Prince of Peace Lutheran ChurchAppleton, Wisconsin

June 14, 2020

Mission Statement

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church is a family of Christians

Growing in faith and reaching out in love

Welcome to God's House which is the spiritual home of all who worship today, wherever you may be. Partof Prince of Peace Church's mission statement says that we are "a family of Christians." Because God hasmade us family, we are together, even though we are physically separated, to receive the Lord's strength,comfort and peace. Christ, our brother, is with us, and his presence will change us. As new people, we leavethis time of worship to live our daily lives in the world as ambassadors for Christ. Go, but remember to comehome. See you next Sunday!

The Glass Cross on the Altar is unique. There are only 3 of these handmade crosses in the world. Theother two are in congregations with whom we share our ministry. One is on the altar of Kopano LutheranChurch in Mogwase, South Africa and the other is at the Evangelische Stadtpfarrkirche Hermannstadt inSibiu, Romania. These Lutheran churches are ministry partners with us with whom we have shared visits,resources and mutual support. Each Sunday as we gather in worship under this common cross, we arereminded of our faith in our Savior, Jesus the Christ, whose Spirit unites peoples of different countries,races, cultures and histories under His benevolent love.

Worship LeadersPreaching Minister Jennifer DeNetzPresiding Minister Roger McQuistionCo-Liturgist Corrina CzarnikMusicians Colleen Perrine

Nancy UllspergerReader Dean BuffingtonChildren’s Message Brigetta Wingender

Technical Support Nate Rowinsky

Second Sunday after Pentecost

June 14, 2020

ELW denotes the Evangelical Lutheran Worship Hymnal

P-Pastor R- Reader C-Congregation

A Celebration of Juneteenth

Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On January 1, 1863,President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery, but states of Louisianaand Texas, which were slave states did not acknowledge the news. That news was only widely shared on June19, 1865 after the war had ended. When the news arrived, former slaves broke out in spontaneous celebration.These were dangerous times. Even in the face of resistance and threat, the formerly enslaved Africans foundways to give voice to the wide range of thoughts and emotions this announcement heralded: the end oflegalized slavery in the United States of America, Juneteenth.

GATHERING MUSIC Let There Be Peace on Earth Sy Miller and Jill Jackson-Miller

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

GATHERING SONG We Are Marching in the Light ELW 866

Siyahamba

We are marching in the light of God,we are marching in the light of God.We are marching in the light of God,we are marching in the light of God.

We are marching, (marching, we are marching, marching,)we are marching in the light of God.We are marching, (marching, we are marching, marching,)we are marching in the light of God.

Additional stanzas ad lib:We are dancing . . .We are praying . . .We are singing . . .

Text: South African traditional; tr. Freedom Is Com ing, 1984

Tr. © 1984 Utryck, adm in. W alton M usic Corp.

Reprinted with perm ission under ONE LICENSE #A-703841. All rights reserved.

GATHERINGThe Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God.

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A POURING OF LIBATIONSThe offering of water as sign and source of life, poured (offered) giving up some of what has been so graciouslygiven to us by God.

First Pouring – to acknowledge God our source, our Creator, the giver of Life. C Amen

Second Pouring – to acknowledge the full presence of God with us, Source, Savior and Holy Spirit. C Amen

Third Pouring – to acknowledge our ancestors, the great cloud of witnesses now one with God. C Amen

Fourth Pouring – to acknowledge the generations that fought, died and led us to freedom from slavery,persecution, Jim Crow laws, inequitable access to rights and resources in this society. C Amen

Fifth Pouring – to acknowledge those who have led the struggle for freedom in recent times and even now.We name them with our voices and in our hearts as we pour, thanking God.C Amen

Sixth Pouring – to acknowledge our children and our children’s children. The generations of hope andpromise entrusted to us by the Grace of God. We pour in Thanksgiving and in Hope. C Amen

Seventh Pouring – to acknowledge God our Source, Our Savior Jesus the Christ, Our Sustainer andCounsel and Comforter, the Holy Spirit. C Amen. Thanks be to God!

GREETING

P The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with youall.

C And also with you.

A LITANY ADAPTATION OF “LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING”Lift every voice and sing, sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.

Celebration rises, not blind to the suffering, not blind to the sorrow. Celebration comes at a cost.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died;yet with a steady beat have not our weary feet come to the place for which our parents sighed.

Celebration rises, remembering the way we have come,the paths taken that have brought us here now to this place and time of celebration. Celebration rises, up and up, full of remembering.Remembering the ones led to freedom by Harriet;Remembering lives and freedom stolen.

We do not claim that all police are guilty or irresponsible. They are not. But neither are all black people. Police fulfill an essential role for our society. However in too many instances, blacks and other marginalizedpeople have been unjust victims of police violence. This is a representative, not a complete list ofAfrican-Americans who have died since January 1, 2015 by actions of police. We may recall hearing aboutthem in news broadcasts. Unfortunately, there are hundreds more.

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Eric Garner had just broken up a fight, according to witness testimony.Ezell Ford was walking in his neighborhood.Michelle Cusseaux was changing the lock on her home's door when police arrived to take her to a mental

health facility.Tanisha Anderson was having a bad mental health episode, and her brother called 911.Tamir Rice was playing in a park.Natasha McKenna was having a schizophrenic episode when she was tazed.Walter Scott was going to an auto-parts store.Bettie Jones answered the door to let Chicago police officers in to help her upstairs neighbor, who had

called 911 to resolve a domestic dispute.Philando Castile was driving home from dinner with his girlfriend.Botham Jean was eating ice cream in his living room in Dallas.Atatiana Jefferson was babysitting her nephew at home in Fort Worth, Texas.Eric Reason was pulling into a parking spot at a local chicken and fish shop.Dominique Clayton was asleep in her bed.Ahmaud Arbery was out for a jog.Breonna Taylor was asleep in her bed.And George Floyd was at the grocery store.

Since January 1, 2015, another 1,246 black people would need to be added to this list. This does not includethose who died in police custody.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;we have come treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

Celebration rises, recognizing what has been done and left undone,knowing there is still and yet much to do, so much further to go.Celebration rises, naming the victories, recognizing the challenges yet ahead. Celebration rises on voices offering unfinished praise.

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God where we met thee; lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world we forget thee;

Celebration rises, resisting illusions,to be embraced by the real and abiding presence of God who breaks our chains, and sets us free for freedom, in power and love and joy.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, thou who hast brought us thus far on our way; thou who hast by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the past, we pray.

Celebration rises, with the power of healing in His wings and promise to endure. Celebration rises, celebrating that by God’s grace,I am because You are, You are because I am.Celebrating that the fullness of my humanity does not diminish yours and the fullness of your humanity does not diminish mine.

Shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand, true to our God, true to our native land.True to who we are, true to who we have been and who we are becoming. Thanks be to God.

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PRAYER OF THE DAY P Let us pray.

C Holy and righteous God, you created us in your image. Grant us grace to contend fearlesslyagainst evil and to make no peace with oppression. Help us, like those of generations beforeus, who resisted the evil of slavery and human bondage in any form and any manner ofoppression. Help us to use our freedoms to bring justice among people and nationseverywhere, to the glory of your Holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

KYRIE

WORDGod speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching and song.

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FIRST READING Exodus 3:1-15

Moses experienced the call of God when God appeared to him in a bush that burned and was not consumed.When Moses expressed his unworthiness, God promised to be with him. When Moses objected that peoplewould demand to know God's name, God revealed his personal name, I AM Who I AM. Israel discovered God'strue identity when God took them out of Egypt.Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law1

Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyondthe wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain ofGod. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him2

in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and thebush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then3

Moses said, "I must turn aside and look at this greatsight, and see why the bush is not burned up."When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to4

see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses,Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then he said,5

"Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet,for the place on which you are standing is holyground." He said further, "I am the God of your6

father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, andthe God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for hewas afraid to look at God. Then the LORD said, "I7

have observed the misery of my people who are inEgypt; I have heard their cry on account of theirtaskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, and8

I have come down to deliver them from theEgyptians, and to bring them up out of that land toa good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and

honey, to the country of the Canaanites, theHittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites,and the Jebusites. The cry of the Israelites has now9

come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptiansoppress them. So come, I will send you to Pharaoh10

to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go11

to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"He said, "I will be with you; and this shall be the12

sign for you that it is I who sent you: when you havebrought the people out of Egypt, you shall worshipGod on this mountain." But Moses said to God, "If13

I come to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God ofyour ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me,'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" God14

said to Moses, " I AM WHO I AM." He said further,"Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ' I AM has sentme to you.'" God also said to Moses, "Thus you15

shall say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God ofyour ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God ofIsaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you':This is my name forever, and this my title for allgenerations.

R Word of God, word of life.

C Thanks be to God.

SECOND READING Ephesians 4:1-16Christians share fundamental unity and diversity. Our unity consists in the one body, one Spirit, one Lord,one faith, one baptism and one God. Our diversity is expressed in various forms of ministry, whose goal isequipping the saints and building up Christ's body.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead1

a life worthy of the calling to which you have beencalled, with all humility and gentleness, with2

patience, bearing with one another in love, making3

every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in thebond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit,4

just as you were called to the one hope of yourcalling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God5 6

and Father of all, who is above all and through alland in all. But each of us was given grace according7

to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it is said,8

"When he ascended on high he made captivity itselfa captive; he gave gifts to his people." (When it9

says, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he

had also descended into the lower parts of theearth? He who descended is the same one who10

ascended far above all the heavens, so that he mightfill all things.) The gifts he gave were that some11

would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists,some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for12

the work of ministry, for building up the body ofChrist, until all of us come to the unity of the faith13

and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity,to the measure of the full stature of Christ. We14

must no longer be children, tossed to and fro andblown about by every wind of doctrine, by people'strickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming.

But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in15

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every way into him who is the head, into Christ,from whom the whole body, joined and knit16

together by every ligament with which it is

equipped, as each part is working properly,promotes the body's growth in building itself up inlove.

R Word of God, word of life.

C Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

GOSPEL READING Luke 10:25-37

P The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke.

C Glory to you, O Lord.

Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus.25

"Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inheriteternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in26

the law? What do you read there?" He answered,27

"You shall love the Lord your God with all yourheart, and with all your soul, and with all yourstrength, and with all your mind; and your neighboras yourself." And he said to him, "You have given28

the right answer; do this, and you will live." But29

wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "Andwho is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was30

going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell intothe hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him,and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by31

chance a priest was going down that road; and whenhe saw him, he passed by on the other side. So32

likewise a Levite, when he came to the place andsaw him, passed by on the other side. But a33

Samaritan while traveling came near him; andwhen he saw him, he was moved with pity. He34

went to him and bandaged his wounds, havingpoured oil and wine on them. Then he put him onhis own animal, brought him to an inn, and tookcare of him. The next day he took out two denarii,35

gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care ofhim; and when I come back, I will repay youwhatever more you spend.' Which of these three,36

do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fellinto the hands of the robbers?" He said, "The one37

who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go anddo likewise."

P The Gospel of the Lord.

C Praise to you, O Christ.

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CHILDREN’S MESSAGE & SONG Brigetta Wingender & Colleen Perrine(See page 11 for message activity supply list.)

SERMON Pastor Jennifer DeNetz

HYMN OF THE DAY O Christ, Your Heart, Compassionate ELW 722

O Christ, your heart, compassionate,bore ev'ry human pain.Its beating was the pulse of God;its breadth, God's vast domain.The heart of God, the heart of Christcombined in perfect rhymeto write God's love in human deeds,eternity in time.

As once you welcomed those cast downand healed the sick, the blind,so may all bruised and broken livesthrough us your help still find.Lord, join our hearts with those who weepthat none may weep alone,and help us bear another's painas though it were our own.

O Christ, create new hearts in usthat beat in time with yours,that, joined by faith with your great heart,become love's open doors.We are your body, risen Christ;our hearts, our hands we yieldthat through our life and ministryyour love may be revealed.

O Love that made the distant stars,yet marks the sparrow's fall,whose arms stretched wide upon a crossembrace and bear us all:come, make your church a servant churchthat walks your servant ways,whose deeds of love rise up to you,a sacrifice of praise!

Text: Herm an G. Stuem pfle Jr., b. 1923

Text © 2000 GIA Publications, Inc.

Reprinted with perm ission under ONE LICENSE #A-703841. All rights reserved.

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RENUNCIATIONS AND APOSTLES’ CREEDP Let us renew our Baptismal Promises first by renouncing the Devil and all the forces that work against

God, and then by reciting the Apostle’s Creed.

C I renounce all evil, every force that moves against God’s will.

I renounce the powers of this world, the structures of inequality, and the agents ofoppression that undermine God’s purposes.

I renounce my own participation with these powers, my own actions and inactions that drawme from God.

P With the whole church, let us confess our faith.

C I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried;

he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,he is seated at the right hand of the Father,

and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSIONSave us, O God, from ourselves, from racism often cloaked in pious words, from the mechanisms of white supremacy hidden in calls for civility, from aggressions thinly veiled in arrogance, from apologies when they don’t give way to action, from forgiveness without facing the truth, from reconciliation without justice….

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Deliver us, O God, from expecting siblings of color to continue to bear this emotional work of healing andreconciliation, which is not fully theirs to do. Open our hearts and give us courage to see your image in allpeople….

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Make us grateful for the long arc that bends toward justice.Grant us wisdom, give us courage for the facing of these days, by the power of the Spirit, all for the sake of the kingdom that we share in Christ Jesus.

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Holy One, you created us all different and you hold all those differences within you. Help us celebrate thosedifferences, because you call us to be unified not uniform. Bless theologians, teachers, preachers, politiciansand all who seek to lead your people. Help them to lead with respect, love and care for all. Guide your churchto be a force for unity, respect and love for all. Remind us that we are a people who are set apart, holy,because of you. Help us lead by celebrating the diversity you have blessed your world with in the variety ofraces, skills, outlooks, sexual orientations, political perspectives that are all around us. Help us appreciateand celebrate that diversity, not fear it….

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….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Holy One, we have created divisions you will not own. In places of conflict raise up leaders who work todevelop lasting peace and reconciliation. Encourage organizations and individuals who care for all forced toleave their homes…

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Holy One, you care for those who are harassed and helpless. Protect and defend those who are abused. Healthose who are sick. Feed all who hunger. Empower all whose voices go unheard, and help us respond to thepressing needs of our neighbors…

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Holy One, you provide a plentiful harvest of gifts and resources. Protect those who plant, tend, harvest food,work in places preparing food, operate trucks, forklifts, combines, harvesters. Help us to support and insiston fair wages, safe working conditions, purity and cleanliness of products, humane treatment of workers andanimals. Minister to all so that they are treated with care, love and the stewardship you first gave to us…..

….Lord in your mercy,

C You hear our prayer.

Receive these prayers, O God, and those too deep for words; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

C Amen

OFFERING Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)Verse 1Amazing grace how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like meI once was lost but now I'm foundWas blind but now I see

Verse 2'Twas grace that taught my heart to fearAnd grace my fears relievedHow precious did that grace appearThe hour I first believed

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set freeMy God my Savior has ransomed meAnd like a flood His mercy rainsUnending love amazing grace

Verse 3The Lord has promised good to meHis word my hope securesHe will my shield and portion beAs long as life endures

Chorus My chains are gone I've been set freeMy God my Savior has ransomed me

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And like a flood His mercy rainsUnending love amazing grace (Repeat)

Verse 4The earth shall soon dissolve like snowThe sun forbear to shineBut God who called me here belowWill be forever mineWill be forever mineYou are forever mine

Chris Tom lin | John Newton | Louie Giglio

© 2006 sixsteps M usic (Adm in. by Capitol CM G Publishing)

Text reprinted with perm ission under CCLI License # 788723. All rights reserved.

OFFERING PRAYERP Let us pray. Merciful God,

C we offer with joy and thanksgiving what you have first given us—our selves, our time, andour possessions, signs of your gracious love. Receive them for the sake of him who offeredhimself for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

LORD’S PRAYERP Gathered into one by the Holy Spirit, let us pray as Jesus taught us.

C Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial and deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours,

now and forever. Amen

FINAL BLESSING P Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor

height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God inChrist Jesus. God, the creator, \ Jesus, the Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the comforter, bless you andkeep you in eternal love.

C Amen

SENDINGGod blesses us and sends us in mission to the world.

CLOSING HYMN Lift Every Voice and Sing ELW 841

Lift ev'ry voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,ring with the harmonies of liberty.Let our rejoicing rise high as the list'ning skies,let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;facing the rising sun of our new day begun,let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chast'ning rod,felt in the days when hope unborn had died;yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feetcome to the place for which our parents sighed?We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at lastwhere the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;thou who hast by thy might led us into the light,keep us forever in the path, we pray.Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand,true to our God, true to our native land.

Text: Jam es W . Johnson, 1871-1938

DISMISSALP Go out into the world in peace; have courage; hold onto what is good; return no one evil for evil;

strengthen the faint hearted; support the weak, and help the suffering; honor all people; love and servethe Lord, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.

C Thanks be to God.

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Supplies for Children’s Message ActivityPaper and/or construction paper

ScissorsCrayons, markers, and/or other writing utensils

Glue and/or glue stick

Acknowledgments: Texts, Kyrie & Gospel Acclamation are reprinted from SundaysandSeasons.com copyright © 2020 Augsburg Fortress underAugsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SAS000711. Opening litany was a text adapted from "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James WeldonJohnson (1871-1938). In public domain Renunciations adapted from “In These or Similar Words,” 2015, Augsburg Fortress. The service was adaptedfrom resources from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America copyright © 2019. Used with permission. Permission to podcast/stream We AreMarching in the Light and O Christ, Your Heart, Compassionaate obtained from ONE LICENSE, License #A-703841. Permission to podcast/stream

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) obtained from CCLI License #788723. All rights reserved.

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SankofaSankofa is a West African spiritual proverb and teaching that reminds its listeners to “Go back and fetch it:”taking hold of our past, our history in such a way that it becomes nourishment and guidance for journeyinginto our future. May this service be such a blessing and instruction to you. As we close, here are some wordsand a sketch by a Lutheran pastor, Daniel Erlander, to encourage you for the journey ahead.

“Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the starsto change the world. Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundredsof escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” ~~ Harriet Tubman

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of allrights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power.Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if menare allowed to reason ... equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. Itviolates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” ~~ Frederick Douglass

Artwork by Daniel ErlanderUsed by permission

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