WE HAVE RESUMED CORPORATE WORSHIP WHILE MAINTAINING GREAT CARE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS!

For those who are well and not in fragile health, please wear a mask around others especially upon entering and exiting worship and when moving around in the nave. Please use the hand sanitizer available inside the door, both upon entering and when leaving. Please observe a social distance of at least six feet between yourself and others who are not part of your household. Every other row of pews or chairs has been marked as unavailable for seating. Please keep at least six feet between yourself and those not of your own household.

If you can’t worship with us in person, be sure to worship with us on YouTube Live this Saturday @ 6pm; Sunday @ 8:30 and 11am; Monday @6pm; Wednesday @Noon. Drive through Holy Communion may be received about 7 p.m. on Saturday; about 9:30 and Noon on Sunday; and about 12:40 pm on Wednesdays. To access our YouTube channel, please click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1n7DcvSmSFXYO51dWbdykw

We welcome you in Jesus’ name to worship with us on the weekend of February 27-28, 2021, the Second Sunday in Lent. Pastor Samuel Zumwalt, STS, preaches “The Word of God: Our Peace” based on Romans 5:1-11. From the console of our 47 rank Austin pipe organ with trompette-en-chamade, Bill Glisson leads the singing of joyous hymns on Saturday and at 11 a.m. Sunday: “How Firm A Foundation” (Entrance); “When Peace Like A River” (Hymn of the Day); “Lift High the Cross “(Recessional). Our Sunday distribution hymns are: “All for Christ I Have Forsaken,” “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” The color of the day is violet for the Lenten season.

Joyful Noise leads the 8:30 a.m. Eucharist in the singing of joyous hymns and spiritual songs: “Step by Step”; “When Peace Like A River”; “All for Christ I Have Forsaken”; “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me.” At the offering, Joyful Noise sings “Balm in Gilead.”

Other special music includes: “When Peace Like A River” (Ashdown) will be Bill Glisson’s prelude; “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” (Osterland) is Bill Glisson’s offering anthem at 6pm; “How Beautiful” (Paris) is the choir anthem at the 11 am offering; “Fanfare and Toccata on Lift High the Cross” (Cherwien) will be Bill Glisson’s postlude.

Midweek Lenten Services are at noon and 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. A spoken Eucharist is celebrated at noon. Sung LBW Evening Prayer is at 7 p.m. Both services last about 30 minutes. The midweek Lenten preaching theme is the Ten Commandments and Martin Luther’s explanation from the Small Catechism. On February 25, Pastor Bob Kuppler preaches “The Second Commandment.”

A Memorial Service for Donna Kathryn Zumwalt Franklin, Pastor Zumwalt’s sister, will be on Sunday, February 28, at c. 12:30 p.m. following the 11 a.m. Eucharist. Fr. Peter Hoyer will officiate.

For online worshipers, be sure to download the bulletin: https://stmatthewsch.org/bulletin/

For those continuing to worship online and driving through for distribution, please follow enter the circular driveway in reverse order (clockwise). The pastor(s) will be wearing gloves, masks, and glasses. After the pastor dips the host into the chalice, please receive the Body and Blood of Christ in your flattened palm. If you are unable to receive the Blood of Christ due to the alcohol content, please let the pastors know you wish only to receive the host. If you wish to take home communion to your family, please bring a baggie to receive the hosts. If you wish to leave an offering as you drive through, a locked box is available to receive gifts.

New Portals of Prayer devotions booklets for January – March 2021 and retired copies of the Lutheran Book of Worship are still available to take home. These may be found on a table in the narthex.

Mr. Bill Glisson and Mrs. Jan Betts will lead from the organ and piano. Streaming of online services begins about 4 minutes before the advertised worship time.