Sunday, May 17th, 6th Sunday of Easter
Welcome to worship this day!

We invite you to set aside a space wherever you are to participate in worship. If possible, find a candle and set a simple meal – perhaps even bread and wine or juice. While worshiping in this way is not exactly the same as being together, we trust that we are the body of Christ and connected together by the love and grace of God, no matter where we are.
 
The church is more than a building! Our life as a community continues in new and creative ways. Welcome to worship this day, and may this time of worship strengthen and encourage you in the week ahead.

Welcome and Prelude​

We are grateful to our musicians this day. 

Opening Hymn

Opening Prayer
Almighty and ever-living God, you hold together all things in heaven and on earth.  In your great mercy receive the prayers of all your children, and give to all the world the Spirit of your truth and peace, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.

Sermon for the day - ​Acts 17:22-31
22 Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one ancestor[i] he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would search for God[j] and perhaps grope for him and find him—though indeed he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we too are his offspring.’
29 Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. 30 While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Children's Message
Today our worship will focus on Paul's speech in Athens.  Paul was one of God's great servants in the New Testament.  Watch the link below to learn more about this man of God who was far from perfect but nonetheless came to serve God in the name of Jesus.  

Hymn of Day - Christ is Alive

Apostles Creed and Prayers of the Church

Let us confess our faith using the words of the Apostles Creed.
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord.
        He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
        He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
        He descended to the dead.
        On the third day he rose again. He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father.  He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

​Lord's Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,
                          thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
             Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we
                          forgive those who trespass against us;  and lead us not into
                          temptation,  but deliver us from evil. 
             For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. 
             Amen.

Offering
We have a number of ways to participate and contribute when you are unable to attend worship in person. You can make a gift through the "Ministry Donations" button below which allows you to make a one-time or ongoing gift using a credit card.  You can contact the church office to sigh up for simply giving.  Or you can always mail in a check too.  Through this important part of worship you help make our ministry possible!  

Some humor ...

Mailing Address for Offerings:
Eidsvold Lutheran Church
PO Box 100
Somers MT 59932

Sharing of Peace
Eidsvold is grateful for the many ways that God's ministry is carried on in the world.  This day we give thanks for some of the missionaries that Eidsvold sponsors in the world and the way God's will is being carried forth by them.  This week we feature Jeridan and Erin Dyck (and Elsa too) who are serving in Kiev, Ukraine.  God's blessings Jeridan and Erin!

Closing Music 

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Thank you for worshiping with us today.