Messiah Midweek Update

September 16, 2020

Messiah Lutheran Church

Auburn, WA

"And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8b

Holy Communion

Messiah will be making Holy Communion a part of each Sunday worship service. Wherever you take part in these coming services, whether it is at home in Auburn, WA or at home anywhere around this amazing, beautiful planet, we will gather at one table, the Lord’s Table.

Prepare the place in which you dwell for Holy Communion. Set a table with a small cloth, place a candle upon it, and add perhaps a Bible or a small cross (both together are also good). Make the space sacred for you. Prepare some bread and wine (or grape juice if you choose) and appoint one person to be the host of your table. If it is just you, be both the host and the welcome guest, and know you are not alone. You are part of a much larger welcome place.

Be at peace with yourself. Be at peace with your neighbor. Know that we, through the bread and wine, all feast together on the amazing grace of our Lord Jesus. In the holy meal to come, all our individual tables, separated by city blocks or country miles, are really one, blessed, and holy communion.

Worship Bulletins

The worship bulletins that are sent out electronically on Saturday are printable from your home computers. When you receive the email, open it and press "ctrl p" on your keyboard and it will print.

On Thursday afternoons, we will place pre-printed bulletins in the Messiah Lending Library (the box pictured in this article). It is located on H street outside the kitchen. Please feel free to stop by and pick one up if you do not have a computer or printer at home.

On Monday afternoons, a pre-printed copy of the Messiah Weekly will be in the Please contact Tia Monsen if you have any questions.

If you are seeing captions in the livestream service and you would like to turn them off/on, please follow these instructions. The captioning is a setting on each individual device.

On your device, go to Settings.
Click on Accessibility.
Click on Subtitles and Captioning.
Select on or off depending on your preference.

Blessing of the Devices

Typically, we start the school year off with a Blessing of the Backpacks. This year, as most of us are online, we will be doing a Blessing of the Devices during our live stream worship this Sunday, September 20th. All students, teachers and everyone who is working from home can have their device blessed!

Students can be watching the mail for a special sticker they can attach to their device (with their parents permission). Please send us pictures of your blessing after the service on Sunday.

Quilts and Kits Update

The church office received a phone call this week from Lutheran World Relief. The quilts and kits from Messiah were shipped to Beirut, Lebanon this past fall. There was a huge explosion at the Port of Beirut on August 4th, which caused catastrophic damage to the city. Lutheran World Relief wanted Messiah to know the container that was housing our quilts and kits was not damaged in the blast. They will be given to the people of Beirut and are very needed following the damage created by the blast.

Messiah Staff Holds in Prayer

Requests for prayers: Marena Boman, Jan Campbell, Pierre Clement, Janice Davis, George Dolney, Mary Eastman, Erin Furnas, Charlotte Graham, Cecil Greiner, Jaclynne Halverson, Bonita Hancock, Adam Hartong, Temple Johnson, Louise Johnson, Ray Keinholz, Blaine Leonard, Evelyn Miller, Grant Miller, David Monsen, Jane Nelson, Garry Nevers, Myrtle Peterson, Cindee Reamy, Dale Schossow, Doreen Shaver, Maxine Stehr, Mardy Stevens, Ed Swanlund, Carol Taylor; the family of Blanche Swalling, following her death; the family of Wilma Tipton, following her death; Betty Gartner and family, following the death of her sister, Evelyn Okert; United Lutheran Church of Tacoma following a fire in their Fellowship Hall and church building.

Ongoing prayer concerns: Cindy Bottomley, Gavin Charbonneau, Joan Daugherty, Traci Donohue, Matt Gartner, Bea Girdler, Irene Gordon, Dottie Grebe, Gerry Gronewold, Martha Guerrero, Kay Gunderson, Bonnie Hagen, Whitney Hanson, Marc Harris, Betsy Henderson, Kris Knutson, Jimmie Kramlich, Don Minnick, Dick Ode, Elizabeth MaiLin Tran, Patty Unzen, Katie Walda, Erik and Nick Welch, Lori Wollum.

In the Military: Jeff Fitzmorris, Lucas Fitzmorris, Ray Hardaway, Sam Harris, Kenny Hendrickson, Daryl Johnson, Madeline Almodivar Sanabria, and J.R. Sawyer.

Every Tuesday, our staff prays for the persons listed above. If you would like to be included in our staff prayers, please contact the church office at 253.833.5280. Individuals will be in our prayers for four consecutive weeks. To be included after the four weeks, please call us again, let us know how you are doing, and we will continue to hold you in our ongoing prayers.