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This Church changes lives!
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Worship & more for the
week of 2/21/2021
Livestream links, resources for families and children, Holden Evening Prayer, CLC Variety Show
Worship for Sunday, February 21
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Note on in-person options
While COVID-19 infection rates are currently trending in a hopeful direction, until our whole community is able to gather safely, livestream worship will continue to remain our primary gathering. We also plan to resume in-person, additional worship on March 7. In order to do so safely, we are in need of additional help: ushering, communion servers, readers. Watch our email notices, this webpage, and our Facebook
page for sign-up links.
Livestream worship at 9:00am
Our service is here:
February 21, 2021 Livestream
Our bulletin is here: February 21, 2021
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For Children and Families
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Print a worship activity page for your kids!
Sunday School will meet on Zoom again this week – a link has been sent to all the emails we have for SS families. Please email pastorerica@clcvalpo.org if you would like the link and have not received it!
- Print our story coloring pages: Lesson-1
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Who doesn’t need a little joy in the midst of a frozen February? All ages are invited to join in sharing a talent (or your “talent” – everything from the sublime to the ridiculous is welcome!) on Saturday Feb 27 at 6pm. The price of admission is the willingness to share something, anything! (Google a knock-knock joke!). Follow the link below to register, and the Zoom link will come in the confirmation email.
https://clcvalpo.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/73795
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Holden Evening Prayer
Lenten Wednesday Worship, 7:30pm
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Join us Wednesdays in Lent for Holden Evening Prayer, a time of gentle singing, candles, and exploring together what “Holy Communion” means for us. Wednesdays at 7:30pm
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Open Hearts, Faithful Feet
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At Christ Lutheran, we believe that “ Stewardship is everything we do after we say ‘I believe.'” Last week Chuck shared his reflections on “faithful feet” and our responses to God’s string-free gifts. Check our Activity Suggestions
page for ideas how you can give your stewardship "feet," this week. You can still be part of our "open hearts" by joining us with an Estimate of Generosity.
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While we keep ourselves separate to steward each others' health, we are including Holy Communion during our livestream on Sundays. Our goal is to experience Communion
together, even while apart; immediate, not something available as a recording that someone might use later; organic, not something prepackaged or purchased; safe and accessible, so people don't need to travel/have contact with others to pick things up. Please note: extraordinary times like these require us to depart from our usual practices. We all eagerly look forward to the time when we can leave these extraordinary measures behind and return to
safely gathering in person on Sundays, as is our norm.
Here's what you need to prepare in advance: Before Sunday's service, choose a plate and cup that you will use for Communion in your space. Find some bread (whatever kind works for you; even a cracker can do in a pinch) and, if you have it, grape juice or wine. Note that if you don't have grape juice or wine, that's perfectly OK; our theology teaches that receiving Christ in one element (i.e. just bread or just wine) is more than sufficient! You can leave an empty cup ready as a sign of
that overabundance of blessing. We also recommend having a candle handy, which you can light throughout the Sunday service, if that is safe for you, to help create a worshipful space.
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