Presider                                            Pastor Gary Halverson

Organist                                                           Kirstin Olson

Choir Director                                                 Dan Hellerud

Scripture Reader                                        Brenda Wubbels

Communion Server                                      Laurie Lofstrom

Greeters                                                       the Girl Scouts

Acolytes                             Sarah Murray & Briena Englund

Ushers                            Oliver Torkelson & Hollis Turnwall

Setting Three                  Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Prelude & Announcements

Confession & Forgiveness                            pages 116-117

Hymn: “Let Us Break Bread Together”                        #471

Greeting and Prayer of the Day (page 28)                 page 138

Choir:  “In the Valley Flows a River” by Martin/Nolan

First Reading:  Isaiah 55:1-9

Psalm  63:1-8   (read responsively)                                   #63

Second Reading:  I Corinthians 10:1-13

Gospel Acclamation “Return to the Lord”               page 142

Gospel: Luke 13:1-9

SERMON:  WARNING SIGNS

Hymn: “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”                           #759

Apostles’ Creed                                                    page 127

Prayers of Intercession                                  pages 127-128

Offering and Offertory Prayer                                page 129

Great Thanksgiving (music on page 144)            pages 129-130

Communion Prayer IV                                           page 133

Lord’s Prayer (right column)                                    page 134

Canticle “Lamb of God” (music on page 146)             page 135

COMMUNION                                              #337, #338

Prayer, Blessing, Dismissal                             page 136-137

Song:  “For the Bread Which You Have Broken”         #494

Postlude

Presider                                            Pastor Gary Halverson

Organist                                                     Jackie Anderson

Scripture Reader                                              Kyle Folland

Communion Server                                   Wanda Undeberg

Ushers                                        Shane Olson, Peder Spilde

Setting Three_____   _Evangelical Lutheran Worship

Prelude & Announcements

Confession & Forgiveness                            pages 116-117

Hymn: “Let Us Break Bread Together”                        #471

Greeting and Prayer of the Day (page 28)                 page 138

First Reading:  Isaiah 55:1-9

Psalm  63:1-8   (read responsively)                                   #63

Second Reading:  I Corinthians 10:1-13

Gospel Acclamation “Return to the Lord”               page 142

Gospel: Luke 13:1-9

SERMON:  WARNING SIGNS

Hymn: “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”                           #759

Apostles’ Creed                                                    page 127

Prayers of Intercession                                  pages 127-128

Offering and Offertory Prayer                                page 129

Great Thanksgiving (music on page 144)            pages 129-130

Communion Prayer IV                                           page 133

Lord’s Prayer (right column)                                    page 134

Canticle “Lamb of God” (music on page 146)             page 135

COMMUNION

Prayer, Blessing, Dismissal                             page 136-137

Song:  “For the Bread Which You Have Broken”         #494

Postlude

Tuesday

7:00 First Church Council

Wednesday:

11:00 Ministerium at Café Scandia

3:30 8^th grade confirmation           

5:00 9^th grade confirmation

6:00 supper at First                     

7:00 Lenten service

8:00 Choir rehearsal

Friday:

2:00 Communion at The Meadows

Next Sunday

Daylight Savings Time starts

9:30 Worship at First

10:35 Sunday School  

11:00 Worship at Eidsvold

Today is Food Shelf Sunday at First, and this is Minnesota Food Share Month across our state.  Thank you for your donation to the county food shelf today—or sometime later in the month.  The Sunday School mission offering today is also for the food shelf.  Come see the food shelves in the East Entry of First.

LSS fundraiser dinner today (chicken & meatballs) & Jam Fest at the Karlstad Community Center from 11:00 to 1:00 with a large salad bar and dessert table.

ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson will host a town hall forum at 4:00 today. He will field questions from a live audience of ELCA members and from online participants at www.elca.org/townhall.  This is also where you can view or listen to the meeting.

The Haiti Mission Group from this area will be reporting on their trip at the Karlstad Assembly of God Church tonight at 6:30.  All are welcome.

On Wednesday the 5^th & 6^th graders will serve a soup and sandwich supper at 6:00 at First.  The Lenten service will focus on Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the fish (Jonah 2:1-10).  Check the First Lutheran Social Hall bulletin board for how our Lenten offerings are used.

Remember that Daylight Savings Time begins next Sunday.  “Spring Ahead”

The American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days begin next Sunday.  Sign up today to purchase a bunch of daffodils with the proceeds going for cancer research.

We extend our sympathy and prayers for Carolyn Turnwall and all the family of her father, Clarence Nelson, who died Friday morning at the Karlstad Healthcare Center.

We pray for Trevor Johnson & Sydney Johnson, Ken Loveness, Lorene Englestad