Specific information about donating and volunteering – read now!
Our Friends at Salem Leadership Foundation just sent us this good information – Good ways to help right now!
CaN Partners,
Many of you have generously asked how you can best support victims of local wildfires, especially those individuals and families that have been displaced.
Right now there is a coordinated effort by the United Way of the MId-Willamette Valley to accept in-kind donations along with coordinating volunteers to help organize donated items and get them out to evacuees.
Here’s where we could definitely use support from you and your congregation:
- Collecting donated items from your congregation (tents, sleeping bags, pillows, air mattresses, bedding, blankets, masks, cleaning supplies, diapers, bottles, formula, hygiene supplies, water, pre-packaged food items, etc)
- Or directly having church members drop off donated items at 1705 Silverton Rd NE on Friday (9/11) from 8:00-11:00-am and 3:00-6:00pm, on Saturday (9/12) from 9:00-5:00pm, or Sunday (9/13) from 9:00-5:00pm.
- Volunteers willing to help can arrive at 1705 Silverton Rd NE on Friday (9/11) from 8:00-Noon to help organize and/or from 12:00-4:00pm for crowd management and help loading & unloading. Volunteers can also help out on Saturday (9/12) from 8:00-5:00pm or on Sunday (9/13) from 8:00-5:00pm. Volunteers can also sign up to volunteer on the United Way Mid-Willamette Valley website. United Way will be sharing this list with their community partners that might have volunteer opportunities as well. This will help sustain the level of supports throughout our community.
- Additional Donation Times will be sent out as soon as we can confirm them.
Thanks, again, for your heart to see God bringing comfort and healing to those in our community. Thanks also for your continued servant-leadership in our community to usher in God’s peace and hope.
Please let us know if you’ve got questions, concerns, or need more information. We’re hoping to have more information out to everyone in the coming day about additional ways to help out. – Salem Leadership Foundation
Special email blast – no inperson meetings at holy cross tonight
Our Bible study at 5pm will continue as planned, on Zoom. NO inperson meeting. Stay home and stay safe.
Topic: What is God Saying today?
Time: Sep 10, 2020 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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ALSO-Today’s Task force meeting at 6 pm WILL HAPPEN at 6 on zoom but will be REPURPOSED to a 30 minute check in meeting on zoom. We need to support each other in these times of stress and change. Pastor will offer prayer and lament and folks can check in. We will rescheduled the task force meeting after the fire situation changes from emergency level. Here’s that zoom info for tonight
Topic: Reopening Task Force and Worship task force
Time: Sep 10, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 824 2369 7384
Passcode: 728329
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STAY SAFE! BE WELL! Be in prayer for our brothers and sisters in harms way. – Pastor Patricia and Bryan Struve, President, send you this message.
Together – Sermon for Sept 6 2020 (Practice) Pastor Patricia Hughes
Join us Sunday Sept 6, 2020 at 10 am in the parking lot/courtyard at Holy Cross for worship. Call 5033646041 to rsvp. (Cars in the parking lot are not expected to RSVP)
Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1998 Lansing Ave Ne, Salem, Or 97301 www.holycrosslutheran-salem.org
Exodus 12:1-14
The First Passover Instituted
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
Readings for Sunday Sept 6 2020 – Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20
Jesus offers practical advice to his disciples on how individuals—and the church as a whole—should go about restoring relationships when one member has sinned against another.
[Jesus said to the disciples:] 15“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. 16But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 18Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
Semicontinuous First Reading: Exodus 12:1-14
Israel remembered its deliverance from slavery in Egypt by celebrating the festival of Passover. This festival featured the Passover lamb, whose blood was used as a sign to protect God’s people from the threat of death. The early church described the Lord’s supper using imagery from the Passover, especially in portraying Jesus as the lamb who delivers God’s people from sin and death.
1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. 4If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. 5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 7They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. 10You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord. 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
14This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.
Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1998 Lansing Ave Ne, Salem, Or 97301 www.holycrosslutheran-salem.org