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The Second Sunday after Christmas
January 1 - 2, 2022
Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (LCMS)
11313 N Riverland Rd
Mequon, Wisconsin 53092
Philip J. Hillenbrand, Pastor
William H. Otto, Pastor Emeritus
Gloria Hansen, Choir Director
Rachel Strand, Bell Choir Director
BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH (LCMS)
11313 N Riverland Rd, Mequon, WI 53092
Website: www.bslcmequon.com
Email: bslcmequon@gmail.com
Church Office: 262-242-6650; Pastor Hillenbrand (cell): 414-531-2461
THIS WEEK AT BEAUTIFUL SAVIOR
Sunday 9:00 a.m. Worship with communion
Tuesday 10:15 a.m. Meadowmere Worship
7:30 p.m. Board of Elders
Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Willowbrook Worship
Thursday 6:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal
Saturday 5:00 p.m. Worship with communion
Sunday 9:00 a.m. Worship
10:15 a.m. Coffee & Fellowship / Bible Study
10:30 a.m. Family Sunday School
CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK
Matthew Geiger, Ava Biel, Rachel Mortensen, Carl Strand, Marge Wirta,
Bremen Guzman, Lisa Fitzgerald, Annabelle Maier, Joyanna Bull
2022 CALENDARS
Calendars for next year, courtesy of Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Homes,
are in the entryway. Please take a copy for your home use. Thank you,
Tom Daub, for providing the calendars again this year.
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THE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
January 1 - 2, 2022
ORDER OF SERVICE
DS 2 p. 167
HYMNS FOR THE DAY
362, 365, 389
Communion hymns:
366, 384, 383, 388
Psalm 119:97-104
Prayer of the Day
Father in heaven, You have promised to hear and answer
our prayers. Believing this, we come to Your house today to
lift up our journey as a congregation in 2022. Bless Beautiful
Savior, guide us, and help us to be the family You desire us
to be and to accomplish the work You have for us to do.
Through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and
reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for-
ever. Amen.
New Prayers
Family of George Rakos (Pastor Hillenbrand’s friend from
Alaska) - passed away
Family of Barbara Dyer - her funeral was held on Tuesday
Anne Putterman’s mom - in hospice care
Betty Lou Petersen - hospitalized with breathing issues
Brianne Meyer - continued healing following surgical mishap
The list of ongoing prayers for our brothers and sisters
can be found in the narthex.
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Prayer of the Church
Heavenly Father, You have called us to be caretakers for all people, but
in our weakness we often fall far short of fulfilling this goal. Like Solo-
mon, we ask You to grant us the ability to discern between good and
evil as we carry out the work You have given us. Lord, in Your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, let not our will but Your will be done among us.
Teach us, then, not only to ask You for what gives comfort or pleasure
but primarily for what we truly need in our physical and spiritual lives.
Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, You placed Your own Son into an earthly family and
allowed Joseph and Mary the privilege of raising Him as He grew and
became strong. Guide all the parents among us as they also care for their
children’s physical and spiritual needs. Be also with those who desire to
have children that they may be richly blessed according to Your will.
Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit upon our children. Enable
them, like little Jesus, to increase in wisdom and stature and in favor
with God and man. Fill our children with a fervor to grow in faith and to
serve You with joy. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, like King Solomon, the rulers of our nation need Your
help, wisdom and guidance. Enable them to do what is right. Empower
them to protect the vulnerable and to encourage all that is good. Lord, in
Your mercy, hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, grant Your care, comfort and healing to all who mourn
and to those who are sick or suffering. Fill each of them with a confi-
dent trust in Your mercy, and teach us all to look with joy toward the
day when You will grant us permanent healing. Lord, in Your mercy,
hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, You graciously invite us to receive the true body and
blood of Your Son Jesus Christ. As we receive this holy meal, grant us
Your Holy Spirit that our lives might be a testament to His love at work
within us. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.
Heavenly Father, we commend to You ourselves, our loved ones and all
for whom we pray, through the same Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns
with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
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KARENNI THANK YOU
Thank you to the many, many people who donated gifts and mon-
ey to make the Karenni Christmas celebration extra special. The
children and teens loved their presents and gift certificates to the
China Buffet and the blankets were a big hit with the adults. See
back page of bulletin for pictures taken by Gail Hargens.
SERVICE CLUB
Youth and their families will be delivering gently used shoes and
boots to Hope Lutheran Church in Milwaukee on Saturday, Janu-
ary 15. You may place your footwear donations on the pew on the
east side of the Fellowship Hall. Blankets and bedding will also be
accepted. Thank you!
ANNUAL VOTERS’ MEETING
Our annual voters’ meeting will take place on Sunday, January 23
after the 9:00 AM worship service. Please mark your calendars
and plan to attend either in-person or via Zoom using the follow-
ing ID (414 531 2461). We will learn about church activities and
missions, elect officers and board members, and vote on the 2022
budget. We value your presence at the meeting.
PRAYER PARTNERS 2022
During the month of January, we will be setting up and organizing
a new year of Prayer Partners, which will run from January 2022
to December 2022. The first half of the year will be focused on
relationship building and we hope the second half can be spent
doing things together with our prayer partners (pending the status
of the ongoing pandemic). This will include a fun, outdoor picnic
this summer (most likely in June), a service project together and
more. We would love it if you would prayerfully consider being
part of this unique ministry. Sign up sheets will be made available
both online and in-person by next week.
HELP NEEDED
BSLC is currently in need of more volunteers to greet members
and visitors as they enter our building for worship on Sunday
mornings. If you are interested in helping, please contact the
church office or Deb Neulreich at 262-416-8480 or
deb@zingboutique.com.
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SERVING US THIS WEEK
Worship Leader & Preacher Rev. Philip Hillenbrand
Organist Karla Arndt
Readers Gloria Hansen, Gordon Hahm
Projectionist Dave Dailey
Acolyte Miriam Canapa
Altar Guild Karen Canapa, Hargens
Greeters Jim & Liz Schneider
Coffee Deb Hammen
SERVING US NEXT WEEK
Worship Leader & Preacher Rev. Philip Hillenbrand
Organist Michelle Soenksen
Readers Alex Prenzlow, Ben Petersen
Projectionist Luke and Paul Kaldahl
Acolyte Lessa Bartelme
Greeters Hans & Gail Hargens
Coffee Needed
Sunday School Teacher Wendy Seaman
MISSION OF THE MONTH THANKS
Thank you to all who contributed to December’s mission. Totals are
still being calculated, but donations will be going to Ku Mo to help
support her education at Concordia University Wisconsin where she
is studying to become a Lutheran School Educator.
MISSION OF THE MONTH
This month’s mission is LCMS Disaster Response, specifically to
assist those in need following the devastating tornado outbreak that
took place on the night of December 10, 2021. Disaster Response
teams respond to immediate and long-term needs following natural
and man-made disasters, working through LCMS districts and con-
gregations, international Lutheran churches and other partners.
Contributions from Budget Year-to-Date
last week per Week Over (Under)
Budget
Total $11,918 $8,516 $20,906
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1 Kings 3:4-13 for all the saints, 16I have not stopped giv-
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The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrific- ing thanks for you, remembering you in
es, for that was the most important high my prayers. 17I keep asking that the God
place, and Solomon offered a thousand of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Fa-
burnt offerings on that altar. 5At Gibeon the ther, may give you the Spirit of wisdom
LORD appeared to Solomon during the and revelation, so that you may know him
night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your
whatever you want me to give you." heart may be enlightened in order that you
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Solomon answered, "You have shown may know the hope to which he has called
great kindness to your servant, my father you, the riches of his glorious inheritance
David, because he was faithful to you and in the saints, 19and his incomparably great
righteous and upright in heart. You have power for us who believe.
continued this great kindness to him and
have given him a son to sit on his throne Luke 2:40-52
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this very day. And the child grew and became strong;
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"Now, O LORD my God, you have made he was filled with wisdom, and the grace
your servant king in place of my father of God was upon him.
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David. But I am only a little child and do Every year his parents went to Jerusa-
not know how to carry out my duties. lem for the Feast of the Passover. 42When
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Your servant is here among the people he was twelve years old, they went up to
you have chosen, a great people, too nu- the Feast, according to the custom. 43After
merous to count or number. 9So give your the Feast was over, while his parents were
servant a discerning heart to govern your returning home, the boy Jesus stayed be-
people and to distinguish between right and hind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware
wrong. For who is able to govern this great of it. 44Thinking he was in their company,
people of yours?" they traveled on for a day. Then they be-
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The Lord was pleased that Solomon had gan looking for him among their relatives
asked for this. 11So God said to him, "Since and friends. 45When they did not find him,
you have asked for this and not for long they went back to Jerusalem to look for
life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked him. 46After three days they found him in
for the death of your enemies but for dis- the temple courts, sitting among the teach-
cernment in administering justice, 12I will ers, listening to them and asking them
do what you have asked. I will give you a questions. 47Everyone who heard him was
wise and discerning heart, so that there will amazed at his understanding and his an-
never have been anyone like you, nor will swers. 48When his parents saw him, they
there ever be. 13Moreover, I will give you were astonished. His mother said to him,
what you have not asked for—both riches "Son, why have you treated us like this?
and honor—so that in your lifetime you Your father and I have been anxiously
will have no equal among kings. searching for you."
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"Why were you searching for me?" he
Ephesians 1:3-6; 15-19 asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Father's house?" 50But they did not under-
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in stand what he was saying to them.
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the heavenly realms with every spiritual Then he went down to Nazareth with
blessing in Christ. 4For he chose us in him them and was obedient to them. But his
before the creation of the world to be holy mother treasured all these things in her
and blameless in his sight. In love 5he pre- heart. 52And Jesus grew in wisdom and
destined us to be adopted as his sons stature, and in favor with God and men.
through Jesus Christ, in accordance with
his pleasure and will— 6to the praise of his 7
glorious grace, which he has freely given
us in the One he loves.
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For this reason, ever since I heard about
your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love
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