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, February 19
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Tiina Talvitie presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Preparation of ashes for Ash Wednesday with children’s lesson in the Memorial Garden.
Wednesday, February 22, Ash Wednesday
7:00 p.m. – One service (in person). Led by Pastor Gordon Lathrop. Imposition of ashes for those who wish to receive ashes.
On February 19 we are honored to welcome Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation and of the Finnish congregation that meets once a month at Resurrection, to preside and preach. Pastor Lathrop will lead our Ash Wednesday service on February 22 and also our worship on the first Sunday in Lent on February 26.
We are also pleased to welcome Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod Bishop Leila Ortiz to preside and preach at our March 5 worship service, followed on March 12 by Pastor Sarah Garrett Krey, Assistant to the Bishop for Candidacy and Mobility for the Metro D.C. Synod.
Please join us for Evening Prayer, Wednesdays in March at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw about the saints being commemorated that week. The liturgy will be led by lay members. Look for a Constant Contact message on Tuesdays, which will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
March 1: Inheritance of Faith, with George Herbert and Charles Wesley
March 8: Perseverance with Endurance, with Perpetua and Felicity, Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth
March 15: Faithful in Prayer, with Gregory the Great and Patrick
March 22: Striving for Justice, with Oscar Romero
March 29: Dying and Rising with Christ, with Hans Nielsen Hauge and John Donne
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
The Worship and Music Committee would like to encourage you to bring your own glass from home to use at communion in our worship services. Paper cups will continue to be provided for those who need them, but please consider making an effort to use a glass from home – a practice that better reflects our care and reverence in handling the wine of communion.
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.
The Altar Guild plays a critical role in preparing our worship services – but it currently has only a few members and would very much appreciate some additional assistance. If you are willing to help or have any questions about what would be entailed, please contact Jeanette Barkley.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. Your offerings remain critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. To ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of February. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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, February 12
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding, with installation of Congregation Council officers and members, and first communion for Granger and Ophelia Phillips.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
11:30 a.m. – Souper Bowl Sunday sale to support youth attending the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering.
Sunday, February 19
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation, presiding. If you have palms from last Palm Sunday that you wish to add to the collection that will be burned after church on February 19, please bring them with you on that Sunday.
11:15 a.m. – Preparation of ashes for Ash Wednesday with children’s lesson in the Memorial Garden.
Resurrection celebrates two special events in its worship service this Sunday, February 12. Pastor Gordon Lathrop will preside as Granger and Ophelia Phillips, son and daughter of Tom and Julia Phillips, will be welcomed to the Holy Communion for the first time. Pastor Peter Fauerbach, Granger and Ophelia’s grandfather, will also participate in the liturgy. Pastor Lathrop will also lead the congregation in installing the officers and members of our Congregation Council for 2023.
On February 19 we are honored to welcome Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation and of the Finnish congregation that meets once a month at Resurrection, to preside and preach. Pastor Lathrop will lead our Ash Wednesday service on February 22 and also our worship on the first Sunday in Lent on February 26.
We are also pleased to welcome Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod Bishop Leila Ortiz to preside and preach at our March 5 worship service, followed on March 12 by Pastor Sarah Garrett Krey, Assistant to the Bishop for Candidacy and Mobility for the Metro D.C. Synod.
Based on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Ready for the Souper Bowl? After worship services on Sunday, February 12, the Education Committee will be selling soups, chili, stews, breads and corn breads on Super Bowl Sunday to raise money for our congregation’s young folks to participate in the ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans in 2024! The youth group will also be putting together Valentine's packages for our college kids on February 12.
Resurrection’s collection of donations of food items for AFAC will continue on Sunday, February 12, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
Resurrection’s Call Committee will complete its second round of interviews with three pastoral candidates this weekend, and will then reflect on those discussions and determine whether to advance the call process with any of the three candidates. A further update on the next steps in the process will be coming soon.
The Worship and Music Committee would like to encourage you to bring your own glass from home to use at communion in our worship services. Paper cups will continue to be provided for those who need them, but please consider making an effort to use a glass from home – a practice that better reflects our care and reverence in handling the wine of communion.
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.
The Altar Guild plays a critical role in preparing our worship services – but it currently has only a few members and would very much appreciate some additional assistance. If you are willing to help or have any questions about what would be entailed, please contact Jeanette Barkley.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. Your offerings remain critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. To ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of February. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, February 5
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, February 12
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding, with installation of Congregation Council officers and members and first communion for Granger and Ophelia Phillips.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Resurrection is pleased to welcome back Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary to preach and preside at this Sunday’s worship service. On February 12, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will return to lead us, and Granger and Ophelia Phillips, son and daughter of Tom and Julia Phillips, will be welcomed to the Holy Communion for the first time. Pastor Peter Fauerbach, Granger and Ophelia’s grandfather, will also participate in the liturgy. The officers and members of our Congregation Council will also be installed at the February 12 service.
Our outstanding series of guest pastors continues on February 19 with Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the Finnish Congregation that meets once a month at Resurrection Church, presiding. Pastor Lathrop will lead our Ash Wednesday service on February 22 and also our worship on the first Sunday in Lent on February 26.
We are also honored to welcome Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod Bishop Leila Ortiz to preside and preach at our March 5 worship service, followed on March 12 by Pastor Sarah Garrett Krey, Assistant to the Bishop for Candidacy and Mobility for the Metro D.C. Synod.
Based on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
The Worship and Music Committee would like to encourage you to bring your own glass from home to use at communion in our worship services. Paper cups will continue to be provided for those who need them, but please consider making an effort to use a glass from home – a practice that better reflects our care and reverence in handling the wine of communion.
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.
It's that time of year! After worship services on Sunday, February 12, the Education Committee will be selling soups, chili, stews, breads and corn breads on Super Bowl Sunday to raise money for our congregation’s young folks to participate in the ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans in 2024! The youth group will also be putting together Valentine's packages for our college kids on February 12.
Resurrection’s collection of donations of food items for AFAC will continue on Sunday, February 12, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
The Altar Guild plays a critical role in preparing our worship services – but it currently has only a few members and would very much appreciate some additional assistance. If you are willing to help or have any questions about what would be entailed, please contact Jeanette Barkley.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. Your offerings remain critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. To ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of February. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, January 29
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Allen Dayal of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, February 5
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
As our series of guest pastors continues, Resurrection welcomes Pastor Allen Dayal of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India, and also a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary, to preach and preside this Sunday, January 29. He will be followed on February 5 by Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary. On February 12, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will return to lead us, and Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation, will preside on February 19.
A member of Resurrection who attended the annual congregation meeting and potluck lunch last Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week and is being treated in isolation at a local hospital. Members who attended the congregation meeting should be especially attentive to possible symptoms and consider getting tested, if appropriate. More information will be provided when it is available.
The RELC Reopening Planning Group met Thursday, January 26, and reviewed the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for communities with COVID-19 metrics in the “medium” level – where Arlington County currently is. Based on those recommendations, the Planning Group agreed that masking should be recommended, but not required for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services.
The CDC recommends that residents in communities at the “medium” level stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19 as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to Resurrection’s annual congregation meeting and sumptuous potluck lunch last Sunday! The congregation adopted operating and capital budgets for 2023 and elected four new members to the Congregation Council: Ron Bergman, Dennis Polla, Valerie Pratt, and Jack Schoen.
Many thanks to everyone who made the meeting possible, including Pastor Gordon Lathrop, Tom Mugavero and the Fellowship Committee; Ted Mortensen and the Property Committee; Mark Linton and the Finance Committee; Financial Secretary Jennifer Schoen – and to Steve Black for assembling and editing the "2022 Annual Report" and his technical support during the meeting.
The congregation, at the conclusion of the meeting, acknowledged, with an unprecedented standing ovation, the immensely important contribution of Glen Mason to our congregational stability and its continued vitality. Thank you, Glen!
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’s collection of donations of food items for AFAC will continue on Sunday, January 29, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
This Sunday, January 29, is the last day to give Resurrection your broken holiday lights for recycling. Our Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. Your offerings remain critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. To ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of January. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, January 22
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor George Detweiler of the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod presiding.
11:30 a.m. – Annual Congregation Meeting and potluck luncheon in the Parish Hall.
Sunday, January 29
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Allen Dayal of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
We are honored to welcome Pastor George Detweiler of the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod to preach and preside at our worship service this Sunday, January 22. Our series of guest pastors will continue on January 29 with Pastor Allen Dayal of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India, who is also a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Next month, we look forward to the return of Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary on February 5, followed on February 12 by Pastor Gordon Lathrop. Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation, will preside on February 19.
As these announcements are written, the latest available assessment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to categorize Arlington County’s COVID-19 community level as “medium.” Based on the current criteria approved by our Congregation Council, that assessment directs us to require the wearing of protective masks at Resurrection although we recognize that Arlington County has not adjusted its protection requirements. Our Reopening Planning Group welcomes the congregation’s ideas on possibly revising Resurrection’s criteria based on more local information – members are encouraged to provide suggestions on appropriate protection policies to Jeanne Broyhill.
In the meantime, congregants are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Resurrection will convene its in-person annual congregation meeting following the worship service this Sunday, January 22. In the midst of our pastoral transition, it is very important for members of the congregation to attend, not only to provide a quorum for the adoption of the 2023 operating and capital budgets and the election of new members of our Congregation Council but also to help discern appropriate funding and priorities. The 2022 Annual Report has been emailed via Constant Contact. Copies of the report will be available this Sunday prior to the congregation meeting.
And, reviving a long-standing Resurrection tradition, the annual meeting will be preceded by a potluck lunch coordinated by the Fellowship Committee under the guidance of Tom Mugavero. Tom will appreciate help with the meal set-up and clean-up. All congregation members are invited to bring a dish and share a communal meal.
As we prepare to adopt operating and capital budgets for the new year, Resurrection’s financial team also needs assurance that the 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 (www.relcarlington.org).
Resurrection’s collection of donations of food items for AFAC will continue on Sunday, January 29, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
It’s not too late to recycle those broken holiday lights – please bring them to church and put them in the designated box in the narthex by next Sunday, January 29. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. Your offerings remain critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. To ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of January. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, January 15
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, presiding.
1:00 p.m. – Finnish Lutheran Congregation worship service in the Sanctuary.
Sunday, January 22
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor George Detweiler of the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod presiding.
11:30 a.m. – Annual Congregation Meeting and potluck luncheon in the Parish Hall.
Our superb group of guest clergy continues to lead our worship services, with Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, the former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, returning to preside and preach this Sunday, January 15. We are honored to have Pastor George Detweiler of the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod presiding on January 22, followed on January 29 by Pastor Allen Dayal of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India and a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary.
In February, we look forward to the return of Prof. Shawn Strout of Virginia Theological Seminary on February 5, followed by Pastor Gordon Lathrop on February 12 and Rev. Tiina Talvitie, Pastor of the New York Finnish Lutheran Congregation, on February 19.
The latest available assessment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention categorizes Arlington County’s COVID-19 community level as “low.” As a result, the wearing of protective masks at Resurrection will remain optional based on the criteria previously approved by the Congregation Council. The Reopening Planning Group continues to monitor the county’s COVID-19 level based on the CDC assessment, but it plans to consider proposing a revision to Resurrection’s masking criteria based on more local information – congregation members are encouraged to provide suggestions on criteria to Jeanne Broyhill.
Congregants are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Resurrection will convene its in-person annual congregation meeting following the worship service on Sunday, January 22. It is very important for congregation members to attend in order to provide a quorum for the adoption of the 2023 operating and capital budgets and the election of new members of our Congregation Council, so please make plans to attend and participate. Copies of the 2022 Annual Report will be available in the Narthex this Sunday, January 15.
Restoring a long-standing Resurrection tradition, our annual meeting will be preceded by a potluck lunch coordinated by the Fellowship Committee under Tom Mugavero’s direction. All congregation members are invited to bring a dish – just let Tom know what to expect.
Sunday School families have been contacted to determine whether to meet this Sunday, January 15. If you have any questions about Sunday School please email Angie Brooke.
A huge thank-you to the large group of volunteers who took down our Christmas decorations last Saturday – not only did the team put away the decorations, but it also set up a Seasonal Storage area for church decorations used once a year, reducing clutter and freeing up space.
A few orphaned Christmas poinsettias are still looking for a home – if you haven’t claimed yours, it is patiently waiting for you in the Narthex.
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, please bring them to church and put them in the designated box in the narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. However, your offerings are still critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. However, in order to ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope along with designating what portion of your offering you wish to go toward the general fund, benevolences, or the building fund. Remember that contributions to the general fund may be used to cover any of the church’s expenses or programs, while benevolence contributions may only be used to support specific charities and ministries and contributions to the building fund may only be used to meet building needs.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of January. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, January 8
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. James Farwell of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet.
Wednesday, January 11
11:00 a.m. – Funeral Service for Nancy MacDonald.
Sunday, January 15
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, presiding.
This Sunday, January 8, we are pleased to welcome Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary back to Resurrection to preside and preach. In the coming weeks, our guest clergy will include Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, the former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, on January 15 and Pastor George Detweiler of the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod on January 22. Pastor Allen Dayal, of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India and a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary, will preside on January 29.
On Friday, January 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its assessment of Arlington County’s COVID-19 community level from “medium” to “low.” Based on the criteria previously approved by the Congregation Council, the wearing of masks at Resurrection will be optional as long as the CDC assessment remains “low.” The Reopening Planning Group will continue to monitor the county’s level and make adjustments in precautions as necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Given the recent rise in COVID-19, RSV, and influenza cases across the country, the Reopening Planning Group continues to encourage congregants to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Funeral services for beloved congregation member Nancy MacDonald, who passed away on December 28, 2022, will be held at Resurrection on Wednesday, January 11, at 11:00 a.m., with interment in the Memorial Garden. A reception celebrating Nancy’s life will be held in the Parish Hall following the service.
Thanks to the volunteers who will be taking down our Christmas decorations on Saturday, January 7, at 10:00 a.m. If you reserved a Christmas poinsettia and would like to take it home, please plan to pick it up no later than this Saturday. A list of those who provided poinsettias is provided on the Worship Assistant Lectern. Please check off your name when you pick up your flowers.
We continue to await the delayed arrival of Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes and regret the inconvenience of not having new envelopes to start the New Year. However, your offerings are still critically important to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. However, in order to ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope along with designating what portion of your offering you wish to go toward the general fund, benevolences, or the building fund. Remember that contributions to the general fund may be used to cover any of the church’s expenses or programs, while benevolence contributions may only be used to support specific charities and ministries and contributions to the building fund may only be used to meet building needs.
Our Sunday School resumes this Sunday, January 8, with class for 3’s through 5th grade beginning at 9:10 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Our Confirmation Class will also meet following this Sunday’s worship service at 11:15 a.m.
Please mark your calendars for Resurrection’s annual congregation meeting, which will be in person following the worship service on Sunday, January 22. This is an important meeting at which we will adopt a budget for 2023 and elect new members of our Congregation Council, so please make plans to attend and participate.
In preparation for the annual meeting, we need reports from all church committees and other groups to include in our Annual Report. Committee chairs and group leaders are asked to please submit your reports for 2022 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday, December 30.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, please bring them to church and put them in the designated box in the narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of January. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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!
Name of Jesus – Sunday, January 1, 2023
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
Friday, January 6
7:00 p.m. – Epiphany Evening Prayer via Zoom.
Sunday, January 8
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. James Farwell of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet.
We welcome the New Year this Sunday with Pastor Gordon Lathrop leading us in celebrating the Name of Jesus on Sunday, January 1.
Our outstanding group of guest clergy continues in January with Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary returning to preside on January 8 and Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, the former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, leading our service on January 15. We will be joined by Pastor George Detweiler from the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod on January 22. The month closes with Pastor Allen Dayal, of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India and a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary, presiding on January 29.
Resurrection’s Reopening Planning Group continues to closely monitor the recent increase in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases. Under the policy adopted earlier this year, the wearing of masks at church remains optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Congregants are encouraged to wear masks if they choose to, and we will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also reminded to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Resurrection mourns the passing of beloved congregation member Nancy MacDonald who died on December 28, 2022, at Fairfax Hospital. Information on funeral arrangements will be provided as soon as they are available. In the meantime, please keep Nancy, her husband Bob, and their family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
The company that provides our weekly offering envelopes experienced some supply and distribution problems in 2022. As result, Resurrection’s envelopes are “in production” but won’t arrive on time. We apologize for the inconvenience of not having your assigned envelopes to start the New Year.
Your offerings are still essential to the church, so please use any unused 2022 offering envelopes for the next few weeks until the new envelopes arrive – just correct the date to the current Sunday. Your envelope number will remain the same for 2023.
If you don’t have any 2022 envelopes left, substitute envelopes without numbers can be provided. However, in order to ensure that your offerings are properly credited to you – especially cash offerings, please include your name on a substitute envelope along with designating what portion of your offering you wish to go toward the general fund, benevolences, or the building fund. Remember that contributions to the general fund may be used to cover any of the church’s expenses or programs, while benevolence contributions may only be used to support specific charities and ministries and contributions to the building fund may only be used to meet building needs.
Our Sunday School takes a holiday break on December 25 and on January 1 – but will resume next month with class for 3’s through 5th grade beginning at 9:10 a.m. in the Parish Hall.
Please join us for a virtual Epiphany evening service on Friday, January 6 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Our evening prayer service will include readings and hymns for the Day of Epiphany and an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. Look for the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin in the announcements for the first week of January, or in a separate Constant Contact email that will come out on January 6.
Our Call Committee will continue the process of interviewing pastoral candidates in January with second round meetings with three of the initial candidates. The committee will provide updates as the interview and discernment process moves forward.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, please bring them to church and put them in the designated box in the narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
Please mark your calendars for Resurrection’s annual congregation meeting, which will be in person following the worship service on Sunday, January 22. This is an important meeting at which we will adopt a budget for 2023 and elect new members of our Congregation Council, so please make plans to attend and participate.
In preparation for the annual meeting, we need reports from all church committees and other groups to include in our Annual Report. Committee chairs and group leaders are asked to please submit your reports for 2022 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday, December 30.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of January. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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!
Christmas Eve – Saturday, December 24
7:00 p.m. – Worship: Pastor Wally Jensen presiding, with youth participation, special music, and our choir. Musical performances will begin at 6:30 p.m., before the service starts at 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Day – Sunday, December 25
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
Name of Jesus – Sunday, January 1, 2023
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
Resurrection will celebrate the birth of Jesus with a single Christmas Eve service on Saturday, December 24, at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor Wally Jensen presiding. Our young members will be part of this unique service, which will also include musical performances to begin at 6:30 p.m., and special music from our choir.
On Christmas Day Sunday, December 25, Pastor Lathrop will lead our worship service at 10:00 a.m.
On New Year’s Day, Pastor Lathrop will return to lead us in celebrating the Name of Jesus on Sunday, January 1. Our outstanding group of guest clergy continues in January with Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary returning to preside on January 8 and Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, the former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, leading our service on January 15. We will be joined by Pastor George Detweiler from the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod on January 22. The month closes with Pastor Allen Dayal, of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India and a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary, presiding on January 29.
Resurrection’s Reopening Planning Group continues to closely monitor the recent increase in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases. Under the policy adopted earlier this year, the wearing of masks at church remains optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Congregants are encouraged to wear masks if they choose to, and we will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also reminded to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Our Call Committee has completed its first round of interviews and the committee decided to continue the process with three of the four initial candidates. The committee will take a break over the Christmas holiday while our candidate pastors attend to their current congregations and resume the interview and discernment process in January.
Our Sunday School takes a holiday break on December 25 and on January 1 – but will resume next month with class for 3’s through 5th grade beginning at 9:10 a.m. in the Parish Hall.
And thanks to everyone who contributed to the Youth Group’s Christmas Tree collection of winter wear! A total of 16 scarves, eight pairs of gloves, 11 hats, and two packages of socks will be delivered to New Hope Housing for holiday celebrations!
Please join us for a virtual Epiphany evening service on Friday, January 6 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Our evening prayer service will include readings and hymns for the Day of Epiphany and an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. Look for the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin in the announcements for the first week of January, or in a separate Constant Contact email that will come out on January 6.
The Creation Care Team has placed several new blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins, including no plastic bags or paper towels. Thank you for supporting this program as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, please bring them to church and put them in the designated box in the narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting strands of lights for recycling through the end of January. A Better Way Recycling collects lights from MOM’s and breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities which are then used to create construction materials, car batteries, other electronics, flatware, jewelry, and more! You can visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
Winter is here – and Resurrection is looking for volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
Please mark your calendars for Resurrection’s annual congregation meeting, which will be in person following the worship service on Sunday, January 22. This is an important meeting at which we will adopt a budget for 2023 and elect new members of our Congregation Council, so please make plans to attend and participate.
In preparation for the annual meeting, we need reports from all church committees and other groups to include in our Annual Report. Committee chairs and group leaders are asked to please submit your reports for 2022 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday, December 30.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of December. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, December 18
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
5:30 p.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in the Parish Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Confirmation and Youth Group dinner in the Parish Hall.
Wednesday, December 21
7:00 p.m. – “Waiting with the Saints” Advent Evening Prayer via Zoom.
Christmas Eve – Saturday, December 24
7:00 p.m. – Worship: Pastor Wally Jensen presiding, with youth participation, special music, and our choir.
Christmas Day – Sunday, December 25
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
Baptism and Memorial
On this Fourth Sunday in Advent, December 18, our Sunday liturgy will be a service of Advent lessons and hymns, with many musical gifts from the choir. It will also be a service of Holy Communion at which Elena Mortensen will be baptized and, at the end of the liturgy, Edna Frady will be briefly remembered and commended to God. Pastor Gordon Lathrop will preside. Please join us for this special worship service.
And congratulations to Joyce Toivonen Mortensen, who officially became a U.S. citizen in a ceremony held on December 8!
Resurrection will celebrate Christmas with a single Christmas Eve service on Saturday, December 24, at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor Wally Jensen presiding. The service will also include youth participation and special music from our choir. On Christmas Day Sunday, December 25, Pastor Lathrop will lead our worship service at 10:00 a.m.
On New Year’s Day, Pastor Lathrop will return to lead us in celebrating the Name of Jesus on Sunday, January 1. Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary will return to preside on January 8, with Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, the former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, returning to lead our service on January 15. On January 22, we will be joined by Pastor George Detweiler from the Southeast Pennsylvania Synod. On January 29, Pastor Allen Dayal will preside. Pastor Dayal is a pastor in the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church of India and is currently a graduate student at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Congregation COVID Protections
Attentive to the recent rise in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases, the wearing of masks at church is optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Our Reopening Planning Group encourages congregants to wear masks if they choose to and will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also encouraged to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Sunday School – 3’s through 5th grade – Sundays beginning at 9:10 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Join us for the Christmas story and some Christmas FUN this December 18. NO SUNDAY SCHOOL December 25 and January 1.
This Sunday, December 18, is also the deadline for contributing to our Youth Group’s collection of adult-sized hats, gloves, and mittens on the Christmas Tree in the Narthex. All items will go to New Hope Housing, where we sent Undies and Socks from our Rally Day collection earlier this year. All colors of hats, mittens, and gloves are welcome.
Please join us after the service this Sunday, December 18, to help decorate and make the church festive for Christmas. Many hands are needed, and all ages are welcome!
Resurrection will also be receiving donations of food items for AFAC this Sunday, December 18, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
Advent Mid-Week Services
Our Advent mid-week virtual services continue on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The theme is “Waiting with the Saints – Advent Evening Prayer.”
December 21 – Winter Solstice
Our service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw and the liturgy will be led by our own members. Look for a Constant Contact email on Tuesday that will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
During the holiday season, Resurrection is sharing its Advent offerings with Doorways, the Arlington organization assisting families coping with domestic violence. Since our mid-week Advent services are not in person, please consider making those offerings on Sundays. There will be envelopes available in the Narthex marked as: ADVENT MID-WEEK OFFERING.
Also, the Gifts of Hope alternative gifts are available for purchase online at https://metrodcelca.org/gifts-of-hope/. Catalogs for Gifts of Hope and cards are available in the Narthex. For more information and cards, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Creation Care Team has placed several blue recycling bins throughout the building. Please use these bins to recycle paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum/steel cans. Please do not put anything else in the bins – especially not plastic bags. Thank you for supporting this effort as we work to reduce the amount of trash collected at our church.
How many times have you started to decorate the Christmas tree only to find that a strand of lights has stopped working? Maybe you tried to replace the bulbs or the fuses, and they still didn’t work?
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, you can bring them to church and deposit them in the designated box in the Narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting holiday lights for recycling through January 31, 2023. A Better Way Recycling collects all lights from MOM’s and then breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities. These raw commodities are then used to create roofing and construction materials, piping, car batteries, other electronics, lead wheel weights, flatware, jewelry, and more! Visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
With winter weather approaching, Resurrection is in need of volunteers to help clear the sidewalks and entrances to the church after snowfalls. The Property Committee has only three volunteers thus far and more hands will make lighter work! If you live within walking distance of the church – or even a short, safe driving distance – and would be willing to help with snow removal, please speak with Ted Mortensen.
Please mark your calendars for Resurrection’s annual congregation meeting, which will be in person following the worship service on Sunday, January 22. This is an important meeting at which we will adopt a budget for 2023 and elect new members of our Congregation Council, so please make plans to attend and participate.
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.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of December. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, December 11
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. James Farwell of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
Wednesday, December 14
7:00 p.m. – “Waiting with the Saints” Advent Evening Prayer via Zoom.
Sunday, December 18
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
5:30 p.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in the Parish Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Confirmation and Youth Group dinner in the Parish Hall.
The Sunday liturgy on December 18, the Fourth Sunday in Advent, will be a service of Advent lessons and hymns, with many musical gifts from the choir. It will also be a service of Holy Communion at which Elena Mortensen will be baptized and, at the end of the liturgy, Edna Frady will be briefly remembered and commended to God. Pastor Gordon Lathrop will preside. Please join us in worship.
We are honored to welcome back Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary to preach and preside this Sunday, December 11, as we mark the third Sunday in Advent. As noted above, Pastor Lathrop will return on December 18 for our final Sunday Advent service.
Resurrection will celebrate Christmas with a single Christmas Eve service on Saturday, December 24, at 7:00 p.m. with Pastor Wally Jensen presiding and with youth participation, special music, and choir. On Sunday, December 25, Pastor Lathrop will lead our Christmas Day service at 10:00 a.m.
Congregation COVID Protections
Attentive to the recent rise in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases, the wearing of masks at church is optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Our Reopening Planning Group encourages congregants to wear masks if they choose to and will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also encouraged to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Sunday School – 3’s through 5th grade – Sundays beginning at 9:10 a.m. in the Parish Hall. Join us for the Christmas story and some Christmas FUN on December 11 and 18. NO SUNDAY SCHOOL December 25 and January 1.
Our Youth Group put up a Christmas Tree in the Narthex and are collecting adult-sized hats and gloves/mittens. All colors are welcome. All items will go to New Hope Housing, which is where we sent Undies and Socks from our Rally Day collection. We will be gathering hats, gloves, and mittens on December 11 and 18.
Advent Mid-Week Services
Our Advent mid-week virtual services continue on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The theme is “Waiting with the Saints – Advent Evening Prayer.”
December 14 – John of the Cross
December 21 – Winter Solstice
Each service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. The liturgy will be led by our own members. Look for a Constant Contact email on Tuesdays, which will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
During the holiday season, Resurrection is sharing its Advent offerings with Doorways, the Arlington organization assisting families coping with domestic violence. Since our mid-week Advent services are not in person, please consider making those offerings on Sundays. There will be envelopes available in the Narthex marked as: ADVENT MID-WEEK OFFERING.
Also, the Gifts of Hope alternative gifts are available for purchase online at https://metrodcelca.org/gifts-of-hope/. Catalogs for Gifts of Hope and cards are available in the Narthex. For more information and cards, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Please join us on December 18 after the service to help decorate and make the church festive for Christmas. Many hands are needed, and all ages are welcome!
Resurrection will be receiving donations of food items for AFAC on Sunday, December 18, in conjunction with our regular worship service.
How many times have you started to decorate the Christmas tree only to find that a strand of lights has stopped working? Maybe you tried to replace the bulbs or the fuses, and they still didn’t work?
If you have holiday lights that are beyond repair, you can bring them to church and deposit them in the designated box in the Narthex. The Creation Care Team will take them to MOM’s Organic Market, which is accepting holiday lights for recycling through January 31, 2023. A Better Way Recycling collects all lights from MOM’s and then breaks them down through smelting or shredding to recover raw commodities. These raw commodities are then used to create roofing and construction materials, piping, car batteries, other electronics, lead wheel weights, flatware, jewelry, and more! Visit https://momsorganicmarket.com/recycle-center/ and https://www.abetterwayrecycling.com/ to learn more.
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.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of December. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, December 4
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, presiding.
5:30 p.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in the Parish Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Confirmation and Youth Group dinner in the Parish Hall.
Monday, December 5
7:30 p.m. – Congregation Council Executive Committee will meet via Zoom.
Wednesday, December 7
7:00 p.m. – “Waiting with the Saints” Advent Evening Prayer via Zoom.
Thursday, December 8
7:30 p.m. – Congregation Council will meet via Zoom.
Sunday, December 11
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Prof. James Farwell of Virginia Theological Seminary presiding.
On the second Sunday in Advent, Resurrection welcomes Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, to preside and preach on December 4.
Our outstanding array of guest clergy continues on December 11 with the return of Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, followed by Pastor Gordon Lathrop on December 18. At our single Christmas Eve Service on Saturday, December 24, Pastor Wally Jensen will preside, with Pastor Lathrop leading us in worship on Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25.
Congregation COVID Protections
Attentive to the recent rise in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases, the wearing of masks at church is optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Our Reopening Planning Group encourages congregants to wear masks if they choose to and will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also encouraged to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Services for Edna Frady
Edna N. Frady passed away peacefully on November 25, 2022, at her place of residence in Falls Church, Virginia. Edna was a longtime member of Resurrection, serving on the Congregation Council and as Chair of the Morning Circle and Assistant Financial Secretary. A visitation and refreshments will be held Friday, December 2, at Murphy Funeral Home, 1102 West Broad Street in Falls Church, Virginia from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with interment to follow at National Memorial Park, 7482 Lee Highway in Falls Church, at 2:00 p.m. The family is discussing a future memorial service at Resurrection.
This Sunday, December 4, is the deadline for reserving your poinsettias in honor or memory of family and friends as part of Resurrection’s traditional Sanctuary Christmas decorations. Please complete the form provided in the Narthex along with our worship program and place them in the offering trays along with cash or a check made out to Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church with a notation that it is for poinsettias. A donation of $15 for each poinsettia is suggested. Reserved poinsettias are yours to take after the conclusion of the January 8, 2023, church service.
Resurrection will be receiving donations of food items for AFAC on Sunday, December 4, in conjunction with our regular worship service. December 18 will also be an AFAC Sunday.
Sunday school for 3 years through 5th grade will meet Sunday mornings in the Parish Hall at 9:10 a.m. We have a lot of learning, games, art, video clips, conversation, prayer, challenges, laughter and FUN that takes place when we are together. Come join us! If you would like to be added to our email list, please reach out to Angie Brooke.
Also, mark your calendars for our upcoming meeting date for Confirmation and Youth Group on December 18.
Advent Mid-Week Services
Our Advent mid-week virtual services continue on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The theme is “Waiting with the Saints – Advent Evening Prayer.”
December 7 – Ambrose
December 14 – John of the Cross
December 21 – Winter Solstice
Each service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. The liturgy will be led by our own members. Look for a Constant Contact email on Tuesdays, which will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
Please join us on December 18 after the service to help decorate and make the church festive for Christmas. Many hands are needed, and all ages are welcome!
Thanks to all who contributed to the Doorways Winter Wishes Donation Drive to provide winter coats for families coping with domestic violence. During the holiday season, Resurrection will share its Advent offerings with Doorways, the Arlington organization assisting those families.
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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of December. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, November 27
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
11:30 a.m. – Holiday Wreath Making in the Parish Hall.
Wednesday, November 30
7:00 p.m. – “Waiting with the Saints” Advent Evening Prayer via Zoom.
Sunday, December 4
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, presiding.
5:30 p.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in the Parish Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Confirmation and Youth Group dinner in the Parish Hall.
On the First Sunday of Advent, Liesl Hedberg will receive communion for the first time. Her paternal grandfather, Pastor Rolf Hedberg, will assist in the service, reading the Gospel of the Day and distributing communion. Welcome to Liesl and her family.
Resurrection marks the beginning of a new church year and the holiday season this Sunday, November 27, with Pastor Gordon Lathrop returning to lead our worship service on the first Sunday in Advent.
In the following weeks, we will be joined by an exceptional group of guest clergy for our Advent and Christmas services, with Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, presiding on December 4. Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary will return to preside on December 11, followed by Pastor Lathrop on December 18. Pastor Wally Jensen will lead our Christmas Eve service, and Pastor Lathrop will lead us in worship on Christmas Day.
Congregation COVID Protections
Mindful of the recent rise in COVID, RSV, and influenza cases, the wearing of masks at church is optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment. Our Reopening Planning Group encourages congregants to wear masks if they choose to and will adjust our precautions if necessary based on the CDC assessment.
Congregants are also encouraged to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Join us for our ANNUAL Wreath Making Event, Sunday, November 27, in the Parish Hall. Following the Worship Service, grab some coffee and treats, and, then, some greens. We will provide all of the supplies needed, including the greens (you are welcome to bring some greens, as well, for variety). There are 3 ways to sign up: 1) see the insert in the bulletin and place it in the offering plate; 2) sign up in the Narthex; or, 3) reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sunday school for 3 years through 5th grade will meet Sunday mornings in the Parish Hall at 9:10 a.m. We have a lot of learning, games, art, video clips, conversation, prayer, challenges, laughter and FUN that takes place when we are together. Come join us! If you would like to be added to our email list, please reach out to Angie Brooke.
Also, mark your calendars for our upcoming meeting dates for Confirmation and Youth Group December 4 and 18.
Advent Mid-Week Services
Please join us for Advent mid-week virtual services, Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The theme is “Waiting with the Saints – Advent Evening Prayer” –
November 30 – Andrew
December 7 – Ambrose
December 14 – John of the Cross
December 21 – Winter Solstice
Each service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. The liturgy will be led by our own members. Look for a Constant Contact email on Tuesdays, which will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
Thanks to all who contributed to the Doorways Winter Wishes Donation Drive to provide winter coats for families coping with domestic violence. During the holiday season, Resurrection will share its Advent offerings with Doorways, the Arlington organization assisting those families.
In its annual Christmas celebration, Resurrection traditionally decorates the church with poinsettias adorning the Sanctuary in honor or memory of family and friends. Reserve your poinsettias this Sunday by filling out the form provided in the Narthex along with our worship program. A donation of $15 for each poinsettia is suggested. Please include cash or a check made out to Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church with a notation that it is for poinsettias and simply place them in the offering trays. Please return your completed form and donation no later than Sunday, December 4. Reserved poinsettias are yours to take after the conclusion of the January 8, 2023, church service.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.
Collection of Food Items for AFAC This Sunday
Resurrection will be receiving donations of food items for AFAC on Sunday, December 4, in conjunction with our regular worship service. December 18 will also be an AFAC Sunday.
Please send any news articles (from November through December), updates on projects or new initiatives, calendar items and photographs to editor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 12:00 p.m. noon on Monday, November 28. Thank you, in advance, for your submissions.
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 AM 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 9:55AM 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 the time after Pastor Linman departs and before an interim pastor is named or a new pastor called, 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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of November. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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, November 20
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
5:30 p.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in the Parish Hall.
6:30 p.m. – Confirmation and Youth Group dinner followed by assembling “Treats for Troops” packages in the Parish Hall.
Thursday, November 24
2:00 p.m. – Thanksgiving Dinner in the Parish Hall.
Sunday, November 27
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop presiding.
11:30 a.m. – Holiday Wreath Making in the Parish Hall.
We celebrate Christ the King Sunday this week with Pastor Gordon Lathrop leading our worship service. Pastor Lathrop will also preside and preach on the first Sunday of Advent, November 27.
Resurrection is fortunate to have an outstanding group of guest clergy joining us for our Advent and Christmas services, with Rev. Dr. Sarah Colvin, former Rector at Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Vashon Island, Washington, presiding on December 4. Prof. James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary will return to preside on December 11, followed by Pastor Lathrop on December 18. Pastor Wally Jensen will celebrate our Christmas Eve service with us, and Pastor Lathrop will lead services on Christmas Day.
As our church continues to monitor infections of COVID, RSV, and influenza, the wearing of masks at church remains optional as long as Arlington County's COVID-19 community level remains “low” based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment as tracked by our Reopening Planning Group. Congregants are encouraged to wear masks if they choose to. The church continues to monitor the county’s level and will make adjustments in precautions as necessary based on the CDC assessment.
The Reopening Planning Group also encourages congregants to continue to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion in deference to congregation members who choose to take that precaution. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will be guided by parents’ feedback. Congregants are also encouraged to keep up to date with vaccinations, and anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Haven’t yet made your donation to support Doorways’ Winter Wishes Donation Drive? It’s not too late! Resurrection can still receive your donation this Sunday, November 20. This holiday season, our church is supporting Doorways, the Arlington organization assisting families coming out of domestic violence situations, in its drive to give each parent and child it serves the opportunity to choose a winter coat. Contributing a $50.00 gift card for one new coat, $100.00 for a family to spend, or any amount from either Target or Visa, will be greatly appreciated and bring warmth and happiness to the recipients this holiday season.
Doorways will also be receiving Resurrection’s Advent offerings, but the Winter Wishes Donation Drive needs your support now – a basket for contributions is in the Narthex. Please write the amount of your donation on the gift card.
Collection of Food Items for AFAC This Sunday
We will again receive donations of food items for AFAC on Sunday, November 20, in conjunction with our regular worship service. In the coming weeks, December 4 and 18 will also be AFAC Sundays.
Sunday is your last week to bring any leftover Halloween Candy for the Youth Group's “Soldiers’ Angels - Treats for Troops" packing event. You will find our collection basket in the Narthex.
Confirmation will meet on Sunday, November 20, from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Youth Group will join the Confirmands at 6:30 p.m. for dinner and following dinner we will pack "Thank YOU" treat bags for the "Soldiers' Angels - Treats for Troops" program.
Mark your calendars with our upcoming meeting dates for Confirmation and Youth Group, November 20, December 4 and 18.
Sunday school for 3 years through 5th grade will meet Sunday mornings in the Parish Hall at 9:10 a.m. We have a lot of learning, games, art, video clips, conversation, prayer, challenges, laughter and FUN that takes place when we are together. Come join us! If you would like to be added to our email list, please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
On Thursday, November 24, at 2:00 p.m., Resurrection Church will hold Thanksgiving Dinner in the Parish Hall. RELC members are welcome to gather beforehand at 1:30 p.m. RELC will provide the turkey, stuffing and drinks. RELC members may sign up to bring appetizers, vegetable or other side dishes, cranberry sauce, salads and/or dessert. This is your chance to show off your culinary skills as well as a treasured family recipe!
If you and your family would like to join in the celebration, please fill out the sign-up sheet in the Narthex, so that we may plan on how many places to set.
And on that note, don’t forget about the Arlington Turkey Trot! It’s a 3.2-mile route, which you can run, walk, or saunter through. It benefits Arlington charities, including AFAC, and it is a good way to build up some energy to tackle that second piece of pumpkin pie! Join your fellow members of Resurrection on the course by registering online at the Arlington Turkey Trot.
Join us for our ANNUAL Wreath Making Event, Sunday, November 27, in the Parish Hall. Following the Worship Service, grab some coffee and treats, and, then, some greens. We will provide all of the supplies needed, including the greens (you are welcome to bring some greens, as well, for variety). There are 3 ways to sign up: 1) see the insert in the bulletin and place it in the offering plate; 2) sign up in the Narthex; or, 3) reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
In its annual Christmas celebration, Resurrection traditionally decorates the church with poinsettias adorning the Sanctuary in honor or memory of family and friends. Reserve your poinsettias this Sunday by filling out the form provided in the Narthex along with our worship program. A donation of $15 for each poinsettia is suggested. Please include cash or a check made out to Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church with a notation that it is for poinsettias and simply place them in the offering trays. Please return your completed form and donation no later than Sunday, December 4. Reserved poinsettias are yours to take after the conclusion of the January 8, 2023, church service.
Advent Mid-Week Services
Please join us for Advent mid-week virtual services, Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The theme is “Waiting with the Saints – Advent Evening Prayer” –
November 30 – Andrew
December 7 – Ambrose
December 14 – John of the Cross
December 21 – Winter Solstice
Each service will include an introduction by Gail Ramshaw. The liturgy will be led by our own members. Look for a Constant Contact email on Tuesdays, which will include the Zoom link and a copy of the bulletin.
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.
Please send any news articles (from November through December), updates on projects or new initiatives, calendar items and photographs to editor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 12:00 p.m. noon on Monday, November 28. Thank you, in advance, for your submissions.
To view our 10:00 AM 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 9:55AM 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 the time after Pastor Linman departs and before an interim pastor is named or a new pastor called, 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 Amy Feira has graciously agreed to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs through the month of November. She may be reached at: (703) 303-9388 and/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 Glen Mason. 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!
