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Info on our First MLK, Jr. Day of Service

November 23, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Bay Shore’s first MLK Jr Day of Service is right around the corner!

MLK Jr. Day of Service @ Bay Shore Lutheran Church

Monday, January 17, 2022

10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

We need volunteers of all ages and abilities – including children! The event will be open to members of our congregation and community and will benefit Milwaukee area non-profit organizations that serve disadvantaged community members. We have a variety of volunteer jobs ranging from helping to organize supplies in the week before the event, helping to serve lunch to volunteers, and helping to direct visitors around the church.

The church will be set up with 7-9 hands-on hands-on projects, including: pantry staples kits, snack packs for kids, greeting cards for seniors and adults with disabilities, and sandwiches for folks who are food insecure. Each station will have an educational component, to help volunteers appreciate the impact of their work.

Register to volunteer: LINK

In addition to volunteering, we will be asking the congregation to consider donating supplies and/or monetary donations, as well as participating in the event. Watch future Beacons for more information in the weeks ahead. Questions now? Please connect with our Church Office and our chair, Julie Murphy.

Note: We are unable to provide child care at this event. Volunteers aged 14 should be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

From the Pastor, November 19, 2021

November 19, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Welcome!

“The end is near,” we have been hearing the past few weeks on Sundays. This Sunday, we do reach an end—the end of our church’s liturgical year. Our church year always begins on the first Sunday of Advent and it ends today on Christ the King Sunday.

It’s easy to rush through Christ the King Sunday and move into the much anticipated season of Advent. Who doesn’t love a good Advent season with its blue colors and, eventually, trees? While I will preach about Christ the King and its meaning for us today, I would like to take this space and reflect on our past church year as Bay Shore.

A year ago, I was in my spare bedroom leading worship on Zoom. Danny, Dulcie and Kate also were in their homes, playing music, reading lessons and singing hymns. A year ago, we knew we would not be worshipping together for Christmas Eve, and we began making plans to create a service that we could show on our then new YouTube Channel. A year ago, we were completing the installation of our new technology which allowed us to begin livestreaming our services in early 2021. A year ago, I couldn’t fathom that we would not be together for a second Easter. A year ago, we didn’t have vaccines readily available.

In June, we returned to our building. We continue to livestream. And now, we still are contemplating the best way to have services in the coming weeks and months. I do not have a crystal ball, and so far, God is not answering certain questions that I have about when the pandemic will finally be contained enough to return to all things normally. But I am grateful to have spent the past year with this great community here at Bay Shore—the staff, our Council, our volunteers, our members and friends. We learned a lot; we grew in ways we did and did not want to grow. But most of all, we stayed together and supported one another as Jesus taught his disciples to do.

Blessings, my friends. May God bless us in our new year.

Pastor Sarah

This Week’s Calendar of Events

November 19, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Our Church Calendar

Our Zoom activities and events are linked below; we post videos on our YouTube Channel as well.

Sunday, November 21 – Christ the King Sunday
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

10:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion
Faith Formation for 3 year olds through 5th grade
We will continue to have our worship livestreaming on our YouTube Channel beginning at 9:55 a.m.
The Prelude will begin at 9:55 a.m. You may view our worship live, or after as a recording by click here.

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

5:00 p.m. – ABC Group/Confirmation Grades 6-8

6:00 p.m. – High School Youth Group

Monday, November 22
9:30 a.m. – Cover Girls quilting group

7:00 p.m. – Finance Committee

Tuesday, November 23
8:30 a.m. – First Word for Men Bible Study
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 893 1651 5102
Passcode: 371467

Wednesday, November 24
9:30 a.m. – Pastor’s Bible Study
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 853 1257 2642
Passcode: 722205

10:30 a.m. – Ukeladies Group

12:00 p.m. – Staff Meeting

Thursday, November 25
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Church Office Closed

Friday, November 26
7:30 p.m. – AA Meeting

Saturday, November 27
5:00 p.m. – AA Meeting

Sunday, November 28 – First Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

10:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion
Faith Formation for 3 year olds through 5th grade
We will continue to have our worship livestreaming on our YouTube Channel beginning at 9:55 a.m.
The Prelude will begin at 9:55 a.m. You may view our worship live, or after as a recording by click here.

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

From Kate in Our Church Office

November 6, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Dear Bay Shore Family,

As we reflect on another All Saints Sunday together I am reminded of all the people that I have had the privilege of knowing in my years here at Bay Shore. Their faces and stories are forever in my memory as I walk through my weeks here, their voices and reminders are everywhere.

It would be easy for me to start naming names like Bernice Flickinger, Lois Dallman, and Lorraine Kubitschek, many of you won’t remember those lovely women or the Speerschnieders, the Semlers and the McCroskeys…all once served with us, sang with us, laughed and cried with us. You may not remember, but they are all here.

The Apostles’ Creed that we say on Sundays reminds us that we believe in the “Communion of Saints” which from what I have gleaned from my years now in the Lutheran church means that all the baptized who came before us, those among us now and even those who are yet to be born are Saints in our presence. That’s a pretty cosmic thought, but I like it! My friend Carolyn used to describe that while she was receiving Holy Communion, she would think of her grandmother holding her hand on the way to receive the holy meal. Everyone present, everyone welcome, today and forever.

Surrounded by the Communion of Saints, we remember the people who left our earthly home this year and to all those from years gone by, I say thank you. Thank you, Mother and Dad, for making church an important commitment in our lives, thank you to my husband and children who make the journey of life so full and precious, and thank you to my Bay Shore family from Carla Hoelz to Gordy Hackbarth to Michael Trost and all the rest for sharing your faith journeys with me in this life as Saints together forever.

Happy All Saints Sunday!

Kate Yelvington

This Week’s Calendar of Events

November 5, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Our Church Calendar

Our Zoom activities and events are linked below; we post videos on our YouTube Channel as well.

Sunday, November 7 – All Saint’s Sunday
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

11:00 a.m. – Children’s Communion Class

Monday, November 8
9:30 a.m. – Cover Girls quilting group

7:00 p.m. – Congregation Council

Tuesday, November 9
8:30 a.m. – First Word for Men Bible Study
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 893 1651 5102
Passcode: 371467

Wednesday, November 10
9:30 a.m. – Pastor’s Bible Study
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 853 1257 2642
Passcode: 722205

10:30 a.m. – Ukeladies Group

12:00 p.m. – Staff Meeting

Thursday, November 11
7:15 p.m. – Adult Choir
Sanctuary

Friday, November 12
7:30 p.m. – AA Meeting

Saturday, November 13
5:00 p.m. – AA Meeting

Sunday, November 14
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

5:00 p.m. – Soup’R Books
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 815 3888 3731
Passcode: 472488

This Week’s Calendar of Events

October 29, 2021 by BayshoreLutheran Leave a Comment

Our Church Calendar

Our Zoom activities and events are linked below; we post videos on our YouTube Channel as well.

Sunday, October 31 – Reformation Sunday
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

10:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion
Rite of Affirmation of Baptism
Faith Formation for 3 year olds through 5th grade
We will continue to have our worship livestreaming on our YouTube Channel beginning at 9:55 a.m.
The Prelude will begin at 9:55 a.m. You may view our worship live, or after as a recording by click here.

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

Monday, November 1 – All Saints Day
9:30 a.m. – Cover Girls quilting group

Tuesday, November 2
12:00 p.m. – Staff Meeting on Zoom

5:30 p.m. – Social Ministry Committee

7:00 p.m. – Building and Grounds Committee

Wednesday, November 3
9:30 a.m. – Pastor’s Bible Study
Join Zoom Meeting by CLICKING HERE
Meeting ID: 853 1257 2642
Passcode: 722205

10:30 a.m. – Ukeladies Group

Thursday, November 4
7:00 p.m. – Synod Conference Meeting in Sanctuary

7:15 p.m. – Adult Choir
Downstairs this week

Friday, November 5
7:30 p.m. – AA Meeting

Saturday, November 6
5:00 p.m. – AA Meeting

Sunday, November 7 – All Saints Sunday
8:00 a.m. – Worship with Holy Communion

If you click on before 9:55 a.m., please refresh your screen (as often as needed) until you see the livestream video.

11:00 a.m. – Children’s Communion Class