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VIDEO: Life Together with Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison

In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), discusses the 68th Regular Convention of the LCMS, held July 29–Aug. 3, 2023, in Milwaukee.

“The convention of the Missouri Synod is a very powerful entity,” says Harrison. “We are a large organization, with about 6,000 congregations across the United States [and] global activities in the four corners of the world.”

He then highlights a few of the issues taken up by convention delegates this summer, including altar and pulpit fellowship with five Lutheran church bodies as well as issues related to the Concordia University System and its schools.

“We have many challenges in the Missouri Synod, but we have so much to give thanks for,” Harrison concludes.

View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...

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Please Join us for our Voter's Meeting Sunday (10/22)

 Join us Sunday (10/22) after 2nd service for the
ALL-CHURCH VOTER’S MEETING (lunch will be served) 

We'll be discussing plans for an endowment for Zion, and voting on the slate of candidates for leadership positions from the Nominating Committee.  The slate includes:  Vice Chairman -- Bill Bishop; Rec. Secretary -- Kari Gresh (re-election); Elders -- Roger Diederich (re-election), Mike Sterba, and Tom Erbrecht; Trustees – Paul Hayes (re-election), Jim Oelschlager (re-election), Mike Debowski.

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No Midweek Service Wednesday October 18th & 24th

The Mid-Week Service is cancelled tomorrow (10/18) and next Wednesday (10/25)!
Join us Wednesday, November 1st at 2:00 p.m. for our regularly scheduled Service of Prayer & Preaching (streamed LIVE on our YouTube Channel), followed by a 30-minute Bible study.

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Mission Minded? Serve and Learn!

Are You Mission-Minded???
Serve and learn alongside missionaries, local workers, and Lutheran Christians around Latin America & the Caribbean. Be a part of spread-ing the Gospel, planting Lutheran churches and showing mercy in the Dominican Republic, Peru or Puerto Rico. Grab a team and come along! Learn more at servenow.lcms.org.

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Mission Moments: God at Work in Uruguay and Beyond

Promoting Zion’s Internal, local, and international missionary efforts
Pastor Philip & Deaconess Rachel Jaseph

Did you Know?
LCMS deaconesses are women who are professional church-workers, trained to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ through works of mercy, spiritual care, and teaching the Christian faith. “Deaconess,” from the Greek word diakonos, means “servant.

Pastor Phil and Deaconess Rachel have been busy preparing deaconesses for the mission field in Latin American and the Caribbean. Praise God for the 84 women enrolled in the new fall cohort of deaconess students! The three-year program includes in-person intensive courses, online classes, readings, projects, exams and practical application of the classroom material with supervision and guidance from the local pastor and deaconess mentor in the home country.

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AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Sunday October 15, 2023

View the bulletin for Sunday, October 15, 2023
8:00 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
9:00 a.m. - Adult/Teem Bible Study, and Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
All are welcome

Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins

Old Testament Reading -- Isaiah 25:6–9
On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
And he will swallow up on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
the veil that is spread over all nations.
He will swallow up death forever;
and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
It will be said on that day,
“Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Epistle Reading -- Philippians 4:4–13
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the twenty-second chapter
Again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’ And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.

“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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