumc.com/students. FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION MEET-UP SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 • 9AM • COMMUNITY ROOM This event is designed for foster and adoptive parents, Safe Family parents, kinship providers, grandparents, pastors, psychologists, social workers, licensed counselors, marriage and family counselors, nurses, and all those who care for orphaned and vulnerable children. It is a time for you to be physically, emotionally, spiritually refreshed, and inspired. This is not a foster/adoptive recruiting conference. Rather, it is all about supporting people on their post-placement journey. Childcare is provided (please note that on your registration). We do ask that you register in advance at stlukesumc.com/events. HIGH SCHOOL INVITE NIGHT: NEON NIGHT & SILENT DISCO SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 4PM • LODGE Calling all 9th-12 graders! Dress in your best neon gear and party with your friends in our Silent Disco. The cost is only $5, but guests are FREE! If you are a guest, just leave the payment section in the registration blank. Registration is strongly encouraged, but we will always accept walk-ins! Signup at stlukesumc.com/students.

CONDOLENCES & CONGRATULATIONS To Rita Berghoff and Dave Berghoff on the death of their mother on January 11, 2022. To the family and friends of Drew Kogan, who died on January 12, 2022. To Crystal (mom), Kyle (dad), Lena (sister), and Joey (brother) Hensley on the birth of their sister, Jenna Michelle Hensley, born on January 14, 2022.

TRADITIONAL ORDER OF WORSHIP Prelude

Welcome and Call to Worship | Rev. Rob Fuquay Leader: Our God who gathers us to worship today is the author of our stories, both as a church and as individuals. We often turn away from those who are hurting, but our God calls us to bring his care for all we encounter. All: Help us be a church that heals. Leader: Our God who we gather to worship today created an existence with beauty in its infinite diversity, but we are often uncomfortable by what we perceive as different. All: Help us be a church that accepts all. Leader: Our God who we worship today sent his Son to enter uncomfortable places, challenge

wrongs, and love people who were outcast. All: Help us be a church that takes risks. Leader: Our God who we worship today calls us to be his church, and find and give the hope we find in Jesus Christ. All: Help us make your vision be our unwritten story.

Opening Hymn | The Church’s One Foundation #546 v.1-4 Affirmation of Faith | A Statement of Faith of the Korean Methodist Church, adapted Rev. Kevin Davis Leader: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is the one true church, apostolic and universal, whose holy faith let us now declare: All: We believe in the one God, maker and ruler of all things, the source of all goodness and beauty, all truth and love. We believe in Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, our teacher, example, and Redeemer, the Savior of the world. We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance, for comfort, and for strength. We believe in the forgiveness of sins, in the life of love and prayer, and in grace equal to every need. We believe in the Word of God contained in the Old and New Testaments as the sufficient rule both of faith and of practice. We believe in the Church as the fellowship, for worship and for service, of all who are united to the living Lord. We believe in the kingdom of God as the divine rule in human society, in the final triumph of righteousness, and in the life everlasting. Amen.

Glory to God | The Gloria Patri #70 Anthem | River in Judea – Linda Marcus & Jack Feldman, arr. John Leavitt

New Song; Chancel Choir; Kathrine Kouns, Director | Bass guitar, Dr. Jeff Rogers; Drums, Art Reiner

Prayer Time and the Lord’s Prayer | Rev. Kevin Davis

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. Amen.

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