ESTHER LUTHERAN CHURCH

9.13.26 Service Download

THIS WEEK AT ESTHER

Sunday, September 13^th – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sunday Fellowship Before and After Worship

8:30 am – WELCA

9 am – Sunday School begins!

10 am – Worship led by Pastor Billberg – Back to School/Backpack/Grandparents Day Blessing during worship

2 pm – Worship at St. William’s

Wednesday, September 16^th

6 pm – Confirmation Get-to-Know You Potluck & Planning Night

Friday, September 18^th

38^th Annual NW MN SWO Convention in Crookston

Pribula/Howard Rehearsal

Saturday, September 19^th

38^th Annual NW MN SWO Convention in Crookston

Pribula/Howard Wedding

Sunday, September 20^th – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Sunday Fellowship Before and After Worship

9 am – Sunday School

9:15 am – Behold Connect & Reflect: Coffee & Conversation

10 am – Worship with Holy Communion led by SAM Jewel Townsend

11 am – Youth Meeting

11 am – 9^th Grade Confirmation Student Meeting

2 pm – Worship at St. William’s

*NEWS AND NOTES*

Check out the Esther Calendar on our website to stay up to date on everything happening! Go to estherlutheran.com and click on “Esther Calendar.”

Confirmation classes will begin again in September with a Get-to- Know-You Potluck and Planning Night on Wednesday, September 16^th at 6:00 pm. Students and their parents are invited to attend. We welcome everyone from 7th grade through adults to join the class, whether you are preparing for confirmation, have already been confirmed, or would simply like a refresher on the faith. For more information or to sign up, please contact Jewel Townsend.

38^th Annual NW MN SWO Convention will be held at Trinity Lutheran

Church in Crookston, MN on September 18-19^th.

Connect & Reflect: Coffee & Conversation will be held on Sundays starting on September 20^th at 9:15 – 9:40 am. We invite you to grab a cup of coffee and join us for a casual Sunday morning chat. Each week, we’ll look back at the Behold devotion sent out the previous Monday morning. Together we’ll share our thoughts, stories, and everyday experiences with that weeks; challenge question. Whether you read it on Monday or just want to listen in, you are welcome here as we build our faith and community together!

Youth Meeting will be held on Sunday, September 20^th at 11 am. We invite any Youth going into 7^th-12^th grade and their parents to discuss upcoming events through the ELCA and our church Youth Group. We ask that parent(s)/guardian(s) accompany them and stay for the meeting. We will serve pizza for lunch. We will discuss if anyone is interested in helping in Sunday School, Hayride & Bonfire date, and the 2027 ELCA National Youth Gathering. Hope to see you there!

9^th grade Confirmation students will meet on Sunday, September 20^th and Sunday, October 4^th at 11 am. We will be planning your Confirmation worship service, answer any questions, pick out gowns, and run through your faith statements. Please turn in your faith statement to Jewel by October 1^st.

The Bell Tower is leaking and needs to be repaired. Because of the high reach and difficult area to work with, we do not have an exact idea of cost, but it could surpass $50,000. Please consider helping with this important and much needed repair. Help keep the bell ringing! Please send your donation to the church: 11019 625^th Ave Parkers Prairie, MN 56361 or scan the QR code enclosed in the service attached.

Vanco online giving platform is a great way to set up a scheduled giving plan for even when you cannot make it to church. Go online to estherlutheran.com, go to the tab “ways to support Esther Lutheran Church” and click on the link https://secure.myvanco.com/L-ZP4R or download the app Vanco Mobile Faith Engagement. Any questions please ask Mandy Arvidson.

Spruce Hill Church Open House is Saturday, October 3^rd. The Open House will run 12:00-4:00 pm featuring live music from Brad Lambrecht at 1:00-2:00 pm on the church’s historic reed organ. Come see behind the scenes of the current restoration and repair work at Spruce Hill Church, located at 12553 Ottertail Trail NE, Miltona.

We welcome you to join in the weekly “Behold the New Has Come” devotions available on our website estherlutheran.com on the “Behold” tab. Devotions are posted to the website and emailed out each Monday. If you are not currently on the email list and want to be, please notify Mandy in the office. Each weekly devotion includes a challenge for the week. This past week’s challenge is:

I encourage you today to think about how you are using your authority, your passion and your voice to recognize your neighbor. The one across the street, the one in the next town over, the one who doesn’t look like you and the one who needs you and your love. How will you carry your call to love your neighbor into the world today?

We hope these devotions and weekly challenges will inspire conversations and stories that we can share with one another as, together, we grow in faith through this initiative.

Fall Conference Gatherings: Conference 5: October 15^th at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Moorhead, MN and Conference 8 at Grace Lutheran in Brandon, MN.

Ice Cream Still Available! If you missed the Ice Cream Social, you are in luck! We still have individual cups of ice cream available in the basement kitchen freezer. Feel free to help yourself and place your donation in the box provided. Suggested donations: $2.50 per cup or 5 cups for $10.

You belong here. We believe that each person has unique gifts, are

created in God’s image, and is a beloved child of God. We welcome you

to join us each week to share in the community of faith at Esther –

“Knowing Christ – making Christ known through faith, hope and love”. If

you would like to become a member of Esther, please contact Mandy in

the church office at 218-338-2171 or secretary@estherlutheran.net or Jewel Townsend at 320-760-2503 or jewellht17@gmail.com.

Esther Lutheran Church, ELCA

11019 625th Ave, Parkers Prairie, MN 56361 – Telephone:218-338-2171

Website:estherlutheran.com

Email: secretary@estherlutheran.net

Facebook: facebook.com/estherlutheran/

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