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This Week’s Calendar of Events

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Our Church Calendar

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

Sunday, December 5 – Second 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.

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

6:00 p.m.  – High School Youth Group

 

Monday, December 6
9:30 a.m.  – Cover Girls quilting group

 

Tuesday, December 7
8:30 a.m.  – AA Meeting

12:00 p.m.  – Staff Meeting via Zoom

 

Wednesday, December 8
10:30 a.m.  – Ukeladies Group

6:45 p.m.  – Advent Bible Study via Zoom

 

Thursday, December 9
7:15 p.m.  – Choir rehearsal

 

Friday, December 10
7:30 p.m.  – AA Meeting

 

Saturday, December 11
5:00 p.m.  – AA Meeting

 

Sunday, December 12 – Third Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m.  – Worship with Holy Communion

9:00 a.m.  – Church Business Meeting

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

From the Pastor, November 29, 2021

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Welcome!

Today is the first Sunday of Advent, and you can see the difference for yourselves, whether you join us online or in-person. Our blue paraments (our worship linens and cloths) are blue, our Advent Wreath is up, and all around the church—we’ve made the switch to the season. You may have even glimpsed my personal Christmas tree in my office, too. (If you haven’t, drive by at night! 🙂

Advent is from a Latin word which means “coming.” During Advent, we wait not just for Christmas which celebrates Jesus’ arrival and birth, but we wait for his second coming, when God’s kingdom on earth is fully realized.

Many of you may recall purple as the season’s color, with a bit of pink thrown in. So why blue? Is this new? Not really. The Swedish Church has used blue for centuries as well as parts of Spain as early as the eighth century. There is strong evidence of Western churches using blue and sometimes even black in the 12-14th centuries.

More recently, the need to differentiate the seasons of Advent and Lent has been discussed. Using the same colors as Lent can be confusing. Lent, a time of repentance before Easter, uses purple as the color for royalty, penitence and fasting. Blue is a color suited for royalty, but it is also for hope. In Advent, we are waiting for Christ, but we are more hopeful. The old Green Hymnal, remember that one?, recommended using blue over purple in 1978—but many churches did not change immediately for a variety of reasons. My old church, it was because of finances. We had nice purple paraments—why not use them?

I am partial to the blue because it is a visual difference between Advent and Lent. I don’t know about you, but I need hope in the typically darker days of Advent. I need hope that Christ’s presence in this world will grow, and his light will overcome all darkness. This Advent season, our theme will be the different kinds of Hope we have—for ourselves, for our communities and for our church. I pray that you join us as much as you can these next 4 weeks. I pray that you find hope when and where you need it the most.

Blessings, peace and hope,

Pastor Sarah

This Week’s Calendar of Events

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Our Church Calendar

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

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.

 

Monday, November 29
9:00 a.m.  – Altar Guild Hanging the Greens

9:30 a.m.  – Cover Girls quilting group

7:00 p.m.  – Congregation Council

 

Tuesday, November 30
8:30 a.m.  – AA Meeting

6:00 p.m.  – Christmas Trees up!

 

Wednesday, December 1
10:30 a.m.  – Ukeladies Group

6:00 p.m.  – Christmas Trees up!

 

Thursday, December 2
7:15 p.m.  – Choir rehearsal

 

Friday, December 3
7:30 p.m.  – AA Meeting

 

Saturday, December 4
5:00 p.m.  – AA Meeting

 

Sunday, December 5 – Seconod 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.

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

6:00 p.m.  – High School Youth Group

Info on our First MLK, Jr. Day of Service

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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

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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

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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.