An Update from Pastor Rhode on March 30, 2020

Dear Saints of Faith Lutheran Church,

This will likely be my final update until we are on the other side of Holy Week. In the days to come, if you have any spiritual or physical needs please let me know. You are not alone. Together we are the body of Christ and we care for one another! We have some extra household supplies here at church, and many of our members have volunteered to help. Let me know!

I also want you to know that I continue to pray for you, especially that you are able to receive our Lord’s life-giving, soul-healing Word via our online Services. We are always in desperate need of our loving Father, His Son, and the Holy Spirit, and at times like these we should feel this need even more.

In Holy Week, we see that our Father gives the most priceless of all gifts to us. Ask any parent and they would gladly die a thousand times for their child. The most precious and valuable gift our Father could give is His own beloved Son. He gives His Son to come into our flesh, He gives His Son to suffer in our place – scourge, and rod, and nail, and thorns. He gives His Son to be lifted up on the cross so that all men might be drawn to Him, so that we too might become sons of God. It is just as Martin Luther teaches us to sing:

As you worship online with us this Holy Week, may God fill you with the awesome depths of His love. Romans 8:30 says, “He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not with Him graciously give us all things?” We need only be patient, keep the faith, and wait on the Lord. He is faithful. He does not lie. In Christ, He does not count our sins against us. In Christ, we are His – now and forever.

Receive God’s faith-sustaining Word with us online! Our upcoming streaming schedule is as follows:

• Wednesday, April 1, at 7 p.m. Lenten Vespers and Sermon Series on Amos

• Thursday, April 2, at approximately 8 a.m. Large Catechism Study

• Thursday, April 2, at approximately 11 a.m. Bible Study Starting NEW BOOK: 1 Samuel

• Palm Sunday, April 5, at 8 a.m. Divine Service

• Palm Sunday, April 5, at approximately 9:20 a.m. Bible Study (topical)

• Palm Sunday, April 5, at 10:30 a.m. Divine Service

• Maunday Thursday, April 9, at 7 p.m. Holy Week Divine Service

  • NO morning studies or services

• Good Friday, April 10, at 7 p.m. Tenebrae Service

• Easter, April 12, at 7 a.m. Easter Service with Special Music

• Easter, April 12, at 10 a.m. Easter Service with Special Music

• Thursday, April 16, at approximately 8 a.m. Large Catechism Study

• Thursday, April 16, at approximately 11 a.m. Bible Study: 1 Samuel

• Sunday, April 19, at 8 a.m. Divine Service

• Sunday, April 19, at approximately 9:20 a.m. Bible Study Starting NEW BOOK: Revelation

• Sunday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. Divine Service

Our in-person services at Faith Capo will continue but attendance is limited to a maximum of 10 people, by prior sign-up only. Not only will we follow CDC guidelines, we will also ask that you sit nearest to an aisle so that we can clean the pew after each Service. We will give you a single-use printed copy of the Service so you do not need to touch the hymnals, and we will continue to have hand-sanitizer for you to use before and after the Service.

If you are sick or around someone who is sick, you must not come. If Pastor Rhode gets sick, Services may be abruptly cancelled. Please email Pastor Rhode to reserve your spot.

Wednesday, April 1

• 5 p.m. Abbreviated Vespers

• 6 p.m. Abbreviated Vespers

• 7 p.m Vespers *streamed online

Thursday, April 2

• 6:30 a.m. Confession & Absolution

• 7 a.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

Palm Sunday, April 5

• 8 a.m. Divine Service *streamed online

• 10:30 a.m. Divine Service *streamed online

• 12 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

• 1 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

Maundy Thursday, April 9

• 12 p.m. Divine Service

• 6 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

• 7 p.m. Divine Service *streamed online

Good Friday, April 10

• 12 p.m. Tenebrae Service

• 6 p.m. Abbreviated Tenebrae

• 7 p.m. Tenebrae Service *streamed online

Easter Sunday, April 12

• 5 a.m. Easter Vigil

• 7 a.m. Easter Service *streamed online

• 10 a.m. Easter Service *streamed online

• 12 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

• 1 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

• 2 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service – will be held only if all other Services are full

Thursday, April 16

• 6:30 a.m. Confession & Absolution

• 7 a.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

Sunday, April 19

• 8 a.m. Divine Service *streamed online

• 10:30 a.m. Divine Service *streamed online

• 12 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

• 1 p.m. Abbreviated Divine Service

Additionally, I am always willing to provide a brief Service of Communion for you and your family by appointment. Please contact me to schedule at pastorrhode@faithcapo.com

May God bless you this coming Holy Week as you meditate upon the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus. His death has made atonement for all our sins. His resurrection shows that we too shall rise from the dead. These are the foundations of our faith, the foundations of our lives! “Neither death nor life … nor things present nor things to come … nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38

In Christ,

Pastor Rhode