Schedule for the Coming Week at Resurrection Church
Sunday, July 16
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Save the Date! Pastor T's Inaugural Worship Service on Sunday, July 16
On Sunday, July 16, we are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Harry Therwanger at his inaugural worship service. Please join us after the service, at 11:15 a.m. in the Parish Hall, for a Welcome Coffee Hour to welcome Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams. The RELC Fellowship Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service.
Please save the date and plan to worship with us!
“It is good Lord for us to be here!” Matthew 17:4
Dear Members and Friends of Resurrection,
It is so very good to be here.
Ebon and I have moved into the parsonage and have been getting settled and exploring the area.
I have taken these couple of Sundays at the beginning of July to visit two of our sister congregations and begin to become acquainted with my new colleagues with an eye to partnerships and outreach.
We wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked to prepare the parsonage for us in so many ways.
I am very much looking forward to leading worship and beginning my service as Pastor of RELC on July 16th. I am praying with anticipation that we will have great joy serving our Savior together.
Blessings dear Church! Be talking and worshipping with you soon.
Pastor Harry Therwanger
Warmest Thanks from Gordon Lathrop
Dear People of Resurrection Church,
I want to thank you all for your very generous and kind gift to me last Sunday. I understand that $1000 is being donated in my name to the United Lutheran Seminary and the same amount is being added to the RELC endowment fund. Furthermore, last Sunday Glen Mason said several very gracious things, handed me a beautiful wooden “prayer bowl,” and told me of a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble that is forthcoming so that I might get back to reading!
Thank you, with all my heart. Organizing and sometimes leading worship for these past 48 Sundays — including Christmas, Lent and the Three Days, Easter, a baptism, the installation of the new Council, four first communions, a commendation of the dead, and a farewell and godspeed — has been one of the joys of my life. Doing it together with so very many other people has been amazing: I tried to name you all last Sunday, though on the moment I forgot Steve Black and the youth who help him with electronics, Cindy Reese and the whole Worship Committee, Alexandra Mattson, Paul Bastuscheck, and Christopher Smith who give us weekly announcements of worship, and Jeanette Barkley and all the Altar Guild. But I did gladly name Barbara Verdile and the Choir, all of our remarkably skilled Assisting Ministers and Readers, Heidi Dech who schedules them, Gail Ramshaw who faithfully writes the intercessions each week, Maggie Mount and the excellent ushers, Helen Chaale who puts together the bulletins, and Rosalie Dech who prints them. We do this all together, being together the assembly around the Risen Christ. Thank you all for the many, many roles you have played. Thanks also to the 14 fine supply pastors we have had join us.
For this surprising gift from you, thanks especially to the people whom I think organized it: Steve Black, Leslie Nolen, Glen Mason, Maggie Mount, and the whole Council. There may well have been others of whom I do not know.
Now, next Sunday, we begin anew, with a new pastor. Warmest welcome to Pastor Therwanger. May God give the Spirit of strong and loving wisdom to him and may God continue to enliven our assembly with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yours,
Gordon Lathrop
Traveling Prayer Nights
The Metro D.C. Synod is convening three "Traveling Prayer Nights" on Thursdays, this summer. Each one-hour, evening program will engage participants in prayer, meditation and music. Please see the list of programs here: https://metrodcelca.org/event/traveling-prayer-nights/2023-07-27/
The next "Traveling Prayer Night" will be held on Thursday, July 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Advent Lutheran Church
2222 S. Arlington Ridge Road
Arlington, Virginia 22202
(https://www.adventlc.us/ - Pastor Alex Stall).
We hope that you will join in!
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.
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!