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 Dear GLC members and friends,
Our council met this past Monday, and decided to peel back a few more layers of precaution in our practices. Pastor Brett shares these updates and reasoning in a video here. We're peeling back precautions, but not all at once. Yes, we're staying masked at least for this Sunday. I'm excited that this Sunday, for the first time in over two years, I look forward to welcoming to come forward for communion and place it in your hands (we'll still offer individual for those who wish to receive in their pew). We're also welcoming back coffee hour - we'll gather in the fellowship hall or outside if it's nice. So, sign up to bring treats, and we also need a communion assistant: volunteer for these or other roles here.
Also at our council meeting this past week, some exciting news and plans for a strong future ahead - stay tuned and listen to this Sunday's announcements in worship for details!
Check out all our Lent resources and inspiration at glconline.net/lent, including last week's Wed. evening prayer, featuring Joseph & Eli talking about what "sanctuary" means to them, and how they've been shaped as people living near and across borders. If you watch one thing this week, let it be this. You can also scroll down on our Lent page things like Lent Madness and ELCA World Hunger connections!
We're in-person for worship (8:30 & 10am) Sunday, and continuing the 10:00 livestream!
To join the 10:00 worship service live on Zoom, click here!
Click here for the bulletin and more on our worship page!
10:00 in-person Worship Volunteers sign up!
Upcoming & ways to connect, serve, and grow below:
- Getting Connected - New & Prospective Member Session
- Organ Recital last Sunday - hear Bach as Bach would've, to benefit refugee support
- Serving Saturday Supper next week!
- Ukraine support from Lutherans on the ground
- Wednesday Evening prayer & Reflection during Lent
- Updates, thanks to your support of our refugee family
- Calling your recipes: GLC Covid Cookbook!
- Daily Lenten devotional: subscribe to receive by email
Peace+
Pastor Brett Wilson
(202)830-8996 (cell)
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 Getting Connected - New & Prospective Member Session
If you're new to the GLC community, or would like to meet people who are, come join in for Getting Connected, 11:15-12:30 in the fellowship hall, Sunday April 3.
Getting Connected is a gathering to learn more about GLC and each other. It's open to any who are curious, and especially those considering church membership. Come if you've been before, are interested in joining, or a current member wanting to welcome others! Pastor Brett has redesigned the content, and we'll share a bit about GLC, what it means to be a Lutheran Christian and a member of our church community. For those interested in joining, we'll celebrate welcoming you as members in the context of worship sometime soon.
Questions? Interested? Talk with Pastor Brett pastor@georgetownlutheran.com.
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 Organ Recital last Sunday!
Last Sunday, we hosted the first in a series of recitals, "The Well-tempered Clavier: Bach as Bach would have heard it!" Our beautiful organ was chosen by Dr. Stephen Ackert (shown playing during yesterday's recital - click here for a short video clip) because of all the instruments in the area, it's the closest to what Bach would have used. Each recital will also benefit a different cause or nonprofit!
We are thankful for the great turnout yesterday, which raised over $800 which will go to support refugee resettlement through Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area!
Come hear our organ any Sunday during worship, and put the next recital on your calendar: June 12 at 4:00pm!
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Serving Georgetown Saturday Supper
We're continuing to serve meals and support financially the Georgetown Saturday Suppers program. Our next service date is next Saturday, April 2. We can use your help; we need:
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 Lutheran support on the ground for Ukraine relief
Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) and Lutheran World Relief are on the ground for Ukraine relief. They're working with partner churches in and nearby countries, and bringing in aid - quilts and kits made by Lutheran churches. Every dollar given toward this crisis to LDR or LWR will go 100% toward aid on the ground. Check out the situation updates/reports from LDR and LWR.
If you're on Facebook, you can follow the Lutheran Church in Ukraine (German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine) here to receive updates and hold them in prayer, or their English website is here. On their FB page Bishop Shvarts shared in a video a version of this post and request for prayers for peace, a just peace, and for the people of Ukraine.
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Wednesday Evening Prayer + Reflection in Lent
Lenten Evening Worship Wednesdays began 3/9 & weekly on Zoom (the regular worship link) and FB from 7:30-8:00. Each week is a different topic as GLC members/guests lead with Pastor Brett as we reflect, learn, and pray together. Join us for each week:
- 3/9: Lent 1: The Promised Land: Refugee Resettlement watch the video here
- 3/16: Lent 2: Under the Stars: Environmental Stewardship watch the video here
- 3/23: Lent 3: Sanctuary & Borders watch the video here
- 3/30: Lent 4: At the Table: Feasting as Faith
- 4/9: Lent 5: Seeing dignity: Caregiving and Compassion to inmates
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You are here. This Lenten season join us in daily devotions - pick up a paper copy at church, or subscribe via the link below to receive a daily email devotion to reflect, pray, and connect, finding God right where you are. Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hUqh41
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Calling your recipes: GLC Covid Cookbook
GLC is a congregation that is great at caring for others through food. Whether cooking for ourselves, our friends and family, each other, or our wider community, we love sharing through this basic, human gift.
We'd like to share this gift in a new way by collecting those recipes most dear to the members of GLC. We're starting a cookbook recipe drive and would like submissions of recipes in two broad categories: Those dishes that sustain you through tough times and those recipes you share with groups in times of celebration. This "COVID Cookbook" would be an anthology of beloved GLC foods that have kept us going when we've been cooking for ourselves and those things we'd love to have been cooking for others.
Please submit your recipes via this google form for inclusion.
- Adam Orshefsky
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