10:00AM  In person and livestream  

 Read  John 4:5-42 

Jesus defies convention to engage a Samaritan woman in conversation. Her testimony, in turn, leads many others to faith.

There are places that we know we’re not supposed to go. It’s too scandalous. We wouldn’t be caught dead there. Jesus goes in the brightest part of the day to Samaria and does by all standards everything wrong.

But by the end of the story a woman and then an entire people’s lives have been transformed. They experienced grace.

Join us on Sunday as we too experience this scandalous, transformational grace.     

As a part of our visioning discernment together as a faith community, we are tuning into God’s dream for the world. Each week in Wednesday worship, we are asking a question for you to respond to. If you don’t have the opportunity to do that in worship, please fill out the google form HERE so that we can dream together and respond as God’s church with a unified vision. 

Our dreams are then put in a Word Cloud to be shared visually, as well as input to our Vision and Leadership Teams. The Word Cloud above are the dreams we shared on Ash Wednesday. 

 Don’t forget to set your clocks forward an hour for Sunday worship. We lose an hour of the day, but don’t miss out on an hour of worship time! 

Have you ever had a dream that you couldn’t quite remember? Maybe it took you some time to retrace the steps as it became clearer. God has a dream for this world. This Lent we are waking up and remembering God’s dream. 

Join us in person or livestream each Wednesday night in Lent at 6:30pm and let us dream together.

Each Wednesday service is preceded by a meal from 5:30pm - 6:15pm followed by worship @ 6:30pm.

        
3/1             Discovering Our Birthright              
3/8             Our Burning Bush         
3/15           Lose the Big Buts...         
3/22           What’s In Your Hand?         
3/29           Perseverance         

Join us for Wednesday Lenten supper before 6:30pm Lenten Worship.   

3/1    Pancakes & Sausage
3/8    Assorted Casseroles
3/15  Baked Potato & Salad
3/22  Frito Pie
3/29  Hamburgers

During Lent we are offering rides to anyone wanting to attend our Lenten Fellowship Dinners and Worship Services, but do not feel comfortable driving in the dark. We have a list of members willing to pick you up and return you.

If you want a ride or want to be added to our list of drivers, call or text Kathi Anderson at 210-643-8855.  If you know of anyone who can use a ride let us know. Thank you. 

A big thank you to Brody & Shannon Johnson and Nate Fain and for all who supported them as they shaved their heads over the weekend as a part of the St. Baldrick Cancer Research Fundraiser.

Our team was able to raise over $3000. What a generous gift!

St. Baldrick’s began when three Irish-Americans wanted to raise money to provide more resources for child cancer. They started it on St. Patrick’s Day, and they decided they’d shave their heads to raise support. Hence, the name St. Baldrick stuck. Today it’s the largest nongovernmental funding for child cancer research sprawling across the countries with groups forming their own head-shaving venues.

Your gift will give kids hope, supporting the best research across the country, through the largest charitable funder of childhood cancer research grants. Cancer kills more of our kids than any other disease. Join the fight against childhood cancer. If you’d still like to give, you are welcome to share by  visiting: www.stbaldricks.org/teams/mypage/135098/2023   

You are invited to participate in Peace Feast (a small group gathering for a meal and conversation to get to know one another). The host of the month will be in contact with you to determine the date, time, and location of a meal. It can be either at a restaurant or in a home.

If interested in partaking in a meal, register HERE. For more information or questions, please contact Jane Moeller at 830-214-0539 janecmoeller@gmail.com or Darcy Mittelstaedt at 480-231-0658 darcy.mittelstaedt@gmail.com   

P.S. We have/had 24 people signed up for February! One group has already met and reported it went very well and looking forward to the next month. 

The Buggy Barn Museum is located in the beautiful hill country of Blanco, Texas. Just 50 miles from almost all surrounding areas; the museum makes it a great place to escape for the day.

There are over 200 unique buggies, carriages and wagons with no two the same! Dating from the 1860s-1900s, you'll be sure to step back in time! Several buggies were used in movies such as the remake of True Grit, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, There Will Be Blood, The Redemption of Henry Myers, Deliverance Creek, Killers of the Flower Moon; the television series: Revolution, Underground and so much more!

We will visit the Museum and then find a place to have lunch.

Admission is $10.00 for Seniors. Meet at the church at 9:00 a.m. to carpool to Blanco.

Please RSVP by March 14: Becky Voges @ 830-587-4003.

Buggy Barn Museum
1915 Main Street
Blanco, Texas 78606

What Is Lent and Holy Week?

Our Young Family group (families with elementary age and younger) will meet immediately after worship on March 19th to spend time learning about the season of Lent as well as the events and meaning of each part of Holy Week. Pastor Jake and Deacon Andrew will lead us in activities to explore this very important time of the church year and what Lent and Holy Week means to us as people who follow Jesus.  Lunch will be provided.

To RSVP:  please contact Deacon Andrew.

4/2  Palm/Passion Sunday - Join us @ 10am to enter the story of Jesus’ final week beginning with the triumphal entry and the waving of Palms.

4/6  Maundy Thursday - Join us @ 6:30pm for the Living Last Supper worship as we sit around the last supper table with Jesus and the disciples.

4/7  Good Friday - Join us @ 6:30pm for a Tenebrae worship commemorating Jesus’  death on the cross and the extinguishing of the light of the world.

4/8  Easter Vigil - Join us @ St. John’s Episcopal Church at (time TBD) in a service of light in expectation of dawn of Easter morn.

4/9  Easter - Join us @ 8am or 10am for the joy of Christ’s resurrection and Jesus’ victory over death.              

Calling all families with children elementary school age and younger! 

Join us on Saturday, April 8th @ 10:30 am for an outdoor family Easter celebration at the church featuring an Easter egg hunt, singing, Easter crafts and other activities! Be sure to invite friends!   

Help us decorate our altar area on Easter Sunday with an Easter Lily. The Lilies are $10 each.

If you would like to add a little extra color, we have the option of a Tulip plant for $20.

The sign-up sheet is in the Narthex or you can text or call Kathi Anderson 210-643-8855 and she will add you to the list.

After the Easter Service you can take your plant home with you. 

The Sanctuary will be open from 12:00pm Noon until 6:00 pm for prayer and meditation if you would like to take an hour to pray for our congregation, our community and our world.

If you would like to take a shift or submit a prayer request, please call Becky Voges at 830-587-4003. 

 We will be serving Breakfast tacos, rolls and fruit before and between the 8:00am & 10:00am Easter Worship Services. 

Family Promise’s mission is to help families with children facing homelessness achieve and sustain independence. Families move to a new congregation each week in which they are hosted as guests. Each week congregations provide shelter, meals, and community for the families in the evenings.

Host Week of April 9^th - 16^th - Daily volunteers needed for the following:

>   Serve as overnight hosts
>   Help with evening set up, clean up, and engagement with families
>   Support meal preparation, cooking, and serving 

Interested in volunteering? See schedule to sign up! -   https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E49A9A82CABFEC52-family3 

Have not attended a Family Promise Training? Please reach out to peacelutheranfp@gmail.com to receive an orientation and to complete required paperwork for background check. 

Not able to volunteer? We will also need donations of snacks and breakfast items.

For more information, visit our page on the Peace website: https://www.peacenb.org/pages/family-promise 

Thank you! 

 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time. Habakkuk 2:2-3 (The MSG) 

You are invited to come and create a Vision Board for Peace Lutheran Church on Sunday, April 16^th from 11:30 AM til 2:00 PM. There will be a free-will offering lunch. You have been invited by Pastor Jake and the leadership teams of Peace Lutheran to listen for God’s whispering voice of what God has in store for Peace Lutheran.

What is a vision board? It is a visual and written representation of our prayerful hopes, dreams, goals, and promises from God for our future. This is a creative process, and we encourage and invite all, including kids to come and participate.

We are looking for OLD magazines and newspapers that can be donated for this project. You can drop them off in the designated area in the church narthex.

Register HERE by April 12th. 

SEEKERS AND SPONGES:   meets on Sunday mornings @  8:30AM in-person and ZOOM  

Seekers and Sponges has started a new five part video series by Richard Rohr called  'Embracing an Alternative Orthodoxy'.  In this series, Richard Rohr explores five topics central to Franciscan theology and practice:
1.     Atonement Theory
2.     Eco-Spirituality
3.     The Christ who Existed before Christianity
4.     Orthopraxy vs. Verbal Orthodoxy (Living Like Jesus)
5.     Mysticism over Moralism

Each session starts with a video and then our class will discuss reflections from the talk. Our discussions are lively and bring out various perspectives about how faith impacts our lives.   Please join us in the multimedia classroom at the end of the hallway.  Your faith walk will be deepened as a result!  

Click HERE to join by Zoom. 

PEACE PRAYER MINISTRY:

Did you make any resolutions for the New Year? Many of us have a desire to have a more intimate prayer life, so might I suggest carving out more time for prayer and reflection? Peace Lutheran Church has an active Prayer Ministry. We have an Email Prayer Chain, we have a Zoom “Sweet Hour of Prayer” Group that meets every Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. and we have a Prayer loom that is included in our Sunday morning prayers. I would like to welcome new members to join our email Prayer Chain and our Monday morning Prayer Group. We have experienced some amazing, answered prayers this year and we have given comfort to many of our members in their times of distress. Please consider being a part of our Prayer Ministry in this new year. You can email me at beckyvoges@yahoo.com for more information.

Our weekly Prayer Group Zooms every Monday at 9:00 am  via Zoom only.   Click HERE to join by Zoom.  We have a devotion, share prayer requests and pray over each request. The group is led by Becky Voges.  If you would like to be a part of the group, please email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).  All prayer requests will be kept confidential. 

Prayer Chain Requests - email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).

PASTOR'S VIRTUAL CONVERSATION:
Every Monday from 3 pm - 3:30 pm; Come join Pastor Jake on Zoom to ask questions, check-in, and lift up prayers. Join HERE - Meeting ID: 991 3660 5065; Password: 015347

TECH SUPPORT:
Need some technical support? Trying to stay connected in a virtual world can be frustrating when things don't work or the technological learning curve seems steep. If you need some help, contact: Patti Kassel @ kasselpatti@gmail.com 

We now have full use of our new media booth which utilizes a sound technician, a livestream operator, and a powerpoint operator. 

To sign up to be one of the media booth technicians/operator, please click the button below to be redirected to our SignUpGenius.  You can also sign up by clicking the link at the bottom of Peace's homepage @  www.peacenb.org

If you would like to learn how to be a media booth technician/operator or you have any questions, please contact the Peace office at 830-620-0618.

We are part of one church body organized in three expressions — congregations, synods, and the churchwide organization. Each expression has its particular functions but all three together share a common mission of doing God’s work in the world and proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Together, they ensure a solid foundation of leadership, active involvement in communities, opportunities for dialogue and diverse perspectives, creative partnerships, and support for members and ministries of the ELCA.