Announcements for Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Lititz PA

Betty Schwebel, a shut-in member of Mount Calvary

Has entered eternal life on August 24. A graveside service will be held on Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 10:00 AM at Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens, 845 Laurel Hill Drive, Columbia, with Pastor Seifferlein officiating. The congregation is invited and encouraged to attend as we show our love and support to her family and as we gather to reflect on sin and sorrow and our hope in Christ through His death and resurrection from the grave. Blessed be her memory. Betty’s obituary can be viewed here: Betty M. Schwebel | Obituaries | lancasteronline.com

College Care Packages – Collecting Items until September 24!!!

The Social Ministry Team will be assembling College Care Packages at the end of September. We are inviting the congregational members to help fill the packages. We are looking for the following donations: Individual salty snacks – Chips, Goldfish, Cheeto’s, Pop Corn, Pretzels, etc.; Individual cookies – any kind; Purse size tissue packages; Mints; Gum; Beef Jerky; Individual size candy; Individual size hot cocoa packages; Protein Bars; Chapstick; Thinking putty – Fidgets; Pens; Individual size gummy bears or Swedish fish; Fruit snacks; Cup of Noodles; Cash donations for shipping. (Please put the money in the Harvey mailbox.) You can be creative! We need to refrain from any liquids as they are not accepted by the post office. There will be a box in the narthex for donation items. Many thanks from the Social Ministry Team!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN!

Helen Hudson, a shut-in of our parish, is turning 100 on September 8. Wish her a happy birthday by putting a card, picture, or greeting into the box of Jean Lin at church. (You can send it to church also.) Jean will hand deliver them to Helen for her birthday! Thanks be to God for providing for Helen these 100 years and for keeping her steadfast in the faith of Jesus Christ.

The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

This Sunday we hear the account of the man who was deaf and had a speech impediment. He was brought to Jesus that He might heal Him. Jesus took the man aside, put His fingers into the man’s ears, and spat and touched His tongue. After Jesus sighed, troubled over the man’s condition, Jesus’ said “Ephphatha,” opening the man’s ears, and loosing his tongue so that he spoke plainly. The crowds speak their praises, “He (Jesus) has done all things well, He (Jesus) makes both the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” We come that we might see what God has done in Christ and that we might consider it rightly.
The bulletin can be found here.
The sermon text is not available.
An audio recording of this sermon is available:

Adult Bible Class at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church

Join us as we study Romans 7, “The Law’s Role in the Life of the Believer.” An audio recording of this week’s adult bible class is available: