Worship Schedule:
10:00am in the Sanctuary and on YouTube
Due to the pandemic the need for food is increasing daily. In addition, the annual Letter Carriers Food Drive (Stamp Out Hunger) which normally produces more than 50,000 lbs. of donated food has been canceled which makes the need even greater.
AFAC needs canned vegetables, cereal (low sugar), canned tuna, canned tomato products (stewed, diced, paste), and peanut butter (in plastic jars).
Contributions can be dropped off in the Narthex.
Sunday, September 3
10:00 a.m. — Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday, September 10 - Rally Day
10:00 a.m. — Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Saturday, September 16
3:00 p.m. — Pastor Therwanger’s official Installation Service.
Join us for a service of celebration as our call to our new pastor and his acceptance are acknowledged by the wider church. Refreshments and fellowship will follow.
Sunday, September 17
9:00 a.m. — 9:45 a.m. Opening Prayer and Sunday School in the Parish Hall. Sunday School Breakfast and Meet Pastor Harry!
10:00 a.m. — Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday School families, please join us in the Parish Hall for some food, fellowship and fun! Please bring a dish to share.
Sunday, September 24
9:00 a.m. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. — Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday, October 1
9:00 a.m. — 9:45 a.m. Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. — Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger, in the Parish Hall. Pet Blessing will be held on the lawn after the service.
11:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. - Homeward Trails adoption event at the church.
Sunday, September 10 - Rally Day - God's Work, Our Hands - This is a day of service and will include:
Undie Sunday, we will be collecting new, packaged men's underwear, undershirts and sweat socks for New Hope Housing.
We will have containers in the Narthex and the Parish Hall for your generous contributions. All undergarments MUST be new in its original packaging.
Care Packages for College Students - All supplies will be provided for packaging. We will have coloring sheets for kids to color for our college kids, too.
Books are Food for Your Brain book collection to be distributed by Food for Others. Please bring New OR Very Gently Used board books and books up to 5th grade to include easy readers, easy chapter books and picture books. What goes especially fast? Board books and 2nd-3rd grade books. (No religious books, please.)
Sunday, September 24 - Sunday School program
We welcome our children 3 years of age through 5th grade. We will continue with the well-loved Whirl Lectionary curriculum. This is lectionary based so that our kids will dive deeper in their understanding of the lessons that we are all listening to during our worship service. There is a video component that adds a lot of GREAT discussion. Prayer is always included and games, skits and/or art will also be included to reinforce the days' lesson. We will also continue working with the church calendar, learning the "Seasons of the Church" year.
If you would like to join our Sunday School program, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Singing in a group leads to moments that are, simply put, transcendent. When we harmonize our voices together to create something of beauty — especially when we’ve all struggled to get our part right — there is a mixture of awe and satisfaction that can’t be put into words.
That’s powerful stuff. It’s what keeps people coming back to choir rehearsal year after year. Once you experience it, you can’t really shake the desire to perform again.
Choir singing gives us so many benefits, but this one might be the most important. This feeling motivates us to go through the hard parts of life and to cherish the good in the world.
And the only thing you need is… your voice! RELC needs your voice!
So what are you waiting for?
With a voice of singing,
Barbara
On October 1, we will have the Pet Blessing at the 10:00 a.m. service. All pet owners are welcome to bring their pets to the Parish Hall, where the service will be live streamed. After the final hymn, we will meet on the lawn for the Blessing itself. Refreshments and treats will be provided for humans and their pet family members. Afterwards, we will host Homeward Trails for an adoption event at the church from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. All animals are welcome for the Blessing.
If you do not receive the weekly announcements by email, please be sure to let the church office know of your correct email address and to include you each week in the mailing. If you would like a hard copy to share with someone, there are a few printed copies available in the Narthex.
We will print a few copies each week for a while to see if there is a desire to have them printed and perhaps to share more widely.
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Breakfast with Pastor! There will be five breakfasts held in the Fellowship Hall for up to ten RELC members invited per breakfast.
Each breakfast is scheduled on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and will be led by a different Resurrection Church leader:
September 9 (Ron Bergman),
September 16 (Valerie Pratt), and,
September 30 (Christina Cuesta).
Get to know Pastor Therwanger and other members of the RELC family! Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd. Come and enjoy some breakfast and fellowship!
Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link for one Saturday breakfast:
There are name tags available in the Narthex. Please use them during the next few weeks to help Pastor learn all of our names and maybe also to help us refresh our memory!
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. Please complete one, even if your information has not changed, and consider including a photo!
We will be returning to having individuals who request to be named in the Sunday morning Prayers of the Church. To add a name to be mentioned on Sunday during worship to the prayers, please email or phone Pastor Harry by Thursday evening. The name will be included for one week, and if you wish to continue having someone named in the prayers, please update Pastor each week.
Lutheran Disaster Response is coordinating with the Pacifica Synod and other partners to assess the needs of people impacted by the wildfires. We will work with them to provide for immediate needs and recovery amid the widespread destruction. Lutheran Disaster Response is committed to accompanying recovering communities in the years ahead.
Please click here and change the Designation to "U.S. Wildfires" if you would like to make a donation.
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.
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.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our quarterly “Steeple Light” newsletter, is, at present, 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!
Sunday, August 27
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
The Blessing of the Backpacks will be held during morning worship.
Saturday, September 16
3:00 p.m. - Pastor Therwanger’s official Installation Service.
Join us for a service of celebration as our call to our new pastor and his acceptance are acknowledged by the wider church. Refreshments and fellowship will follow.
If you do not receive the weekly announcements by email, please be sure to let the church office know of your correct email address and to include you each week in the mailing. If you would like a hard copy to share with someone, there are a few printed copies available in the Narthex.
We will print a few copies each week for a while to see if there is a desire to have them printed and perhaps to share more widely.
Contact Information for Pastor T
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Breakfast with Pastor! There will be five breakfasts held in the Fellowship Hall for up to ten RELC members invited per breakfast.
Each breakfast is scheduled on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and will be led by a different Resurrection Church leader:
August 12 (Helen Chaale),
August 26 (Steve Black),
September 9 (Ron Bergman),
September 16 (Valerie Pratt), and,
September 30 (Christina Cuesta).
Get to know Pastor Therwanger and other members of the RELC family! Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd. Come and enjoy some breakfast and fellowship!
Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link for one Saturday breakfast:
There are name tags available in the Narthex. Please use them during the next few weeks to help Pastor learn all of our names and maybe also to help us refresh our memory!
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. Please complete one, even if your information has not changed, and consider including a photo!
We will be returning to having individuals who request to be named in the Sunday morning Prayers of the Church. To add a name to be mentioned on Sunday during worship to the prayers, please email or phone Pastor Harry by Thursday evening. The name will be included for one week, and if you wish to continue having someone named in the prayers, please update Pastor each week.
The newly formed Metro D.C. Synod Reconciling in Christ Team invites you to one of two online Zoom conversations in August to explore what the future of this team looks like.
Share your dreams, ideas and needs to help determine which trainings and resources are shared by this team to help synod congregations as well as rostered and lay leaders expand their love and welcome to all of God’s beloved.
Whether your congregation is RIC or not, you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions and explore what Reconciling in Christ is about.
Date:
Thursday, August 31
Time:
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Website:
Please fill out the online Participant Information form, choose the August 31 conversation date on Zoom, and submit it, using the link below. Thank you!
https://metrodcelca.elvanto.net/form/5b64ab66-0ca9-484a-a65c-6a85c7407dc7
Lutheran Disaster Response is coordinating with the Pacifica Synod and other partners to assess the needs of people impacted by the wildfires. We will work with them to provide for immediate needs and recovery amid the widespread destruction. Lutheran Disaster Response is committed to accompanying recovering communities in the years ahead.
Please click here and change the Designation to "U.S. Wildfires" if you would like to make a donation.
Rally Day and the Autumn Sunday School Series will begin on Sunday, September 10.
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.
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.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our quarterly “Steeple Light” newsletter, is, at present, 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!
Sunday, August 20
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday, August 27
The Blessing of the Backpacks will be held during morning worship.
Saturday, September 16
3:00 p.m. - Pastor Therwanger’s official Installation Service.
Join us for a service of celebration as our call to our new pastor and his acceptance are acknowledged by the wider church. Refreshments and fellowship will follow.
If you do not receive the weekly announcements by email, please be sure to let the church office know of your correct email address and to include you each week in the mailing. If you would like a hard copy to share with someone, there are a few printed copies available in the Narthex.
We will print a few copies each week for a while to see if there is a desire to have them printed and perhaps to share more widely.
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Breakfast with Pastor! There will be five breakfasts held in the Fellowship Hall for up to ten RELC members invited per breakfast.
Each breakfast is scheduled on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and will be led by a different Resurrection Church leader:
August 12 (Helen Chaale),
August 26 (Steve Black),
September 9 (Ron Bergman),
September 16 (Valerie Pratt), and,
September 30 (Christina Cuesta).
Get to know Pastor Therwanger and other members of the RELC family! Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd. Come and enjoy some breakfast and fellowship!
Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link for one Saturday breakfast:
There are name tags available in the Narthex. Please use them during the next few weeks to help Pastor learn all of our names and maybe also to help us refresh our memory!
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. Please complete one, even if your information has not changed, and consider including a photo!
We will be returning to having individuals who request to be named in the Sunday morning Prayers of the Church. To add a name to be mentioned on Sunday during worship to the prayers, please email or phone Pastor Harry by Thursday evening. The name will be included for one week, and if you wish to continue having someone named in the prayers, please update Pastor each week.
Through the kind assistance of Steve Black, you all have presented me with a gift card for use at Barnes and Noble. I want you to know about my use of that card.
When in 1975 I left my second pastorate, as the University Minister at Pacific Lutheran University, I was given the gift of one of the most useful research tools in Christian theology, the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. The first edition of that book, which was published in 1958 and was the book I was given, was more than a thousand pages long and those pages were, for a long time, very helpful to me. That edition is now, however, significantly outdated. The book is now in its fourth edition — in two volumes, with over two thousand much larger pages — published in 2022. Because of the gift card, I have been able to purchase those volumes, the price being almost exactly the value of the card you gave me. I will think of you gratefully as I use them.
Thank you so much.
Gordon Lathrop
The newly formed Metro D.C. Synod Reconciling in Christ Team invites you to one of two online Zoom conversations in August to explore what the future of this team looks like.
Share your dreams, ideas and needs to help determine which trainings and resources are shared by this team to help synod congregations as well as rostered and lay leaders expand their love and welcome to all of God’s beloved.
Whether your congregation is RIC or not, you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions and explore what Reconciling in Christ is about.
Date:
Thursday, August 31
Time:
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Website:
Please fill out the online Participant Information form, choose the August 31 conversation date on Zoom, and submit it, using the link below. Thank you!
https://metrodcelca.elvanto.net/form/5b64ab66-0ca9-484a-a65c-6a85c7407dc7
Lutheran Disaster Response is coordinating with the Pacifica Synod and other partners to assess the needs of people impacted by the wildfires. We will work with them to provide for immediate needs and recovery amid the widespread destruction. Lutheran Disaster Response is committed to accompanying recovering communities in the years ahead.
Please click here and change the Designation to "U.S. Wildfires" if you would like to make a donation.
Rally Day and the Autumn Sunday School Series will begin on Sunday, September 10.
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.
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.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our quarterly “Steeple Light” newsletter, is, at present, 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!
Sunday, August 13
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday, August 27
The Blessing of the Backpacks will be held during morning worship.
If you do not receive the weekly announcements by email, please be sure to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of your correct email address and to include you each week in the mailing. If you would like a hard copy to share with someone, there are a few printed copies available in the Narthex.
We will print a few copies each week for a while to see if there is a desire to have them printed and perhaps to share more widely.
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Breakfast with Pastor! There will be five breakfasts held in the Fellowship Hall for up to ten RELC members invited per breakfast.
Each breakfast is scheduled on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and will be led by a different Resurrection Church leader:
August 12 (Helen Chaale),
August 26 (Steve Black),
September 9 (Ron Bergman),
September 16 (Valerie Pratt), and,
September 30 (Christina Cuesta).
Get to know Pastor Therwanger and other members of the RELC family! Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd. Come and enjoy some breakfast and fellowship!
Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link for one Saturday breakfast:
There are name tags available in the Narthex. Please use them during the next few weeks to help Pastor learn all of our names and maybe also to help us refresh our memory!
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. Please complete one, even if your information has not changed, and consider including a photo!
We will be returning to having individuals who request to be named in the Sunday morning Prayers of the Church. To add a name to be mentioned on Sunday during worship to the prayers, please email or phone Pastor Harry by Thursday evening. The name will be included for one week, and if you wish to continue having someone named in the prayers, please update Pastor each week.
Through the kind assistance of Steve Black, you all have presented me with a gift card for use at Barnes and Noble. I want you to know about my use of that card.
When in 1975 I left my second pastorate, as the University Minister at Pacific Lutheran University, I was given the gift of one of the most useful research tools in Christian theology, the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. The first edition of that book, which was published in 1958 and was the book I was given, was more than a thousand pages long and those pages were, for a long time, very helpful to me. That edition is now, however, significantly outdated. The book is now in its fourth edition — in two volumes, with over two thousand much larger pages — published in 2022. Because of the gift card, I have been able to purchase those volumes, the price being almost exactly the value of the card you gave me. I will think of you gratefully as I use them.
Thank you so much.
Gordon Lathrop
The newly formed Metro D.C. Synod Reconciling in Christ Team invites you to one of two online Zoom conversations in August to explore what the future of this team looks like.
Share your dreams, ideas and needs to help determine which trainings and resources are shared by this team to help synod congregations as well as rostered and lay leaders expand their love and welcome to all of God’s beloved.
Whether your congregation is RIC or not, you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions and explore what Reconciling in Christ is about.
Date:
Thursday, August 31
Time:
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Website:
Please fill out the online Participant Information form, choose the August 31 conversation date on Zoom, and submit it, using the link below. Thank you!
https://metrodcelca.elvanto.net/form/5b64ab66-0ca9-484a-a65c-6a85c7407dc7
Thursday, August 17, at noon is the upcoming deadline for articles with or without photographs, news updates and calendar items for the Fall issue of the "Steeple Light." Please submit your content to editor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by August 17. Thank you!
Rally Day and the Autumn Sunday School Series will begin on Sunday, September 10.
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.
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.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our quarterly “Steeple Light” newsletter, is, at present, 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!
Sunday, August 6
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Sunday, August 26
The Blessing of the Backpacks will be held during morning worship.
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Breakfast with Pastor! There will be five breakfasts held in the Fellowship Hall for up to ten RELC members invited per breakfast.
Each breakfast is scheduled on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and will be led by a different Resurrection Church leader:
August 12 (Helen Chaale),
August 26 (Steve Black),
September 9 (Ron Bergman),
September 16 (Valerie Pratt), and,
September 30 (Christina Cuesta).
Get to know Pastor Therwanger and other members of the RELC family! Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd. Come and enjoy some breakfast and fellowship!
Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link for one Saturday breakfast:
There are name tags available in the narthex. Please use them during the next few weeks to help Pastor learn all of our names and maybe also to help us refresh our memory!
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. Please complete one, even if your information has not changed, and consider including a photo!
We will be returning to having individuals who request to be named in the Sunday morning Prayers of the Church. To add a name to be mentioned on Sunday during worship to the prayers, please email or phone Pastor Harry by Thursday evening. The name will be included for one week, and if you wish to continue having someone named in the prayers, please update Pastor each week.
The newly formed Metro D.C. Synod Reconciling in Christ Team invites you to one of two online Zoom conversations in August to explore what the future of this team looks like.
Share your dreams, ideas and needs to help determine which trainings and resources are shared by this team to help synod congregations as well as rostered and lay leaders expand their love and welcome to all of God’s beloved.
Whether your congregation is RIC or not, you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions and explore what Reconciling in Christ is about.
Date:
Thursday, August 10
Thursday, August 31
Time:
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Website:
Please fill out the online Participant Information form and choose either the August 10 or the August 31 conversation date on Zoom, and submit it, using the link below. Thank you!
https://metrodcelca.elvanto.net/form/5b64ab66-0ca9-484a-a65c-6a85c7407dc7
Thursday, August 17, at noon is the upcoming deadline for articles with or without photographs, news updates and calendar items for the Fall issue of the "Steeple Light." Please submit your content to editor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by August 17. Thank you!
Rally Day and the Autumn Sunday School Series will begin on Sunday, September 10.
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.
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.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our quarterly “Steeple Light” newsletter, is, at present, 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!
Sunday, July 30
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
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.
It is a joy to take up the calling of pastor here among you. Thank you for your warm welcome! 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
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
Want to get to know Pastor Harry? He would certainly enjoy meeting and visiting with you. Watch for details to sign up for “Breakfast with Pastor.” Have breakfast, devotions and a bit of conversation in a small group with our new Shepherd.
The newly formed Metro D.C. Synod Reconciling in Christ Team invites you to one of two online Zoom conversations in August to explore what the future of this team looks like.
Share your dreams, ideas and needs to help determine which trainings and resources are shared by this team to help synod congregations as well as rostered and lay leaders expand their love and welcome to all of God’s beloved.
Whether your congregation is RIC or not, you are welcome and encouraged to ask questions and explore what Reconciling in Christ is about.
Date:
Thursday, August 10
Thursday, August 31
Time:
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Website:
Please fill out the online Participant Information form and choose either the August 10 or the August 31 conversation date on Zoom, and submit it, using the link below. Thank you!
https://metrodcelca.elvanto.net/form/5b64ab66-0ca9-484a-a65c-6a85c7407dc7
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.
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.
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.
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!
Thursday, July 20
7:00 p.m. – Council Meeting (in person).
Sunday, July 23
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
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 have very much looked forward to leading worship and beginning my service as Pastor of RELC on July 16th. Thank you for your warm welcome on Sunday! 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
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
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 27, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Christ the King Lutheran Church
10550 Georgetown Pike
Great Falls, VA 22066
https://www.gflutheran.org/
Tel.: 703-759-6068
(Pastor Hank Langknecht)
We hope that you will join in!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Sunday, July 16
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
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
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
Sunday, July 9
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
Sunday, July 16
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold Therwanger.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, again, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our Sunday, July 9, worship service.
On Sunday, July 16, we look forward to welcoming Pastor Harold Therwanger to preach and preside at his inaugural worship service.
Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams, are settling in to the RELC parsonage. The RELC Hospitality Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service on Sunday, July 16. 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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
Sunday, July 2
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
Sunday, July 9
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, again, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our Sunday, July 2, and Sunday, July 9, worship services.
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!
Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams, will arrive this week to settle in to the RELC parsonage. The RELC Hospitality Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service on Sunday, July 16. Please save the date and plan to worship with us!
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season! The season has started out very dry, so we especially need help to ease the burden on our few gardeners and ensure that our plants continue to thrive.
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.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
Sunday, June 25
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Tiina Talvitie.
Sunday, July 2
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC, at our June 25 worship service.
On Sunday, July 2, and on Sunday, July 9, we look forward, again, to welcoming Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will preach and preside.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season! The season has started out very dry, so we especially need help to ease the burden on our few gardeners and ensure that our plants continue to thrive.
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.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
Sunday, June 18 - Father's Day
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Katharyn Wheeler.
Sunday, June 25
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Tiina Talvitie.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Katharyn Wheeler, candidate in the ELCA’s Word and Service Ministry, at our June 18 worship service. Due to the limited number of supply pastors available in our area, the June 18 service will be “Service of the Word” which means Communion will not be offered. As a result, you will notice a few other changes, most notably that offering plates will be at the entrance to the Sanctuary, rather than at the front.
On Sunday, June 25, we look forward to welcoming Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC, who will preach and preside.
If you would like to contribute to a gift for Pastor Gordon Lathrop in recognition of his work to support our worship during the past ten months, please place your donation, designated for the special gift, in the offering plates at the entrance to the Sanctuary.
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial 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.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
Saturday, June 10
10:00 a.m. – Parsonage yard clean-up (see item below).
Sunday, June 11
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:00 a.m. — Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall. Come celebrate our recent high school and college graduates and learn what is next for them.
Sunday, June 18 - Father's Day
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Katharyn Wheeler.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our June 11 worship service.
On Sunday, June 18, we look forward to welcoming Katharyn Wheeler, candidate in the ELCA’s Word and Service Ministry, who will preach and preside. On Sunday, June 25, we will welcome, once again this year, Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC.
Please join members of the Property Committee to lend a hand with mulching and cleaning up the parsonage yard in anticipation of the Therwangers’ arrival in July. Meet on Saturday, June 10 at 10:00 a.m. in the parsonage yard. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
Come celebrate our recent High School and College Graduates during coffee hour on Sunday, June 11. As you enjoy your cake, learn what is next for our graduates.
We 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.
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial 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.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
Sunday, June 4
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, June 11
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:00 a.m. – Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall. Come celebrate our recent high school and college graduates and learn what is next for them.
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 June 4 worship services.
On Sunday, June 11, we look forward to welcoming back Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will return to preach and preside.
Come celebrate our recent High School and College Graduates during coffee hour on Sunday, June 11. As you enjoy your cake, learn what is next for our graduates.
We 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.
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial 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.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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!
