The Pastor's Post- Mar 11

Traditional Worship- I just wanted to share that we will stay with the Setting 4 Kyrie through the Lenten season and may have another setting change for the Easter season.

Praise worship - I just wanted to share that we will continue with a Gathering video to introduce worship every week. For now, we will only be projecting on one side until we are able to purchase more equipment to better meet our needs. The videos used are always under 5 minutes and we are being intentional to tie the videos to the days theme. We are also attempting to introduce more modern songs in worship. The band is learning new songs which takes time to rehearse and learn, so we will gradually introduce these.

I received some feedback about why we decided to remove the music from the bulletin. The decision largely was a result of the Worship & Media survey we did last Fall. Majority of those polled stated they preferred projection and in an effort to move in that direction in the future, it made sense to the Worship committee that we transition to using lyrics only in the bulletin so that when we were ready for projection that the transition would be easier. The second reason had to do with saving 4-6 pages per bulletin and saving on printing cost. The survey also showed that majority of people polled felt this was important too. Having said that, we understand that some people would prefer to have the music printed. To ensure we made the correct decision, below, you will find a one question poll regarding printing music verses just the lyrics.

I also wanted to let you know that the processional cross has been moved back a bit ion the altar area as to not obstruct the line of sight for the area of projection for those who sit on the right side of the sanctuary.

Holy Week schedule is coming soon!

Please select one the choices below for your preference in the 10:45am bulletin.

I'd prefer to leave the bulletin as is- with just the lyrics

I'd prefer to see the printed music in the bulletin

I do not have a preference of how the music appears in the bulletin.

Thanks for the many people who have reached out to schedule visits. Due to the season of Lent being very hectic, I may need to cut back some of my visits at this time.

I just wanted to let you all know that a few members of the congregational care team will be bringing communion and visiting with some of our home bound members. Therefore, once a month, we will be blessing the prepackaged sacraments. This will occur in worship the first Sunday of every month.

If you're interested in volunteering to assist, either contact me or Kelly Burleson who is the head of this committee.

I hope you have all taken the small change boxes to collect coins during Lent. The donations we are collecting are to assist elementary students at Clark Creek Elementary with backlogged school meal accounts.

Special Thanks to Molly Maher for coordinating the Hunger Walk. That has been postponed for one week due to weather on Sunday.

In an effort to support more diversity in our congregation, we would like to offer "Spanish Space". Coming soon will be a table in the fellowship hall that will promote Spanish speaking conversations. If you join us at the table. you must be willing to try or listen to only Spanish (OK, to start, we may begin with some English!). This table will be offered during Fellowship time to promote more Spanish dialog for all Hispanic friends within and outside our church. Coming soon!

Together it is my hope that we live out our mission call, be inspired by the Holy Spirit to be the true disciples of Christ in our community as we live out our faith!

Always a servant of Christ, <><

Rev. Rosalina Rivera (a.k.a. Pastor Rosy)

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