Food for the Body and Soul
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Zion Lutheran Church, Woodville, WI |
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Music Welcome Bible Study: Leading Ladies Devotion Litany on Psalm 139 Baldwin Hospital Wellness Center "Stuff" Meditation World Hunger Song: Let All Things Now Living |
Program
Music: You Can't Be a Beacon if Your Light Don't Shine
Prayer: Holy God, we come as people who struggle with our health, our relationships, our well-being in community. When we worry about finding time, find us in your eternal wisdom. When we are weary, stir us up by the power of your spirit. Keep us walking, walking in the paths you have designed for healthful living now and eternally. Open the ears of our hearts this day, that we would be continually converted to the truth of the new Creation in Christ, valuing ourselves and one another as he has valued us. Teach us how to honor the house of our bodies as the true temple of your Holy Spirit. We ask this through Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
Bible Study: Leading Ladies LWT July/August 2003
Opening Devotions
1. God's Wellness Program: Matthew 6:25-34
TODAY!! Worry is like a rocking chair. It keeps you busy but you don't get anywhere.
2. God's Wellness Program: WALK!
John 12:35 - Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.
Romans 6: 3-4 - Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 13:13 - Let us walk honestly!
Song: Just a Closer Walk With Thee
3. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ: their end is destruction; their god is the belly . . . their minds are set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven; and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. he will transform the body of our humble body that it may be conformed to the body of his glory (Philippians 3:19-20) . . . Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify god in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19,20)
Litany from Psalm 139
L. 1) O lord you have searched me and known me.
__ 2) You know when I sit down and when I rise up
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 3) you discern my thoughts from far away.
____ You search out my path and my lying down
____ and are acquainted with all my ways.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 4) Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord you know it completely.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 5) You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 7) Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
__ 9) If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
____ even there your hand shall lead me and your right hand shall hold me fast.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 13) For it was you who formed my inward parts,
____ and you knit me together in my mother's womb.
__ 14) I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT
__ 23) Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.
__ 24) See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
ALL: O LORD, I AM PRECIOUS IN YOUR SIGHT. I GIVE YOU THANKS, O LORD, WITH MY WHOLE HEART.SONG: Let All Things Now Living
May our God who dwells beyond us, and our God who dwells among us, and our God, who calls us to dwell together, Bless you abundantly now and always.
Thank you to all who have come and enjoyed and to all who have worked and enjoyed for this evening!
Our July Circles were scheduled to meet on the 3rd Thursday in July for a pot-luck supper and then a Bible Study. From past years we expected 10 to 15 women so an idea was suggested to the officers to serve a catered supper at no charge and furnish child care. We invited Pastor Chris from St. John's in Spring Valley to give a devotion and do the Bible Study from the LWT. Because the featured articles in the June LWT were about health and wellness we chose that as our theme for the evening. One of the staff from the Baldwin Hospital Wellness Center was very willing to come and present us with ideas on how we could take care of our health more effectively. A young phy ed major from our congregation was asked to come and teach the children some exercises and use physical activities with them during our program. We packed bag lunches for them and she along with 3 helpers kept the children active and busy. One woman read the "stuff" article while three women did a pantomime behind her. It was hilarious and added just enough humor to have some fun. Because we all have gifts of some kind or other, we asked a few women to bring a gift to be given out during the evening. Others heard about it and we received more gifts then we planned. We asked a mother and daughter to give out the gifts throughout the evening at short breaks. We had each woman sign her name as she arrived and placed it in a jar so a name could be drawn at random. A young mother provided us with lovely piano music as women were coming and we had them go directly to the buffet table to take their food and be seated to save time. We had the tables set with silver, cups and placements and the program. A member and her husband gave fresh flowers from their garden - another gift. Six of us called or wrote a note and in some way contacted every woman in our congregation with an invitation to attend. our local bank furnished us with pens so everyone had one at the table.
It was a great evening. 110 women and 22 children came of whom 16 were visitors from other churches. Our menu was cold cuts and cheese with croissants, veggies and dip, and cheesecake for deserts with Equal Exchange coffee.
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