 VIRTUAL COMMUNION NEXT SUNDAY // We welcome you to Redeemer’s first Virtual Sacrament of Holy Communion next Sunday, February 7th. Whether you partake by sharing bread and wine or grape juice at home, or simply join our prayers, know that all are included in the loving and forgiving communion of the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus for our life together. WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for February worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020” TEES // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) partnered with the Northside’s Juxtaposition Arts to create a brand new 2020 “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts. They are now available for pre-order for a suggested donation of $10 or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee! Please fill out the pre-order form, and if you choose to, you may pay online through our online giving portal! COVID-19 VACCINES // M Health Fairview will begin scheduling COVID-19 vaccination appointments for people 75 years of age or older in addition to front-line health care workers who cannot perform their job remotely. The M Health Fairview COVID-19 vaccination effort is a phased approach, per guidance from the Minnesota Department of Health. Those eligible willl be asked to show identification including a driver’s license or other government issued ID or proof of employment at the time of your vaccination, whichever is applicable. COVID-19 vaccines require two doses. Please choose a first appointment that allows you to return exactly 21 days later at the same location. Your second vaccine appointment will be scheduled when you receive your first dose. HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  Fourth Sunday after Epiphany | Readings & GospelDeuteronomy 18:15-20, Psalm 111, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, & Mark 1:21-28 In the Gospel of Mark, the first person healed by Jesus had “an unclean spirit.” So do we all; yet in baptism we receive instead the Holy Spirit. The second reading this Sunday is Paul’s interesting discussion about whether Christians could eat meat that had been first offered to gods or goddesses. Since nearly all meat available in Corinth at that time had been first offered in a pagan religious rite, Paul offers his advice in this dilemma. Guided by Christ made known to the nations, let us offer our prayers for the church, the world, and all people in need-
For all who share the gospel and proclaim freedom in Christ throughout the world: prophets, teachers, pastors, deacons, and lay leaders; for the church and its ministries, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For government and leaders: cities and nations, rescue professionals and legal aid attorneys, elected officials and grassroots organizers; for all responsible for the well-being of civil society, protecting our natural resources and all that exists, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For those living with HIV/AIDS, those struggling with mental illness, those who are hungry or homeless,and those who suffer in mind, body, or spirit: Ione, Dennis, Mary, and Sarah, our local and global siblings living with surging COVID-19 in Ethiopia, Lebanon, Belarus, and the Church in the Holy Land, with accompanying lockdowns and quarantines, for all first responders as well as disaster volunteers, caregivers, hospice workers, and home health aides, the unsheltered campers at 2nd Ave North and Van White Memorial Blvd, brothers James and Bobbie, Cindy, Linda, Jovita, Maggie, Samantha . . . let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For the concerns of Redeemer: those who travel, our online worship, those celebrating birthdays or anniversaries; seeking a pastor for the people of God in this place and for other needs in our Harrison community, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For the covenant God made with us in the waters of baptism, in thanksgiving for the baptized, Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane and Chris who have died in the Lord, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. Merciful God, hear the prayers of your people, spoken or silent, for the sake of the one who dwells among us, your Son, Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.  ANNUAL MEETING THIS SUNDAY, JANUARY 24th via ZOOM // We will hold our Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 24th at 10:30am via zoom. This meeting will take place during our regular weekly fellowship, and can be joined through the Sunday fellowship zoom link. Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196) or dial in by phone to (312) 626-6799. You may familiarize yourself with topics of discussion by viewing and/or downloading our 2020 Annual Report Online. 2021 REDEEMER COUNCIL SLATE FOR ELECTIONS // Nominating Committee Update: The following Members and Ministers are up for (re)election at Annual Meeting • President -Siri Fiebiger (second term) • Vice President - Mike Tarras (first term; former treasurer without term limits) • Treasurer - Kristin Gilbert (second term; former Stewardship Minister) • Property -Stuart Munk (1 year position due to pandemic and transition) • Advocacy and Service- Holly DeSouza (second term) • Education and Youth- Lonna Field & Anna Kottkamp (second term) Ministers for nominating and electing at Annual Meeting • Secretary (Minutes taker/maintainer;Officer/Executive Council) - • Fellowship- • Evangelism/Outreach - • Stewardship - We give thanks for the ministry of these outgoing Council ministers and we seek your prayerful consideration for filling these roles: Rachel Birkedahl (Secretary); Mary Britt (Fellowship); Pastor Babette (Evangelism/Outreach); Curtis Coats (Vice-President); Jason Hirsh (Education-Youth Ministry). We thank the nominating Committee of Rachel, Lonna, Pastor Babette, and Krisitin. 2021 GIVING ENVELOPES // We thank you for your financial giving to Redeemer Lutheran! Members received offering envelope boxes at the Nov. 8, 2020 Parked Bike and Car Worship. Come claim yours from 10 to 12 at the Redeemer office on Saturday, Jan. 30th. Call or email Amy and we will leave them in the yellow Redeemer Little Library. WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for January and February worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020” TEES // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) partnered with the Northside’s Juxtaposition Arts to create a brand new 2020 “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts. They are now available for pre-order for a suggested donation of $10 or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee! Please fill out the pre-order form, and if you choose to, you may pay online through our online giving portal! HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  Third Sunday after Epiphany | Readings & Gospel: Jonah 3:1-5, 10; Psalm 62:5-12; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20 The word “Epiphany” means “the showing forth of God,” and the readings on the Sundays after Epiphany continue to show forth Jesus to be our God. This Sunday, Jesus calls the disciples—and us—to repent, believe, and follow him. And Jonah, after trying to run away, finally heeds God’s call and preaches repentance in Nineveh, the capital city of Israel’s enemy Assyria. Guided by Christ made known to the nations, let us offer our prayers for the church, the world, and all people in need--
For the church throughout the world, for pastors and teachers, for deacons and deaconesses, and for musicians and servers, that all proclaim the good news of God’s reconciling love, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For skies and seas, for birds and fish, for favorable weather and clean water, and for the well-being of creation, that God raise up advocates and scientists to guide our care for all the earth, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For the sick, distressed, or grieving; for the outcast and all who await relief Ione, Dennis, Mary, and Sarah, our local and global siblings living with surging COVID-19 in California, France, UK, and vaccines costs in South Africa with accompanying lockdowns with quarantines, for all first responders as well as disaster volunteers, the unsheltered campers at 2nd Ave North and Van White Memorial Blvd, brothers James and Bobbie, Cindy, Linda, Jovita, Maggie, Samantha, Shoonie . . . that in the midst of suffering, God’s peace and mercy surround them, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. For families big and small, our Redeemer seeking a pastor, the Harrison neighborhood, and for the weekly building users, Narcotics Anonymous and RCFL, providers of leadership in our cities and around the world, for Mental Health Connect, Fairview Health Commons, fHarrison Neighborhood Association and homeless advocates, that God inspires all people in the just use of wealth, and whose steadfast love serves as a model for all relationships, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. In thanksgiving for our ancestor in the faith Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane whose life serves as an example of gospel living, pointing us to salvation through Christ, let us pray. Have mercy, O God. Merciful God, hear the prayers of your people, spoken or silent, for the sake of the one who dwells among us, your Son, Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
ANNUAL MEETING NEXT SUNDAY, JANUARY 24th via ZOOM // We will hold our Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 24th at 10:30am via zoom. This meeting will take place during our regular weekly fellowship, and can be joined through the Sunday fellowship zoom link. Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196) or dial in by phone to (312) 626-6799
SEEKING COUNCIL MINISTERS // We give thanks for the ministry of these outgoing Council members: Rachel Birkedahl (Secretary); Mary Britt (Fellowship); Pastor Babette (Evangelism/Outreach); Curtis Coats (Vice-President); Anna Kottkamp and Jason Hirsh (Education-Youth Ministry). We thank the nominating Committee of Rachel, Lonna, Pastor Babette, and Krisitin. Returning Council Members: Siri Fiebiger (seeking President); Mike Tarras (seeking Vice-President); Kristin Gilbert (Treasurer); Lonna Field ( Education-Youth Ministry); Holly DeSouza (Service/Advocacy/ Evangelism/Outreach); Dr. Robin Bell (Racial Justice); Jane Friendshuh (Worship); Stuart Munk (Property, 3rd term; 1 year or less with promise to recruit and equip next Property Minister). We seek your prayerful consideration needed to complete the elected Council Leadership Secretary/Officer, Fellowship, and Stewardship Minister. SYNOD and CHURCHWIDE RESPONSE TO INSURRECTION at the CAPITOL // Please see the Redeemer Facebook page for our ELCA siblings and Bishop Svennungsen’s Minneapolis Area Synod communications concerning our baptized public witness and engagement on the riotous and violent mob attack storming of the United States Capitol against the 117th United States Congress on January 6, 2021, carried out by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump in an attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for January and February worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the months of January and February. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. MINNEAPOLIS AREA SYNOD COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TRAINING OPPORTUNITY // With prayers of thanksgiving for Redeemer Lutheran members and RCFL staff for enrolling in the Minneapolis Area Synod Zoom weeklong community organizing training. Redeemer Lutheran received a $15,000 grant from Augsburg University Riverside Innovation Hub to cover all expenses for 26 participants. The next training is June 21-25 on Zoom. We will host a Zoom Call with this past week’s trainees discussing the training and inviting others from the congregation and the Harrison community to sign on for the June training. Please contact Amy or Pastor Kelly for more information! 2021 GIVING ENVELOPES // Pardon the late notice to pick up your 2021 offering envelopes. Some were distributed at the Nov. 8, 2020 Parked Bike and Car Worship. Come to claim yours at the Redeemer office at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 11; Tuesday, Jan. 19, and Monday, Jan. 25. We thank you for your financial giving to Redeemer Lutheran. OFFICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED // We need help stuffing envelopes this Tuesday, Jan. 19th and mailing the February newsletter the last week of January. If you can come to Redeemer to serve, please contact Amy or Pastor Kelly. HELP RESTORE REDEEMER PARAMENTS // Do you like sewing? The white and green high altar paraments need their hems restored. Call Redeemer at 612-886-1468. Pastor Kelly will bring and retrieve them for your expertise. REDEEMER CALL COMMITTEE UPDATE // The progress continues! The call committee met with Pr. Craig Pederson of the Synod Office on December 15, 2020 to review the next steps to find and call the next pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church! The congregation submitted the list of potential candidates to the Synod office; and the Synod office has reviewed the list and has added their own candidates as well (there was overlap with some candidates). In the next couple of weeks, interested pastoral candidates will be sending the Call Committee their Rostered Minister Profiles. These are essentially applications to be the pastor at Redeemer. Once the Call Committee receives a few Rostered Minister Profiles, we can set up interviews with the candidates. The Call Committee will be meeting January 5, 2021 to review and discuss interview questions and the interview process, as we prepare to start holding interviews with candidates in mid-to end January. Let us pray for God’s guidance and understanding as we head into the final phase of calling our next pastor. ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020” TEES // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) partnered with the Northside’s Juxtaposition Arts to create a brand new 2020 “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts. They are now available for pre-order for a suggested donation of $10 or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee! Please fill out the pre-order form, and if you choose to, you may pay online through our online giving portal! THANK YOU from MARY BOLL // Mary Boll sends thanks to those who donated baby yarn for her ongoing project of crocheting and donating baby caps to Hennepin County Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you’d like to donate baby yarn to Mary Boll to help her continue this ministry during our long winter season, please email Amy to bring baby yarn to Redeemer Lutheran marked Mary Boll and a family member will pick it up for her. CAN YOU ATTEND HNA MEETINGS? // The Harrison Neighborhood Association is hoping to engage community members and friends in ongoing planning and conversations. All meetings are held via zoom at 7pm on the third Monday of each month. If you can join and represent Redeemer and our community, please do! HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  EACH ONE REACH ONE REDEEMER CONTACT TREE // As we continue learning how to navigate the new normal with safer-at-home guidance and virtual worship, and as we approach the season of interviewing pastoral candidates, Redeemer staff and council are looking for ways to keep us all connected. One way is through our Each One Reach One initiative. We hope to send everyone a Redeemer Congregation roster of our current members and attenders so that when emergency announcements come through, you may find your name and contact the next person or family on the list. This will ensure that congregants stay informed of happenings and concerns even if they are not online often or at all. Please let us know as soon as possible if you DO NOT wish to be part of this Contact Tree!
MID-JANUARY OFFICE CLOSURES & CHANGES // Amy will be attending a community organizing training Monday through Friday this week, and checking email occasionally. Immediate questions or needs can be directed to Pastor Kelly. Offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 18th in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. ANNUAL MEETING: JANUARY 24th via ZOOM // We will hold our Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 24th at 10:30am via zoom. This meeting will take place during our regular weekly fellowship, and can be joined through the Sunday fellowship zoom link. Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196 or dial in by phone to (312) 626-6799 WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for January worship!! Please register online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the month of January. We imminently need readers for next Sunday, January 12th. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. MINNEAPOLIS AREA SYNOD COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TRAINING OPPORTUNITY // With prayers of thanksgiving for Redeemer Lutheran members and RCFL staff for enrolling in the Minneapolis Area Synod Zoom weeklong community organizing training. Redeemer Lutheran received a $15,000 grant from Augsburg University Riverside Innovation Hub to cover all expenses for 26 participants. The next training is June 21-25 on Zoom. We will host a Zoom Call of all of this week’s trainees for turning out another group from the congregation and the Harrison community. Please contact Amy or Pastor Kelly for more information. 2021 GIVING ENVELOPES // Pardon the late notice to pick up your 2021 offering envelopes. Some were distributed at the Nov. 8, 2020 Parked Bike and Car Worship. Come to claim yours at the Redeemer office at 10am on Monday, Jan. 11th; Tuesday, Jan. 19th, and Monday, Jan. 25th. We thank you for your financial giving to Redeemer Lutheran. OFFICE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED // We need help stuffing envelopes on Tuesday, Jan. 19th and mailing the February newsletter the last week of January. If you can come to Redeemer to serve, please contact Amy or Pastor Kelly. HELP RESTORE REDEEMER PARAMENTS // Do you like sewing? The white and green high altar paraments need their hems restored. Call Redeemer at 612-886-1468. Pastor Kelly will bring and retrieve them for your expertise. REDEEMER CALL COMMITTEE UPDATE // The progress continues! The call committee met with Pr. Craig Pederson of the Synod Office on December 15, 2020 to review the next steps to find and call the next pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church! The congregation submitted the list of potential candidates to the Synod office; and the Synod office has reviewed the list and has added their own candidates as well (there was overlap with some candidates). In the next couple of weeks, interested pastoral candidates will be sending the Call Committee their Rostered Minister Profiles. These are essentially applications to be the pastor at Redeemer. Once the Call Committee receives a few Rostered Minister Profiles, we can set up interviews with the candidates. The Call Committee will be meeting January 5, 2021 to review and discuss interview questions and the interview process, as we prepare to start holding interviews with candidates in mid-to end January. Let us pray for God’s guidance and understanding as we head into the final phase of calling our next pastor. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM BISHOP EATON // In her 2020 Christmas message, Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, offers a reflection on what it means to be home in Christ. While many of us will not be physically home for Christmas this year, Eaton reminds us, “Precisely in our distress, in our dislocation, the Lord shows up. Emmanuel — God with us — makes his home in the very places we find foreign or isolating. … There is no God-forsaken place and we are never alone — not in hospital rooms, or sheltering in place, or Zoom calls or on dangerous roads.” Bishop Eaton’s Christmas message is available for download inEnglish andSpanish. ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020” TEES // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) partnered with the Northside’s Juxtaposition Arts to create a brand new 2020 “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts. They are now available for pre-order for a suggested donation of $10 or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee! Please fill out the pre-order form, and if you choose to, you may pay online through our online giving portal! THANK YOU to our Sunday morning Advent households for praying and lighting the Advent wreath, speakers of the weekly readings for the First Sunday and Second Sunday of the Christmas seasons. We thank our preachers, Dr. Bell, Pastor Ankerfelt and Ministry Associate Scherer. THANK YOU from MARY BOLL // Mary Boll sends thanks to those who donated baby yarn for her ongoing project of crocheting and donating baby caps to Hennepin County Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you’d like to donate baby yarn to Mary Boll to help her continue this ministry during our long winter season, please email Amy to bring baby yarn to Redeemer Lutheran marked Mary Boll and a family member will pick it up for her. CAN YOU ATTEND HNA MEETINGS? // The Harrison Neighborhood Association is hoping to engage community members and friends in ongoing planning and conversations. All meetings are held via zoom at 7pm on the third Monday of each month. If you can join and represent Redeemer and our community, please do! HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  HAPPY NEW YEAR! // We look forward to 2021 and all it will bring to Redeemer congregation! We hope your Christmas and New Year holidays have enriched you and your families and renewed your hope! SUNDAY MORNING ZOOM FELLOWSHIP // Join Dr Robin Bell this Sunday morning, December 27th, for zoom fellowship beginning at 10:30am. Click here to join (Meeting ID: 828 2807 5412 | Passcode: 371196) or dial in by phone to (312) 626-6799! FAMILY ZOOM with ECLC on JANUARY 3, 2021 @ 10:30am // Edina Community Lutheran Church invites Redeemer families to join them for a 30-minute zoom call. These times are a great way to see families from the other congregations and share the week’s craft together! Click here to join (Meeting ID: 867 2164 3104 | Passcode: 592394) WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES // We need readers for January worship!! Pleaseregister online or email Amy to sign up to record yourself and/or your family speaking the assigned lectionary readings for our prerecorded worships during the month of January. We imminently need readers for next Sunday, January 12th. Know that you can speak aloud the readings linked on the sign-up or from a children’s or other translation in your home. MINNEAPOLIS AREA SYNOD COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TRAINING OPPORTUNITY // Through grant funding provided by the Riverside Innovation Hub, Redeemer and RCFL are sending a number of congregants, council members, and staff members to the Minneapolis Area Synod’s community faith organizer training January 11-15, 2021. The training will be held from 9am to 3pm each day that week. We have a few spots open and invite anyone interested to contact Amy or Pastor Kelly for more information. REDEEMER CALL COMMITTEE UPDATE // The progress continues! The call committee met with Pr. Craig Pederson of the Synod Office on December 15, 2020 to review the next steps to find and call the next pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church! The congregation submitted the list of potential candidates to the Synod office; and the Synod office has reviewed the list and has added their own candidates as well (there was overlap with some candidates). In the next couple of weeks, interested pastoral candidates will be sending the Call Committee their Rostered Minister Profiles. These are essentially applications to be the pastor at Redeemer. Once the Call Committee receives a few Rostered Minister Profiles, we can set up interviews with the candidates. The Call Committee will be meeting January 5, 2021 to review and discuss interview questions and the interview process, as we prepare to start holding interviews with candidates in mid-to end January. Let us pray for God’s guidance and understanding as we head into the final phase of calling our next pastor. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM BISHOP EATON // In her 2020 Christmas message, Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, offers a reflection on what it means to be home in Christ. While many of us will not be physically home for Christmas this year, Eaton reminds us, “Precisely in our distress, in our dislocation, the Lord shows up. Emmanuel — God with us — makes his home in the very places we find foreign or isolating. … There is no God-forsaken place and we are never alone — not in hospital rooms, or sheltering in place, or Zoom calls or on dangerous roads.” Bishop Eaton’s Christmas message is available for download in English andSpanish. 12 DAYS of CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT TREE // For the 12 days of Christmas (Dec. 25th - Jan. 6th), 12 ornaments will be on the ornamental tree at Logan and Glenwood on the Redeemer lawn. Take one; leave one and post your picture on our Facebook page! SAVE THE DATE: EPIPHANY of OUR LORD Worship Service, Jan. 6, 2021 // The ELCA bishops elected in 2019 will preside over a special worship service on January 6, 2021 at 8pm EST (7pm Central) and may be viewed on the ELCA churchwide facebook page or any of the ELCA synod pages. SAVE THE DATE: MLK ANNUAL COMMEMORATION SERVICE on JAN. 10, 2021 // Save the date and plan to join the Metro New York African Descent Lutheran Association (ADLA) on January 10th at 4pm (EST) for their annual service commemorating The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s event will be hosted online, and will feature preaching Bishop Patricia A. Davenport of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod and presiding Bishop Paul Egensteiner presiding. Learn more here, or click here to register. ORDER YOUR “REDEEMER BELIEVES BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020” TEES // Redeemer’s Service & Advocacy ministry (led by Holly De Souza) partnered with the Northside’s Juxtaposition Arts to create a brand new 2020 “Redeemer Believes Black Lives Matter” shirts. They are now available for pre-order for a suggested donation of $10 or more which will fund the ongoing work of the S&A committee! Please fill out the pre-order form, and if you choose to, you may pay online through our online giving portal! HELP RESTORE REDEEMER PARAMENTS // Do you like sewing? The white and green high altar paraments need their hems restored. Call Redeemer at 612-886-1468. Pastor Kelly will bring and retrieve them for your expertise. THANK YOU to our Sunday morning Advent households for praying and lighting the Advent wreath, speakers of the weekly readings for the First Sunday and Second Sunday of the Christmas seasons. We thank our preachers, Dr. Bell, Pastor Ankerfelt and Ministry Associate Scherer. THANK YOU from MARY BOLL // Mary Boll sends thanks to those who donated baby yarn for her ongoing project of crocheting and donating baby caps to Hennepin County Obstetrics and Gynecology. If you’d like to donate baby yarn to Mary Boll to help her continue this ministry during our long winter season, please email Amy to bring baby yarn to Redeemer Lutheran marked Mary Boll and a family member will pick it up for her. CAN YOU ATTEND HNA MEETINGS? // The Harrison Neighborhood Association is hoping to engage community members and friends in ongoing planning and conversations. All meetings are held via zoom at 7pm on the third Monday of each month. If you can join and represent Redeemer and our community, please do! HEALTH COMMONS at the LIVING ROOM currently offers Zumba, Book Club Discussions, and Health Q&A's online and via Zoom. Follow them on Facebook to get current schedules, events, and other resources: Health Commons at the Living Room.  Second Sunday after Christmas | Readings & Gospel: Jeremiah 31:7-14, Psalm 147:12-20, Ephesians 1:3-14, John 1:1-18 This year the liturgical calendar includes a second Sunday after Christmas before Epiphany, and the gospel is the Christological poem in John 1. On Christmas Day we heard John 1 in connection with Isaiah and Hebrews, and this Sunday with Jeremiah and Ephesians. For we who live in a cold climate, the psalm for the day is for us! Joining our voices with the song of the angels, let us pray for the church, the world, and all who are in need --
Redeeming God, protect your church from stumbling and not be overcome by sorrow, division, or despair as we might live always to the praise of your glory especially Redeemer as we prepare for interviewing candidates. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You bring together heaven and earth. Show us new ways to live in harmony with the world around us especially when we grieve beloved pets like Angel. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You overflow with grace upon grace by expanding the imaginations of those who serve in positions of authority for the needs of their nations and communities especially Croatia and Honduras. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You bring consolation to those who weep by your refreshing embrace for the feeling far-off, excluded, or defeated, the weak, and weary especially Ione, Mary, and Sarah, our local and global siblings living with surging COVID-19 in the UK, and South Africa and accompanying lockdowns with quarantines, for first responders as well as disaster volunteers, the unsheltered campers at 2nd Ave North and Van White Memorial Blvd, brothers James and Bobbie, Cindy, Linda, Jovita, Samantha, Shoonie . . . Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You come to us in the beauty of darkness and of light. Guide us to speak holy words of advocacy and truth. Help us to honor your image in one another. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. You turn our mourning into joy as we give thanks for Fessehatsion Kiflu Berhane who has died in faith. With all the saints, give us when we gather our inheritance in Christ. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. God of mercy, come quickly to us with grace upon grace as we lift these and all our prayers to you, in the name of Jesus. Amen. |
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