St.Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church

3800 East Third Street

Bloomington, Indiana 47401

News & Events — April 2007

April 1, 2007

Palm/Passion Sunday (Liturgical Color: Scarlet)

Liturgy of Procession

Processional Hymn: All glory, Laud, and Honor (reprinted in the bulletin)

Homily: "A Colt That Has Never Been Ridden" — Jeff Schacht, Diaconal Minister

Hymn of the Day: My Song is Love Unknown (reprinted in the bulletin)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: The Crucifixion — Samuel Barber (Lynn Weddle, soprano)

Offertory: Create in Me a Clean Heart (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 188)

The Liturgy of Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: What Wondrous Love Is This (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 666)

Communion Hymn: Jesus, I Will Ponder Now (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 345)

Sending Hymn: Ah, Holy Jesus (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 349)

Postlude: Fugue in g minor, BWV 542 — Johann Sebastian Bach

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Kris Frampton

Lector: Steve Frampton

Acolyte: Alex Nixon

Server: David Ellies

Ushers: Gene and Gayl Laughman

Greeters: Paul and Laurel Reynolds

Nursery: Nancy Winningham

Council Coordinator: Jeff Franz

Liturgy of Procession

Processional Hymn: All glory, Laud, and Honor (reprinted in the bulletin)

Homily: "A Colt That Has Never Been Ridden" — Jeff Schacht, Diaconal Minister

Hymn of the Day: My Song is Love Unknown (reprinted in the bulletin)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: Salus ad Victimam — Kenneth Leighton (Adult Choir)

Offertory: Create in Me a Clean Heart (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 188)

The Liturgy of Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: What Wondrous Love Is This (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 666)

Communion Hymn: Jesus, I Will Ponder Now (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 345)

Solo: The Crucifixion — Samuel Barber (Lynn Weddle, soprano)

Sending Hymn: Ah, Holy Jesus (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 349)

Postlude: Fugue in g minor, BWV 542 — Johann Sebastian Bach

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Kathleen Boggess

Lector: Pauline Caldwell

Acolyte: Haley Garl

Server: Chris Ogan

Ushers: Kaye Hill and Deborah Owens

Greeters: Rick and Rachel Stults

Nursery: Penny and Jacob Buhr

Council Coordinator: Allan Buhr

Altar Care: Beverly Lingvai and Renee Steele

Bread and Wine: Dennis and Carolyn DeLap

Executive Commitee meets at 12:30 p.m.

Harmony Music meets at 1:30 p.m.

Youth Group meets at 5:00 p.m.

April 2-6, 2007

Pesach (Passover)

Monday April 2, 2007

Monday in Holy Week (Liturgical Color: Purple)

Worship Committee meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 12.

Bloomington Community Band rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in Heritage Hall.

Tuesday April 3, 2007

Tuesday in Holy Week (Liturgical Color: Purple)

Marti Doering's Birthday
Jake Owens' Birthday

Wednesday April 4, 2007

Wednesday in Holy Week (Liturgical Color: Purple)

There's a Place At The Table for you. The Wednesday Lunch Group meets for devotions, prayer and study of next Sunday's scriptures at noon in Room 3 for one hour. Bring a brown bag lunch.

Spiritual Journaling Group meets at 6:30 p.m. in Room 3

Men's Group meets at 6:30 p.m. in Room 12.

Alicia Stewart's Birthday

Thursday April 5, 2007

Maundy Thursday (Liturgical Color: Scarlet)

Prelude: le banquet celeste — Olivier Messiaen

Hymn: Go to Dark Gethsemane (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 347)

The Liturgy of the Word

Sermon: "Thursday of Holy Week" — Pastor Lyle McKee

Hymn of the Day: Where True Charity and Love Abide (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 653)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: O Man, Bemoan Thy Grievous Sin

The Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 357)

Communion Hymn: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with Your Love (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 708)

Finance Committee meets at 6:00 p.m. in the Office.

Prelude: le banquet celeste — Olivier Messiaen

Hymn: Go to Dark Gethsemane (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 347)

The Liturgy of the Word

Sermon: "Thursday of Holy Week" — Pastor Lyle McKee

Hymn of the Day: Where True Charity and Love Abide (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 653)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: Grieve Not the Holy Spirit — T. Tertius Noble (Adult Choir)

The Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: Lamb of God, Pure and Sinless (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 357)

Communion Hymn: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with Your Love (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 708)

Service of Preparation for Good Friday

The altar is stripped bare as Psalm 22 is intoned by a single voice. All then leave in silence. Go, in the peace of Christ Jesus. The Service resumes tomorrow, Good Friday.

Deacon: Kris Stewart

Lector: Jerry Smith

Acolyte: Hannah Fidler

Server: Paul Reynolds

Ushers: Kaye Hill and Cindy Ohslund

Council Coordinator: Brad Dahlbert

Altar Care: Kay Isaacson

Bread and Wine: Frank and Mary Lou Nierzwicki

Receiving Holy Communion, having completed Communion Instruction, is Allison Buhr, daughter of Allan and Penny Buhr.

LCM Late Night

Lutheran Campus Ministry Students are invited to chill out at Mother Bear's Pizza at 10:30 p.m.

Mawlid an Nabi

Lynn Brown's Birthday
Carol Kirsch's Birthday

Friday April 6, 2007

Good Friday (Liturgical Color: Black)

Stepping Stones meets from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Rooms 16 and 17.

A Hymn of Impending Victory: Ah, Holy Jesus (Evangelical Lutheran Worhsip 349)

The Sanctuary is gradually darkened as the hymn comes to an end. Worshipers are invited to silently say the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer as the seven candles are removed from the altar.

A loud noise follows removal of the seventh light. This is the sound of death being defeated in the darkness of early Easter morning.

After the loud noise a single light, a sign of Resurrection Hope, returns to part the darkness.

Organ Meditation: In paradisum — Daniel Lesur

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Margrethe O'Connor

Lector: Charles Sweet

Acolyte: Mailyn Fidler

Ushers: Jim and Marti Doering

Greeters: Gene and Gayl Laughman

Council Coordinator: Deb Moore

Readers: Linda Zellmer, Eric Isaacson and Vicki Polansky

Indiana-Kentucky Synod Office closed for Good Friday

Sarah Isaacson's Birthday

Saturday April 7, 2007

The Resurrection of Our Lord; Vigil of Easter (Liturgical Color: White)

Property Committee meets at 9:00 a.m. in Room 7.

Brothers! meets at 9:00 a.m. in Room 3.

Easter Breakfast Preparation at 1:00 p.m. in the Kitchen.

Easter Vigil at 11:00 p.m. at Beck Chapel, hosted by Canterbury, the Episcopal Campus Ministry organization.

Matthew Hill's Birthday

April 8, 2007

The Resurrection of our Lord; Easter Day (Liturgical Color: Gold)

A Time of Preparation

Prelude: Resurrection — Larry King

Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (reprinted in the bulletin)

Homily: "The Passion of Christ" — Pastor Lyle McKee

Hymn of the Day: Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (reprinted in the bulletin)

Offertory Anthem: The Holy City — Stephen Adams (Dave Pavolka, trombone; Rita Pavolka, piano)

Communion Hymn: This Joyful Eastertide (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Alleluia, Give Thanks to the Risen Lord (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Come Awsay to the Skies (reprinted in the bulletin)

Sending Hymn: Good Christian Friends Rejoice (reprinted in the bulletin)

Postlude: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice — Healey Willan

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Kris Stewart

Lector: Nancy Winningham

Acolyte: Ronna Papesh

Server: Dorothy Soudakoff

Ushers: Larry and Sue Berg

Greeter: David Ellies

A Time of Preparation

Prelude: Resurrection — Larry King

Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (reprinted in the bulletin)

Homily: "The Passion of Christ" — Pastor Lyle McKee

Hymn of the Day: Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (reprinted in the bulletin)

Offertory Anthem: Around the World the Shout Resounds — Carl Schalk (Adult Choir)

Communion Hymn: This Joyful Eastertide (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Alleluia, Give Thanks to the Risen Lord (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Come Awsay to the Skies (reprinted in the bulletin)

Sending Hymn: Good Christian Friends Rejoice (reprinted in the bulletin)

Postlude: Messiah: Hallelujah — George Fredrick Handel (Congregation, Choir, Brass and Organ)

From Paschal Suite: "Paean to the Risen Christ" — Richard Webster (Phil May, trumpet)

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Kris Frampton

Lector: Steve Frampton

Acolyte: Hauen Cho

Server: Jean Brown

Ushers: Frank Nierzwick and Paul Reynolds

Greeters: Ron and Jean Brown

Council Coordinator: Matt Shupe

Easter breakfast prepared by our Youth will be served from 7:45-11:00 a.m.

A Time of Preparation

Prelude: Resurrection — Larry King

Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (reprinted in the bulletin)

Homily: "The Passion of Christ" — Pastor Lyle McKee

Hymn of the Day: Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (reprinted in the bulletin)

Offertory Anthem: Around the World the Shout Resounds — Carl Schalk (Adult Choir)

Communion Hymn: This Joyful Eastertide (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Alleluia, Give Thanks to the Risen Lord (reprinted in the bulletin)

Communion Hymn: Come Awsay to the Skies (reprinted in the bulletin)

Sending Hymn: Good Christian Friends Rejoice (reprinted in the bulletin)

Postlude: Messiah: Hallelujah — George Fredrick Handel (Congregation, Choir, Brass and Organ)

From Paschal Suite: "Paean to the Risen Christ" — Richard Webster (Phil May, trumpet)

Presider: Pastor Lyle McKee

Deacon: Shari Fidler

Lector: Chris Ogan

Acolyte: Mailyn Fidler

Server: Carol Seaman

Ushers: Dean Arnold and Kaye Hill

Greeter: Matt and Tiffany Shupe

Council Coordinator: Dean Arnold

Altar Care: Mary Sasse and Nona Johnson

Flowers: Pauline Caldwell

Bread and Wine: Susan Goldsworthy

Special thanks to members of the brass ensemble for the 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services: Phil and Lissa May, trumpets; Kari Isaacson, horn; Dave Pavolka, trombone; and David Constantine, timpani.

This morning's organ prelude, Resurrection by Larry King, was written in 1981 and portrays four aspects of the resurrection using modern, but accessible musical idioms.

LAMENT combines the liturgical mourning of the plainsong Vinea me electa (O my vineyard, I planted and tended thee..and thou hast prepared a cross for thy Savior) with an expression of contemporary grief. THE RISING grows quietly from this grief, using twelve-tone rows and techniques to express its cosmic nature. THE ECSTACY develops an alleluia strin with embellishments not unlike those used in the music of Age of Aqarius. REFLECTION combines the liturgical rejoicing of the plainsong Introit for Easter Day, Haec dies (This is the day which the Lord has made) with the alleluia fragments.

It is hoped that the music conveys a fresh vision of the historic resurrection of Jesus Christ with a prayer for the resurrection of the consciousness that reflects and implements his ministry.

IU students and friends are invited to Rose House following the 11:00 a.m. service for a traditional Easter Dinner. We'll begin the meal at about 1:00 p.m.

Amelia Deibert's Birthday

Monday April 9, 2007

Girl Scouts meet at 9:00 a.m. in Room 3.

Bloomington Community Band rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in Heritage Hall.

Renewing Worship meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 12.

We worship every week, but we rarely talk about it. This study will help us understand the deep traditions informing our liturgy and do a bit of introducing some of the features of the hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

Hyun-ja Choi's Masters Organ Recital at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Fantasia and Fugue in g minor, BWV 542 — Johann Sebastian Bach

Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr', BWV 662

Praeludium in g minor — Nicolaus Bruhns

From Pièces de fantasie, Op. 53 — Louis Vierne

Clair de lune

Prélude et danse fuguée — Gaston Litaize

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, teacher, 1945 (Liturgical Color: Red)

Tuesday April 10, 2007

Motet Choir rehearses from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Adult Choir rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Lutheran Campus Ministry Board meets at 6:00 p.m. at Rose House.

Mikael Agricola, Bishop of Turku, 1557 (Liturgical Color: White)

Craig McDonald's Birthday

Wednesday April 11, 2007

There's a Place At The Table for you. The Wednesday Lunch Group meets for devotions, prayer and study of next Sunday's scriptures at noon in Room 3 for one hour. Bring a brown bag lunch.

Motet Choir rehearses from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Thursday April 12, 2007

Motet Choir rehearses at 5:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Adult Choir rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Christian Education Committee meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 12.

Sam Eichmiller's Birthday

April 13 to 14, 2007

Indiana-Kentucky Synod Council Meeting in the Synod office Downstairs Conference Room

Friday April 13, 2007

Motet Choir concert at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.

Mass in D Major, Op. 86 (original version, 1887) —Antonin Dvorák

Iara Fricke Matte, Conductor

Christopher Schroeder, Organ

(Angelique Zuluaga, Soprano; Patricia Thompson, Alto; Micah Lamb, Tenor; Wayne Hu, Bass)

Euchre at 7:00 p.m. in Rooms 16 and 17.

Tim Moore's Birthday

Saturday April 14, 2007

Brothers! meets at 9:00 a.m. in Room 3.

Susan Goldsworthy's Birthday

April 15, 2007

Second Sunday of Easter (Liturgical Color: White)

A Time of Preparation

Prelude: Symphonie V: "Adagio" — Charles-Marie Widor

Entrance Hymn: The Church's One Foundation (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 654)

Homily: Pastor Kelli Skram

Hymn of the Day: We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight (reprinted in the bulletin)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: How Firm a Foundation — William Bolcom

The Liturgy of Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: Now the Green Blade Rises (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 379)

Communion Hymn: Christ the Lord is Risen Today (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 373)

Sending Hymn: Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 389)

Postlude: Symphonie V: "Toccata" — Charles-Marie Widor

Liturgist: Jeff Schacht

Deacon: Elizabeth Constantine

Lector: Mary Lou Nierzwicki

Acolyte: Alex Nixon

Server: Gail Seegert

Ushers: Ruth Engs and Jeff Franz

Greeters: Mark and Charlene Braun

Nursery: Joan Burt

Council Coordinator: Matt Shupe

A Time of Preparation

Prelude: Symphonie V: "Adagio" — Charles-Marie Widor

Entrance Hymn: The Church's One Foundation (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 654)

Homily: Pastor Kelli Skram

Hymn of the Day: We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight (reprinted in the bulletin)

Responses to the Word

Offertory Anthem: How Firm a Foundation — William Bolcom

The Liturgy of Holy Eucharist

Communion Hymn: Now the Green Blade Rises (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 379)

Communion Hymn: Christ the Lord is Risen Today (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 373)

Sending Hymn: Christ is Alive! Let Christians Sing (Evangelical Lutheran Worship 389)

Postlude: Symphonie V: "Toccata" — Charles-Marie Widor

Liturgist: Jeff Schacht

Deacon: Shari Fidler

Lector: Vicki Polansky

Acolyte: Mailyn Fidler

Server: Lori Rowold

Ushers: Allan and Helen Mayfield

Greeter: Marcy Grupenhoff

Nursery: Sandy and Sidney Arnold

Council Coordinator: Dean Arnold

Altar Care: Laurel Reynolds and Marilyn Kelly

Bread and Wine: Allan and Helen Mayfield

Flowers: Carl Ziegler

Assisting the ushers are Haley Garl and Hannah Fidler

Lutheran Campus Ministry Students lunch following the 11:00 a.m. service. Today's lunch is provided by Bruce and Susan Colston.

Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah

William Foley's Birthday
Kyle Halverson's Birthday

Monday April 16, 2007

Bloomington Community Band rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in Heritage Hall.

Suzanne Halvorson's Birthday
Zachary May's Birthday
Mary Peters' Birthday

Tuesday April 17, 2007

LCM Bible Study

Tonight, April 17, rather than the Bible study we will talk about events at Virginia Tech and pray for students, faculty, staff and families affected by this tragedy. You are invited to bring friends. If anyone needs to talk to Kelli or Jeff at any time about events at Virginia Tech, you can contact them by email: jschacht@indiana.edu, kskram@indiana.edu

Carrie Dahlberg's Birthday
Lillian Rademacher's Birthday
Wayne Welken's Birthday

Wednesday April 18, 2007

There's a Place At The Table for you. The Wednesday Lunch Group meets for devotions, prayer and study of next Sunday's scriptures at noon in Room 3 for one hour. Bring a brown bag lunch.

Spiritual Journaling Group meets at 6:30 p.m. in Room 3

Men's Group meets at 6:30 p.m. in Room 12.

LCM Life Together at 6:30 p.m.

After the meal we will assemble the Finals Survival Kits for students. We will also assemble Care Packages for two of our students who are studying abroad: Emily McDonald (Australia) and Jon Hines (Brazil).

Laura Boggess' Birthday

Thursday April 19, 2007

Adult Choir rehearses at 7:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary.