Sunnyside ER Mtg
April 19, 2012
7:00 pm
Lounge
Mid Week Lenten Worship
February 29 through March 28
Soup Supper at 6:00 p.m.
Worship 7:00 - 7:30 p.m.
February 29th: “What would your sign say?”
March 7th: “I am Unique!”
March 14th: “What have I got to lose?”
March 21st: “Mr. Fix it.”
March 28th: “Where are you going?”
In midweek worship, youth leaders will gather us into worship and lead in discussion of the evening’s theme. Worship concludes with Holy Communion.
“Your Nail” is this season’s theme, which is centered in the powerful word of Colossians 2:13b-14:
God has forgiven you all your sins:
Christ has utterly wiped out the damning evidence of broken laws and commandments, which always hung over our heads, and has completely annulled it by nailing it over His own head on the Cross.
And then, having disarmed all the power ranged against us,
He exposed them
+
shattered,
empty,
and
defeated,
+
in His final triumphant act.”
Plan to worship in Lent as we explore the meaning of Christ’s suffering and death for us.
Adult Sunday School
Adult Education Sunday Mornings in March:
Lament often sounds like despair, the opposite of faith. Yet Martin Luther taught that it is precisely in the places where we least expect to find God, in suffering, pain, disaster, catastrophe - and in the cross - that God is clearly present. All are welcome to continue this study which began in January with Pr. Steve Klemz. Meet at 9:15am in the atrium.
Pastor out
Pastor Steve will be out of the office
For Vacation and
For Candidacy Committee Mtgs in FT. Collins, CO
Safe Haven Workshop
Safe Haven
All congregational leaders and adults who work with children and youth are encouraged to attend Safe Haven Training on Saturday, February 25, at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, Taylorsville. Linda Staats, assistant to the bishop, will lead the training for congregations in the Utah Conference, ELCA. The workshop begins at 9:30 a.m. and concludes at 2:00.
Rocky Mountain Synod’s news release describing the Safe Haven Project.
“Because God calls us to be a cross+generational community of faith and because young people are the most important gifts God entrusts to us; all congregations, institutions and ministries of the Rocky Mountain Synod are asked (per Safe Haven Resolution #3, adopted at Rocky Mountain Synod Assembly 2010) to make a commitment to be a Safe Haven for all children, youth, the vulnerable, their families and caregivers.
Go to Safe Haven, Rocky Mountain Synod to find basic resources to assist our congregations with the process of developing guidelines that protect our children, youth, vulnerable elders, and those with special needs. Safe Haven guidelines also protect one’s staff, volunteers, and anyone who is called to care for others.
No one approach fits every congregation. Guidelines need to fit your unique context and reflect the needs of your specific congregation and community. “What does this mean for myself, this ministry and our congregation?” “What will my congregation look and act like if it is a Safe Haven?” These are critical questions you will begin to ask as your congregation begins this life-giving, life-protecting conversation and process.
All congregations who begin or complete the process of creating Safe Haven Guidelines and procedures for their congregation and its ministries will be recognized at the 2012 RMS Assembly.”
