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Dear GLC members and friends,
"It's the mooooost wonderful time of the year!!" No? Just me? It is, though, the height of the church year and a time to lean in, deepen faith, and celebrate. This Sunday is Palm Sunday - we'll gather outside (weather permitting) to start worship, and begin the sweep into holy week. What's holy week, and why come to worship? Watch my video for the answers and an invitation.
Also, your help needed - volunteer - for Holy Week worship roles, coffee time treats, and we also need a communion assistant: volunteer for these or other roles here.
Our congregation council leaders meet this Monday night (4/11) on Zoom - meetings are open - agenda & link here.
Check out all our Lent resources and inspiration at glconline.net/lent, including last week's Wed. evening prayer, featuring Chris W. sharing about caregiving and compassion. Listen in on the vulnerable, relatable conversation.
We're in-person for worship (8:30 & 10am) Sunday, and continuing the 10:00 livestream! Click here to read our current covid precautions, in bold/outlined on this chart!
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 (new ones in bold):
- Our GLC 2022 council goal and objectives
- Bible study continues on Tuesday nights
- Ukraine support from Lutherans on the ground
- 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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GLC Council President Cassandra K. shared our 2022 goal and objectives, during worship on 4/3. This banner now hangs in the back of the sanctuary, to keep us transparent and accountable to our goals!
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Survey: Parents of Littles
We have a small (but growing) group of parents and "littles" (babies through preschool) at church. We as a church want to support you and maybe find a time to get together, or hear from you what would be helpful! Parents, take just a couple minutes and share your thoughts in this survey. If there's anything else you'd like to share, feel free to reach out.
Also, please know that our church council has been talking about the nursery, and how to make it more functional for parents, especially during worship. We're hoping to put a screen of some sort so you can keep watching worship while you're in there. Also, above the changing table on the wall is the Wifi code - feel free to use it, especially if you need to step out but want to stay connected to worship.
Here for you - and thankful for you and your littles. We see you, every time you make the effort to come to worship, keeping you in prayer as they grow and with each milestone.
Parents of school-age kids - look for an email next week!
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No Tues. Night Bible study this week - resumes 4/19!
Tuesdays at 7:30pm via Zoom! We're going to be reading the book of 1 Samuel: stories about leaders and people, trust and big names of the Bible that maybe we've heard of but would be interested to read: David, Hannah, Saul, Samuel, and more! Here's a couple intro resources for 1 Samuel we'll discuss the first night or you can revisit anytime.
You're invited - and no experience is needed but it's a good way to get to know parts of the Bible and some other GLC people. We meet 7:30-8:30 - Pastor Brett leads, we share open-ended discussion with no homework/read-aheads. Click here to enter the zoom - join us any week you can.
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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:
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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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