FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST SERVICE OF WORD AND TABLE

JUNE 28, 2020

GATHERINGThe Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God.

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Confession and ForgivenessBlessed be the holy Trinity, + one God,whose steadfast love is everlasting,whose faithfulness endures from generation to generation.Amen.Trusting in the mercy of God, let us confess our sin.

Reconciling God,we confess that we do not trust your abundance,and we deny your presence in our lives.We place our hope in ourselvesand rely on our own efforts.We fail to believe that you provide enough for all.We abuse your good creation for our own benefit.We fear difference and do not welcome othersas you have welcomed us.We sin in thought, word, and deed.By your grace, forgive us;through your love, renew us;and in your Spirit, lead us;so that we may live and serve you in newness of life. Amen.Beloved of God,by the radical abundance of divine mercywe have peace with God through + Christ Jesus,

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through whom we have obtained grace upon grace.Our sins are forgiven.Let us live now in hope.For hope does not disappoint,because God’s love has been poured into our heartsthrough the Holy Spirit.Amen.

GATHERING HYMN

GREETING The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And also with you.

KYRIEIn peace, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, have mercy.For the peace from above, and for our salvation,let us pray to the Lord.

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Lord, have mercy.For the peace of the whole world,for the well-being of the Church of God,and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord.Lord, have mercy.For this holy house, and for all who offer here their worship and praise,let us pray to the Lord.Lord, have mercy.Help, save, comfort, and defend us, gracious Lord.Amen.

PRAYER OF THE DAY Let us pray. O God, you direct our lives by your grace, and your words of justice and mercy reshape the world. Mold us into a people who welcome your word and serve one another, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.

WORDGod speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching,

and song.

First Reading: Jeremiah 28:5-9Reading from Jeremiah5The prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD; 6and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD fulfill the words that you have prophesied, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles. 7But listen now to this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. 8The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. 9As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes true, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet.”

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Psalm 89: 1-4, 15-18 1Your love, O LORD, forever will I sing;  from age to age my mouth will proclaim your faithfulness. 2For I am persuaded that your steadfast love is established forever;  you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens. 3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one;  I have sworn an oath to David my servant: 4‘I will establish your line forever,  and preserve your throne for all generations.’ ”  15Happy are the people who know the festal shout!

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  They walk, O LORD, in the light of your presence. 16They rejoice daily in your name;  they are jubilant in your righteousness. 17For you are the glory of their strength,  and by your favor our might is exalted. 18Truly, our shield belongs to the LORD;  our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Second Reading: Romans 6:12-23 (The Message)A Reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans

That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin can’t tell you how to live. After all, you’re not living under that old tyranny any longer. You’re living in the freedom of God.

So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

I’m using this freedom language because it’s easy to picture. You can readily recall, can’t you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God’s freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?

As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn’t have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you’re proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.

But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

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Gospel: Matthew 10:40-42The holy gospel according to St. Matthew. Glory to you, O Lord.[Jesus said to the twelve:] 40“Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.

CHILDREN'S TIME & SERMON Pr. Megan Hoewisch HYMN OF THE DAY

APOSTLES' CREEDI believe in God, the Father almighty,

creator of heaven and earth.I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died, and was buried;he descended to the dead.On the third day he rose again;

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he ascended into heaven,he is seated at the right hand of the Father,and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy catholic church,the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and the life everlasting. Amen.

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

PEACE

MEALGod feeds us with the presence of Jesus Christ.

OFFERINGCollection plates are in the narthex. Please drop your offering in them on your way out. For those listening to KOJM: at this time, we invite you to get out your checkbooks. Our address is P. O. Box 66, Havre, MT 59501.

OFFERING HYMN We Are an Offering ELW 692We lift our voices, we lift our hands, We lift our lives up to you: we are an offering.Lord, use our voices, Lord use our hands, Lord use our lives, they are Yours: we are an offering.All that we have, all that we are,All that we hope to be, we give to you, we give to you.We lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you: We are an offering, we are an offering.

OFFERING PRAYER Let us pray together: God of goodness and growth, all creation is yours, and your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens. Water and word, wine and bread: these are signs of your abundant grace. Nourish us through these gifts, that we might proclaim your steadfast love in our communities and in the world, through Jesus Christ, our strength and our song. Amen.

GREAT THANKSGIVINGThe Lord be with you.And also with you.Lift up your hearts.We lift them to the Lord.Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

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It is right to give our thanks and praise.It is indeed right . . . and join in their unending hymn:Holy, holy, holy Lord,Lord God of power and might,heaven and earth are full of your glory.Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.Hosanna in the highest.. . . gathered into one by the Holy Spirit, let us pray as Jesus taught us:Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name,thy kingdom come,thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread;and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive thosewho trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,and the power, and the glory,forever and ever. Amen.

INVITATION TO COMMUNIONCome to the banquet, for all is now ready.

COMMUNIONThe body of Christ, given for you. The blood of Christ shed for you.

LAMB OF GOD

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PRAYER AFTER COMMUNIONLet us pray together: God of the welcome table, in this meal we have feasted on your goodness and have been united by your presence among us. Empower us to go forth sustained by these gifts so that we may share your neighborly love with all, through Jesus Christ, the giver of abundant life. Amen.

SENDING BLESSING

SENDING SONG

DISMISSAL AND MISSION STATEMENTWe go forth in faith, sharing God’s love,

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Go in peace. Share the good news.Thanks be to God. Amen.

PRAYER LISTGrieving Families: Gregg Carlson; Beth Davidson; Dori Stoner (mother of Jon Stoner); Betty Majerus (Judy Solomon’s sister in law); Daniel Carpenter; Dan WillsonMedical Issues: Chamene Plum (Recovering from Home); Thom Putt (husband of Pr. Val Putt); Eva (young child with leukemia); Doris Gullickson (Nancy Erickson mother); Steve Gawryluk; Pr. Stan Hoobing; Jamie Young; Jackie Hillman; Sharlene Hanson; Arletta Nicholson; Wacee Simenson; Eileen Viall; Pr. Walt Kirkegaard; Finley Grace Whitmore; Harry Plum; Carolyn RichardsonThose at Home: Lita MoogLiving In Community:Timber Creek: Dave Knudson (Lyle’s brother)Eagle’s Manor: Mildred Kjorli; Edith Anderson; Mary GrandburgNMCC: Monica Doll; Mary Meland; Ruth MorseCare & Comfort Home: Delores Ball; Ruth MeredithAway: Sharlene Hanson (Chester)

ANNOUNCEMENTSBaptism Lilian Mayer, daughter of Carrie Gartner and Roy Mayer, will be baptized Sunday, June 28 at 2:00 p.m. We will life-stream the private service on Facebook, and we would love for Lilian’s church family to join from afar.Holy Communion We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper today. If you are worshiping from home, you are welcome to prepare bread and wine or grape juice so that you can commune with us.New Worship Guidelines Moving forward, our services will be in person, on Facebook, and on KOJM Radio. If there is a spike in cases, we will move back to Radio and Facebook only. Worship will look a little different, too:

- Everyone will come in and go out through the front doors to reduce traffic in tight hallways. - Every other pew will be roped off and we ask that you sit 6 ft. away from anyone else in the

pew who is not part of your family. - Masks: Studies have shown that singing propels our germs up to 26 feet, so we ask that only

folks with masks participate in singing. However, everyone will be allowed into the service,

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June 28, 2020Pre Service Sanitizer, Come at 9Pre Service Sanitizer, Come at 9Singer/ReaderUsher/Post Service Sanitizer Doug LarsonUsher/Post Service SanitizerSet Up/Clean Up Communion Julee ChristianPianist/Organist Vickie JacobsenSong Leader/Reader

with or without a mask. We will have some clean homemade masks for people to take if you don't have your own.

- There will be no coffee hour in the Fellowship Hall. Worship Roles There is a sign up sheet in the narthex for worship servers. We are looking forward to sharing in this communal ministry.Reopening for Meetings in Phase 2 Feel free to come when and if you feel comfortable. Social distancing will be enforced at all meetings. We will honor any requests asking that all present be masked. Please bring a mask or use one of ours to wear if necessary. We want all to feel safe and welcome.

Days for Girls: Wednesdays 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Caring Friends 1:00 Book Study: Char’s Family Dining, Thursdays 7a.m. Bible Study: Thursdays 1:30 Quilting Group: 2nd and 3rd Saturday, 9-12:00 noon

Pr. Megan Hoewisch pastormegan.flc@gmail.com

406-265-5881 (o); office@flchavre.net www.flchavre.org303 6th Avenue P.O. Box 66 Havre, MT 59501

Visit our Facebook page for updates on things around the church: FirstLutheranChurchHavre Listen in on Sunday mornings:

11:00 a.m. on 610 AM – KOJM and 98.3 FM

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Be a part of a ministry that has been going since 1949! We broadcast our worship service every Sunday at 11 a.m. mountain time on 610 KOJM and 98.3 FM as well as online at KOJM.com, and we are always looking for people to Sponsor a broadcast. The weekly cost is $225.00, but any amount you can give is welcome! Sponsor a broadcast in honor or in memory of a person or important event by filling out the form below or calling the church office at 265-5881. Thank you! In Honor/Memory of _________________________________Name of Sponsor ____________________________________I /we prefer the following Sunday Date: __________________