The call
First Lutheran Church, Lucerne
Pastor Chris DelCol
Ask someone, anyone, what they think their call in life is, what God given gift they have that makes them unique. Their response might shock you.
Generally, people go to work everyday, do the same thing at work everyday, come home from work everyday, eat dinner everyday (many of the times alone because the kids are out somewhere and the spouse is working a different shift everyday), and then watch TV everyday, go to bed everyday, then wake up the next morning everyday and the cycle just keeps going.
So many people when asked how they like their jobs will say the same thing, “I hate it, but that’s the way life is these days I guess.” Maybe so, but that doesn’t have to be the way life goes everyday.
Join us for worship and find out what God might have in store for you and for the gifts He has bestowed upon you. All are welcome so please bring your friends and family for Bible study at 9:30 a.m., Worship at 11 a.m., and a fellowship luncheon following service. First Lutheran Church, 3863 Country Club Drive, Lucerne
Unity in diversity
Galilee Lutheran Church
Lay leader Kristy Weiss
This Sunday at 10 a.m., Kristy Weiss will lead our service and deliver the message. This week is also the official “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.”
It would be a good idea … Christian unity. Too often we set up our churches as “either-or” propositions, where “Church A” attracts a person and takes them away from “Church B.” But we’re not in competition. It’s not a zero-sum game. When one church is strengthened, all churches are strengthened. We are all part of the same Body. As Benjamin Franklin said, “We must all hang together, or we will certainly hang apart.”
That is the subject of one of the readings this week, by the way. Paul says that many of us follow a particular person, “Paul” or “Silas” or “Cleopas,” but actually we all should be following Jesus. The person in the pulpit is not the star and the focus of our love. It’s the institution—the “Body of Christ”—that matters.
So pray this week that we all learn to work together. And play together. And accept each other despite our differences, or maybe because of them. In diversity lies our strength.
Galilee Lutheran is located at 8860 Soda Bay Road, on Facebook, and at www.galileekelseyville.org. All are inited to join us!
Next one up
Kelseyville United Methodist Church
Guest Pastor Claudie Listman
Pastor Claudia Listman will be the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. Sunday Service at Kelseyville United Methodist Church on January 22. The worship service message from Proclaim is from the Lectionary Scripture Matthew 4: 12—23 titled “Next One Up”.
This Sunday we will pray Ecumenically for Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia our Nation and all who are separated from the love of God.
Pastor Claudia retired as Pastor of the Middletown Community United Methodist Church in June of 2016.
Kelseyville United Methodist is located at Main and First Streets in Kelseyville. For information and prayer phone Pastor Voris at 707 295-7174.
