Bethlehem Lutheran Church-Wing

06/21/2026

4th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, June 21, 2026

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship Setting 4, p. 147. Copyright 2006, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Published by Augsburg Fortress, Publishers. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress under license SB160753.

Our hymns today are public domain or are Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. We give thanks for our musician, Judy Bergquist.

GH-ELW 660-Lift High the Cross. Text: George W. Kitchin, 1827-1912; rev. Michale R. Newbolt, 1874-1956. Music: Sydney H. Nicholson, 1875-1947. Text and music copyright 1974 Hope Publishing Company. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved

HOD- ELW 790-Day by Day. Text: Carolina Sandell Berg, 1832-1903; tr. Robert Leaf, 1936-2005. Music: Oskar Ahnfelt, 1813-1882. Text copyright 1992 Augsburg Fortress. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

OH- ELW 686-We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1&4.. Text: William W. How, 1823-1897, alt. Music: L. Mason and G. Webb, Cantica Lauda, 1850. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

CH- ELW 732-Borning Cry**. Text: John C. Ylvisaker, 1937-2017. Music: John Ylvisaker. Text and music copyright 1985 John Ylvisaker. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

CH-ELW 471 Let Us Break Bread Together. Text: African American Spiritual. Music: African American Spiritual. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

SH: ELW 661-I Love to Tell the Story Text: Katherine Hankey, 1834-1911. Music: William E. Fischer, 1849-1936. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Lift High the Cross Hymn Text:
Refrain: Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim till
All the world adore his sacred name.

Come, Christians, follow where our captain trod,
Our king victorious, Christ, the Son of God. (Refrain)

All newborn servants of the Crucified
Bear on their brows the seal of him who died. (Refrain)

O Lord, once lifted on the glorious tree,
As thou hast promised, draw us all to thee. (Refrain)

So shall our son of triumph ever be:
praise to the Crucified for victory! (Refrain)


Day by Day Hymn Text:

Day by day, your mercies, Lord, attend me, bringing comfort
To my anxious soul. Day by day, the blessings, Lord, you send me
Draw me nearer to my heav’nly goal. Love divine, beyond all
Mortal measure, brings to naught the burdens of my quest; Savior
Lead me to the home I treasure, where at last I’ll find eternal rest.

Day by day, I know you will provide me strength to serve and
Wisdom to obey; I will seek your loving will to guide me
O’er the paths I struggle day by day. I will fear no evil
Of the morrow, I will trust in your enduring grace. Savior,
Help me bear life’s pain and sorrow till in glory I behold your face.

Oh, what joy to know that you are near me when my burdens
Grow too great to bear; oh, what joy to know that you will hear me
When I come, O Lord, to you in prayer. Day by day, no matter
What betide me, you will hold me ever in your hand. Savior,
With your presence here to guide me, I will reach at last the promised land.


We Give Thee But Thine Own vvs. 1 & 4

We give thee but thine own, whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.

And we believe thy word, though dim our faith may be:
Whate’er we do for thine, O Lord, we do it unto thee.

Borning Cry Hymn Text:

I was there to hear your borning cry,
I'll be there when you are old.
I rejoiced the day you were baptized,
to see your life unfold.

I was there when you were but a child,
with a faith to suit you well;
In a blaze of light you wandered off
to find where demons dwell.

When you heard the wonder of the Word
I was there to cheer you on;
You were raised to praise the living God,
to whom you now belong.
If you find someone to share your time
and you join your hearts as one,
I'll be there to make your verses rhyme
from dusk 'till rising sun.

In the middle ages of your life,
not too old, no longer young,
I'll be there to guide you through the night,
complete what I've begun.
When the evening gently closes in,
and you shut your weary eyes,
I'll be there as I have always been
with just one more surprise.

I was there to hear your borning cry,
I'll be there when you are old.
I rejoiced the day you were baptized,
to see your life unfold.

Let Us Break Bread Together Lyrics:

Let us break bread together on our knees, (on our knees)
Let us break bread together on our knees. (on our knees)
When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.

Let us drink wine together on our knees, (on our knees)
Let us drink wine together on our knees. (on our knees)
When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.

Let us praise God together on our knees, (on our knees)
Let us praise God together on our knees. (on our knees)
When I fall on my knees with my face to the rising sun,
O Lord, have mercy on me.

Lyrics for I Love to Tell the Story
I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His love.
I love to tell the story, because I know 'tis true;
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.

Refrain

I love to tell the story, 'twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story; how pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God's own holy Word.

Refrain

I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.

Refrain

06/14/2026

3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, June 14, 2026

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship Setting 4, p. 147. Copyright 2006, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Published by Augsburg Fortress, Publishers. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress under license SB160753.

Our hymns today are public domain or are Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. We give thanks for our musician, Judy Bergquist.

GH- ELW 576-We All Are One in Mission. Text: Rusty Edwards, b. 1955. Music: Finnish folk tune; arr. hymnal version. Text copyright 1986-Hope Publishing Company. Arr. copyright 2006-Augsburg Fortress. ( #00400 for One License). Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

HOD- ELW 785-When Peace Like a River** Text: Horatio G. Spafford, 1828-1888. Music: Philip P. Bliss, 1838-1876. PUBLIC DOMAIN

OH- ELW 686-We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1&4.. Text: William W. How, 1823-1897, alt. Music: L. Mason and G. Webb, Cantica Lauda, 1850. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

SH- ELW 669-Rise Up, O Saints of God! Text: Norman O. Forness, b. 1936. Music: William H. Walter, 1825-1893. Text © Norman O. Forness, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

Lyrics to We All Are One in Mission

We all are one in mission; we all are one in call,
Our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.
A single great commission compels us from above
To plan and work together that all my know Christ’s love

We all are called for service, to witness in God’s name.
Our ministries are diff’rent; our purpose is the same:
To touch the lives of others with God’s surprising grace,
So ev’ry folk and nation may feel God’s warm embrace.

Now let us be united, and let our song be heard.
Now let us be a vessel for God’s redeeming Word.
We all are one in mission; we all are one in call,
Our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.


Lyrics for “When Peace Like a River:
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll,
whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.

Refrain: It is well with my soul, it is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control,
that Christ hath regarded my helpless estate, and hath shed his own blood for my soul. (Refrain)

He lives-oh, the bliss of this glorious thought;
my sin, not in part, but the whole,
is nailed to his cross and I bear it no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! (Refrain)

Lord, hasten the day when our faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
the trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall descend;
even so it is well with my soul. (Refrain)


Lyrics to We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1, 4
We give thee but thine own, whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.

And we believe thy word, though dim our faith may be:
whate’er we do for thine, O Lord, we do it unto thee.


Lyrics for Rise Up, O Saints of God!

Rise up, O saints of God! From vain ambitions turn;

Christ rose triumphant that your hearts with nobler zeal might burn.



Speak out, O saints of God! Despair engulfs earth’s frame;

As heirs of God’s baptismal grace, the word of hope proclaim.



Rise up, O saints of God! The kingdom’s task embrace;

Redress sin’s cruel consequence; give justice larger place.



Give heed, O saints of God! Creation cries in pain;

Stretch forth your hand of healing now, with love the weak sustain.



Commit your hearts to seek the paths which Christ has trod;

And, quickened by the Spirit’s pow’r, rise up, O saints of God!

06/10/2026

You can find the Synod Assembly recap HERE:https://files.constantcontact.com/8ea85d9d201/8b1f4c36-41db-45a6-9bae-720c0a153034.pdf

OR, we have a copy posted on the corkboard in the narthex, AND it will be in July's newsletter.

06/07/2026

2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, June 7, 2026

Please drop a friendly greeting in the comments! That would be especially helpful to have a better idea of how many people are joining us online for worship.

Evangelical Lutheran Worship Setting 4, p. 147. Copyright 2006, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Published by Augsburg Fortress, Publishers. Used by permission of Augsburg Fortress under license SB160753.

Our hymns today are public domain or are Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. We give thanks for our musician, Judy Bergquist.

GH- ELW 532-Gather Us In**. Text: Marty Haugen, b. 1950. Music: Marty Haugen. Text and Music © 1982 GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

HOD- ELW 798-Will You Come and Follow Me vvs. 1, 2, 5. Text: John L. Bell, b. 1949. Music: Scottish traditional. Text copyright 1987 Iona Community, admin. GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

OH- ELW 686-We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1&4.. Text: William W. How, 1823-1897, alt. Music: L. Mason and G. Webb, Cantica Lauda, 1850. PUBLIC DOMAIN.

CH- ELW 494-For the Bread Which You Have Broken. Text: Louis F. Benson, 1855-1930, alt. Music: Gross Catolisch Gesanbuch, Nurnberg, 1631; arr. William Smith Rockstro, 1823-1895. Text ©Robert F. Jefferys Jr. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

CH-479-We Come to the Hungry Feast. Text: Ray Makeever, b. 1943. Music: Ray Makeever. Text and music copyright 1982 Ray Makeever, admin. Augsburg Fortress. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # 733662-A. All rights reserved.

SH- ELW 742-What a Friend We Have in Jesus** Text: Joseph Scriven, 1820-1886. Music: Charles C. Converse, 1832-1918. PUBLIC DOMAIN

Lyrics to Gather Us In:

1. Here in this place the new light is streaming, now is the darkness

Vanished away; see in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken, gather us in, the
Blind and the lame; call to us now, and we shall awaken,
We shall arise at the sound of our name.

2. We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry, we are the old who

Yearn for your face; we have been sung throughout all of hist’ry,
Called to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty, gather us in, the
Proud and the strong; give us a heart, so meek and so lowly,
Give us the courage to enter the song.

3. Here we will take the wine and the water, here we will take the

Bread of new birth, here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
Call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion, give us to eat the
Bread that is you; nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

4. Not in the dark of buildings confining, not in some heaven,

Light years away-here in this place the new light is shining,
Now is the kingdom and now is the day.
Gather us in and hold us forever, gather us in and
Make us your own; gather us in, all peoples together,

Fire…of love in our flesh and our bone


Will You Come and Follow Me Lyric vvs. 1, 2, 5
Will you come and follow me
If I but call your name?
Will you go where you don't know
And never be the same?
Will you let my love be shown,
Will you let my name be known,
Will you let my life be grown
In you and you in me?

Will you leave yourself behind
If I but call your name?
Will you care for cruel and kind
And never be the same?
Will you risk the hostile stare
Should your life attract or scare?
Will you let me answer prayer
In you and you in me?

Lord, your summons echoes true
When you but call my name.
Let me turn and follow you
And never be the same.
In your company I'll go
Where your love and footsteps show.
Thus I'll move and live and grow
In you and you in me.


Lyrics to We Give Thee but Thine Own, vvs. 1, 4
We give thee but thine own, whate’er the gift may be;
All that we have is thine alone, a trust, O Lord, from thee.

And we believe thy word, though dim our faith may be:
whate’er we do for thine, O Lord, we do it unto thee.

Lyrics to For the Bread Which You Have Broken

1. For the bread which you have broken, for the wine which you have poured,

for the words which you have spoken, now we give you thanks, O Lord.
2. By this promise that you love us, by your gift of peace restored,

by your call to heav’n above us, hallow all our lives, O Lord.
3. With the saints who now adore you, seated at the heav’nly board,

May the church still waiting for you keep love’s tie unbroken, Lord.
4. In your service, Lord, defend us; in our hearts keep watch and ward; In the world to which you send us let your kingdom come, O Lord.

We Come to the Hungry Feast Hymn Text

We come to the hungry feast
hungry for a word of peace.
To hungry hearts unsatisfied
the love of God is not denied.
We come, we come to the hungry feast.

We come to the hungry feast
hungry for a world released
from hungry folk of ev’ry kind,
the poor in body, poor in mind.
We come, we come to the hungry feast.

We come to the hungry feast
hungry that the hunger cease,
and knowing, though we eat our fill,
the hunger will stay with us; still
we come, we come to the hungry feast.



What a Friend We Have in Jesus Lyrics:
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.
Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer.

Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer.
Do your friends despise, forsake you? Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In His arms He'll take and shield you; you will find a solace there.

06/06/2026

Join us after 9:30 worship tomorrow as we finish up our Bible study on the Ten Commandments. We’ll take a summer break and reconvene in the fall.

06/02/2026

With forecasted storms tonight, please know the church basement is an option, especially if you have no basement where you are. Be safe!

05/31/2026

We have a bishop-elect! Reverend Lisa Lewton! Thanks be to God for the Spirit’s movement among us. Please pray for her congregation, family, and all those in transition.

05/31/2026

After the 3rd ballot, there is still no election. Rev. Lisa Lewton, Rev. Mike Pretzer, and Rev. Brad Dokken will be on the 4th ballot, which we are about to cast.

05/30/2026

2nd ballot for bishop. No election (Pastor Trish withdrew her name by the required time, so was not on this ballot).

Second Ballot results for WND Synod Bishop.