ServantCast

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Check out www.ctslutheran.org and go to the livestream page to see and/or hear the service (in five different chunks).

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 29th, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington. The Gospel reading is from the 17th chapter of the book of John.

CTS is now holding socially-distanced indoor services, Sunday mornings at 9:30. You can bring a mask and join in person, or stream them live and on-demand from the CTS Facebook page.

More information is available on our church website, ctslutheran.org, or from the weekly Thursday email notes. If you have any other questions, you can email us at [email protected].

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, May 22, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington.

Despite the pandemic, the work of the church continues.  Here are a few ways that the church remains thriving at Christ the Servant:

1. We are meeting live and in-person on Sunday Morning for worship services in the sanctuary.  Everyone is masking and physically distanced.  9:30 am.  This service is also live-streamed on the CTS Facebook Page and the CTS web site.  The live-stream video will remain there afterwards as well.
2. We have youth events that are ever evolving!
3. We have a Friday Morning breakfast fellowship on Zoom - sometimes live at Boulevard Park, weather allowing...
4. We have a ministry team called Deep Waters, which is dedicated to helping install clean water systems to communities in Honduras.
5. We are part of the Family Promise program, striving to help homeless families in our community regain equilibrium.
6. We have an active Justice Seekers ministry team, dedicated to achieving a more just society and church.

Find out more - go to our web page or send us an e-mail.

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, May 15th, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington. The Gospel reading is from the 13th chapter of the book of John.

CTS is now holding socially-distanced indoor services, Sunday mornings at 9:30. You can bring a mask and join in person, or stream them live and on-demand from the CTS Facebook page.

More information is available on our church website, ctslutheran.org, or from the weekly Thursday email notes. If you have any other questions, you can email us at [email protected].

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 8, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington.

Despite the pandemic, the work of the church continues.  Here are a few ways that the church remains thriving at Christ the Servant:

1. We are meeting live and in-person on Sunday Morning for worship services in the sanctuary.  Everyone is masking and physically distanced.  9:30 am.  This service is also live-streamed on the CTS Facebook Page and the CTS web site.  The live-stream video will remain there afterwards as well.
2. We have youth events that are ever evolving!
3. We have a Friday Morning breakfast fellowship on Zoom - sometimes live at Boulevard Park, weather allowing...
4. We have a ministry team called Deep Waters, which is dedicated to helping install clean water systems to communities in Honduras.
5. We are part of the Family Promise program, striving to help homeless families in our community regain equilibrium.
6. We have an active Justice Seekers ministry team, dedicated to achieving a more just society and church.

Find out more - go to our web page or send us an e-mail.

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Third Sunday of Easter, May 1st, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington. The Gospel reading is from the 21st chapter of the book of John.

CTS is now holding socially-distanced indoor services, Sunday mornings at 9:30. You can bring a mask and join in person, or stream them live and on-demand from the CTS Facebook page.

Between Sundays, you can look for digital educational opportunities on the CTS Facebook page.

More information is available on our church website, ctslutheran.org, or from the weekly Thursday email notes. If you have any other questions, you can email us at [email protected].

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on the Second Sunday of Easter, April 24, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington.

Despite the pandemic, the work of the church continues.  Here are a few ways that the church remains thriving at Christ the Servant:

1. We are meeting live and in-person on Sunday Morning for worship services in the sanctuary.  Everyone is masking and physically distanced.  9:30 am.  This service is also live-streamed on the CTS Facebook Page and the CTS web site.  The live-stream video will remain there afterwards as well.
2. We have youth events that are ever evolving!
3. We have a Friday Morning breakfast fellowship on Zoom - sometimes live at Boulevard Park, weather allowing...
4. We have a ministry team called Deep Waters, which is dedicated to helping install clean water systems to communities in Honduras.
5. We are part of the Family Promise program, striving to help homeless families in our community regain equilibrium.
6. We have an active Justice Seekers ministry team, dedicated to achieving a more just society and church.

Find out more - go to our web page or send us an e-mail.

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington. The Gospel reading is from the 20th chapter of the book of John.

CTS is now holding socially-distanced indoor services, Sunday mornings at 9:30. You can bring a mask and join in person, or stream them live and on-demand from the CTS Facebook page.

Between Sundays, you can look for digital educational opportunities on the CTS Facebook page.

More information is available on our church website, ctslutheran.org, or from the weekly Thursday email notes. If you have any other questions, you can email us at [email protected].

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

This is the virtual worship service on Palm Sunday, April 10, 2022, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington. The Gospel reading is from the book of Luke.

Despite the pandemic, the work of the church continues.  Here are a few ways that the church remains thriving at Christ the Servant:

1. We are currently meeting live and in-person on Sunday Morning for worship services in the sanctuary.  Everyone is masking and physically distanced.  9:30 am.  This service is also live-streamed on the CTS Facebook Page and the CTS web site.  The live-stream video will remain there afterwards as well.
2. We have youth events that are ever evolving!
3. We have a Friday Morning breakfast fellowship on Zoom - sometimes live at Boulevard Park, weather allowing...
4. We have a ministry team called Deep Waters, which is dedicated to helping install clean water systems to communities in Honduras.
5. We are part of the Family Promise program, striving to help homeless families in our community regain equilibrium.
6. We have an active Justice Seekers ministry team, dedicated to achieving a more just society and church.

Find out more - go to our web page or send us an e-mail.

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org

Hello, everyone and welcome to ServantCast, the podcast outreach of Christ the Servant Lutheran Church in Bellingham, Washington.  I’m Doug, and in this special quick episode today, we need to talk through some big changes that are happening with CTS and with this podcast.

First, if you don’t know, Pastor Eric Finsand, who has been at CTS for almost 14 years, has accepted a new call in Nebraska.  His final Sunday with us in Bellingham will be Easter Sunday, and he will begin his new call at Southwood Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska on May 1.  We wish Eric and Chris nothing but the best in this transition into their new season.

What does this mean for Christ the Servant?  For a few weeks after Easter, we will have guest pastors preaching on Sunday mornings.  Eventually, the plan will likely allow for an interim pastor who will be with us for several months to help guide us through this transition.  The congregation, with the guidance of the Synod office, will be going through a process that will eventually result in a call for a permanent pastor.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.  We’re talking about the podcast here.  What changes will be happening to ServantCast?  First, the next two weeks are Palm Sunday and Easter.  We will not be offering our traditional pre-recorded podcast that you’ve come to expect, as the music and structure of the services are quite different than we’re used to.  What we will do is post the audio of the live services here in podcast format.  They will be available as soon as we can put it together, but that may be late Sunday or on Monday sometime.  If you want your service on Sunday, you are welcome to watch the service on our live-stream video feed, which you can find on either the CTS Facebook page or on the CTS web site, which is ctslutheran.org.

After Pastor Eric leaves, we will have guest pastors for a few weeks, and they will not be pre-recording the audio for this podcast.  And when we get an interim pastor, there is no guarantee that they will be expected to do a pre-recorded church service each week as we’ve been doing.

So, here is the immediate plan.  Beginning this week, Palm Sunday, the podcast will consist of a recording of the live worship service.  When the service is over, we will take the audio from the service and put it into podcast format and offer it up here where you always get it.  The big tradeoff, as I see it, is that we will no longer be able to have the podcast available first thing Sunday morning.  It will take some time to gather the audio and put it into the podcast structure.  I’m guessing it may take until Monday many weeks, even Tuesday.  I don’t see an easier or more obvious way to do this, so, for now, that’s the plan for the immediate future.

If you like your church service on Sunday, please know that we’ve been offering a video live-stream of our in-person worship services, and we intend to continue offering and refining that option.  You can watch this live at 9:30 on Sunday mornings, or you can watch a recording of it later as well.  You can access it through the CTS web pageboy going to CTSLutheran.org.  From there, click on the “worship” tab, then click the link to the livestream.

We’ll see how workable all of this is.  Will we resume pre-recorded podcasts when we get an interim pastor? Are you, our listeners, interested in continuing with a new format that arrives late on Sunday or on Monday?  Let’s give it a try and see how it goes.

So as a reminder, we’ll have this week’s podcast, for Palm Sunday, available by Monday right here in your Podcast feed.  And that’s how it will work for the next several weeks.

So let us know what you think about all of this.  Send an e-mai

contacts:
ServantCast: [email protected]
Christ the Servant Lutheran Church: [email protected]
Web site: www.ctslutheran.org