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1935 Saint Clair Ave Saint Paul, MN 55105 651-699-6886 | pilgrimstpaul.orgOce Hours: 10-3 T-Th (email and voicemail are checked regularly) pilgrim lutheran churchAn ELCA Congregation A Home for Hungry Minds and Souls A Reconciling in Christ Congregation A Caring for Creation Congregation 2Sta Pastor Jen Rome (she/her) Lead Pastor pastorjenrome@pilgrimstpaul.orgPastor Russ Myers (he/him) Visitation Pastor (10% time) russellnmyers@yahoo.comDick Hensold (he/him) Composer in Residence dickhensold@gmail.com Micki Nyland (she/her) Director of Children, Youth, and Family Ministries (50% time) mickinyland@pilgrimstpaul.org Cathy Salin (she/her) Business Manager (60% time) cathysalin@pilgrimstpaul.org Chuck Regal (he/him) Mechanicals and Equipment Custodian (25% time) coregal@comcast.net Mike Schulze Custodian (25% time) mikeschulze@pilgrimstpaul.org Denika Anderson (she/her) Communications Specialist (30% time) communications@pilgrimstpaul.org Hana Ninow (she/her) Audio-Visual Tech (10% time) Members of the Congregational Council (also known as the Vestry) Kate Tosteson (she/her) President/Executive Team kate.tosteson@gmail.comKirsten Larsen Vice President/Executive Team Phil Kaupa Secretary/Executive TeamJason Hendrikson (he/him) Treasurer/Executive Team jasonhendrikson@gmail.comEmily Kahnert At-Large Member Annie Pezalla (she/her) At-Large Member Other Chairpersons/Roles Pete Newburg (he/him) Financial Secretary Barbara McCauley (she/her) Chair of Congregational Life and Care Tim Moore (he/him) Chair of Properties Committee Karie Johnson (she/her) Wedding Coordinator
what’s in your pilgrim?3Worship ................................................................................................................ 4 A Note from Pastor Jen .............................................................................4 March Worship Overview .........................................................................4 Livestreaming Update ...............................................................................4 March Worship Schedule .........................................................................4 Looking Ahead to April Worship .............................................................6 Important Information about Holy Communion ................................6From the Pastor .................................................................................................7 March Updates ............................................................................................7Music Notes ........................................................................................................8 Musical Leaders for Worship ...................................................................8 Holden Evening Prayer .............................................................................. 8 Choir Rehearsals ......................................................................................... 8 Evening Worship Spring 2025 .................................................................8 Music that Makes Community Reection .............................................9 Interim Music Plan ...................................................................................... 9From the Vestry ............................................................................................... 10Education, Service, & Fellowship ................................................................ 11 Ash Wednesday Soup Supper .............................................................. 11 Lenten Soup Suppers ............................................................................. 11 Lively Lunch Bunch, March 11 .............................................................. 11 More Than Happy Hour ......................................................................... 11 Random Readers Book Club ................................................................. 11 Classics for Pilgrims ................................................................................. 12 Men’s Breakfast March 3 ....................................................................... 12 Support Pilgrim with Thrivent Choice Dollars ................................... 12Deadline for the Next Pilgrim Newsletter ................................................. 12Children, Youth, & Family Faith Formation ............................................... 13 March Faith Formation ........................................................................... 13 Families in Faith ........................................................................................ 13 Student Spot ............................................................................................. 13Have a Family Update? .................................................................................. 14Prayer Corner .................................................................................................. 15Calendar ............................................................................................................ 16
worship4A Note from Pastor JenAs much as we can, let’s come to be together in person on Sundays. We need each other. And we need to keep becoming each other’s people, so we can rest in and rely on each other. This is how we will have the resilience to care for each other and our neighbors in days to come.March Worship Overview The basic pattern for Sunday mornings: • 9:30 am Worship with live streaming• 10:45 am Special Events like Coee Time and Learning ForumsWorship each Sunday morning includes “Point for Pilgrims” — an opportunity for children and their families to experience the Bible story in an engaging way. Livestreaming UpdateFor the foreseeable future, the worship livestream will be broadcast to YouTube only. This allows us to have a secure livestream that is not visible to the general public, and helps us keep our community safe while we continue to address safety concerns. If you receive the weekly emails from Pilgrim on Saturdays, you are on the mailing list for the livestream link. Look for an email from Pilgrim shortly before worship each Sunday with the link to join the livestream.March Worship Schedule Sunday, March 2 — Transguration Sunday9:30 am Pastor Jen Rome preaching. Featuring Pilgrim ute players. Reading: Luke 9:28-36. Holy Communion. Thanksgiving and Godspeed for Conie Borchardt, and conclusion of Music that Makes Community Residency.10:45 am Coee Time; preK-12th grade Faith Formation; Forum: Final Reections on Music that Makes Community Residency.Wednesday, March 5 — Ash Wednesday5:00 pm Soup Supper hosted by Congregational Life & Care6:51 pm Matthew Anderson preaching. Amanda Leger-Harewood, organist. Chancel Choir singing. Reading: Isaiah 58:1-12. Holy Communion. Imposition of Ashes.
WORSHIP (CONT.)5Sunday, March 9 — First Sunday in Lent9:30 am Pastor Jen Rome preaching. Amanda Leger-Harewood, organist. Y’All Come Choir singing. Readings: Psalm 91 and Luke 4:1-13. Pajama Sunday (Daylight Savings).10:45 am Coee Time; preK-grade 12 Faith Formation; Forum: Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community with Chairwoman Sharon Lennartson and Karen Lansing.6:51 pm Celtic Contemplative Communion. Word Weavings by Sally Johnson. Music by Dick Hensold and Celtic Musicians. Wednesday, March 12 — Lenten Wednesday Evening5:00 pm Soup Supper6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer with vocalists, piano, and treble instrument. Story of becoming trustworthy. Sunday, March 16 — Second Sunday in Lent9:30 am Kate Kennedy preaching. Kirsten Larsen, special music. Jim Lipscomb, guest organist. Chancel Choir singing. Reading: Luke 13:31-35. Holy Communion. Blessing on the conclusion of Kate Kennedy’s Diaconal Internship.10:45 am Coee Time; preK-grade 12 Faith Formation; Pilgrim Family Meeting.Wednesday, March 19 — Lenten Wednesday Evening5:00 pm Soup Supper6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer with vocalists, piano, and treble instrument. Story of becoming trustworthy. Sunday, March 23 — Third Sunday in Lent9:30 am Rev. Angela Denker, journalist and pastor, preaching. Cynthia Betz, organist. Chancel Choir singing. Reading: Luke 13:1-9. Families in Faith Blessing for young children and families.10:45 am Coee Time; preK-grade 12 Faith Formation; Forum: Rev. Angela Denker on her new book, “Disciples of White Jesus: the Radicalization of American Boyhood.”6:51 pm Nordic & Taizé Heart Songs. Word Weavings by Leif McLellan Boehm. American Swedish Institute Cloudberries Women’s Choir. Conie Borchardt, piano & organ.
6WORSHIP (CONT.)Wednesday, March 26 — Lenten Wednesday Evening5:00 pm Soup Supper6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer with vocalists, piano, and treble instrument. Story of becoming trustworthy. Sunday, March 30 — Fourth Sunday in Lent9:30 am Leif McLellan Boehm preaching. Nancy Olson, organist. Readings: Psalm 32, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, and Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32. Thank you from Interfaith Action Saint Paul for hosting a Winter Play Site.10:45 am Coee Time hosted by Interfaith Action Saint Paul; preK-grade 12 Faith Formation.Looking ahead to April WorshipApr 2 6:30 pm Holden Evening PrayerApr 9 6:30 pm Holden Evening PrayerApr 13 9:30 am Palm Sunday 6:51 pm Celtic Contemplative CommunionApr 17 6:00 pm Dinner Church: Maundy Thursday WorshipApr 18 6:51 pm Good Friday WorshipApr 20 8:30 am Easter Sunday Worship 10:30 am Easter Sunday WorshipApr 27 6:51 pm Nordic/Taize Heart Songs with Twin Cities Hardingfelelag, Rachel Jensen, Hardanger ddle, Peggy Larson, cantor, and Jim Lipscomb, pianoImportant Information About Holy Communion • We typically celebrate Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd Sundays, with some exceptions. • For the distribution of Holy Communion, ushers release the worshiping assembly row by row. Communicants come forward to receive the elements. Those serving Communion will cleanse their hands immediately before serving. Communicants will rst receive the bread, then dip it into the red wine or the white grape juice, and then eat it. • Gluten free wafers and individual sealed, pre-packaged communion kits are also available. If you need communion brought to you in your seat, just let your usher know.• ALL people are ALWAYS welcome to receive Holy Communion.
7from the pastorMarch UpdatesBY PASTOR JEN ROME“Trust in God, O people; pour out your hearts to God, our refuge.”-Psalm 62:8One thing I have set before myself in this time of great upheaval, is to build trust with as many people as possible. I am committed with you all to keep building trust with Pilgrim’s immediate neighbors—Groveland Elementary, Community Center, Businesses, nearby residences. So that when our neighbors need something (or we need something) we have relationships and trust enough to come to each other for help. When structures are destroyed and systems fail, we must turn to each other; and in each other there is the kind of hope and power that Jesus embodies in his ministry.I invite you to keep building trust with your own neighbors (like in your apartment building or on your block)—get to know them by name, share who you are as it is safe, hear about who they are, know their gifts and struggles. I invite you if you live near Pilgrim to get to know our congregation’s immediate neighbors (bring them a card or a drawing or a plant, ask them what is going well and what they are struggling with, ask them what you can pray about/hold for them). We are going to need each other. These relationships will provide sustenance and the relational power to provide for those in need and resist together.As we gather on Wednesdays in let, we will focus on building trust. Come to dinner and have soup from 5:00-6:15 pm in the Fellowship Hall and build trust with each other. (Note dierent times for Ash Wednesday in Worship Schedule). Then stay for Evening Prayer, led by each other for each other creating trust and care in scripture and song. Each week, we will hear the same scripture verse: Psalm 62:8 “Trust in God, O people; pour out your hearts to God, our refuge.” Each week, we will sing the Taizé song “Wait for the Lord” #262 in the Red Hymnal with the text revised to be “Trust in our God, whose day is near. Trust in our God, be strong, take heart!” Each week, a person from the Pilgrim community will share about a time they trusted someone (who was trustworthy), a time they became trustworthy for someone else, or a time trust was re-earned.Building trust builds the relational safety and resilience needed to care for each other in the time of trial. Building trust is what Jesus did wherever he went. Let us trust in Jesus and his ways to guide us in our own.Pastor Jen
music notes8Musical Leaders for Worship3/2 9:30 am Pilgrim Flute Choir; Conie Borchardt, organist3/5 6:51 pm Chancel Choir; Amanda Leger-Harewood, organist3/9 9:30 am Y’All Come Choir; Amanda Leger-Harewood, organist 6:51 pm Dick Hensold; Celtic musicians3/12 6:30 pm Vocalists, piano, and treble instrument3/16 9:30 am Chancel Choir; Jim Lipscomb, organist3/19 6:30 pm Vocalists, piano, and treble instrument3/23 9:30 am Chancel Choir; Cynthia Betz, organist 6:51 pm American Swedish Institute Cloudberries Women’s Choir; Conie Borchart, piano & organ3/26 6:30 pm Vocalists, piano, and treble instrument3/30 9:30 am Nancy Olson, organist*On Y’All Come Choir Sundays, any singers are encouraged to show up at 8:30 am to learn an easier anthem and help lead worship from the Chancel. Holden Evening PrayerWednesdays, March 12, 19, and 26 at 6:30 pm: This is a brief, gentle evening prayer service with music composed by Marty Haugen (Vespers ’86). Pilgrim musicians lead each week. There is also a brief sharing time from a person of Pilgrim on the theme of building trust.Choir RehearsalsPilgrim’s Chancel Choir, for adults, rehearses on Wednesdays, 6:30-8 pm.Evening Worship, Spring 2025Contemplative Prayer services provide quiet music, readings, candle lighting, and more. Please join us and invite your friends and neighbors! These services are meant to be an especially welcoming entry into Christian/ecumenical worship life, for people with all types of worship backgrounds and experience to quickly enter into community.Contemplative Communion (Celtic) 2nd Sundays, March 9 & April 13Includes original music and texts by Dick Hensold and members of the community.Nordic & Taize “Heart Songs”: 4th Sundays4th Sundays, March 23 & April 27Short, meditative songs and refrains from Taizé as well as a variety of music from Scandinavian traditions. Led by varying groups of musicians.
9MUSIC NOTES (CONT.)Music that Makes Community ReectionBy the time you read this monthly newsletter, we will have just completed the two-month residency with Music that Makes Community. We have vulnerably shared many reections and observations during this time and I’m grateful for every single brave voice. Here is a list of resources from our time together: • Songs We Sang in Worship: bit.ly/418YAIf• Songs We Sang at the February 1 Workshop: bit.ly/4h7WlLj• Music that Makes Community website: musicthatmakescommunity.org• How Much Paper Does a Congregation Need: bit.ly/howmuchpaperConnect with those who attended the workshop if you’re interested in connecting with the local MMC and song circle community.One of the hopes of this residency was to help the congregation connect as a community after a dicult fall season. Part of community building is tending the harms experienced, knowing that conict is impossible to avoid in our human experiences. One of the visions I’m casting as the Executive Director is “A Songleader in Every Family,” and I invite folks to imagine themselves as “Collaborative Ritual Artists.” CRA’s in this collective experience called life listen to what we need as individuals and as a group and then move toward fullling those needs. Whether it is through a song shared heart to heart or another action done in love, I hope you’ll ponder how you’re listening and responding to your heart and the needs of this community after this residency.Although this residency has ended, I hope the community connections and relationship we have created continue. I look forward to hearing about the reections that become clear further down the road. Community is possible and happening! May it be so! Conie Borchardt, Music that Makes Community Artist in ResidenceInterim Music PlanProgress continues on the search for Pilgrim’s new music director! The committee will commence work on the job description soon with the goal of hiring in May and a start date in summer 2025. Rest assured that our core values of worshiping and singing together and shared ministry are present throughout this process; please keep Pilgrim’s music ministers in your prayers as we navigate this transition. Lenten Holden Evening Prayer services begin March 12 and there are music plans in place as we move into the spring. Let us sing to God!The Pilgrim Vestry
10from the vestryMarch UpdatesBY KATE TOSTESON, VESTRY PRESIDENTThank you to all who attended the annual nance meeting. Between the care I saw during the meeting and the hope I witnessed in the service our high schoolers led that same day, I drove home with a very full heart.That day emphasized that Shared Ministry, one of our constitutional core values, is alive in our community. The Vestry has been keeping these values front of mind by having a member reect on one at the start of our meeting. Every reection has been dierent, and each has given me something to think about or helped me see a value in a new light.Eventually, we hope to reect on and converse about these values as a community. In the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to remind us all of Pilgrim’s currently-stated values. If you have any immediate thoughts you’d like to share, please nd me at coee hour or email me at kate.tosteson@gmail.com.Pilgrim’s Core ValuesWorshiping and Singing Together: We are a community of worship, centered in the grace of God and in our liturgical, scriptural, sacramental, and musical inheritances, joyfully received and re-visioned for our context.Growing in Faith: We nurture faith through home, church, and daily life, and dare to ask tough and honest questions.Living Sustainably and Making Justice: We seek to be a community of solidarity and service, living out the countercultural values of the gospel, grounded in moral courage and love for one another, our wider communities, and the whole creation.Robust Care and Celebration: If one rejoices, we all rejoice together; if one suers, we suer together. The gospel calls us beyond rugged American individualism to meeting Christ incarnationally, in one body of Christ.Outreach and Welcome: The gospel calls us to inclusive, intentional invitation. We meet the suering and risen Christ in the stranger.Shared Ministry: Each of us is a minister, living out our baptismal vocation of loving the neighbor, in a variety of ways both within and beyond the ministry of Pilgrim.Creativity: In service to the unique community context in which we have been planted, we focus on imagination, inspiration, inventiveness, and the arts.With gratitude, Kate Tosteson, Vestry President
11education, service, & fellowshipAsh Wednesday Soup SupperWednesday, March 5, 5:00-6:30 pm: Pilgrim’s Congregational Life and Care Team (CLC) will provide a simple bread and vegetarian soup supper before the service. All are welcome.Lenten Soup SuppersWednesdays, March 12 through April 9, 5:00-6:15 pm. All are welcome.Lenten Soup Suppers are coordinated each week by Pilgrim’s Congregational Life and Care Team. The free-will oering from the meals will be donated to Keystone Community Services. All are welcome and encouraged to come for supper.We’re asking for donations of soup only. CLC will provide everything else, including macaroni and cheese! If you feel so inclined, desserts will be accepted!If you’d like to bring a soup or help with cleanup, please contact Ann Dyellig at ann.dyellig@gmail.com or (612) 720-4403. Thank you!Lively Lunch Bunch, March 11You are invited to the Tuesday, March 11 gathering of the Lively Lunch Bunch, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, in the Fellowship Hall at Pilgrim.The meal: Italian-seasoned grilled chicken with lemon butter sauce, rice, and green beans. Dessert will be carrot cake. Coee and water are provided. Reservations are due Saturday, March 8. Send reservations to Ann Dyellig at ann.dyellig@gmail.com or (612) 720-4403. Our program will feature Louanne Kaupa speaking on nutrition as we age.More Than Happy Hour Tuesday, March 25, 6:30 pm, Tono Pizzeria on Snelling & St. ClairPilgrim will treat you to a beverage of your choice. More Than Happy Hour is a once-a-month space for young adults to gather and talk about life, church, and the world. We focus on a discussion theme. Anyone and everyone is welcome or bring a conversation topic. Contact Claire Kaiser at kaise364@umn.edu with any questions and for coordinating rides.Random Readers Book ClubThe Random Readers Book Club will gather on Thursday, March 20 at 1:30 pm in the Fireside Room at Pilgrim. We will be discussing The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. We hope you’ll join us. Contact Lynda Hirschboeck at (651) 698-7399 or hirschbo@gmail.com for more information.
12EDUCATION, SERVICE, & FELLOWSHIP (CONT.)Classics for PilgrimsClassics for Pilgrims meets on the fourth Thursday of each month to discuss classics (books more than 50 years old) selected by participants. We will meet on Thursday, March 27, 7-8:30 pm to discuss A Separate Peace by John Knowles. Open to all readers!Contact Barbara Taylor at (651) 699-1095 or bstaylor50@gmail.comor Mark Hirschboeck at (651) 214-0278 or mhhirschboeck@gmail.com for location info or with any questions. Men’s Breakfast March 3Men’s Breakfast will meet Monday, March 3 at 8:00 am at the Coee Cup, 1333 Randolph Ave, St. Paul. Please join us for food & fellowship. All men are welcome! Contact Mark Hirschboeck at mhhirschboeck@gmail.com with any questions.Support Pilgrim with Thrivent Choice DollarsThrivent Financial 2024 Choice Dollars expire on March 31, 2025! If you have insurance or investments through Thrivent Financial, you may have Choice Dollars that you can direct to Pilgrim Lutheran Church. This provides important support for our ministry (and costs you nothing). If you designated these funds in the past, please know that you must do it every year. Since enrolling in the program in 2011, Pilgrim has received thousands of dollars in directed funds! To learn more about your options, visit thrivent.com/about-us/membership/thrivent-choice. Questions? Please contact a representative from the Member Connection Center. For faster service, have your member ID or contract number available.Deadline for the Next Pilgrim Newsletter The deadline for sending in materials for the April newsletter is March 10. Please send items to newsletter@pilgrimstpaul.org.
13children, youth, & familiesBY MICKI NYLAND & JEN ROMEMarch Faith Formation Hello, Pilgrim Families! As we move into and through the season of Lent, our young people will continue on their journeys. PreK-5th grade have made it out of Egypt and are now continuing the story of Moses by learning about the time in the Wilderness. Middle School is exploring how their faith is relevant to their lived experience. High School will be wrapping up their study of the Beatitudes. Families in Faith: Early ChildhoodYou are invited to a special class on “Let the Little Children Come” for you and your child (3 and under) on Sunday, March 23, 8:45-9:15 am in the Fireside Room.You and your child attend together; we will explore playing church at home and fun ways to engage in worship with your child at church. A worship playset or baby’s rst Bible will be given to those who do not already have one and we will give an alternative gift for those who already have these. It’s also important to get a chance to meet other Pilgrim parents/caregivers and kids! Siblings are welcome. Some of you with children under 3 might have attended this class before, but you are welcome to attend again.Please email Pastor Jen at pastorjenrome@pilgrimstpaul.org and let her know if your child already received their own worship playset or not so we can prepare materials. There will be a blessing the same morning in 9:30 am worship following the class on Sunday, March 23 for you and your child/ren.Student Spot: A Safe, Loving Place for Kids when School’s OImmanuel Lutheran Church, in partnership with Macalester College and area churches, is oering free childcare on certain days when St. Paul Public Schools are closed. This year’s Student Spot registration is open, and many of our participants from last year are coming back. This is a testament to the great work last year. Open to: School-aged (preK-grade 8) children (high-school-aged children may attend as volunteers)Scheduled Dates: Friday, March 7; Friday, March 28 (preK-grade 5 only); Friday, April 18Additional Dates: when weather or other unexpected events force buildings to close
14CHILDREN, YOUTH, & FAMILIES (CONT.)Address: 104 Snelling Ave. S, St. Paul (just south of Grand Avenue on the A Line and #84 bus line)Times: 7:30 am – 4:30 pm Register: ilcsp.org/studentspotAll parents must consent to a child code of conduct. Activities will be age-appropriate and non-religious. Each child should bring a bag lunch. Snacks will be provided. Devices should be left home except on digital learning days. We cannot provide secure storage for valuables. All sta and adult volunteers have undergone a background check and training in safety and behavior management.Contact: Director Emily King, eking@ilcsp.org, (651) 699-5560Saint Paul Public Schools is not sponsoring, endorsing, or recommending the activities announced in this yer and no child will be turned away due to inability to pay.Have a Family Update?We’d love to hear about it! Please send changes to names, pronouns, and household members to newsletter@pilgrimstpaul.org.
15prayer cornerWe pray for God’s loving presence for these Pilgrims who need healing, hope, comfort, and care: Concerns: We pray for all elected ocials and public servants. Guide them in their work to care for our cities, our state, and our nation. We pray for love and justice to prevail in this season of uncertainty and transition.We pray for the people of areas torn by war and violence, including Sudan, Myanmar, Lebanon, Gaza and West Bank, Israel, Iran, Syria, Ukraine, and Russia, for peace and safety. We also pray for those who are refugees eeing violence seeking help and hope.We pray for the loved ones and communities of all victims of gun violence across our country.We pray for those whose lives are altered by climate events, especially the wildres in California. We pray for creation and for an increased will to care for it.We pray for all in the LGBTQIA+ community who face bias, rejection, and violence, especially trans and non-binary siblings. We pray that we may all grow in acceptance and each become a voice for acceptance, advocacy, and support as an expression of Pilgrim’s status as a Reconciling in Christ community of faith.We keep in prayer our Native, Asian, Latino, and Black siblings who continue to face the legacy of racism. We pray for change in systems of oppression and injustice, and that we all may learn to follow the path of anti-racism, and each become a voice for inclusion, equity, and justice.We pray for our Muslim and Jewish siblings, as well as our siblings of other religions, in our country, state, and community facing prejudice, threats, and destruction of their places of worship.We pray for our companion congregation, Luganga Lutheran Church, of the Iriniga Diocese of Tanzania (for rain, purchasing land for one preaching point, adding roofs to houses for two preaching points), as well as the Huruma Centre Children’s Home. They specically asked that we pray for their country, for continued peace that they are experiencing now; for their plans and projects as a church, that they succeed in them; for our congregation’s formal mission partners: Saint Paul Area Synod, Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul, ISAIAH, Lutheran Social Service Refugee Services, Lutheran Campus Ministry — Twin Cities, Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light, and Reconciling Works.In Joy and Thanksgiving: For Karla, on the start of her pastoral internship; For Ehsan, friend of Reva, on the safe arrival of his siblings in the U.S. on humanitarian visas; For Jim and Judy, on their wedding.Current Concerns: For Christine, sister of Zig Schuessler, recovery from surgery; For David Weiss, prostate cancer; For Petra Vogt, recovery from surgery; Joan, mother of Jimmy Gerding, recovery from inuenza; Don, brother of Gail Steward, undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer; Dan Ninow, recovery from surgery; Roger Sween, as he moves to memory care; Bishop Budde, in gratitude for her courage and her continued safety; Jenna Rossiter, in her work; Michelle, cousin of Micki Nyland, recovery from surgery; Maggie Lesher, recovery from surgery; Gerry, brother of Chuck Regal, hospitalized; Dave, father of Sam Tosteson, brain cancer; Tim, friend of Dan Kidney, starting chemo treatment; Guy, father of Dan Kidney, healing and endurance for health issues; Tom Lesher, maintenance of health; Dan, son of Maggie and Tom Lesher, ongoing health concerns and maintaining employment; Linda, sister of Barbara McCauley, treatment for liver cancer.Ongoing Health Concerns: Julia, stepdaughter of Chuck Regal, recovery from hit and run; David, father of Karla Leitzman, ongoing health concerns; Jane, mother of Karla Leitzman, continued healing after complications of knee replacement surgery; Brant, brother of Zig Schuessler, health concerns; Jan, mother of Leslie Brandt, cancer; Ana, friend of Sam Fouts, healing from cancer which has returned; Mike, son of Chuck Regal, ongoing care as a result of a serious motorcycle accident; Judy Boehm, health concerns; Dennis, uncle of Sam Fouts, health concerns; Jolee, sister of Jess Grams; Merle Strom, who is homebound.Christian Sympathy: For Rachel Jensen, on the death of her father; Heather, friend of Jen Rome, on the death of her son, Jake; Dan Kidney, on the death of his grandmother, Carol; Melissa Stirn and family, on the unexpected death of her sister-in-law, Dawn.Ministry Partnership: The ministry and people of our sister congregation, Luganga Lutheran Church in Tanzania and Pastor Bimbiga; Pilgrim sta members and Pilgrim lay leaders. In and beyond the congregation: For peace in our world, for healing in our country, for the invisibly ill, for the mentally ill.You are encouraged to send greetings to those you are moved to communicate with. Let us know if you are expecting or adopting a child. If you wish to add or remove a prayer request, please call the church oce, ll out the form on our website, ll out a white prayer request form located in the pews, or contact the pastor.
16calendarMarch 2025March 2 9:30 am Thanksgiving & Godspeed for Conie Borchardt 10:45 am Forum: Final Reections on Music that Makes Community ResidencyMarch 3 8:00 am Men’s BreakfastMarch 4 7:30 pm Executive Committee meetingMarch 5 5:00 pm Ash Wednesday Soup Supper 6:00 pm Chancel Choir rehearsal 6:51 pm Ash Wednesday WorshipMarch 9 10:45 am Forum: Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community, Chairwoman Sharon Lennartson and Karen Lansing 6:51 pm Celtic Contemplative CommunionMarch 10 10:00 pm April newsletter deadlineMarch 11 11:30 am Lively Lunch BunchMarch 12 5:00 pm Lenten Soup Supper 6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer 7:00 pm Chancel Choir March 16 8:30 am Chancel Choir 8:45 am Families in Faith: Early Childhood 9:30 am Blessing on the conclusion of Kate Kennedy’s Diaconal Internship 10:45 am Forum: Pilgrim Family MeetingMarch 18 7:30 pm Vestry meetingMarch 19 5:00 pm Lenten Soup Supper 6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer 7:00 pm Chancel ChoirMarch 20 1:30 pm Random Readers Book ClubMarch 23 8:30 am Chancel & Tenor-Bass Choirs Rehearsal 10:45 am Forum: Rev. Angela Denker 6:51 pm Nordic & Taizé Heart SongsMarch 25 6:30 pm More Than Happy HourMarch 26 5:00 pm Lenten Soup Supper 6:30 pm Holden Evening Prayer 7:00 pm Chancel Choir 7:00 pm Church Culture Coaching TeamMarch 27 7:00 pm Classics for PilgrimsMarch 30 8:30 am Jubilee & Junior Choirs rehearsal 10:45 am Coee Time hosted by Interfaith Action Saint Paul