August 14, 2025

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The Message this Week

Preaching Text: Revelation 7:9-17

Palm procession, ordinary time edition. Our reading from Revelation this week has a multitude from every nation and tribe and people. They are gathered around the throne with palm branches. We usually think about palm branches on Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. It’s a parade that goes wrong in so many ways. It’s hard to see the palms as signs of triumph and peace at the outset of a week that holds so much violence. On the other side of the cross, we can see the palm branches for what they are…signs of triumph, peace and eternal life. 

Gracious God, help us to use the lens of the cross to look at the world and then use us to join your work to feed, comfort, and protect the people you send into our lives. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

WONDERING...

Real questions from real people to learn more about faith.

Is crying bad?

• Let us care for the natural world, enjoying its splendor while safeguarding its balance and health, that all might enjoy it for generations to come.
• Guide all who lead to ways of life-giving laws and policies, and all who follow in a firm resolve to hold those leaders accountable to those they serve.
• Bring healing, an end to suffering, and a wellspring of hope to all who cry out to you.
• Encourage us with the faithful example of saints who have gone before us, and bring us with them into your eternal embrace.

All things exist in and through you, loving God. Therefore we entrust our prayers, our faith, and our lives to you, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Former GLC Vicar, Aaron Musser is getting ordained! There will be a basket with blank notecards available in the narthex this weekend or if you would like to send a gift please drop it off at GLC by this Sunday, August 17 and it will be taken to the ordination by the GLC contigent. Contact Pastor Trudy with any questions.

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Last chance to order a personalized brick for the Mother's Garden walkway! Commemorate a loved one, mark a celebration, or proclaim God's goodness! Engraved bricks are priced $40 each with an order deadline of Monday, August 17. Click HERE to order online or pick up a paper order form in the Narthex. Contact Lisa for more information.

Bible study is returning every Thursday beginning August 14 at 9:30AM in the chapel. Contact Pastor Trudy for more infomation.

If you’re looking to have yourself or your child baptized at GLC, please plan on attending a baptism information class this Sunday, August 17 immediately following the 10:30AM service. Contact Michelle to RSVP or for more information.

Sunday School registration is now open! We provide Sunday School instruction for 3 years old though 5th grade on Sunday mornings from 10:30-11:30AM during the program year. Click the image above to register. Contact Jess with any questions.

We will be preparing dinner for 80 people at Holy Trinity Soup Kettle in Elgin on Sunday, August 31. We will prepare the meal between services. The Youth Group will bake the casseroles at GLC, deliver to Holy Trinity, and serve the meal at Holy Trinity. Click HERE to sign up to bring ingredients. Contact Michelle with any questions.

Join us Friday, August 22 at 6PM in serving a meal at Hesed House. Click HERE for more information, or to sign up to serve or donate ingredients. Contact John Maisch with any questions.

Click HERE to see pictures of the last week!

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