Reading 2 So Many Names—Matthew 1 Read Chapter 1 A couple of things right off the bat. To start with, the first 17 verses of Matthew’s gospel give me a headache! Nothing but genealogy. Name after name after name. It’s like Ancestry.com gone crazy! The names go on and on and make my eyes cross.
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Reading 1 – Introducing Moments with Matthew Matthew’s gospel has so many wonderful moments scattered through its pages: the visit of the Magi; Mary, Joseph and Jesus become refugees in Egypt; the Sermon on the Mount; the resurrection of the dead when Jesus is crucified; the great commission. This summer, I hope you will join
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Lori Failla, member of Our Father, Greensboro, knew she wanted to find an outreach where she shared food and fellowship with people. Failla retired to NC from Columbus, OH with her husband in 2016 and the congregation’s feeding ministries called to both of them. The couple shares their time weekly at Our Father’s Thursday Morning
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Ascension Lutheran Church in Wilson held its second annual Oktoberfest Celebration on October 13, 2018, which turned out to be a beautiful day weather-wise, making for a wonderful event. The first Oktoberfest was done as part of the 500th Reformation Anniversary Churchwide Celebration and was so well received we decided to do it again. Both
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Finding new ways “I’ve heard some people say that they aren’t having church, but the truth is, we are the church. It is true that we cannot go to the building and worship corporately, have our spirits lifted in prayer, in song, in word, in communion. But we can certainly worship as the church together,
We’re back for phase 2! Program Director Pastor John Mocko, and Program Assistant Caroline Mocko are excited to continue work with Faith+Finances+Freedom/The Lifeline Fund Program of the North Carolina Synod in Phase Two. “We are blessed that Lilly Endowment Inc. has granted our synod a ‘scaling’ grant in the amount of $500,000 that we share
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Click here to see: Re-Gathering Information Worship links for congregations across the synod AND curated resources in these categories: Online Worship/Meetings Online Giving/Finances Relationships, Pastoral Care & Self Care Faith Formation for All/Children, Youth, & Families Care for Our Rostered Ministers Care for Community & Neighbors
Holy Week and Easter Even as we cannot gather in person during this time of social distancing, we are gathering online—with live worship using Zoom and by pre-recorded video. Below are worship options available from the synod office and congregations across the synod as we move through Holy Week toward the celebration of the Resurrection
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“We ask God to help us!” Deacon Katie Rivers (St. Mark’s, Asheville) attended one of the Chrism Masses hosted by the synod for rostered ministers prior to the Lenten season; she shares her story. On Tuesday, February 25, Facebook reminded me of my commissioning service as a Deaconess in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS).
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“God is in the room” Almost five hundred middle and high school students gather in a ballroom in Greensboro on a weekend in February. Some are laughing and chatting with their friends from church, some are anxiously waiting to see what this is all about, some are greeting old and new friends across the room,
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