God’s Spirit is poured out and the world changes.

Readers today: Jim Bargmann, lector; Vicar Bristol Reading, Assisting Minister

Attached is a pdf for worship in the home on this Sunday. There is only one link for the whole worship service. It is embedded in the pdf. You might want to print off the pdf for reference, since you will have the video on your screen for the whole time of worship.

Here’s the pdf with links:

Liturgy pages, Day of Pentecost A – 05-31-20

Here is a link of the worship service if you’d rather link from here than the pdf:
Worship video, Day of Pentecost A, May 31, 2020

Looking ahead to Tuesday: Attached here is a copy of the readings for the feast of the Holy Trinity, year A, for use in the Tuesday noon Bible study. Links to that virtual study are included in the Olive Branch each week.
Holy Trinity A Readings – Tuesday study

The eve of Pentecost has been for many years a night for a Vigil prayer service at Mount Olive, calling on the Holy Spirit to come in our midst. This night, in the midst of the grief and anger over George Floyd’s murder and the systemic injustice and racism and white supremacy that this was a part of, because of the unrest in our city, and the destructive elements burning our city who do not care for justice or for the legitimate, just protests, as well as because of the pandemic, we cannot gather. We need to stay home for the sake of our neighbors in more ways than we can name now.

We remember this night Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s prayer: “Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death.”

This liturgy is as we do it every year, with the exception that we cannot be anointed with oil as the sign of the Spirit’s dwelling in us. But the Spirit dwells in you, in me, in all God’s children. For that, we keep vigil with our city, our state, our nation, and our world, and pray, “Come, Holy Spirit.”

Attached is a pdf for worship in the home for this Vigil. There is only one link for the whole worship service. It is embedded in the pdf. You might want to print off the pdf for reference, since you will have the video on your screen for the whole time of worship.

Here’s the pdf with links:
Liturgy pages, Vigil of Pentecost – 05-30-20

Here is a link of the worship service if you’d rather link from here than the pdf:
Video, Vigil of Pentecost, May 30, 2020

The prayer within the Holy and Triune God includes us, that we find unity as God has unity within God’s self.

Readers today: Rod Olson, lector; Paul Odlaug, Assisting Minister

Attached is a pdf for worship in the home on this Sunday. There is only one link for the whole worship service. It is embedded in the pdf. You might want to print off the pdf for reference, since you will have the video on your screen for the whole time of worship.

Here’s the pdf with links:

Liturgy pages, 7 Easter A – 05-24-20

Here is a link of the worship service if you’d rather link from here than the pdf:
Worship video, 7 Easter A, May 24, 2020

Looking ahead to Tuesday: Attached here is a copy of the readings for the Day of Pentecost, year A, for use in the Tuesday noon Bible study. Links to that virtual study are included in the Olive Branch each week. Pentecost A Readings – Tuesday study

Forty days after rising from the dead, Jesus the Christ ascends, making it possible to be with all of us, all times and places, through the Spirit.

Reader today: Lora Dundek, Assisting Minister

Attached is a pdf for worship in the home on this feast of the Ascension. There is only one link for the whole worship service. It is embedded in the pdf. You might want to print off the pdf for reference, since you will have the video on your screen for the whole time of worship.

Here’s the pdf with links:

Liturgy pages, Ascension of Our Lord 2020

Here is a link of the worship service if you’d rather link from here than the pdf:
The Ascension of Our Lord liturgy

The Triune God is God of all people, Paul declares, desiring all to search for, and find, God.

Reader today: Mark Pipkorn, Assisting Minister

Attached is a pdf for worship in the home on this Sunday. There is only one link for the whole worship service. It is embedded in the pdf. You might want to print off the pdf for reference, since you will have the video on your screen for the whole time of worship.

Here’s the pdf with links:

Liturgy pages for 6 Easter A – 05-17-20

Here is a link of the worship service if you’d rather link from here than the pdf:
Worship, 6 Easter A, May 17, 2020

Looking ahead to Tuesday: Attached here is a copy of the readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, year A, for use in the Tuesday noon Bible study. Links to that virtual study are included in the Olive Branch each week.
Readings, 7 Easter A – Tuesday Bible study