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Elim Extra for Sunday March 24, 2024
Elim Extra
Pastor’s Reflection
A huge thanks to all who brought soup and goodies to church this Lent! It has been a delicious and nourishing time to be together.
This Sunday I will be at my home church, the Japanese Church of Christ (UCC) in downtown Salt Lake City. Pastor Rick will lead Bible study (Chapter 10) and our Palm Sunday celebration! Come early to get your palms and process in from the back of the church. Thank you Pastor Rick for leading us this week!
In Lenten worship, we have been praying every week for God to “renew a willing spirit within us” (Psalm 51). All church renewal begins with the renewing of our minds, as Paul speaks about beautifully in Romans 12. We must become willing to try new things and practice new skills. When we aren’t willing, God can help make us willing.
That’s why I’ve focused on tangible craft metaphors all throughout my Lenten preaching. As Lydia, the dealer of purple cloth in the New Testament, could tell us, becoming an expert craftsperson takes time. Whether it’s spinning, tying nets, curing wineskins, embroidering, or weaving, it all starts when we put our hands to work and see what God can do through us.
Joyful to be on the journey with you,
Pr. Chelsea
Holy Week schedule:
Good Friday Service 7:30 p.m.
Easter Worship 10 a.m.
Easter Sunday breakfast 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. – Please bring pastries or fruit to share.
Elim Extra for Sunday March 17, 2024
Pastor’s Reflection
with love,
Pr. Chelsea
Prayer request:
Please hold Kay Cook in your prayers.
Announcements:
–Easter breakfast will be served at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Setup volunteers are needed! Requested potluck items include pastries or fruit.
–Council will meet after church this Sunday.
–Pr. Lisa Mensinger will be installed tonight at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Wednesday March 13th at 7pm, and Pr. Bill Ledford will be installed at Prince of Peace in Logan this Saturday, March 16th at 4pm.
Elim Extra for Sunday March 10, 2024
Pastor’s Reflection
It’s daylight savings time! Don’t forget to adjust your clocks this Sunday or you will miss out.
In our Holden Evening Prayer on Wednesdays at 5:30, we have been using tactile and sensory prayer to process the ways we feel tangled, shredded, flattened, bent, or wrinkled and worn after our long winter. The good news is, spring is coming!
The fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday, is a little burst of joy in the middle of Lent that mirrors the hesitant early bursts of springtime in the Northern hemisphere. Can you believe Easter is only three weeks away?
Please see below for a beautiful Celtic poem by Northumbrian writer Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) that captures the mood of this season. And please join us for Celtic Worship this Sunday!
with love, Pr. Chelsea
Announcements:
Church Becoming meeting on Sunday – finish Elim’s historical timeline!
Not one but two joyful installations….Pr. Lisa at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd on Wednesday March 13th at 7pm, and Pr. Bill Ledford at Prince of Peace in Logan on Saturday March 16th at 4pm!
Holy Week schedule:
Maundy Thursday at Ascension 7 pm
Communion service at People’s Church Thursday 7 pm (open communion)
Good Friday Tenebrae Service of Shadows at Elim 7:30 pm
Atalanta in Calydon
For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover,
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.