Verbal Announcements
6th Pentecost
23 Jul 2025
5th Pentecost
13 Jul 2025
4th Pentecost
6 Jul 2025
3rd Pentecost
29 Jun 2025
2nd Pentecost
22 Jun 2025
Trinity
15 Jun 2025
Pentecost
8 Jun 2025
7th Easter
1 Jun 2025
6th Easter
25 May 2025
5th Easter
18 May 2025
4th Easter
11 May 2025
3rd Easter
4 May 2025
2nd Easter
27 Apr 2025
Easter
20 Apr 2025
Palm Sunday
13 Apr 2025
5th Sunday of Lent
6 Apr 2025
4th Sunday of Lent
30 Mar 2025
As We Gather
The Lord not only teaches us what to pray for but also how to pray. With the words of the Lord’s Prayer, we are directed in confidence to the Lord. When doubts arise, we are reminded of how earthly fathers give good gifts to their children and are encouraged to believe that God will do so even more for us, because of our Savior Jesus Christ. It can be tempting to think of ourselves as the center of our prayers instead of the God who graciously invites us to pray and promises to hear and answer us. Today we are encouraged to learn from Jesus and to pray in His name to the Father, trusting that He will give us all good things and all things needful because of our Savior Jesus Christ.
Holy Communion
The Lord’s Supper is celebrated today with the confession that we receive the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, in, with and under (a way of saying that Christ is fully present in) the bread and wine. Christ's presence gives us the assurance that our sins are forgiven and to nourish our faith. This is a solemn celebration, “For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves” (1Corinthians 11:29). The Lord’s Supper is meant for our good, not to our judgment. But, before presenting yourself ask these questions:
1. Am I sorry for my sins and need forgiveness?
2. Did Christ die and rise to forgive my sins?
3. Am I receiving the very body and blood of Christ Jesus?
If your answers are yes, you are welcome. If you are not a member of a LCMS church, or have further questions about The Lord’s Supper, please speak with the pastor.
Stewardship
Luke 11:11 – “What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent?”
A generous, giving spirit comes from knowing that you have a generous, giving Father. He will care for our needs. We are therefore free to reflect His generosity in our lives. We can be generous in raising our children, supporting the Church, and serving our neighbor in the community. In these three areas – home, Church, and society – the Lord has called us to show His grace and generosity to those around us.
Lutherans For Life
“God has come down and given us His Son. But in times of doubt or struggle we can clearly see—through the eyes of faith—Christ the Savior, shining bright into our world. And so, we go down the mountain to the everyday and even the unknown. Like the disciples then, we go with Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Rev. Cody Copper, guest speaker on The Lutheran Hour – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
Children Sunday School
As we gather this week, we are studying “A Loving Law.” Months into their wilderness wanderings, the Israelites arrive in the wilderness of Sinai. God comes to the mountain in clouds and thunder—fire and smoke—as He establishes His covenant with His people through Moses, His chosen intermediary. There on the mountain, God gives Moses His Ten Commandments. Discuss why the Ten Commandments are still important in our lives today.
Church Directory
We are developing a church pictorial directory and are looking for volunteers to help coordinate and facilitate the process. A church directory helps us put names to faces. You might know most of your peers but it is unlikely that you can identify everyone in other peer groups. A church directory encourages relationships. Personal connections can’t happen if people are strangers! A photo directory provides a sense of belonging and indicates that members are part of a special group.
For more information contact Jennifer Klemme.
Lawn Team Recruitment
We are in need of additional team members. Our 2-person teams keep our Church grounds attractive and welcoming to visitors! The normal frequency is for each team to work every 6 weeks for about 3 to 4 hours.
For more information contact Jeff Adams or any member of our Lawn Teams.
Media Team Members
We are in need of additional Media Team members to operate the Sound, Screens, and Stream. It is an important role – the ability to enhance the worship experience through visuals and sound so that others are able follow the worship service in person and remotely.
For more information contact Family Life Minister Curtis.
Ushers Needed
We are in need of additional Ushers. A church usher is a person who helps ensure a smoothly running church service while fostering an atmosphere of reverence and worship. At the heart of an usher is the heart of a servant, who does their work for our Lord (Colossians 3:24). The Ushers tasks are to help make people feel welcome at church in a variety of practical applications by assisting the Called Ministers with people management, receiving the offering, and help maintaining a safe environment.
For more information contact Family Life Minister Curtis.
Smokes and Jokes, a Christian Fellowship
Attention cigar smokers, pipe smokers, bourbon and scotch drinkers! Pastor Klemme is organizing a fellowship group around shared interest in the leaf and libations to meet at one of the local cigar bars and in each other’s homes, where we can smoke and joke on the patio. Those interested should contact Pastor Klemme directly.
Youth Group
Mite Boxes
Perhaps inspired by the various "cent" or "mite" societies of the early 1800s, the Woman's Mission to Woman urged members in its first circular letter in 1871 to use their new Mite Box to raise funds. The entire family was encouraged to contribute. The first Sunday of the month is when we receive your collected mites in the LWML Mite Box
Board Of Outreach Meeting
Philemon 4-6. The Board of Outreach has a two fold mission: To Communicate the Gospel of Christ through the members of our congregation and in the endeavor to identify the congregation with the Gospel in the local community. Meets with Pastor Klemme in the Cafe.
Properties Board Meeting
For the maintenance and repair of the congregation’s facilities; to enable the congregation and its members to carry out our Christ centered ministries. Meets in the Library. For more information contact Jeff Adams
Board of Elders Meeting
Meeting with the Called Ministers and the Board of Elders to discuss, plan, and implement strategies to carry out corporate worship, and addressing the spiritual health of the congregation.
For more information contact Joe Staton
Benevolence
Benevolence fund exists to aid those seeking temporary, but immediate financial help. Please consider contributing toward our benevolence fund. The fund needs contributors to support this ministry. Please consider contributing to our benevolence fund. (Online to donate: https://www.shalimar.church/human-care)
The Way Cafe
An in-person devotion with Pastor Klemme to strengthen your relationship with God through Scripture, song, prayer, fellowship, and biblical insights. Come, be replenished, renewed, and fueled to live a life of faith. You are welcome just as you are. God is here, ready to connect with you in a fresh way. Meets by weekly starting in August in the Cafe.
American Heritage Girls Troop 1517
Building women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country.
American Heritage Girls is a Christ-centered scouting ministry for girls ages 5-18. AHG offers badge programs, service projects, girl leadership opportunities, and outdoor experiences to its members.
The troop meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month.
The AHG Oath: “I promise to love God, cherish my family, honor my country, and serve in my community.
For more information contact Adrienne Cook.
Council Meeting
Let us do everything with love. The Church Council is a gathering of elected advisers who serve and guide the ministries of the congregation toward our given mission. (Matthew 28:19-20). We meet in the library.
Rally Day
Join us for Rally Day for an afternoon of fun!
Rally Day underscores God's intention that all Christians (children, youth, and adults) grow and learn from His Word by including it in our daily routine. Rally Day is an opportunity for us to celebrate and acknowledge the ministries within the congregation with food, games, displays, a water slide, and fellowship.
Commemoration of Elijah
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
The prophet Elijah, whose name means, “My God is Yahweh [the Lord],” prophesied in the northern kingdom of Israel, mostly during the reign of Ahab (874-853 B.C.). Ahab, under the influence of his pagan wife Jezebel, had encouraged the worship of Baal throughout his kingdom, even as Jezebel sought to get rid of the worship of Yahweh. Elijah was called by God to denounce this idolatry and to call the people of Israel back to the worship Yahweh as the only true God (as he did in 1Kings 18:20-40). Elijah was a rugged and imposing figure, living in the wilderness and dressing in a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt (2Kings 1:8). He was a prophet mighty in word and deed. Many miracles were done through Elijah, including the raising of the dead (1Kings 17:17-24), and the effecting of a long drought in Israel (1Kings 17:1). At the end of his ministry, he was taken up into heaven as Elisha, his successor, looked on (2Kings 2:11). Later on the prophet Malachi proclaimed that Elijah would return before the coming of the Messiah (Malachi 4:5-6), a prophecy that was fulfilled in the prophetic ministry of John the Baptist (Matthew 11:14).
Source: Lutheran Calendar of Saints.
Commemoration of Ezekiel
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
Ezekiel, son of Buzi, was a priest, called by God to be a prophet to the exiles during the Babylonian captivity (Ezekiel 1:3). In 597 B.C. King Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonian army brought the king of Judah and thousands of the best citizens of Jerusalem—including Ezekiel—to Babylon (2Kings 24:8-16). Ezekiel’s priestly background profoundly stamped his prophecy, as the holiness of God and the Temple figure prominently in his messages (for example, Ezekiel 9-10 and 40-48). From 593 B.C. to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 586 B.C., Ezekiel prophesied the inevitability of divine judgment on Jerusalem, on the exiles in Babylon, and on seven nations that surrounded Israel (Ezekiel 1-32). Jerusalem would fall, and the exiles would not quickly return, as a just consequence of their sin. Once word reached Ezekiel that Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed, his message became one of comfort and hope. Through him God promised that his people would experience future restoration, renewal and revival in the coming Messianic kingdom (Ezekiel 33-48). Much of the strange symbolism of Ezekiel’s prophecies was later employed in the Revelation to St. John.
Source: Lutheran Calendar of Saints.
Festival of Saint Mary Magdalene
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
“An excellent wife who can find?” (Proverbs 31:10). The Lord’s love does not search out what is lovely. Instead, His love seeks out sinners and dies for them, washes them clean, and presents them to Himself as a spotless bride (Ephesians 5). Christ had no wife on earth; His bride is the Church — the assembly of forgiven sinners rescued by His death and resurrection. Among them is St. Mary Magdalene, one “who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem” (Acts 13:31). The Lord rescued her from the power of seven demons, and she provided for Him out of her means (Luke 8:2-3). Christians have traditionally connected her with the unnamed penitent woman who was forgiven much by faith and thus “loved much” by anointing Jesus’ feet (Luke 7:36-50). She was there at Christ’s death, present at His burial and honored as the first witness of His resurrection. She would have clung to Him there in the garden, but the Lord had “not yet ascended” to His Father and our Father (John 20:16-18) to “fill all things” (Ephesians 4:10). For now He is heard in the Word of His witnesses and is here bodily in His Supper, not just for Mary, but for all penitents “who [fear] the Lord” (Proverbs 31:30), so that grace may abound “all the more” (Romans 5:20).
Source: Lutheran Calendar of Saints.
Festival of Apostle Saint James the Elder
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
The sons of Zebedee ask for seats at Jesus’ “right hand and … left, in your glory” (Mark 10:37). But they do not know what they are asking (Matthew 20:22), for God’s kingdom is not of glory and power but the cross. We will bear ours after Him. “For [His] sake we are being killed” and “regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” But “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him” (Romans 8:36-37), for Jesus’ death is unique. He alone is baptized with our sin and drinks the cup of God’s wrath against it (Mark 10:38). We live in service to our neighbors after His example; He alone is “the Son of Man,” who came “to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). Today the Church commemorates the fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy about James, killed with Herod’s sword (Acts 12:2). He is honored as the first apostle to be “conformed to the image of [God’s] Son” (Romans 8:29). But what is that when “Christ Jesus is the one who died — more than that, who was raised — who is at the right hand of God … interceding for us”? Nothing (not even a sword) can “separate” James and “us from the love of Christ” (Romans 8:34-35).
Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, Kantor
The Church honor's saints for using their gifts for the Kingdom of God. In so doing, it strengths faith insofar as it demonstrates God's Grace. The inspiration that the Saints offers is in showing us how living out our faith can be done.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) is acknowledged as one of the most famous and gifted of all composers past and present in the entire western world. Orphaned at the age of ten, Bach was mostly self-taught in music. His professional life as conductor, performer, composer, teacher, and organ consultant began at the age of 19 in the town of Arnstadt and ended in Leipzig, where for the last 27 years of his life he was responsible for all the music in the city’s four Lutheran churches. In addition to his being a superb keyboard artist, the genius and bulk of Bach’s vocal and instrumental compositions remain overwhelming. A devout and devoted Lutheran, he is especially honored in Christendom for his lifelong insistence that his music was written primarily for the liturgical life of the church to glorify God and edify his people.
Source: Lutheran Calendar of Saints
Commemoration of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany were disciples with whom Jesus had a special bond of love and friendship. John's Gospel records that “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus” (John 11:15). On one occasion Martha welcomed Jesus into their home for a meal. While she did all the work, Mary sat at Jesus' feet listening to his Word and was commended by Jesus for choosing the “good portion which will not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:38-42). When their brother Lazarus died, Jesus spoke to Martha this beautiful Gospel promise: “I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he life? (John 11:25-27). Ironically, when Jesus raised Lazarus from the death, the Jews became more determined than ever to kill Jesus (John 11:39-54). made Jesus' enemies more determined than ever to kill him (John 11:39-54). Six days before Jesus was crucified, Mary anointed his feet with a very expensive fragrant oil and wiped them with her hair, not knowing at the time that she was doing it in preparation for Jesus' burial (John 12:1-8; Matthew 26:6-13).
Source: Lutheran Calendar of Saints
Commemoration of Robert Barnes, Confessor and Martyr
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
Remembered as a devoted disciple of Martin Luther, Robert Barnes is considered to be among the first Lutheran martyrs. Born in 1495, Barnes became the prior of the Augustinian monastery at Cambridge, England. Converted to Lutheran teaching, he shared his insights with many English scholars through writings and personal contacts. During a time of exile to Germany he became a friend of Luther and later wrote a Latin summary of the main doctrines of the Augsburg Confession titled "Sententiae." Upon his return to England, Barnes shared his Lutheran doctrines and views in person with King Henry VIII and initially had a positive reception. In 1529 Barnes was named royal chaplain. The changing political and ecclesiastical climate in his native country, however, claimed him as a victim; he was burned at the stake in Smithfield in 1540. His final confession of faith was published by Luther, who called his friend Barnes "our good, pious table companion and guest of our home, this holy martyr, Saint Robertus."
Source: LCMS Calendar of Commemorations.
Commemoration of Joseph of Arimathea
The Church honor's saints for showing us how living out faith can be done.
This Joseph, mentioned in all four Gospels, come from a small village called Arimathea in the hill country of Judea. He was a respected member of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish religious council in Jerusalem. He was presumably wealthy, since he owned his own unused tomb in a garden not far from the site of Jesus' crucifixion (Matthew 27:60). Joseph, a man waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went to Pontius Pilate after the death of Jesus and asked for Jesus' body (Mark 15:43). Along with Nicodemus, Joseph removed the body and placed it in the tomb (John 19:39). Their public devotion contrasted greatly to the fearfulness of the disciples who had abandoned Jesus.
Source: LCMS Calendar of Commemorations.