[MN] Lutheran Service Book: It's Coming Soon!

[Pr. Todd Peperkorn]

Friends,

This Sunday we officially kick off our fundraising for our new  
hymnals.  This project has been about 8 years in the making, and we  
have been a part of that process through much of it.  Field testing  
different services, hymns, and the like.  So I feel like we already  
have a good idea about what this new hymnal will look like.

If you are interested, please go to:

http://lsb.cph.org/

There you can find a wealth of resources about Lutheran Service Book.

I'll be speaking about this a little bit after the service on Sunday,  
but I wanted to give some of you a "heads up" on how this will work.

We have received two very generous anonymous donations that will get  
us going in the right direction.  They will pay for all of the  
various editions for organists, altar book, agenda, pastor's  
companion, and the like.  They may also help with hymnals for the  
parish hall and/or the choir room, as need arises.

In the meantime, we need 202 hymnals for the pews and chancel at  
Messiah.  They cost $20 each, including shipping.  What we are  
proposing on Sunday is to ask each family, as they are able, to  
purchase as many hymnals for the church as they are able, either as  
memorials, in celebration of Messiah's 45th anniversary (this year),  
or simply as a gift to the church.  I would hope that each family  
will at least donate enough for the number of hymnals they actually  
use in church, but that is between you and the Lord.

In addition, we are offering both the pew edition ($20) and the  
personal edition (a little smaller and leather bound at $40), for  
people to purchase for their homes.  We will be using them with the  
Congregation at Prayer, at meetings, bible studies, and pretty much  
anywhere we can.  It is a wonderful resource of faith and comfort,  
and every Lutheran should own their own hymnals.  So you have the  
opportunity to pre-order those as well as you are able.

Anyway, it's an exciting time for Messiah!  By God's grace, I'm  
preaching this Sunday, so hopefully things are moving in the right  
direction.

See you in Church,
Pastor Peperkorn


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Rev. Todd A. Peperkorn, Pastor
Messiah Lutheran Church
2026 22nd Ave., Kenosha, WI 53140
(262) 551-8182 Church
(262) 551-9081 Parsonage
Peperkorn at higherthings.org
PARISH: http://messiahkenosha.org/
ACADEMY: http://www.christlutheranacademy.com/
HIGHER THINGS: http://www.higherthings.org/
http://blog.higherthings.org/peperkorn/

"The sect cannot wait; it must have everything at once, for it has no
future. The church can wait, for it does have a future. We Lutherans  
should
think of that" (The Lonely Way, Volume II, 328).
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