ANNOUNCEMENTS & PRAYERS
COVID-19 UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Redeemer, along with all Minnesota churches, non-essential businesses, organizations, and services, will be closed through at least April 10th. All worship will be held online through at least the month of April. We invite you to join us for virtual services through our Online Worship portal, or via Facebook or YouTube. We will be hosting real-time Resurrection worship on Easter Sunday, April 12th, via Zoom. Holy Week worship services will also be available online, so stay tuned to our website for up-to-date links. ONLINE GIVING IS EASY! We know it's not a conversation anyone enjoys having, especially at times of economic anxiety for all of us, but we encourage those who can give financially to continue supporting Redeemer through our online giving portal. LENT QUESTIONS CONTINUE: We invite you to ponder the questions facing Redeemer congregation about Who & What We Are through this season of transition, and share your reflections, insights, and questions on our Google Questionnaire. We will share more updates as decisions are made! Stay tuned here. PRAY WITH US: The church council invites you to pray daily at 9am for Redeemer and our neighbors, and pray The Lord's Prayer every Wednesday at noon along with Christians across the globe. REFLECTIONS & INSIGHTS WANTED! During this unprecedented time of anxiety, isolation, and uncertainty, we are still the church! While we cannot meet together in-person to share the Peace of Christ with hugs and handshakes and Redeemer’s signature 15-minute hurrah, we can still gather in creative ways to share Christ’s peace through our unique gifts, talents, and reflections. During this unique time of transition and global pandemic, and as recipients of the priesthood of all believers, we are each called and qualified to be the church for one another. So we invite you to share poetry, songs, scriptures, paintings, or other words of encouragement and wisdom with the whole Redeemer community either by video or blog. You may send them to Amy at admin@redeemermpls.org and she will disseminate them to the congregation via website and facebook. SUNDAY SCHOOL UPDATE: The Redeemer Sunday School team is working to increase parent involvement, and we need YOUR help! Please fill our this quick survey online or church so that we can better support you and your K-12 child in our youth education and ministry. Parent volunteers are vital to a healthy Sunday School, and we are so grateful for all the time and talents you can give.The survey again is here: https://forms.gle/XmDX2Ff7HFRHBHS88 Thank you! -The Redeemer EduYouth Team PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION: Fifth Sunday in Lent (March 29, 2020) Readings and Psalm: Ezekiel 37:1-14 | Psalm 130 | Romans 8:6-11 | John 11:1-45 Intercessor: Turning our hearts to God who is gracious and merciful, we pray for the church, the world, and all who are in need--a brief silence. God of life, enliven the church with your Spirit and bless the work of any in supporting its renewal such as layman Hans Nielsen Hauge, whom we commemorate today. Accomplish your work of salvation in us and through us, for the sake of the world. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. God of life, come quickly with your hope for any longing for wars to cease, survivors of natural disasters, all awaiting arriving humanitarian relief especially in Syria, awaiting finalized immigration paperwork, candidates expecting election. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. God of life, unbind all who are held captive by anxiety, despair, or pain especially our Logan Ave neighbor supported by first responders, our family neighbors without homes residing at Mary’s Place, our drop-in neighbors at Sharing and Caring and whom we name before you . . . Fill us with compassion and empathy for any struggling by keeping faithful in praying. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. God of life, we give thanks for collaborating opportunities with the Redeemer congregation during their pastoral transition such as our partners in the Northside Area Parish, Westwood Lutheran, and Edina Community Lutheran in caring for the needs of our neighbors as we remain safer at home. Strengthen our ties with the Harrison Neighborhood Association. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. God of life, you are our resurrection as we trust that those who died in you will live again especially Delores Runsewe. Breathe new life into our dry bones that we, too, might live with you forever. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. Pastor: According to your steadfast love, O God, hear these and all our prayers as we commend them to you; through Christ our Lord. Amen. POEM: PANDEMIC by Lynn Ungar (March 11, 2020 | www.lynnungar.com/poems) What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath-- the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when your body has become still, reach out with your heart. Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) Know that our lives are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. Reach out all the tendrils of compassion that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch. Promise this world your love– for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live. Promise this world your love– for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live. |
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admin@redeemermpls.org Phone: (612) 886-1468
Limited In-Offices Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30am-2:30pm
admin@redeemermpls.org Phone: (612) 886-1468
Limited In-Offices Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30am-2:30pm