Preaching: Intern Michelle Schultz
Sermon: “How Transformation Happens”
This story is about how transformation happens, and it is not by one's will. It requires much strength, determination, and some suffering.

In today’s readings in Genesis we hear how transformation happens, whether that be growing closer to God through wrestling with God, or through God’s loving work helping God’s people be reconciled unto God through loving us into repentance and forgiveness. Who does God use? Does it require a demand? What happens when we are left alone to wrestle? Do we fight like Jacob? “Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Scripture: Genesis 32:24-32; Genesis 33:1-17 NRSV
Music: 9a: Adult Choir and Chapel Choir

Notes About Worship At Westminster:
Thank you all for using the outlying parking lots! You did so well in fact, that we were told it would be o.k. if a few more people wanted to use the lots next to Westminster. After the first week, there seems to be plenty of room between their lots and the lots at the eye clinic and dental office directly across third Avenue, so no one should need to park farther down the block. Check out the reference maps on this blog post to see exactly what I'm talking about.

AT, not WITH Westminster! There seems to be a little confusion, so we want to make an explicit clarification. We are holding our services in spaces provided by Westminster; but we are not worshiping with their congregation. When we are worshiping upstairs, their congregation utilizes the lower-level contemporary space. For the late service we switch and the Presbyterian traditional worship happens upstairs when we hold our 11:15 a.m. Celebration Worship downstairs. We really are holding our worship, with our liturgy and leaders. We are only utilizing their space and, in the traditional worship, their hymnals for songs; but they have many of the same hymns as our ELW books.

We once again would like to thank everyone for a few months of flexibility during this project as we renew God's House in the heart of the city. See you Sunday!