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 January 23-24, 2021, the Third Sunday after Epiphany. Pastor Peter Hoyer preaches on 1 Corinthians 7:29-35). 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 Sunday: “Songs of Thankfulness and Praise” (Saturday & 11 a.m. Entrance); “Give Me Jesus” (Hymn of the Day); “Jesus Calls Us O’er the Tumult” (Saturday Recessional); “We Are Marching in the Light of God” (11am Recessional). Our Sunday distribution hymns are: “O Christ, Who Called the Twelve” and “Jesus Calls Us O’er the Tumult” The color of the day is green for ordinary time.

Joyful Noise leads the 8:30am Eucharist in the singing of joyous hymns and spiritual songs: “We Are Called”; “Give Me Jesus”; “O Christ, Who Called the Twelve”; “We Are Marching in the Light of God.” At the offering, Joyful Noise sings “Humble Thyself in the Sight of the Lord.”

Other special music includes: “Songs of Thankfulness and Praise” (Ashdown) will be Bill Glisson’s prelude on Saturday and at 11; “Give Me Jesus” (Langlois) is Bill Glisson’s offering anthem at 6pm; “Lord, Be Glorified” is the choir anthem at the 11am offering; “Siyahamba” (Farlee) will be Bill Glisson’s postlude at 6pm and 11am.

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 October – December 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.