Weekly Mount Calvary Events to Join and Celebrate
The New York & Philadelphia circuits of the English District will host an online post-convention circuit forum tonight – Thursday, August 24 – at 7:30 PM. You are cordially invited to attend as your elected circuit representatives to the synod convention, Pr. Martin Erhardt (pastoral delegate) and Mr. Leo Mackay (lay delegate), will be on hand to give reflections, an overview, and answer questions about their experience at the synod convention (July 29-Aug. 3 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin).
Join the Zoom Meeting by using this link: ZOOM LINK HERE
For more information, contact Circuit Visitor Pr. Christopher Seifferlein or Mount Calvary Church staff.
Announcing Jump Start and Confirmation Classes for this fall at Mount Calvary
All parents in the congregation are invited to attend a Jump Start and Confirmation information session which will take place on Sunday, August 27 after Bible Class in the Evangelism Wing. Learn more about our Jump Start and Confirmation Programs here at Mount Calvary. Jump Start will plan to begin on Thursday, September 7 at 6:30 PM, and Confirmation Class will begin on Sunday, September 24. (Jump start is an online 35-minute group lesson where children recite a memory assignment, sing a catechism hymn, and have a short lesson on part of the catechism. Any child around age 3rd grade and above are welcome to attend this class based on each parent’s discretion. Confirmation is an in person one-year class which children enter typically after 2 years of Jump Start.)
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.
August 27 Worship & Bible Class at Mount Calvary Church Lancaster
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. You may prepare by reading the Propers of the day here.
Old Testament: Isaiah 29:17-24
Psalm: Psalm 146:1-10
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 3:4-11
Gospel: Mark 7:31-37
Join us in the Evangelism Wing for Adult Bible Class following the service as we study Romans 7, “The Law’s Role in the Life of the Believer.”
