Wednesday December 2, 9, 16:
6:00 p.m. Soup Supper at Emmaus Lutheran School
7:00 p.m. Vespers at Emmaus Lutheran Church (Rev. Dr. John Hellwege, preacher) Theme: Savior of the Nations.

Saturday December 19:
9:00 a.m. Christmas decorating at church

Sunday December 20:
5:00 p.m. Children’s Christmas concert, followed by Christmas caroling in Fox Park and potluck supper.

Thursday December 24:
7:00 p.m. Christmas Eve Service (Rev. Scot Kinnaman, preacher)

Friday December 25:
10:15 a.m. Christmas Hymn Sing
10:30 a.m. Christmas Day Divine Service with Holy Communion (Rev. Dr. John Hellwege, preacher)

Every Sunday:
9:15 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Study
10:30 a.m. Divine Service with Holy Communion

Prayer for the Coming of the Lord:
Almighty God, heavenly Father, bestow on us Your grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which Your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility, that in the Last Day when He will come again in His glorious Majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may then rise to the life immortal; through Him who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Schedule

12:30 p.m. Registration

1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

1:30 p.m. Gregorian Chant choir practice

2:30 p.m. Coffee

3:00 p.m. Celebrating the Seasons of the Church Year in the Church and Home—Rev. Heath R. Curtis, author of the new book Ordering Our Days in His Peace (Concordia Publishing House, 2009).

4:00 p.m. Gregorian Chant choir practice

5:00 p.m. Supper

6:00 p.m. Solemn Vespers for the Eve of St. Luke’s Day (open to the community)

A $10 fee covers the class, supper, and all materials, except for optional book purchases. Please bring the Brotherhood Prayer Book if possible (see www.llpb.us). Copies of this resource will be available at the class. The Solemn Vespers service is free to the community.

For further information and to R.S.V.P. by October 1, please contact: The Rev. Dr. Benjamin T. G. Mayes at brmayes@gmail.com or (314) 481-1553.

An educational effort of the Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood and Emmaus Lutheran Church.

Before the service (time TBA), Dr. Baue will give a presentation on “New Developments in the Creation/Evolution Debate.”

Rev. Frederic W. Baue, Ph.D., is a son of Emmaus Lutheran Church, having been baptized there on August 6, 1946. A 1981 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Dr. Baue currently serves Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church UAC, Fairview Heights, Illinois. With a doctorate in English Literature, (Univ. of Arizona, 1997) he has written numerous books and articles, most recently a novel, The Clubhouse, which is forthcoming from Pomegranate Press. While a senior editor at Concordia Publishing House, 1999-2004, Dr. Baue oversaw the publication of Portals of Prayer, and also developed books such as The Lonely Way by Hermann Sasse and The Fire and the Staff by Klemet Preus. Dr. Baue is also an active musician, with two CDs of guitar music on the Wildstone label, and has recently taken up the fiddle. He often combines his interests in music, literature, and theology in the writing of hymns, such as “What Is This Bread?”, no. 629 in Lutheran Service Book. His speaking engagements have taken him to Canada, Great Britain, and Europe as well as around the United States. In April of this year he spoke on the topic of Creation and Evolution at the 20th Annual Congress on the Lutheran Confessions in Minneapolis. Fred’s wife, Jean Baue, is renowned as co-principal soprano with the American Kantorei’s “Bach at the Sem” concert series. They make their home in St. Louis, and are the parents of three grown children.

Holy Thursday (April 9, 2009): 7:00 p.m. Divine Service with Holy Communion.
Good Friday (April 10, 2009): 7:00 p.m. Chief Service (no communion).
Easter Sunday (April 12, 2009: 10:30 a.m. Divine Service with Holy Communion.

Note: There will be no Sunday School and Bible Class on Easter. Education hour will resume on April 19 at 9:15 a.m. 

Check out the September newsletter at the Yahoo group site. 

Diane