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February 23, 2012 SUNDAY WORSHIP TIMES8:30 am & 10:45 am Christian Education Sundays 9:45 am ****************************ANNOUNCEMENTS Join us for our Mardi Gras Party Send our Youth to New Orleans for the 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering Sat. Feb. 11, 6-10 pm Admission: Donation of your choice New Orleans style food, Karaoke, Dancing Mardi Gras Craft & Trivia Contest Crazy Hat Contest Silent Auction - 50 items to bid upon ************************* Ash Wednesday Feb. 22 Imposition of Ashes Noon & 7:30 pm ************************** OUR BLOG Read the latest news and thoughts in our Blog. What is the ELCA? Find out about the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and what we believe on our page What is the ELCA?.
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Worship & Music
NOTE: Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22 Imposition of Ashes @ Noon & 7:30 pm
We strive to make worship spiritually meaningful and uplifting at St. Andrew, while honoring our Lutheran heritage and being relevant to today's worshipers.
We offer two worship services at 8:30 am and 10:45 am from September through May, and one service at 9:30 am, Memorial Day through Labor Day. All services offer Holy Communion every week.
Our 8:30 am service is a traditional service with liturgy from the Lutheran Book of Worship. Our 10:45 am service is a blended service with a variety of liturgies fitting the temperament of the church season.
Our musical resources for our late service draw from a variety of traditional and more contemporary styles, but we do not have a praise band. What we do have, however, is an incredibly talented Minister of Music, that can lay down a variety of instrumental tracks and make our choir sound like many more than we are. He is truly a gift to our music ministry. During the summer and intermittently throughout the year, we are blessed to have the acoustical guitar talents of one of our choir members to spice up our musical offerings. Occasionally, you'll hear vocal or instrumental solos or accompaniments by several of our musically gifted members.
Our choir meets on Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm to practice for our Sunday anthems. We sing at the early service on 1st and 3rd Sundays, and at the late service on 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays. Our hand bell choir will perform about once a month and will practice on Thursday evenings at 8:00 pm.
There are special Taize worship services offered during Lent, and special services to celebrate Holy Week.
Children are welcome in worship. We understand that they fidget, but we also know that the best way for children to learn how to behave in worship is to BE in worship. For those times when they might be too restless for everyone else's enjoyment of the service, our narthex (lobby) provides clear glass walls and doors to separate the sanctuary from the narthex so that the parent can see what is happening in worship, and a speaker system that allows the parent to hear the service.
We hope that you will join us. Please read the "When you visit..." notes on our home page.
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