Worship Schedule:
10:00am in the Sanctuary and on YouTube
Due to the pandemic the need for food is increasing daily. In addition, the annual Letter Carriers Food Drive (Stamp Out Hunger) which normally produces more than 50,000 lbs. of donated food has been canceled which makes the need even greater.
AFAC needs canned vegetables, cereal (low sugar), canned tuna, canned tomato products (stewed, diced, paste), and peanut butter (in plastic jars).
Contributions can be dropped off in the Narthex.
Thursday, July 20
7:00 p.m. – Council Meeting (in person).
Sunday, July 23
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
Dear Members and Friends of Resurrection,
It is so very good to be here.
Ebon and I have moved into the parsonage and have been getting settled and exploring the area.
I have taken these couple of Sundays at the beginning of July to visit two of our sister congregations and begin to become acquainted with my new colleagues with an eye to partnerships and outreach.
We wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked to prepare the parsonage for us in so many ways.
I have very much looked forward to leading worship and beginning my service as Pastor of RELC on July 16th. Thank you for your warm welcome on Sunday! I am praying with anticipation that we will have great joy serving our Savior together.
Blessings dear Church! Be talking and worshipping with you soon.
Pastor Harry Therwanger
Pastor Harry has a new email for you to reach him. It is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Also, Pastor will normally take Monday and Tuesday as his weekend so he asks that you contact him Wednesday through Sunday. Unless, of course, there is an emergency. You can reach him on his cell phone at 312-515-7269.
The Metro D.C. Synod is convening three "Traveling Prayer Nights" on Thursdays, this summer. Each one-hour, evening program will engage participants in prayer, meditation and music. Please see the list of programs here: https://metrodcelca.org/event/traveling-prayer-nights/2023-07-27/
The next "Traveling Prayer Night" will be held on Thursday, July 27, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Christ the King Lutheran Church
10550 Georgetown Pike
Great Falls, VA 22066
https://www.gflutheran.org/
Tel.: 703-759-6068
(Pastor Hank Langknecht)
We hope that you will join in!
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, July 16
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold (Harry) Therwanger.
On Sunday, July 16, we are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Harry Therwanger at his inaugural worship service. Please join us after the service, at 11:15 a.m. in the Parish Hall, for a Welcome Coffee Hour to welcome Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams. The RELC Fellowship Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service.
Please save the date and plan to worship with us!
“It is good Lord for us to be here!” Matthew 17:4
Dear Members and Friends of Resurrection,
It is so very good to be here.
Ebon and I have moved into the parsonage and have been getting settled and exploring the area.
I have taken these couple of Sundays at the beginning of July to visit two of our sister congregations and begin to become acquainted with my new colleagues with an eye to partnerships and outreach.
We wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked to prepare the parsonage for us in so many ways.
I am very much looking forward to leading worship and beginning my service as Pastor of RELC on July 16th. I am praying with anticipation that we will have great joy serving our Savior together.
Blessings dear Church! Be talking and worshipping with you soon.
Pastor Harry Therwanger
Dear People of Resurrection Church,
I want to thank you all for your very generous and kind gift to me last Sunday. I understand that $1000 is being donated in my name to the United Lutheran Seminary and the same amount is being added to the RELC endowment fund. Furthermore, last Sunday Glen Mason said several very gracious things, handed me a beautiful wooden “prayer bowl,” and told me of a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble that is forthcoming so that I might get back to reading!
Thank you, with all my heart. Organizing and sometimes leading worship for these past 48 Sundays — including Christmas, Lent and the Three Days, Easter, a baptism, the installation of the new Council, four first communions, a commendation of the dead, and a farewell and godspeed — has been one of the joys of my life. Doing it together with so very many other people has been amazing: I tried to name you all last Sunday, though on the moment I forgot Steve Black and the youth who help him with electronics, Cindy Reese and the whole Worship Committee, Alexandra Mattson, Paul Bastuscheck, and Christopher Smith who give us weekly announcements of worship, and Jeanette Barkley and all the Altar Guild. But I did gladly name Barbara Verdile and the Choir, all of our remarkably skilled Assisting Ministers and Readers, Heidi Dech who schedules them, Gail Ramshaw who faithfully writes the intercessions each week, Maggie Mount and the excellent ushers, Helen Chaale who puts together the bulletins, and Rosalie Dech who prints them. We do this all together, being together the assembly around the Risen Christ. Thank you all for the many, many roles you have played. Thanks also to the 14 fine supply pastors we have had join us.
For this surprising gift from you, thanks especially to the people whom I think organized it: Steve Black, Leslie Nolen, Glen Mason, Maggie Mount, and the whole Council. There may well have been others of whom I do not know.
Now, next Sunday, we begin anew, with a new pastor. Warmest welcome to Pastor Therwanger. May God give the Spirit of strong and loving wisdom to him and may God continue to enliven our assembly with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yours,
Gordon Lathrop
The Metro D.C. Synod is convening three "Traveling Prayer Nights" on Thursdays, this summer. Each one-hour, evening program will engage participants in prayer, meditation and music. Please see the list of programs here: https://metrodcelca.org/event/traveling-prayer-nights/2023-07-27/
The next "Traveling Prayer Night" will be held on Thursday, July 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Advent Lutheran Church
2222 S. Arlington Ridge Road
Arlington, Virginia 22202
(https://www.adventlc.us/ - Pastor Alex Stall).
We hope that you will join in!
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, July 9
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
Sunday, July 16
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Harold Therwanger.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, again, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our Sunday, July 9, worship service.
On Sunday, July 16, we look forward to welcoming Pastor Harold Therwanger to preach and preside at his inaugural worship service.
Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams, are settling in to the RELC parsonage. The RELC Hospitality Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service on Sunday, July 16. Please save the date and plan to worship with us!
“It is good Lord for us to be here!” Matthew 17:4
Dear Members and Friends of Resurrection,
It is so very good to be here.
Ebon and I have moved into the parsonage and have been getting settled and exploring the area.
I have taken these couple of Sundays at the beginning of July to visit two of our sister congregations and begin to become acquainted with my new colleagues with an eye to partnerships and outreach.
We wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to everyone who worked to prepare the parsonage for us in so many ways.
I am very much looking forward to leading worship and beginning my service as Pastor of RELC on July 16th. I am praying with anticipation that we will have great joy serving our Savior together.
Blessings dear Church! Be talking and worshipping with you soon.
Pastor Harry Therwanger
The Metro D.C. Synod is convening three "Traveling Prayer Nights" on Thursdays, this summer. Each one-hour, evening program will engage participants in prayer, meditation and music. Please see the list of programs here: https://metrodcelca.org/event/traveling-prayer-nights/2023-07-27/
The next "Traveling Prayer Night" will be held on Thursday, July 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Advent Lutheran Church
2222 S. Arlington Ridge Road
Arlington, Virginia 22202
(https://www.adventlc.us/ - Pastor Alex Stall).
We hope that you will join in!
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, July 2
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
Sunday, July 9
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, again, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our Sunday, July 2, and Sunday, July 9, worship services.
The Metro D.C. Synod is convening three "Traveling Prayer Nights" on Thursdays, this summer. Each one-hour, evening program will engage participants in prayer, meditation and music. Please see the list of programs here: https://metrodcelca.org/event/traveling-prayer-nights/2023-07-27/
The next "Traveling Prayer Night" will be held on Thursday, July 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at:
Advent Lutheran Church
2222 S. Arlington Ridge Road
Arlington, Virginia 22202
(https://www.adventlc.us/ - Pastor Alex Stall).
We hope that you will join in!
Pastor Therwanger and his spouse, Ebon Craig Williams, will arrive this week to settle in to the RELC parsonage. The RELC Hospitality Committee has been actively preparing to welcome the Therwangers in anticipation of Pastor T's inaugural worship service on Sunday, July 16. Please save the date and plan to worship with us!
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season! The season has started out very dry, so we especially need help to ease the burden on our few gardeners and ensure that our plants continue to thrive.
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, June 25
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Tiina Talvitie.
Sunday, July 2
No Sunday School during summer break.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC, at our June 25 worship service.
On Sunday, July 2, and on Sunday, July 9, we look forward, again, to welcoming Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will preach and preside.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season! The season has started out very dry, so we especially need help to ease the burden on our few gardeners and ensure that our plants continue to thrive.
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, June 18 - Father's Day
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Katharyn Wheeler.
Sunday, June 25
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Tiina Talvitie.
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Katharyn Wheeler, candidate in the ELCA’s Word and Service Ministry, at our June 18 worship service. Due to the limited number of supply pastors available in our area, the June 18 service will be “Service of the Word” which means Communion will not be offered. As a result, you will notice a few other changes, most notably that offering plates will be at the entrance to the Sanctuary, rather than at the front.
On Sunday, June 25, we look forward to welcoming Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC, who will preach and preside.
If you would like to contribute to a gift for Pastor Gordon Lathrop in recognition of his work to support our worship during the past ten months, please place your donation, designated for the special gift, in the offering plates at the entrance to the Sanctuary.
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial garden.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Saturday, June 10
10:00 a.m. – Parsonage yard clean-up (see item below).
Sunday, June 11
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:00 a.m. — Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall. Come celebrate our recent high school and college graduates and learn what is next for them.
Sunday, June 18 - Father's Day
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Katharyn Wheeler.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our June 11 worship service.
On Sunday, June 18, we look forward to welcoming Katharyn Wheeler, candidate in the ELCA’s Word and Service Ministry, who will preach and preside. On Sunday, June 25, we will welcome, once again this year, Pastor Tiina Talvitie, the pastor of the Finnish congregation that meets monthly at RELC.
Please join members of the Property Committee to lend a hand with mulching and cleaning up the parsonage yard in anticipation of the Therwangers’ arrival in July. Meet on Saturday, June 10 at 10:00 a.m. in the parsonage yard. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.
Come celebrate our recent High School and College Graduates during coffee hour on Sunday, June 11. As you enjoy your cake, learn what is next for our graduates.
We no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial garden.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, June 4
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, June 11
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:00 a.m. – Coffee Hour in the Parish Hall. Come celebrate our recent high school and college graduates and learn what is next for them.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Gordon Lathrop, at our June 4 worship services.
On Sunday, June 11, we look forward to welcoming back Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will return to preach and preside.
Come celebrate our recent High School and College Graduates during coffee hour on Sunday, June 11. As you enjoy your cake, learn what is next for our graduates.
We no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
As of this writing, we need donors for the altar flowers for four weeks in July. There are also other weeks available for donations this summer and throughout the rest of the calendar year. In accordance with the budget that the congregation approved in January, altar flowers must be covered by donations.
How do I provide for the altar flowers? Just sign up on the calendar posted downstairs, outside the kitchen. Please place your check for the cost of the flowers ($55 for each week), with a notation that the check is for altar flowers, in the offering plate. Your altar flower donation for a specific Sunday will show in that Sunday's bulletin that you have given the flowers to the glory of God. If you would like the donation to be in memory of someone, then please email Helen Chaale or Cindy Reese. The flowers are yours to take after the service, but if you do not wish to keep them, they will be placed in the memorial garden.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, May 28
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, June 4
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Gordon Lathrop, at our May 28 and June 4 worship services.
On Sunday, June 11, we look forward to welcoming back Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, who will return to preach and preside.
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
Many of you know that when Pastor Linman left, now nearly 10 months ago, he asked me if I would find supply pastors, since the Synod had said that such finding would be very difficult, and if I would help plan the liturgies we would use. It has been a privilege for me to do that, and it has been a joy to see how many people from the congregation have helped our worship continue in a lively way.
Besides preparing the usual bulletin for the congregation, one of the things we began to do, because so many supply pastors would be coming, was to print out the full service and hymns so that these visiting pastors could easily lead our planned worship. A few extra copies of that “Leaders Version” were made available for other visitors. As time has gone on, however, more regular members have found that larger bulletin convenient to use.
As we prepare for a new pastor to come, I want to ask you to try something. In these next two Sundays you will see me simply using our Hymnal, the red Evangelical Lutheran Worship or the blue All Creation Sings, along with the ELW Altar Book, to lead the service. The ordinary assembly bulletin will help me remember what hymn to look up. It will also tell me what the choir is singing and will help me in singing the Psalm. I urge you to do the same. By picking up the book every Sunday — for liturgy and for hymns — you join with thousands of other Lutheran Christians who are using that same book, you are learning more about your heritage, and you are helping us conserve on paper use. All the material you need is in the books.
If you want the Readings to be printed out, they will still be available, as Cindy Reese has written to us.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Creation Care Team is collecting old charging cables, computer cables and extension cords for recycling through May 28. Please place your items in the box outside the narthex by the coat racks. The Creation Care Team will take the materials to eAsset Solutions in Falls Church to be recycled.
While the church is only collecting cables, you can take many larger electronic items to eAsset for recycling. Here is a list of what they accept.
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, May 21
9:00 a.m. – No Sunday School.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, May 28
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. - Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our May 21 worship services.
On Sunday, May 28, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will return to preach and preside.
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
A principal festival of the church year is Ascension of our Lord, held this year on Thursday, May 18. You may wish to read the readings for the day at home. They are: Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47, Ephesians 1:15-23, and Luke 24:44-53. You may also wish to pray this prayer of the day:
"Almighty God, your blessed Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things. Mercifully give us faith to trust that, as he promised, he abides with us on earth to the end of time, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen."
For anyone who is currently using the daily readings for the week that are printed on the back of the Sunday bulletin, we will no longer be reproducing this information in the bulletin, but you can find the three readings for each day in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW), the red book, beginning on page 1121. We are now on page 1124 and will continue with the "complementary series" of the lectionary beginning on page 1125 for Sundays after Pentecost through the summer and the rest of the church year. By the way, Augsburg Fortress publishing is now running a sale on the pocket edition of ELW for only $9.95 (see the augsburgfortress.org website).
The previously proposed Resurrection book club will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Library, instead of on May 18. But don’t fret, that just means an extra week to read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Wine will be provided. See Jack Schoen for more details.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Creation Care Team is collecting old charging cables, computer cables and extension cords for recycling through May 28. Please place your items in the box outside the narthex by the coat racks. The Creation Care Team will take the materials to eAsset Solutions in Falls Church to be recycled.
While the church is only collecting cables, you can take many larger electronic items to eAsset for recycling. Here is a list of what they accept.
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
May 11, 2023 marked the lifting of most of the remaining COVID vaccine requirements and the end to much of CDC's data collection on the COVID Pandemic. The country is in a new phase of living with COVID that still recognizes the need to practice rational protection against infectious diseases, including the flu. RELC's COVID Reopening Group recommends that congregants be mindful of the following guidelines, some as recommended by the CDC:
Masks are not required, but everyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask at any time, particularly those at high risk for severe illness.
Pastors and assistants will continue to wear masks for communion. Mask wearing for ushers is optional.
To the extent possible, congregants should maintain a safe distances in the pews, when sharing the peace of Christ with prayer hands and taking communion. Hand sanitizers will remain available throughout the church.
The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents.
The CDC recommends staying up-to-date with COVID vaccines and isolating at home if symptoms do occur, if one receives a positive test or if one is exposed to someone with COVID-19.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs under further notice or our pastor arrives. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Thursday, May 11
7:00 p.m. – Council Meeting via Zoom.
Sunday, May 14
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday, May 21
9:00 a.m. – No Sunday School.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our May 14 and May 21 worship services.
On Sunday, May 28, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will return to preach and preside.
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
A principal festival of the church year is Ascension of our Lord, held this year on Thursday, May 18. You may wish to read the readings for the day at home. They are: Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47, Ephesians 1:15-23, and Luke 24:44-53. You may also wish to pray this prayer of the day:
"Almighty God, your blessed Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things. Mercifully give us faith to trust that, as he promised, he abides with us on earth to the end of time, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen."
The previously proposed Resurrection book club will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Library, instead of on May 18. But don’t fret, that just means an extra week to read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Wine will be provided. See Jack Schoen for more details.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Creation Care Team is collecting old charging cables, computer cables and extension cords for recycling through May 28. Please place your items in the box outside the narthex by the coat racks. The Creation Care Team will take the materials to eAsset Solutions in Falls Church to be recycled.
While the church is only collecting cables, you can take many larger electronic items to eAsset for recycling. Here is a list of what they accept.
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs under further notice or our pastor arrives. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Sunday, May 7
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
11:15 a.m. – Executive Committee meeting in the Library.
Thursday, May 11
7:00 p.m. – Council Meeting via Zoom.
Sunday, May 14
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Professor James Farwell.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary, at our May 14 and May 21 worship services.
On Sunday, May 28, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will return to preach and preside.
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
LWR warehouses are empty and these items are desperately needed by refugees and other people impacted by natural and man-made disasters around the world.
Your Social Ministry Committee is collecting:
Please drop donations in the box in the narthex. You may also donate money so that we can shop for the items that we need. Please write “LWR Kits” on the memo line of your check or enclose cash in an envelope marked “LWR Kits.” Thank you all for your generosity.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Creation Care Team is collecting old charging cables, computer cables and extension cords for recycling through May 28. Please place your items in the box outside the narthex by the coat racks. The Creation Care Team will take the materials to eAssets in Falls Church to be recycled.
While the church is only collecting cables, you can take many larger electronic items to eAssets for recycling. Here is a list of what they accept.
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs under further notice or our pastor arrives. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Saturday, April 29
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. – Meet the Candidate in the Parish Hall. Light refreshments will be served.
Sunday, April 30 – "Call Sunday"
9:00 a.m. – No Sunday School this week.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: our Pastoral Candidate for call.
11:15 a.m. – No Confirmation Class this week.
11:15 a.m. – Congregational Meeting to consider calling new pastor in the Sanctuary. (Information on a remote option for those unable to attend in person is available – contact Leslie Nolen)
Sunday, May 7
9:00 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Pastor Gordon Lathrop.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
Sunday Supply Pastors
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, Pastor Gordon Lathrop, at our May 7 worship service.
On Sunday, May 14, Professor James Farwell of the Virginia Theological Seminary will return to preach and preside.
Meet the Candidate April 29 & Congregational Meeting April 30 to Consider Calling New Pastor
Please save the date for a Congregational Meeting on Sunday, April 30 to consider calling a new pastor! Come meet him on Saturday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Consider bringing some light finger foods (i.e. no utensils required to eat) to share. A written letter was distributed to all members of the congregation with the announcement of these meetings.
Our constitution requires a quorum of 36 percent of our active, voting membership to call a pastor, double the quorum requirement for a congregational meeting for any other purpose. Please make every effort to attend the meeting in person to help us achieve that number! If you are unable to participate in person due to travel or illness, there will be a remote option available – please contact Leslie Nolen. Please hold these dates in your calendars as we consider an important next step in the future of Resurrection!
Beginning in May, we will no longer have the Celebrate bulletin insert, but will continue to have copies of the Sunday readings available. The Worship and Music Committee decided to discontinue the Celebrate insert, and instead make some copies of the readings for those who would like them, because Celebrate uses a different version of the readings than we are using. It also includes intercessory prayers that are different from what we use, and the music for the psalm may vary.
At the beginning of each of Resurrection’s online Advent and Lenten evening prayers, I introduced worshipers to one or two of that week’s commemorations. See pages 15-17 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) to see what I am talking about. Some of you welcomed these stories about the saints. If you are interested in more of this history of those who have gone before us in the faith, you might want to purchase a book I published in 2016, More Days for Praise: Festivals and Commemorations in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. There’s a double-page spread for each commemoration, with a picture in color, a brief bio, a quote if possible from the person, a hymn and a prayer suggestion, and prompts for your own prayers. This book is available from our national church’s publishing house, Augsburg Fortress, for $22 (go to augsburgfortress.org). If you don’t have a copy of the ELW at home, its purchase price is $24.50. To encourage your interest in these commemorations, ahead of us in April are for example the artist Albrecht Duerer, the martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the remarkable Japanese renewer of society Toyohiko Kagawa, and (my favorite!) Catherine of Siena.
LWR warehouses are empty and these items are desperately needed by refugees and other people impacted by natural and man-made disasters around the world.
Your Social Ministry Committee is collecting:
Please drop donations in the box in the narthex. You may also donate money so that we can shop for the items that we need. Please write “LWR Kits” on the memo line of your check or enclose cash in an envelope marked “LWR Kits.” Thank you all for your generosity.
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season!
Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
Saturday, April 22
10:00 a.m. – RELC "Plot Against Hunger" garden. Meet at the church garden to help prepare the beds for planting. This will include weeding, putting down mulch, etc.
4:00 p.m. – The Music at Resurrection committee will be hosting a concert by Carmina and Illuminare in the Sanctuary.
There will be a light reception in the Parish Hall following the concert.
Sunday, April 23
9:10 a.m. – Sunday School in the Parish Hall.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: Richard Graham, Retired Bishop of the Metro DC Synod.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
11:15 a.m. – Blessing of our "Plot Against Hunger" garden. During coffee hour in the Parish Hall, the Creation Care Team will host an informational session on best practices for recycling and composting at church and at home, and updates on other green initiatives at church.
Saturday, April 29
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. – Meet the Candidate in the Parish Hall. Light refreshments will be served.
Sunday, April 30 – "Call Sunday"
9:10 a.m. – No Sunday School this week.
10:00 a.m. – Worship: our Pastoral Candidate for call.
11:15 a.m. – Confirmation Class will meet in Room 13.
11:15 a.m. – Congregational Meeting to consider calling new pastor in the Sanctuary. (Information on a remote option for those unable to attend in person will be forthcoming.)
We are pleased to welcome to preside and preach, our Pastoral Candidate for call, at our April 30 worship service.
On Sunday, May 7, Pastor Gordon Lathrop will preach and preside.
Please save the date for a Congregational Meeting on Sunday, April 30 to consider calling a new pastor! Come meet him on Saturday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Consider bringing some light finger foods (i.e. no utensils required to eat) to share. A written letter was distributed to all members of the congregation with the announcement of these meetings.
Our constitution requires a quorum of 36 percent of our active, voting membership to call a pastor, double the quorum requirement for a congregational meeting for any other purpose. Please make every effort to attend the meeting in person to help us achieve that number! If you are unable to participate in person due to travel or illness, we are working on a virtual participation option and will share information during the week. Please hold these dates in your calendars as we consider an important next step in the future of Resurrection!
At the beginning of each of Resurrection’s online Advent and Lenten evening prayers, I introduced worshipers to one or two of that week’s commemorations. See pages 15-17 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) to see what I am talking about. Some of you welcomed these stories about the saints. If you are interested in more of this history of those who have gone before us in the faith, you might want to purchase a book I published in 2016, More Days for Praise: Festivals and Commemorations in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. There’s a double-page spread for each commemoration, with a picture in color, a brief bio, a quote if possible from the person, a hymn and a prayer suggestion, and prompts for your own prayers. This book is available from our national church’s publishing house, Augsburg Fortress, for $22 (go to augsburgfortress.org). If you don’t have a copy of the ELW at home, its purchase price is $24.50. To encourage your interest in these commemorations, ahead of us in April are for example the artist Albrecht Duerer, the martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the remarkable Japanese renewer of society Toyohiko Kagawa, and (my favorite!) Catherine of Siena.
After a very long break because of COVID, the RELC Quilting Group will begin meeting again on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month from 10:00 a.m. - noon in Room 209.
The Quilting Group will not be meeting on Tuesday, April 25. No sewing skill is necessary. We spend most of our time laying out, pinning and hand tying quilts that will be sent to Lutheran World Relief. Hope you can join us!
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LWR warehouses are empty and these items are desperately needed by refugees and other people impacted by natural and man-made disasters around the world.
Your Social Ministry Committee is collecting:
Please drop donations in the box in the narthex. You may also donate money so that we can shop for the items that we need. Please write “LWR Kits” on the memo line of your check or enclose cash in an envelope marked “LWR Kits.” Thank you all for your generosity.
Please mark your calendars for Saturday, April 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary, as the Music at Resurrection committee will be hosting a concert by Carmina and Illuminare. Carmina is a choral group consisting of both men and women, while Illuminare is a women's ensemble. These groups were brought to our attention by our Music Director, Barbara Bulger Verdile, and our very own Darwyn Banks will be performing with Carmina. Please visit their website to learn more about these fabulous groups!
While this concert is free, there will be a free-will offering. Those offerings will go to an Arlington charity, Path Forward.
Also, there will be a light reception in the Parish Hall following the concert. Please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions.
RELC will observe Earth Day on Sunday, April 23. Following the service, we will have a blessing of our "Plot Against Hunger" garden. During coffee hour in the Parish Hall, the Creation Care Team will host an informational session on best practices for recycling and composting at church and at home. We’ll also provide updates on other green initiatives going on at church. We look forward to celebrating Earth Day with you!
The RELC gardeners are looking for help during this year's growing season! Here are a couple of opportunities:
This Saturday, April 22, meet at the church garden at 10:00 a.m. to help prepare the beds for planting. This will include weeding, putting down mulch, etc.
Help throughout the season with watering, harvesting, and delivering produce. Help is needed weekly to water the garden, harvest any produce and deliver to one of several local drop off centers. Please sign up using this SignUp Genius link.
Questions? Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Resurrection’s 2023 offering envelopes have finally arrived! Please claim yours from the table in the Narthex starting March 26 and start using them as soon as possible to assist with counting and allocating your generous donations.
Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) current recommendations, masking is optional for attendance at Resurrection’s worship services when the CDC assessment of Arlington County’s community COVID level is “low” and is recommended, but not required, for attendance if the community level is “medium.”
The CDC recommends that residents stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, get tested if they have symptoms, and wear a mask if they have symptoms, a positive test, or exposure to someone with COVID-19, as well as to individuals on public transportation. The agency also encourages residents to wear a mask at any time, if they choose to do so, as an additional precaution to protect themselves and others. Anyone at high risk for severe illness is encouraged to consider wearing a mask indoors in public and taking additional precautions.
Congregants at Resurrection’s worship services are also reminded to maintain appropriate distances when sitting in pews, sharing the peace of Christ and taking communion, and to wash hands and use sanitizers in church. Our pastors, communion assistants, and ushers will continue to wear masks when welcoming those attending services and in distributing Holy Communion. The wearing of masks in Sunday School will continue to be guided by parents’ feedback. Anyone not feeling well should stay home and access the livestream feed of worship services.
Having adopted our 2023 operating and capital budgets, Resurrection’s financial team needs to ensure that our congregation will back these budgets with its generous offerings of support. Please let us know of your giving intentions by answering the Stewardship Committee’s request and returning your Giving Intent response at our Sunday services, mailing it to the church office, or using the online form on the Resurrection website.
You can also choose to have your offering automatically drawn from your bank account on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with the “Simply Giving” electronic funds transfer program. Just complete an enrollment form and return it along with your giving intent – or schedule a recurring offering using the “Donate” button on the Resurrection website.
Resurrection is continuing to work on updating its membership directory with the most current, accurate and preferred contact information. Member Information forms are available in the Narthex – we urge each member of the congregation to fill one out and return it to the church office.
To view our 10:00 a.m. Sunday worship service on YouTube live, click on the live worship link on the RELC home page on Sunday mornings during the worship hour and be redirected to the YouTube live stream. The Live Stream will "go live" at 9:55 a.m. on each Sunday morning. To view the service at a later time, go to our YouTube Channel. Click on the videos tab to browse archives of past services. Click on the Subscribe button and create an account to be notified when Live Streams are started or when other videos are added. For any questions, please contact the pastor.
During our pastoral transition, we will suspend the compilation of a formal and published prayer list. Our intercessory prayer lists are crafted and maintained by the pastor who receives names and who exercises pastoral discretion and care in relation to those named and those who name them. Without an interim or called pastor to generate and maintain the list and to follow up pastorally concerning those named, an intercessory prayer list would be challenging to maintain with pastoral integrity and sensitivity. That said, each Sunday’s prayers of intercession include a petition during which members of the worshiping assembly can call out aloud specific names of persons for whom they would like to pray, and during this time of pause, worshipers can also name persons in the silence of their hearts and minds. Please be assured that your prayerful intents and those of the whole worshiping assembly are heard by God.
Pastor Alex Stall of nearby Advent Lutheran will be taking over to be on call for members of the congregation to contact in case of pastoral emergency and other pastoral needs beginning in March. He may be reached at: (703) 571-7010, (301) 793-4133, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Alexandra Mattson, the editor of our now quarterly Steeple Light newsletter, is now also serving as the editor of our Weekly Announcements messages, working closely with Council President Leslie Nolen. If you have any items that you wish to communicate in the Weekly Announcements as committee chairs or those responsible for other ministry initiatives at Resurrection, please send them via email to both This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by late Wednesday mornings for inclusion in the message for the coming Thursday. Thanks!
