Food Bank Sunday - Sun. February 9th

Bridgeville Area Food Bank
The February collection for the Bridgeville Area Food Bank is Sunday, Feb. 9th The “item of the month” is CEREAL & BREAKFAST ITEMS. Items may be placed in the wicker receptacle in the narthex near the coat rack. 

During the January 18th distribution, the BAFB assisted 103 local families which included 27 children, 61 adults and 82 of the elderly. Your generosity makes this possible … thank you! 

Pastor’s Corner

“An Eternal Epiphany” 
“Pastor, what will heaven look like?” As a pastor, I may be asked that question from one of our 4-year-old preschoolers, or from one of our more mature members waiting to receive their blessed inheritance of everlasting life. Regardless from whom the question originates, it is probably a question we have all contemplated out of faithful curiosity; What will heaven look like? 

We are currently in the liturgical season of Epiphany. This season may help us the most in “seeing” what heaven will look like because the season of Epiphany is all about seeing Jesus better. For example, we may not know what Jesus physically looked like in the Bible, but we do see Jesus doing so much for us. We do not see the length of Jesus’ hair in the Bible, but we do see God has numbered every hair of your head. We do not see what Jesus’ clothes looked like in the Bible, but we do see we have been clothed in Christ Himself. 

“Pastor, what does heaven look like?” I may not have a clue as to what heaven will physically look like, but I do know without a shadow of a doubt WHO we will see in heaven when we open our eyes and look around. The book of Revelation shows us who we will see in Heaven and what we will see Jesus doing. 

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” - Rev 21:3-4 

I may not be able to see with my eyes what heaven looks like. But, with my eyes of faith, I can see every wonderful detail of what heaven looks like with Jesus Himself in our midst forever and ever, never to be separated from Him or any of the other saints ever again. And I see Jesus doing what Jesus does best, wiping “away every tear” from our eyes. During this season of Epiphany, may we continue to clearly see all the wonderful things God is doing for us through Jesus! 

– Pastor Grimenstein 

Parents’ Night Out

Parents’ Night Out
Enjoy a night out while the youth watch your kids!
Pizza will be provided.

Sunday, February 16, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Cost: $20/Child - Limited Slots Available
Sign up sheet in the Narthex

VBS 2025 - Dates Just Announced!

VBS week is set for July 7th-11th … please mark your calendars! 
Volunteers are needed!!! 
There are lots of opportunities to help in hands-on roles with children, and with behind-the-scenes tasks!! 

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Old Testament Reading -- Jeremiah 1:4–10 
Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me, 

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.” 

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, 

“Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.” 

Epistle Reading -- 1 Corinthians 12:31b—13:13 
I will show you a still more excellent way. 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 

The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the fourth chapter
[Jesus] went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.” But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!” And reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region. 

And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them. 

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. 

And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.” And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea. 

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