Welcome to Incarnation!
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Livestreaming Schedule
September 24, 9:00 and 10:30 a.m.
Both services are in the Sanctuary
All livestreamed worship will be on Vimeo but you don’t need a Vimeo account to view the livestream. The livestream will begin about ten minutes prior to the start of the service so you can make sure you’re able to connect.
The links:
Worship at 9:00 a.m.: Worship
Opening of Worship
Hymn – This Little Light of Mine #677
Prayer
Anthem
Release of ILC Kids
Tanzania Conversation
Sermon
Hymn – Christ, Be Our Light #715 (verses 1-2, 5)
Prayers
Communion – All are welcome
Next Steps
Hymn – We Are Marching in the Light # 866
Worship at 10:30 a.m.: Worship
Opening of Worship
Songs – God is For Us and Come As You Are
Special Music
Release of ILC Kids
Tanzania Conversation
Sermon
Special Music
Communion – All are welcome
Next Steps
Song – This Little Light of Mine
Watch later on Facebook
Watch later on Web
Download a PDF of a guide for families worshiping together
2023 Print & Online Photo Directory
Photo sessions are done for the photo directory but it’s not too late for you to submit a photo! Please send a family photo attached to an email with all people listed to Danette Griffith at dgriffith@incarnationmn.org by October 15.
Thank you for your continued commitment to the ministries at Incarnation. These ministries are vital to our church’s worship and we would love to invite you to give so we can continue to support them. If you have questions regarding setting up a recurring donation or making a gift via Stock, an IRA or a Donor Advised Fund, please contact Amy Faymoville, Gifts Manager at: afaymoville@incarnationmn.org.
Offering Envelopes – Printer List Deadline is October 6
Incarnation sends a list to our envelope printer three times per year. If you are currently receiving offering envelopes in the mail and are now giving an alternate method (Online, Stock, IRA or Donor Advised Fund) and no longer wish to receive physical offering envelopes, please contact Amy Faymoville, Gifts Manager at afaymoville@incarnationmn.org to be removed from the list. Or, if you are not receiving personalized offering envelopes in the mail and would like to be added to the list, please send an email and let Amy know.
Worship Arts Banner
Green is the liturgical color for the Season After Pentecost. It is the season of growth, both in the natural world of plants and in our spiritual growth in knowledge and love of Jesus. The sanctuary banner symbolizes this season of growth. Light green represents an immature faith, medium green represents a growing faith, and dark green represents a more mature faith.
Communion Server Training
If you’ve ever thought about being a Communion Server, we’d love to have you join the team! There will be a Communion Server training session today, 9/17, after the 9:00 a.m. service in Adult Room C. Communion Servers can choose to serve at either the 9:00 or 10:30 a.m. service and are scheduled one to three times per month. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Durbin in the Incarnation Office. We hope you can join us!
The Incarnation Music Series will feed the heart, mind, and spirit of the community through the gift of music. We are striving to fill the world with God’s grace and love through locally available, high-quality music. This is an opportunity for us to give generously and inspire hope. We invite you to experience the transforming power of music. Bring a friend!
October 8, 2023
4:00 p.m.
Jack Brass Band
Freewill offering
Based on the traditions of New Orleans’ brass bands, Jack Brass Band is an ambassador to the Crescent City’s rich musical history. “If you like your gumbo spicy and your music hot, check out the Jack Brass Band,” said Wynton Marsalis after hearing them.
New Members Class Sunday, October 15
Have you found your new church home at Incarnation? Are you interested in becoming a member? Come join us for our New Members Class on Sunday, October 15 after the 10:30 a.m. worship service. A lunch will be served, as together we explore our joined faith in Christ and discover our Mission, Vision and Values as a community of faith. Click here to register! Or use the QR Code below.
Nursery care will be available during that time for children 10 and under, simply indicate if you need nursery care on the registration form.
FALL SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITIES
More information: HERE
We Make the Road by Walking
Creation Care – Awakening to God’s Call to Earthkeeping
A Jesus’ Shaped Vision for Life
Winter can be a challenging time for many families, and your generosity will provide warmth and comfort to those who need it most. Please consider donating new or gently-used coats, boots, hats, weatherproof gloves, snow pants, and scarves. The families at Solid Ground will appreciate the warm gear as they walk in cold weather to bus stops and as children play in the snow. A collection box will be available inside Incarnation from September 3 to October 1. Monetary donations are especially helpful to purchase coats or boots when sizes are not available to meet the needs of families. Please feel free to invite your family, friends and neighbors to participate. We believe that by coming together as a community, we can make a significant impact and bring joy to the lives of our Solid Ground neighbors. All winter wear donations not used by Solid Ground families are brought to the Alley Shoppe in Arlington Hills Lutheran Church so others can keep warm this winter.
Solid Ground Tutors Needed for Fall – October 9 to December 14
Tutoring will begin Monday, October 9th Mondays through Thursdays for students in grades K-8.
- 2:30-3:30pm – Elementary I
- 3:30-4:30pm – Elementary ll
- 4:30-5:30om – Middle School
Tutoring at Solid Ground is a wonderful opportunity to form a special relationship with a child. In addition to helping improve academic skills, it is also an opportunity for children to get one-to-one time with a supportive, positive adult role model each week. Older high school students and college students can make a lasting impact on a child and are invited to consider tutoring. All materials are provided and no teaching experience is necessary. Volunteers who are willing to serve at least 1 hour per week are preferred, but scheduling can be flexible as well. Substitute tutors are also needed. Contact Dylan McDonough for more information and to sign-up at dmcdonough@solidgroundmn.org
Kairos Adult Learning
Sundays, 10:15 a.m. Fireside Room
Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Zoom Begins Oct. 2
Oct. 1 & Oct. 2: Faith and Civic Life: Our Voices on ELCA Social Statement
Incarnation members with Carol Lacey
As dynamic members of the ELCA (individually and corporately) we at Incarnation have an opportunity to consider, reflect and respond to the challenges of faith and civic life. Incarnation participants in small groups in September with Carol Lacey will share conversation about how we gather as a church and then go into the world to do God’s work, how worship invites and prepares us to “go in peace to love and serve the Lord”.
Oct. 8: MicroGrants and Lights On, A Hand Up and A Way Out
Don Samuels, CEO MicroGrants
Charitable work often perpetuates poverty and dependency and is based on a presumption of hierarchy. We are more often moved more by our own assets, our own timing, and our own sentiments in how we give and serve. We are seldom moved by the pains, priorities, or opportunities of the objects of our charity. Don Samuels, CEO of MicroGrants and Lights On!, will share efforts to do charity differently in a way that prioritizes timing, healing and prosperity in ways that might lead, more quickly, to equality, grants to low income-people of potential to boost a business, education or career.
Living in the Jordan neighborhood of north Minneapolis for 26 years, influenced both Don and his wife, Sondra, to switch careers. Don served as Minneapolis city council member and Minneapolis school board member before leading MicrGrants. Sondra founded Northside Achievement Zone. After Philandro Castille was killed, Samuels created Lights On. When a driver is pulled over for any broken light, the officer offers a Lights On voucher good for free repairs up to $250. An M.Div. graduate of Luther Seminary, he also frequently preaches at area churches.
Faith Formation: Renovare’ Book Club
Take part in the 2023-2024 Renovare’ book club and read deeply soul-shaping, Christ-centered books. Over the course of a year, the book club reads four books with on-line discussions, podcasts, essays, weekly e-mails and study questions. Books for this year: A Different Way (Christopher Hall), The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis), Faith Like a Child (Lacy Finn Borgo), and The Eternal Promise (Thomas Kelly). This book club is offered and coordinated through Renovare’ and costs $60 (first book included). For more information: www.renovare.org/bookclub. In addition to the Renovare’ discussion group options, if you’d like to connect with others from Incarnation who are participating, contact: dfloe@incarnationmn.org. To find out more about Renovare’ contact Pastor Kai who has served as a speaker, writer and teacher with Renovare’.
Primetimes is Back!
Thursday, October 26, 10:30 a.m. Grace Hall
Primetimes will be scheduled once a month – a change to meet with old friends and make new ones – with a program and luncheon.
The first gathering will feature a display of watercolors by ARVIN GEHRKING, a member of Incarnation. Arvin began painting in 2005 after a career as an electrical engineer. For many years, he studied under Frank Zeller at the White Bear Center for the Arts. Arvin enjoys painting a vairety of subjects including landscapes, seascapes, old buildings, animal portraits, still lifes and wildlife.
Please make your reservations for the luncheon through the church office at 651-484-7213.
Join the FMSC Action Team at the Fall 2023 FMSC Gala
Join passionate world-changers for a plated dinner and powerful stories of faith in action. Immerse yourself in unique interactive stations. Celebrate the work God is doing and the work he calls us into – together.
The FMSC Fall 2023 Gala is happening on Friday, November 3, 2023 at Quincy Hall in Minneapolis. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with the dinner and program beginning at 7:0 p.m. The cost of the gala is $175 per guest. Tickets and details can be found here. If you would like to be seated at a table with other Incarnation community members, please contact Mike Vant from Incarnation’s FMSC Action Team at mjvant@gmail.com.
“For the body is not one member, but many.” – 1 Corinthians 12:14
Blood Drive Set for November
Incarnation’s first Red Cross blood drive was a success! Our next blood drive is scheduled for
Thursday, November 9, 2023
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Please, link HERE if you are moved to schedule an appointment to donate. A number of generous blood donors have already signed up.
Lyngblomsten Community Services Presents:
Creative Space: Sharing our Stories
Mondays, October 9-November 13 10 a.m.-noon
St. John in the Wilderness (2175 1st St., White Bear Lake)
This six-week class is for persons who are experiencing early to mid-stage memory loss and are living at home. Join us for two hours of creative fun as we share stories and make music together with award-winning teaching artist Diane Jarvi. She’ll lead you through a variety of activities that will have you smiling and laughing as you express yourself and connect with one another.
Cost: All participants will be asked to pay a suggested amount based on income. No one will be denied participation du to inability to pay.
Registration due by October 2, 2023
To register, contact Lisa Brown at (651) 632-5320 or caregiving@lyngblomsten.org.
Lynblomsten Grand Open House
Saturday, Ocotober 7, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Corner of Hodgson Road and County Road J
Tours, food, music, family-friendly activities, and more!
The new campus features independent rental townhomes and apartments, assisted living, memory care, and a variety of amenities. Latest update HERE.
Understanding Our Neighbors; Understanding Ourselves—A Constructive Conversation About Race and Racism
October 26, 2023 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Shoreview Community Center Activity Room
Hosted by St. Odilia Catholic Church
Racism is a term so loaded with controversy that we avoid discussing it. At the same time, we are aware that we should understand it so that we can better address it. Please join us for an engaging, candid, non-judgmental, and non-political, discussion facilitated by Dr. James Brewer Stewart. Dr. Stewart is a leading historian of American race relations and professor emeritus at Macalester College, who is also a nationally acclaimed advocate of racial reconciliation.
Organized in partnership by Professor James Brewer Stewart and the St. Odilia Racial Equity Ministry
Solid Ground Tutors Needed for Fall – October 9 to December 14
Tutoring will begin Monday, October 9th Mondays through Thursdays for students in grades K-8.
- 2:30-3:30pm – Elementary I
- 3:30-4:30pm – Elementary ll
- 4:30-5:30om – Middle School
Tutoring at Solid Ground is a wonderful opportunity to form a special relationship with a child. In addition to helping improve academic skills, it is also an opportunity for children to get one-to-one time with a supportive, positive adult role model each week. Older high school students and college students can make a lasting impact on a child and are invited to consider tutoring. All materials are provided and no teaching experience is necessary. Volunteers who are willing to serve at least 1 hour per week are preferred, but scheduling can be flexible as well. Substitute tutors are also needed. Contact Dylan McDonough for more information and to sign-up at dmcdonough@solidgroundmn.org
Be a Co-Guide
We need 8 additional caring and trustworthy adults to step up. Small groups are critical for faith formation and Guides help make this happen. We have 130 youth in 6th thru 9th grade. It doesn’t take much time, and it makes a huge difference in the lives of our youth. Details here.
Excited to Welcome Heather Hoecke to Our Staff!
She’s coming onboard as our Formation Leader for Middle School (admin-focus). She is talented and passionate and is a great fit on our Children, Youth & Family team. We hope you get to meet her soon…
Wednesday Wrap-Up
On Wednesday, we began our Confirmation/Middle School Ministry (MSM) curriculum. 6th and 7th grade jumped into the New Testament with a deeper story of Mary the Mother of Jesus: the long-suffering mom. We learned how one mom’s care and conviction pushed God’s love into the world, and how we are called to do the same. This week, we learn about doubt and trust from John the Baptizer. In 8th Grade Core Course, Family Faith Formation 1, each kid learned alongside their caring adult(s). We’re gearing up for week 2 of FFF this week. 9th Graders had a retreat last Sunday and today,10/1, they are continuing their journey to and through Confirmation with a discussion about Why Does Jesus Matter? High School Ministry is having faith-filled fellowship and fun, studying the parables of Jesus in the Youth Room. Next week: pizza night is Wednesday, 10/4. And we need Pizza People (sign up here to serve).
Register for 2023-24 Confirmation! Visit our Middle School webpage for more details.
Connect to Serve
- Be a Small Group Co-Guide for MSM/Confirmation/HSM – view info
- For our game room, let us have your new-er used ping pong table, etc. – email Nate
- Hang out with middle school kids, Wednesdays after school, 2:30-5:45pm – email Nate
- Serve cookies and coffee on Sunday (2 hrs) – sign up here
- Serve pizza on Wednesday night (2 hrs)– sign up here
- Other service opportunities, here
- Contact Nate with questions
To view our schedules and loads of other stuff, head to our msm or hsm pages
Check out the September CYF Newsletter for the latest!
Disaster Response
Lutheran Disaster Response shares God’s hope, healing and renewal with people whose lives have been disrupted by disasters in the United States and around the world. When the dust settles and the headlines change, we stay to provide ongoing assistance to those in need. Learn more.
International:
- Eastern Europe Crisis Response
- Horn of Africa Drought
- Middle East Crisis
- Middle East & Europe Refugee Crisis
- South Sudan Relief
- AMMPARO: Protecting Migrants
Domestic:
Like Lutheran Disaster Response on Facebook, follow @ELCALDR on Twitter and follow @ELCA_LDR on Instagram.
Altar Flowers
If you would like to have altar flowers given in honor or memory of someone, please contact the Incarnation Office at 651-484-7213 to sign up (cost: $25). Donations help offset the cost of the beautiful flowers that the Worship Arts team provides. Altar flowers express our love for God, enhance our gathering around the Word and Sacrament, and represent changing seasons both inthe church year and nature.