Click HERE for Wednesday worship 3/24.  This worship can be shared in your own time or we will be premiering the worship at 7 pm on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/PeaceLute or our website: https://www.peacenb.org.  

The season of Lent is a deep time of spiritual renewal for forty days remembering that we are journeying with Jesus to the cross.  

Join us for our sixth and final week in our Lenten series, "Voices in the Wilderness", as we raise our laments before the Lord, but also witness the hope of the cross of Jesus. This week we are joined by John and Patti Kassel as we talk about the financial stress COVID has placed on small businesses and how our trust remains in the Lord who provides.

Online Lenten resources can be found by clicking the button below or at https://www.peacenb.org/pages/worship

Our worship series focuses on the lament Psalms and finding ways to express the challenges we continue to face and to seek God’s healing.

Wednesday March 24  Lenten Worship

Our sixth and final precorded Wednesday Worship(see Voices in the Wilderness above) set to stream on Facebook live and peacenb.org at 7pm

Sunday March 28 Palm Sunday

8am Parking Lot Worship @ Peace
10am Worship at St. Andrew Lutheran (go to our website HERE to get the link to join worship)

Holy Week - visit our website HERE for the worship schedule during Holy Week or see the article below.

Join Pastor Jake for a video on Holy Week HERE

3/28  Palm Sunday is our final week at St. Andrew in Canyon Lake.  All subsequent worship services will be at Peace.

4/1  Maundy Thursday – Join us on Zoom at 7pm for a celebration of the Last Supper.  Jesus celebrated the Jewish Passover remembering liberation from slavery and oppression.  He shared a special meal remembering God’s divine mercy and became the Passover Lamb which frees us from sin and death. 

You may log into Zoom with the community or celebrate this service in your own homes.  Click HERE for a copy of the worship bulletin.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89472903587      
Meeting ID: 894 7290 3587                                           
Log in by Phone:+1 346 248 7799 

4/2  Good Friday - The Stations of the Cross commemorate the various places Jesus traversed during his passion.  We are meant to journey with him on that fateful night taking in the depth of his suffering and reflecting on the wonder of the Crucified Christ.  A pre-recorded service will be shared on our various platforms at 7pm on Good Friday or come to Peace from 12pm-1pm for an in-person worship option in the Peace parking lot area.

4/4  Easter -  10am in-person and online content available.  No 8am parking lot worship.  We celebrate the highest holy day of the year, the resurrection of Jesus, with the opportunity to continue to gather in homes and view online or come to the church front lawn and bring your own chair and a mask.  Both worship opportunities will be simultaneous recognizing we are all worshipping together whether online or in-person.   

Join us at Peace Lutheran Church in the Back Parking Lot

You will experience a prayer vigil like no other by taking a walk to the cross

* Opening with Prayer and Special Music
* Stations of the Cross video
* Meditation Station
* Adorn the Cross with prayers
* Leave in Silence

Please RSVP and send prayer requests to:

Becky Voges ~ email beckyvoges@yahoo.com or text (830) 587-4003
Patti Kassel ~ email kasselpatti@gmail.com or text (512) 897-9623

I’m sure everyone has heard of the popular acronym, WWJD, which stands for “What Would Jesus Do?”. The phrase was coined in the late 1800s after Charles Sheldon’s book entitled, “In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do.” In the 1990s, this phrase was re-popularized, converted into an acronym, and placed on bracelets, bumper stickers and buttons as a reminder to Christians to act in a manner that demonstrates the love of Jesus through our actions. In our Philippians reading for this Sunday, the Apostle Paul encourages us to think before we act, to have “the mind of Christ”, and consider Jesus’ way of perceiving and thinking about God’s world and everyone and everything in it. As we celebrate Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week this Sunday, let us consider how having the “mind of Christ” can inform and shape our own lives as we seek to follow Jesus.     

Calling all families with children elementary school age and younger! 

Join us on Saturday, April 3rd @ 11:00 am on the church lawn for an outdoor family Easter celebration featuring an Easter egg hunt, singing, Easter crafts and other activities! 

We will also have a picnic lunch with hot dogs and hamburgers, so come hungry and ready for fun!  

We continue in Phase 1 of our Regathering Guidelines. Hospitalization percentage in our area moved to 4% this week. In normal circumstances we might be entertaining in-person worship again, but with the damage to our facility due to the winter weather, we cannot recommence at this time.  Stay tuned to future announcements on the timeline for repairs.      

We are tracking members that we are aware of that have tested positive:

·       1 death
·       Zero active cases
       

If you have tested positive or know of anyone within our congregation that has tested positive, please notify the church promptly.  We will be doing contract tracing and let others know of who might be at risk.  Additionally, we would like to support our church family with care.

In this map you will see the highlighted area, Area P.  This is an exceptionally large area which includes San Antonio.  The current statistics as of March 23, 2021:

Hospitalizations: 4%.  Numbers are steadily declining.

The Peace Regathering Team will be monitoring the daily COVID statistics and will continue to advise the church council on changes that impact our in-person worship services and church community. Our Peace Regathering Guidelines are modeled after the State of Texas opening guidelines.  Instead of using active cases, which have proven to be difficult to gauge, we are monitoring the percentage of hospitalizations.  

Click HERE for a progress report on the water damage to the church.

The First Footing Homeless Shelter is in need of Queen and King size sheets and bath towels (new or gently used). 

If  you would like to purchase through Amazon, Serve Spot has provided the following Custom Wish List:   https://www.amazon.com/registries/custom/1XRCS3K71D1XW/guest-view 

Your donations may be dropped off at McKenna Foundation, 801 W San Antonio St., New Braunfels, TX 78130.  Please contact Kellie Stallings at 830-743-1330 or kellie.r.stallings@gmail for more information. 

Seekers and Sponges
Join Seekers & Sponges on Sunday at 8:45 AM via Zoom.   We have been discussing a series of video presentations, "Great Figures of the New Testament" by Amy-Jill Levine, who is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School.  Each week is a stand alone lecture, so feel free to join in any week you would like.  This Sunday our topic will be Judas Iscariot.

Sweet Hour of Prayer Group
Our weekly Prayer Group Zooms every Monday at 9:00 am. 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) and she will send the Zoom link. All prayer requests will be kept confidential.

Pastor's Virtual Conversation
Every Monday from 3 pm - 4 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

Stephen Ministers
Are here to listen and help: If you need help or support, click HERE to learn more about Stephen's Ministry at Peace Lutheran Church.

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 or Deacon Darcy Mittelstaedt @ darcy.mittelstaedt@gmail.com

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.