Schedule for the Coming Week at Resurrection Church
Saturday, April 29
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. – Meet the Candidate in the Parish Hall. Light refreshments will be served.
Sunday, April 30 – "Call Sunday"
9:00 a.m. – No Sunday School this week.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: our Pastoral Candidate for call.
11:15 a.m. – No Confirmation Class this week.
11:15 a.m. – Congregational Meeting to consider calling new pastor in the Sanctuary. (Information on a remote option for those unable to attend in person is available – contact Leslie Nolen)
Sunday, May 7
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Gordon Lathrop, at our May 7 worship service.
On Sunday, May 14, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary will return to preach and preside.
Meet the Candidate April 29 & Congregational Meeting April 30 to Consider Calling New Pastor
Please save the date for a Congregational Meeting on Sunday, April 30 to consider calling a new pastor! Come meet him on Saturday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Consider bringing some light finger foods (i.e. no utensils required to eat) to share. A written letter was distributed to all members of the congregation with the announcement of these meetings.
Our constitution requires a quorum of 36 percent of our active, voting membership to call a pastor, double the quorum requirement for a congregational meeting for any other purpose. Please make every effort to attend the meeting in person to help us achieve that number! If you are unable to participate in person due to travel or illness, there will be a remote option available – please contact Leslie Nolen. Please hold these dates in your calendars as we consider an important next step in the future of Resurrection!
Readings available in place of Celebrate
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
To Fans of the ELW commemorations, from Gail Ramshaw
At the beginning of each of Resurrection’s online Advent and Lenten evening prayers, I introduced worshipers to one or two of that week’s commemorations. See pages 15-17 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) to see what I am talking about. Some of you welcomed these stories about the saints. If you are interested in more of this history of those who have gone before us in the faith, you might want to purchase a book I published in 2016, More Days for Praise: Festivals and Commemorations in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. There’s a double-page spread for each commemoration, with a picture in color, a brief bio, a quote if possible from the person, a hymn and a prayer suggestion, and prompts for your own prayers. This book is available from our national church’s publishing house, Augsburg Fortress, for $22 (go to augsburgfortress.org). If you don’t have a copy of the ELW at home, its purchase price is $24.50. To encourage your interest in these commemorations, ahead of us in April are for example the artist Albrecht Duerer, the martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the remarkable Japanese renewer of society Toyohiko Kagawa, and (my favorite!) Catherine of Siena.
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Personal Care Kits
LWR warehouses are empty and these items are desperately needed by refugees and other people impacted by natural and man-made disasters around the world.
Your Social Ministry Committee is collecting:
- light-weight bath-sized towel (between 20” x 40” and 52” x 27”), dark color recommended;
- bath-sized bars of soap equaling 8 oz. to 9 oz., any brand, in original wrapping;
- adult-sized toothbrushes, in original packaging;
- sturdy combs; and,
- metal nail clippers.
Please drop donations in the box in the narthex. You may also donate money so that we can shop for the items that we need. Please write “LWR Kits” on the memo line of your check or enclose cash in an envelope marked “LWR Kits.” Thank you all for your generosity.
Help with the RELC Plot for Hunger Garden
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
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Offering Envelopes Are Here!
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
Congregation COVID Protections
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Share Your Intent to Support Our Budget
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Member Information Form
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
Can't make it to church? Watch us Live! Now Livestreaming Worship
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
Intercessory Prayer During the Time of Pastoral Transition
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastoral Care for Emergencies and Other Needs
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Other Announcements?
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!