Beacon News
October 4, 2020
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Pet Blessing Sunday!
Ode To Cats by Shannon Karbousky
Published: May 2012
They say quiet as a mouse,
But don’t let them fool you.
Light on their feet,
Able to pounce without notice.
Sleek and regal,
Fluffy and stout.
A rainbow of colors,
An array of personalities and moods.
Curled up on the heater,
Batting the fringe on the lampshade.
Licking the cold and slippery fish tank glass,
Biting wiggly toes under the dinner table.
Cuddly touch-me-nots.
Playful recluses.
Not a charade,
But the power of preference of these
Pussycats
Who control their masters –
Puppets on a string.
What a magnificent puppet show it is!
Our Church Calendar
Our Zoom activities and events are linked below; almost daily we now post videos on our YouTube Channel as well.
Friday, October 2, CANCELED – Coffee Chats with Pastor Sarah.
Canceled this week. Both Kate and Pastor Sarah have conflicts during this time.
Sunday, October 4, 10 a.m. Worship –“Pet Blessing Sunday”
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/602272570?pwd=VUdRVVp6NkRNczl5QjFnUkF4OGt4Zz09
Meeting ID: 602 272 570
Password: 344276
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,602272570#,,#,344276# US (Chicago)
Virtual Fellowship will follow our service.
Tuesday, October 6, Staff Meeting at Noon.
Tuesday, October 6, 7:00 p.m. Building and Grounds Committee
Tuesday, October 6, 5:30 p.m. Social Ministry Committee
Wednesday, October 7, 9:30 a.m. – Pastor’s Bible Study Join us as we gather weekly via Zoom. We continue our study of the life of Jesus through the Gospel of Luke.
Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/568102184.
Meeting ID: 568 102 184 No password created.
Wednesday, October 7, 7:00 p.m. Outreach Committee
Thursday, October 8, 10 a.m. – Prayer Time Pastor Sarah will lead a brief time of prayer every Thursday at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Perfect for those of you at home or work who need a quick “lift” for the rest of the day.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 529 280 391
No password created. One tap mobile: +13126266799,,529280391# US (Chicago)
Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m. “Troubling the Waters” vital discussion regarding racism in America and what we can do as people of God.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86714669874?pwd=akxhRW5qVGFPK3hxMzlCSWJSS2M5UT09
Meeting ID: 867 1466 9874
Password: 724958
Items are available here from our class. Click here.
Friday, October 9, 10 a.m. – Coffee Chats with Pastor Sarah.
Join Pastor Sarah for relaxed conversation and catching up every Friday morning. You may drop in and leave when it’s convenient.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 117 491 031
No password created.
One tap mobile: +13126266799,,117491031# US (Chicago)
Sunday, October 11, 10 a.m. Worship –Stewardship Kick off Sunday!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/602272570?pwd=VUdRVVp6NkRNczl5QjFnUkF4OGt4Zz09
Meeting ID: 602 272 570
Password: 344276
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,602272570#,,#,344276# US (Chicago)
Sunday, October 11, 5:00 p.m. ABC (Affirmation of Baptism Class) Gr. 6-8
Virtual Fellowship will follow our service.
You can watch our services after they happen on our YouTube Channel. Click here!
Ways to Grow and Learn
Bible Study continues…
We gather on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. via Zoom for our Pastor’s Bible Study. All are welcome, and no preparation and previous knowledge is required.
We continue our study of the life of Jesus through the Gospel of Luke.
Our discussion about racism in our country and in the Church continues, Troubling the Waters,
Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m. The planning committee welcomes all to join us, even if you have never attended before. Pastor Sarah will lead Session 8, a time to reflect on the church and racism in our country, and a review of the history of the Lutheran Church.
Link to Materials:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kmbe4fkcbbdkeqf/AADdapbc7vJXGrPLxppTdjTCa?dl=0
Our YouTube Channel is live!
We are now offering weekly, short videos for you to watch at your convenience. They include musical offerings, Bible (verse) studies, prayer time, children’s time, and more. We also will post a copy of our Zoom worship from Sunday mornings on the channel as well.
Ways to Love, Serve and Give
THANK YOU ALL for your wonderful support of Pastor Sarah as she received over $1,200 through her fundraiser. Because of you, she had to ADD more miles and she will definitely need to extend her time into October. Thank you, thank you!
Choose Your Diapers Wisely Wherever possible, choose cloth diapers – this aids the environment and is kinder to baby’s skin. If you desperately need the convenience of the disposable diaper, use an environmentally friendly brand. The average child uses between five and eight thousand diapers – which equates to 3.5 million tons of landfill waste. And makes a huge dent in your pocket!
Thank you for your continued to support of Bay Shore during this difficult time.
Our mission and ministries are funded solely on the offerings we receive. Please continue to mail your offerings to the church. Or, to make an offering online using a debit/credit card right now, you may do so here.
BAY SHORE NOW HAS TEXT TO GIVE!
(855) 461-0194
You can quickly and easily make a one-time or recurring donation to Bay Shore!
Click this link for a short video about Vanco’s Give+Text.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj7AiH6rty0
Ways to Connect and Share
It’s Fall, and it’s also Election Time. Due to Covid-19 this year, the act of voting has become difficult for many. There is much confusion on where and how to vote—especially if you prefer absentee voting as your option.
The League of Women Voters, a non-partisan organization, has recently sent an informative email which answer some of the questions you may have about voting in our areas here in Milwaukee. A link to their latest email is HERE (click here). We also have a few persons here at Bay Shore that are willing to assist our members with maneuvering through the voting process. If you would like some help in getting your vote officially completed this year, please email me directly and I will forward your request to our volunteers. –Pastor Sarah
Lutheran World Relief Quilts 2020
Our wonderful Cover Girls came to Bay Shore last Monday with masks on their faces and quickly laid out the 23 quilts that they had completed before our shutdown in March for a photo and then packed them up in boxes to be shipped off to Lutheran World Relief who will distribute them to those who need them around the globe. Thank you, ladies!
Hephatha Lutheran Church invites you to join us for:
MISSION PARTNER APPRECIATION DAY
by ZOOM
Saturday, November 7th
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Join by one touch on our Hephatha website:
hephatha100.com
We pray for you and we hope to see you.
God’s peace be with you.
Soup’R Books with No Soup?
Inconceivable!
So, BYO Soup for the next Soup’R Books book discussion, from 4 to 5 pm on Sunday, November 8, as Soup’R Books gets with the times and meets via Zoom.
In The Keeper of Lost Things, by Ruth Hogan, a middle-aged woman suddenly finds herself with an impossible task—reuniting a curious array of found objects with their true owners—all while puzzling with her own life issues. Set in England, the book sparkles with British wit.
Everyone is welcome—whether or not you Bring Your Own soup!
Copies of the book can be borrowed from the library or obtained on-line. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it is free. A small number of copies will be available through the church office. Because the office is generally closed, please make arrangements with Kate for the pick-up. [email protected]
Prayer of the Week: Prayer for our pets
In Your infinite wisdom, Lord God, when you created the universe you blessed us with all living creatures. We especially thank you for giving us our pets who are our friends and who bring us so much joy in life. Their presence very often helps us get through trying times. Kindly bless my pet. May my pet continue giving me joy and remind me of your power. May we realize that as our pets trust us to take care of them, so we should trust you to take care of us, and in taking care of them we share
in your love for all creatures. Amen
Readings for this Sunday, October 4
First Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7 The prophet sings a sad, parable-like love song about the relationship between God and Israel. In this song Israel is compared to a promising vineyard. Despite God’s loving care, the vineyard that is Israel has brought forth “wild grapes” of injustice and distress, when fine grapes of justice and righteousness were expected.
1Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? 5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!
Psalm 80:7-15 Look down from heaven, O God; behold and tend this vine. (Ps. 80:14, 15)
7Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.
8You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
9You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
11it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
12Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15the stock that your right hand planted.
Second Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14 Paul reviews some of his supposed credentials, which no longer have any bearing in comparison to the right relationship he has been given through the death of Christ. The power of Christ’s resurrection motivates him to press on toward the ultimate goal, eternal life with Christ.
4If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7Yet whatever gains I had; these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:33-46 Jesus tells a parable to the religious leaders who are plotting his death, revealing that their plans will, ironically, bring about the fulfillment of scripture.
33“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34When the harvest time had come; he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.” 39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes’? 43Therefore I tell you; the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
Click here to see our Sunday’s Order of Worship to be used at home. It includes our hymns, too.
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