October 27, 2015
Dear Lakeshore,
This coming Sunday, November 1, is All Saints Sunday. As October ends and November begins we pause to remember those members of our families, our church and our faith tradition that have preceded us in death. Remember will be the central verb of the day. We remember those who have loved us. We remember those who taught us. We remember those who shaped us. We remember those who formed us. We remember those who invested in us. At the table of Communion we will remember the meaning of the bread and the cup.
Central to our worship will be the proclamation of Isaiah 25:7 “And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all the peoples, the sheet that is spread over all the nation; he will swallow up death forever.”
This Queio Apache Prayer will be offered. “Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward, I am filled with vision. Looking upwards, I am filled with strength. Looking within I discover peace.”
In my sermon I will note this quote which author Christina Baker Kline uses as an opening to her novel The Orphan Train. “I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is – a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
Prayers of the Congregation
- Jesse Guiton and family as they mourn the death of her sister, Teola
- Pat Hughes and family as they mourn th e death of her sister-in-law, Florence
- Ben Maruca on his scientific expedition in Antarctica
- Steve and Carol Leichter (Steve is at Summit Hospital, 3rd Floor)
- Warren and Camille Parker
- Edie Parrott (Edie is at Bancroft Convalescent Hospital)
- Joni Nomura
- LeAnn Flesher for her father
- Alice Edmondson for her sister
- Marion Scire for her sister-in-law
- Charlene Wolf for her mother, Edna
- Lloyd Scott for his nephew
- All who are searching for housing
- Sheila Brown for her friend Linda
- Katrina Lau for her family and herself
- Ann Fields for her family
- Joyce Sherman for her neighbors
- Mary Karne for her daughter Maryla
- Joan Patten for her son Peter and her friend Paula
- Cordia, Lee for family, friends, her workplace and herself
- Mikki Boyd, recuperating following automobile accident
- Kay Baxter for Stacey, Jamie, Tess Benin and herself
- A mid-semester prayer for our college students and their families
- Aaron and Teresa Hopkins for Henry (was in ER with respiratory concerns)
- A negotiated peace between Israel and its neighbors
- Sandra Lee for Buddy the Cat (As well as a prayer for our animal companions and their households)
- A negotiated peace in Syria (Former President Jimmy Carter is proposing negotiations between Syria, the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia)
- A just peace for the Kachin people of Burma
- Thanksgiving for all first responders
- Thanksgiving for the ministry of the American Baptist Seminary of the West
- Thanksgiving with Ted and Doris for their family
- Thanksgiving for the ministry of the American Baptist Homes of the West and the ABHOW Foundation
- Thanksgiving for the ministry of Mary Alice Cirimele, Charlene Wolf and Tyrone Mack behind the scenes at LABC
Announcements
As part of our worship on Sunday we will remember the life of Georgia Mae Smith who passed away on September 5, 2015.