Bulletin

Second Sunday After Christmas                                                      January 5, 2003

SALEM  EVANGELICAL  LUTHERAN  CHURCH

10   McClellan  Circle  -  Buffalo, New York

Phone:  824-2787

(e-mail: salemoncircle@yahoo.com)

Rev. David F. C. Wurster, Ph.D.  -  Pastor  -  825-3253

Rev. Richard E. Blemaster, Pastor Emeritus

Sunday School & Bible Classes  .  .  .  .  9:00 a.m.

Worship  .  .  .  .  10:30 a.m.

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ORDER  OF  WORSHIP

Lutheran  Worship  --  Page  158

G A T H E R I N G

PRELUDE  -  Prelude on “Antioch”  -  Whitney

HYMN  -  “Joy to the World”                                                                       LW 53

INVOCATION  &  CONFESSION  &  ABSOLUTION  -                   page 158

INTROIT  &  GLORIA  PATRI  (insert)  -  sung  by  all

KYRIE                                                                                                       page 159

HYMN  OF  PRAISE – “Glory To God”                                                 page 160

COLLECT  OF  THE  DAY  -  read by all  -  (insert)

      (Announcements and prayer requests  &  Children’s  Message)

 

T H E   W O R D

OLD  TESTAMENT  (insert)  -  Isaiah 61:10-62:3

GRADUAL  (insert) 

EPISTLE  (insert)  -  Ephesians 1:3-6, 14-18

                                    Verse - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  page 164

GOSPEL WITH GOSPEL PROCESSION (insert) John 1:1-18 (Versicles

                                    sung before and after reading)                            page 165

HYMN  OF  THE  DAY  -  “As With Gladness Men of Old”                    LW 75

SERMON: “The Word and The Witness”  -  John 1:1-18

CREED  -  Nicene  Creed  (rise)  -                                                           page 166

 

PRAYERS  FOR  TODAY’S  NEED  AND  MISSIONS  -  (insert)

      (At the words: “Lord, in Your Mercy;”

             the congregation responds:  “HEAR  OUR  PRAYER”

INSTALLATION  OF  OFFICERS

SHARING  OF  THE  PEACE  &  GREETINGS

T H E  W O R D  IN  THE  SUPPER

OFFERINGSr. Choir: “Alleluia! Gloria! Magnificat! Nowell!”  -  D. Music

OFFERTORY                                                                                           page 168

THE  PREFACE                                                                                       page 170

WORDS  OF  INSTITUTION                                                                 page 171

      (Communion prayers can be found on page 128)

COMMUNION  &  COMMUNION  HYMNS  -

          “Spirit of The Living God” (see insert)

            “Within The Father’s House”                                                           LW 80

 

S E N D I N G

CANTICLE                                                                                               page 173

PRAYER  &  BENEDICTION                                                               page 174

HYMN  -  “O Jesus, King of Glory”                                                             LW 79

POSTLUDE  -  Postlude on “Valet Will Ich Dir Gebe”

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ASSISTANTS  IN  TODAY’S  WORSHIP

Celebrant  .  .  .   Rev. David F. C. Wurster, Ph.D.                    Lector . . .

Organist  .  .  .  .  Lois L. Jones                                     Prayer  Leader . . . Rose Ann Merkt

Assistants  .  .  .   Timothy Metzler and Paul Swierczynski

Welcomers . . . . 

Acolytes  .  .  .  .   Jennifer Carr & Molly Webster

Ushers  .  .  .  .      Robert  Wiedemann,  Russell  Alessi Jr.,  Ken  Kushka,  Barbara

                              Turner,  Michael  Turner,  Sue  Wiedemann

Altar  .  .  .  .  .  .   Jim and Judy Carr, Thomas Jindra, and Doris Smith

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FLOWERS  -  Given to God’s Glory by the Women’s Guild.

SICK  -  Walter Schermerhorn; Elsie Hegedus.

TODAY  -  Financial Books for 2002 close today at noon.

NEXT  SUNDAY  -  Deadline for Annual Reports . . . and coffee hour.

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ANNIVERSARY  -  Emmett Jr. & Lorraine Horn’s 10th this Thursday.

THIS  -  Mon.  -  12:00 Quilting Group (bring lunch); Tues.  -  12:30, Bible

WEEK  Study at Norrine Nagel’s;  6:00, Confirmation Class;  7:00, Church

             Council;  Wed.  -  7:30, Sr. Choir;  Thurs.  -  9:30, Bible Study; 12:00, South Buffalo Ecumenical Association Meeting, Woodside Methodist Church, 675 Abbott Rd., Buffalo, Program: “Pray for Church Unity” – Rev. Wayne West.

OFFICE  HOURS  -  Monday – closed; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – 9 a.m.

             to 4:00 p.m.;  Friday – 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

CHRISTMAS  CARDS  -  If anyone has any religious Christmas cards from this

        year, please give to Gretchen Putzman or leave on the table in the narthex.  These will be used to make L.W.M.L. Christmas booklets.

VBS – Servant Event and a WNY(Western New York) AK (Alaska) Connection.

  Come to Adult and Youth Bible Class, and also coffee hour, on Sunday, January 12th to hear a team of youth and adults from Immanuel, Lockport, who do a community VBS each year and plan to do one in Alaska this summer.  Come, listen, talk and think with Salem’s Board of Education how Salem can be led by the Spirit back into another facet of mission in WNY and even beyond.

Dear Brothers and Sister in Christ, 

      Greetings in the name of our Savoir Jesus!  On behalf of our new ministry, Christian Life Ministries, Buffalo, I have a special invitation for you as a thank you for the Lord’s work you do and as a way to join together in celebration to our God.

      On Sunday, January 12, 2003, you are invited to join us at 5:00 p.m. for our special celebration at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 26 Brunswick Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. (located one block off Jefferson).  Following the celebration we will gather in the fellowship hall for refreshments and fellowship.

            In the shadow of the cross, Rev. Travis Pittock, Mission Developer

            Christian Life Ministries, Buffalo

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CELEBRATIONS  THIS  WEEK

BIRTHDAYS:  Today  -  Lois Yox;  Mon.  -  Suzanne Baron, Jim Carr,

                         Hildegard Gerth;  Wed.  -  Ryan Shanahan;  Fri.  -  Anthony Whipple;  Sat.  -  Linda A. Ciminelli, Jim Lesanti, Michael Reiter, Lawrence Sparceno.

ANNIVERSARIES:  Thurs.  -  Emmett Jr. & Lorraine Horn;  Fri.  -  Maurice &

                                   Deborah Sylvia.

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