News
Taste and See online event
The WELS Missions office is excited to partner with the Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society (LWMS) to host an online event called Taste and See! This first-of-its-kind event will combine the very best of Taste of Missions and LWMS Convention to provide all WELS members an opportunity to be an important part of gospel outreach occurring in our synod. Tune in beginning on Saturday, June 27, to watch a livestreamed opening worship service with brothers and sisters around the world. From June 28 – July 10, learn about Missions through keynote presentations, recorded workshops, mission-minded daily devotions, and more. Participate in family-friendly scavenger hunts, try your hand at making ethnic recipes shared by our missionaries, and ask questions during live Q&A sessions with Home and World Missions representatives. The festivities will wrap up with the livestreamed commissioning of new missionaries on Saturday, July 11. Be on the lookout for more information as it becomes available.
WELS Family Devotions
Get your family into God’s Word during the week. WELS has started offering devotions developed for the entire family to use. Each devotion is complete with a set of questions for different age groups, a prayer, and hymn verses that can be sung or spoken. Downloadable printable versions are also available.
Communion
We will begin having Holy Communion again in our Sunday services on June 21, and then every first, third, and fifth Sunday of the month, as we had as our practice in the past. For those who are not comfortable being in a larger crowd, or it is not recommended for them at this time, we will have communion offered on Saturday, July 4, 9:00-10:00 am. To sign up for this communion opportunity, please go to this link.
Online Sign-up for Worship Services
We will plan on having sign-ups for worship services throughout the summer, unless something changes. You can sign-up for attending a service through our church website. On the homepage, there will be graphic that pops up first that tells about service times and sign-ups. You can click on that graphic and it will take you to the website to sign up. Pick what service you plan to attend, click the orange “Sign Up” button for the service, then at the bottom of the screen there is a blue button that says “Submit and Sign
Up.” That will take you to page where you fill in your name and how many are attending. Then click the blue “Sign Up Now” button. And you are done.
Up.” That will take you to page where you fill in your name and how many are attending. Then click the blue “Sign Up Now” button. And you are done.
Masks in Worship
Recently, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued guidance (not a mandate or order) for wearing face coverings. The guidance is that people are to wear face coverings while in inside public spaces, which would include churches. Persons with a medical condition, mental health condition, or disability that prevents wearing a face covering are exempt. This includes persons with a medical condition for whom wearing a face covering could obstruct breathing. We will continue to have Livestream available for our services for those who do not feel they can attend in-person worship at this time.
Giving Tree
From now through June, the St. Peter Giving Tree will offer members the opportunity to support the Modesto Pregnancy Center. The organization began in 1988, serving the community, “through a system of support with the love of Jesus Christ.” It provides a variety of services to new and expecting mothers, as well as those dealing with post-abortion trauma.
The Modesto Pregnancy Center is currently seeking car seat donations, as well as diapers, sizes 4 and 5, which are generally in short supply. These items are posted on our giving tree, and can be purchased through Amazon.com. Please consider serving our Lord in this way.
The Modesto Pregnancy Center is currently seeking car seat donations, as well as diapers, sizes 4 and 5, which are generally in short supply. These items are posted on our giving tree, and can be purchased through Amazon.com. Please consider serving our Lord in this way.
Are You Interested in Going on a Tour?
Pastor Schroeder is looking at the possibility of joining another WELS pastor in hosting a tour of Biblical sites. It would be an 11-day tour in which we would be visiting Greece, Egypt, Israel, and Turkey. Seven nights would be on a cruise ship traveling to different ports to see Bible places like Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Cyprus, Corinth, and Ephesus. We are looking at going around April 5-16, 2021 (the week after Easter about 1.5 years from now, which would give people time to save for the trip). Flying out of San Francisco, the cost of the tour would be about $4897 per person. This price includes everything but some lunches
that would be on your own. If you want to ask what a tour like this is like, please talk with Kevin & Monica Hejnal or Walt & Darci Luihn, who recently went on an Israel tour with Pastor using this same tour company. Pastor is trying to find out what kind of interest there is in such a tour, so please let him know if this is something you think you’d like to do. If you would like to the proposed itinerary, you can see it at: http://bit.ly/tour2021_SP
that would be on your own. If you want to ask what a tour like this is like, please talk with Kevin & Monica Hejnal or Walt & Darci Luihn, who recently went on an Israel tour with Pastor using this same tour company. Pastor is trying to find out what kind of interest there is in such a tour, so please let him know if this is something you think you’d like to do. If you would like to the proposed itinerary, you can see it at: http://bit.ly/tour2021_SP
