June 2021

Beacon News

June 6, 2021

My Church Family

by Rick Harris

Some folks have at least one sister and brother
Perhaps even more than that
Or maybe just a father and mother
But I have a large family and that’s a fact.

My earthly brother has passed away
My mother and father are no longer here
My sister is still among us, I’m glad to say
But lives a long way away, not very near.

But God has blessed me in a very big way
brought me out of the darkness into his light
He’s given me many brothers and sisters and more every day
My church family…what a beautiful sight.

Our Church Calendar

Our Zoom activities and events are linked below;

we also post videos on our YouTube Channel as well.

Sunday, June 6, 9:30 a.m. Worship (**SUMMER SCHEDULE**)

We are back in our sanctuary for in person worship! Please remember your mask!

We will continue to have our worship livestreaming on our YouTube Channel beginning at 9:25 a.m. The Prelude will begin at 9:25 a.m. You may view our worship live, or after as a recording here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8eSD2DkUpaCDCwagXnnrqw

If you click on before 9:25 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

Monday, June 7—Office Hours resume: Mon-Thurs 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

Tuesday, June 8, 8:30 a.m. First Word for Men Bible Study on Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89315542297?pwd=Q0txRmFyK3k3d3BQQlJOYUZjN3NuUT09
Meeting ID: 893 1554 2297
Passcode: 200544

Tuesday, June at 10 a.m. Prayers and Coffee Chat https://us02web.zoom.us/j/117491031

Meeting ID: 117 491 031

One tap mobile

Wednesday, June 9, 9:30 a.m. Pastor’s Bible Study

Join us as we gather weekly via Zoom.

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/568102184.
Meeting ID: 568 102 184 No password created.

Sunday, June 13, 9:30 a.m. Worship Honoring Graduates

If you click on before 9:25 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

Sunday, June 13, 10:45 a.m. Hymn Sing on the West Lawn led by Danny Ellis

Ways to Connect and Share

Do you have a child or loved one who is graduating from high school, college or receiving an advanced degree this year? Please notify the church office by Wednesday. We will pray for all grads NEXT Sunday, June 13.

If possible, please email us a picture! [email protected]

School is almost out for summer! Hephatha will continue the Youth Work program this June through August. Donations of non-perishable snacks and drinks for the youth can be made to Bay Shore Lutheran all summer. (Office hours Mon-Thurs 8am-2pm)

Also, monetary donations are being collected to provide scholarships for the participating youth. $300 sponsors one youth for the summer. Indicate Hephatha Youth Work Scholarship on your donation. Thank you!

Altar Flower Sign up is back!

A sign-up form has been created to sign up just the same as if we were in our gathering area! There can be two names (or more if you email the office separately) for each week that flowers will be in the church. Click on the link below to go to the sign-up sheet and when we get close to the day of your donation, Kate will email you for a dedication to be in the Beacon for the week.

The cost of flowers is $35. You may send a check to the office marked “Altar Flowers.”

Altar Flower Sign Up

This week altar flowers are given to the glory of God by David and Carol Nestingen in honor of their 46^th wedding anniversary!

We have a number of members who would love to hear from you! Each week we will publish the name and address of someone who is missing the fellowship of Bay Shore.

Please send a card or email to let them know you care.

This week we are thinking of Carl Weisner

7700 N. Seneca Rd. Fox Point, WI 53217

Please keep in prayer: We continue to remember the Martineau family as Jean bravely battles on! We had such a great response to the first round of meal train volunteers that the family has said “yes please” when we asked if they would like us to continue. They have truly appreciated getting a meal twice a month prepared with love by us! See the link below to sign up. Wednesdays are the day that works the best for their family.

https://mealtrain.com/v1n5ny Please make sure and read the special instructions about food preferences, timing for delivery and so on.

Ways to Grow and Learn

Pastor’s Wednesday Morning Bible Study continues on June 9 at 9:30 a.m. Pastor Sarah will begin our walk through the Letter to the Hebrews. Join us as you are able. You will be surprised how much you learn!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/568102184
Meeting ID: 568 102 184

Just a kind reminder: The Zoom company updates its software frequently on your smart devices, often without your knowledge if you have given permission for automatic app updates. Each week, you may or may not need to enter passwords, ID numbers, etc. It is also a good idea to check your microphone (audio) when you enter a Zoom meeting. You can do this under Audio Settings within your Zoom program.

Hymn Sing NEXT SUNDAY after worship!

Lutheran Summer Music Program has been a summer-camp tradition for high school youth who play instruments or who sing in a school choir since 1981. Each year, the camp moves from one location to another to showcase local ELCA colleges. This summer, it is at Valparaiso College in Indiana. It is a 4 week camp for high school to study an instrument or two with professional instructors, and/or sing in a choir with a professor or two from an area college.

This year, the Greater Milwaukee Synod has scholarship funds to offset the costs, and our high school youth who are interested—we encourage you to apply.

Pastor Sarah’s eldest daughter Amy attended LSM at Luther College in 2011. It was a great experience for her, and truly prepared her for “going away” to college after HS graduation. If you have any questions about the program, please connect with Pastor Sarah. For more information from LSM, use the link here: LSM (lsmacademy.org)

Ways to Serve and Give

Download Software

It is often cheaper to download software than it is to buy the discs. It also reduces wasted packaging materials, and it can be beneficial when the software is upgraded, and the downloaded version is automatically included in the updates.

BAY SHORE HAS TEXT TO GIVE!

(855) 461-0194

You can quickly and easily make a one-time or recurring donation to Bay Shore!

OR, simply download the GivePlus app from your phone’s app store and search for Bay Shore Lutheran Church. You will then be all set to give whenever the time is right. When you download the app there are several areas where you can choose to give from the general fund to Hephatha appeals to Lutheran World relief! It’s quick and EASY!

How the Amazon Smile program works:
1. Open the Amazon app on your phone
2. Select the main menu (=) & tap on “AmazonSmile” within Programs & Features
3. Select “Bay Shore Lutheran Church” as your charity
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to activate AmazonSmile in the mobile app

Prayer of the Week

For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” -Matthew 18:20

Jesus, we are different people, different backgrounds, different races, different classes, different education levels, different viewpoints, even different theologies; but we are gathered together in one name. One beautiful and matchless name: Jesus! Jesus, come into our midst as we pray today. Amen

Readings for Sunday, June 6, 2021

First Reading: Genesis 3:8-15

Immediately after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit, they hide from God. Neither takes responsibility for their sin, instead blaming each other, the snake, and even God. The curse on the snake was understood as a messianic prophecy by the early church, who associated Eve’s “offspring” with Christ.

⁸[Adam and Eve] heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.⁹But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.” ¹¹He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” ¹²The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.” ¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” ¹⁴The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you among all animals
and among all wild creatures;
upon your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
¹⁵I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

Psalm: Psalm 130

Wait for the Lord, for with the Lord there is steadfast love. (Ps. 130:7)

¹Out of the depths
I cry to you, O Lord;
²O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
³If you were to keep watch over sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴Yet with you is forgiveness,
in order that you | may be feared.
⁵I wait for you, O Lord; my soul waits;
in your word is my hope.
⁶My soul waits for the Lord more than those who keep watch for the morning,
more than those who keep watch for the morning.
⁷O Israel, wait for the Lord, for with the Lord there is steadfast love;
with the Lord there is plenteous redemption.
⁸For the Lord shall redeem Israel
from all their sins.

Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:13–5:1

Life in the present is transitory and cannot compare with the eternal home God has prepared for us. So we do not despair no matter what life might bring because we know that as God raised Jesus from the dead, God promises to bring us into eternal life.

¹³Just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and so we speak, ¹⁴because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. ¹⁵Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

¹⁶So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, ¹⁸because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

^5:1For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Gospel: Mark 3:20-35

In response to charges that he is possessed, Jesus wonders aloud how anyone who is demon-possessed can cast out demons. Those who do the will of God are possessed by the Holy Spirit, siblings of Christ.

[Jesus went home;] ²⁰and the crowd came together again, so that [Jesus and the disciples] could not even eat. ²¹When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” ²²And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” ²³And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? ²⁴If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. ²⁵And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. ²⁶And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. ²⁷But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.

²⁸“Truly I tell you, people will be forgiven for their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter; ²⁹but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—³⁰for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.”

³¹Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. ³²A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, asking for you.” ³³And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” ³⁴And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! ³⁵Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Click here to see our Order of Worship including all readings, to be used at home while watching the services on our YouTube Channel. You can also save some paper, and use this on your smart device as well if you attend in person.

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