Sunday Morning Bible Study
2021-10-31 09:00 - 10:00, 2021-11-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2021-11-28 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Vancouver) | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Revelations Bible Study

Pastor Fraser leads a Bible study on the book of Revelations. This Bible study is held at church every Sunday morning before Church.
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Tuesday Morning Bible Study
2021-11-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-11-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-11-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-11-30 10:00 - 11:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Revelations Bible Study

Pastor Fraser leads a Bible study on the book of Revelations. This Bible study is held in person at the church. The Bible Study is nearing completion as we study the final two chapters of Revelation. And I will create a new heaven and a new earth……
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Tuesday Afternoon Bible Study
2021-11-02 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-11-16 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-11-23 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-11-30 13:00 - 14:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Revelations Bible Study

Pastor Fraser leads a Bible study on the book of Revelations. This Bible study is held in person at the church. The Bible Study is nearing completion as we study the final two chapters of Revelation. And I will create a new heaven and a new earth……
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Wednesday Evening Bible Study
2021-11-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-17 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Revelations Bible Study

Pastor Fraser leads a Bible study on the book of Revelations. This Bible study is a virtual study. If you would like to join the study, get in touch with Pastor Fraser. He can give you the link to attend virtually on Zoom.
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Board Meeting
2021-11-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-11-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-12-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-01-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-02-10 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Elected members of the board meet for the monthly board meeting.

Sunday Morning Bible Study - Cancelled
2021-11-07 09:00 - 10:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada

Voter's Meeting
2021-11-28 12:00 - 14:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
The fall voters meeting will be held following service. The meeting will include nomination of members for council and other offices within the church. This is also the annual meeting that includes review and approval of the next year’s budget. All members are encouraged to stay to attend the meeting. The agenda for the meeting is shown below:

AGENDA for Annual Voters Meeting
November 28, 2021 At 12:00 P.M.

Roll Call

Call to Order and Opening Devotion

Motion to accept Agenda

Reading of the Minutes of April 11, 2021 meeting.

Business from the Minutes

Parochial Report

SAGE update

Presentation of 2022 Budget

Election of 2022 Directors

Motion to Adjourn / Closing Prayer

COVID Respite Concert
2021-12-19 14:00 - 15:30 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
A concert for all will be held on Sunday, Dec 19th at 2 pm at the church. This concert will feature many local performers with a love for music, and an eagerness to perform. Come celebrate Christmas with music.
A freewill offering will be available.

Concert Program

Organ: Rigaudon — from Idominée André Campra — 1660-1744

Largo — from Xerxes G.F.Handel — 1685-1759

Saxophone & PianoLet It Snow Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne — 1945

Winter Wonderland Felix & Richard Bernhard Smith — 1934

Trumpet & OrganPrince of Denmark’s March Jeremiah Clarke — 1674-1707

Cello & PianoLe Cygne [The Swan] Camille Saint-Saëns — 1835-1921

Soprano & PianoWhere’er You Walk G.F.Handel (from Semele)

Violin & OrganAir from Rinaldo G.F.Handel — 1685 – 1759

Piano:l’Isle Joyeuse Claude Debussy — 1862-1918

Flute & OrganPastoral Symphony G.F.Handel (from MESSIAH)

String TrioCanon in D Johann Pachelbel — 1653-1706

Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring J.S.Bach (from Cantata No.147)

Soprano & OrganHowBeautiful Are the Feet G.F.Handel (MESSIAH)

Violin & PianoArioso; Bist Du Bei Mir J.S.Bach — 1685-1750

Trumpet & OrganWachet Auf, Rufft Uns die StimmeJ.S.Bach (Schübler Chorales)

Saxophone & OrganCome Thou Long-Expected Jesu HYFRYDOL — R.H.Pritchard — 1855

In the Bleak Mid-Winter Gustav Holst — 1874-1934

Greensleeves (What Child Is This)Trad. English

OrganPrelude & Fugue in Bb (BWV 560) J.S.Bach — 1685-1750

OrganMeditation: Le Prie-Dieu George Oldroyd — 1886-1951

Soprano & OrganMaria WiegenliedMax Reger — 1873-1916

Translation of the German — Kirby Rietze

Violin obbligato — Nick Ross

Poem Love Came Down at Christmas Georgina Rossetti

Pastor Coltman

AUDIENCE EXITS to Parking Lot

ORGAN (instruments ad lib)

March of the Magi — Hector Berlioz

FINALE — in Parking Lot

INSTRUMENTS, CHOIR, AUDIENCE

O Come All Ye Faithful [WORDS on the back of this sheet]

Thanks & Blessing Pastor Coltman

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
2021-12-24 19:00 - 20:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Join us on Christmas Eve for a candlelight service as we celebrate the coming of the promised Saviour. The One who takes the sins of the world away. This is a service of singing and a special joyous Christmas message.

The Word of the Lord Is Fulfilled in the Flesh of Jesus

Though Ahaz would not ask, the Lord gives a sign to the House of David — “the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Is. 7:14). With this promise, He signifies that salvation is by His grace alone. It is no work or achievement of man, but the Lord’s own work and His free gift. The promise is fulfilled as the Son of God is conceived and born of the Virgin Mary, and the sign is received in faith by the House of David in the person of Joseph (Matt. 1:20–24). “Incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary” (Nicene Creed), God is with us (Immanuel) in the flesh of Jesus, Mary’s Son. Joseph believes that Word of God and so demonstrates a marvelous example in his immediate and quiet obedience, taking Mary to be his wife and caring for her in faith and love. He loves her because the love of God is manifest in this, that “the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world,” to be “the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10–14)

Christmas Day Worship Service
2021-12-25 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Alleluia, the promised Saviour has arrived. Come celebrate on Christmas Day the arrival of the one who was promised.

Divine Worship
2022-01-23 10:30 - 11:30 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Divine Worship

THIRD SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
(23 January 2022)

Nehemiah 8:1–3, 5–6, 8–10
1 Corinthians 12:12–31a
Luke 4:16–30

The Lord Is Manifested as Our Savior through the Preaching of the Gospel

When Jesus opens His mouth to preach, gracious words flow from His lips. The Scriptures are, indeed, fulfilled in your hearing (Luke 4:21–22). For Christ was anointed by the Spirit of the Lord “to proclaim good news to the poor,” “to proclaim liberty to the captives” and “to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke 4:18–19). By this proclamation, Christ releases His people from captivity and gathers them to Himself in His Church. So it was when the Lord released His people from Babylon and returned them to Jerusalem. “Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people,” sanctified the whole congregation by the reading and preaching of the Law (Neh. 8:8–9). As the people then were urged to “eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready” (Neh. 8:10), so are you anointed by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ to share in His feast and to serve the fellow members of His Body with His good gifts, “giving greater honor to the part that lacked it” (1 Cor. 12:12, 24)

Worship Service at 10:30 am
Masks Required

Divine Worship
2022-01-30 10:30 - 11:30 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Divine Worship

FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
(30 January 2022)

Jeremiah 1:4–10 (17–19)
1 Corinthians 12:31b–13:13
Luke 4:31–44

Jesus Has Authority to Forgive Your Sins and Give You Life

Jesus was sent to “preach the good news of the kingdom of God” (Luke 4:43). His preaching is an epiphany, or manifestation, of God because His Word reveals the authority of His cross and resurrection, by which He has atoned for the sins of the world. By the preaching of His Gospel in every place, He silences the unclean spirits and casts out demons, heals the diseases of body and soul, and restores life and health to His creation (Luke 4:40–41). For the sake of His divine love, He is “patient and kind” toward us; He “bears all things,” “endures all things” and delivers up His body to save us (1 Cor. 13:3–4, 7). So also for the sake of His love, He calls and sends His prophets, as ministers of His Word, “to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant” (Jer. 1:10)

Worship Service at 10:30 am
Masks Required

Divine Worship
2022-02-13 10:30 - 11:30 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Divine Worship

SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
(13 February 2022)

Jeremiah 17:5–8
1 Corinthians 15:(1–11) 12–20
Luke 6:17–26

Christians Live by Faith in Christ and Rejoice in the Promise of His Resurrection

“Cursed is the man who trusts in man,” for all the strength of his flesh is like the grass that fades away (Jer. 17:5). The one who turns away from the Lord may have food and money and laugh for now, but he “shall mourn and weep” in the judgment (Luke 6:24–25). But “the man who trusts in the LORD” is blessed with all that he needs, “like a tree planted by water.” When heat comes, he survives (Jer. 17:7–8). For the Lord has come in the flesh to heal the people of all their diseases, to cleanse their spirits with forgiveness, and to preach the Gospel of the kingdom of God to the poor (Luke 6:18–20). As all of this is by way of His cross, it is solely by faith in the promise of His resurrection that Christians “rejoice” and “leap for joy” (Luke 6:21–23). “If Christ has not been raised,” our faith is in vain and we are most to be pitied (1 Cor. 15:14–19). But, in fact, just as “Christ died for our sins,” so has He also “been raised from the dead” (1 Cor. 15:3, 20).

Worship Service at 10:30 am

Divine Worship
2022-02-13 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
(13 February 2022)

Jeremiah 17:5–8
1 Corinthians 15:(1–11) 12–20
Luke 6:17–26

Christians Live by Faith in Christ and Rejoice in the Promise of His Resurrection

“Cursed is the man who trusts in man,” for all the strength of his flesh is like the grass that fades away (Jer. 17:5). The one who turns away from the Lord may have food and money and laugh for now, but he “shall mourn and weep” in the judgment (Luke 6:24–25). But “the man who trusts in the LORD” is blessed with all that he needs, “like a tree planted by water.” When heat comes, he survives (Jer. 17:7–8). For the Lord has come in the flesh to heal the people of all their diseases, to cleanse their spirits with forgiveness, and to preach the Gospel of the kingdom of God to the poor (Luke 6:18–20). As all of this is by way of His cross, it is solely by faith in the promise of His resurrection that Christians “rejoice” and “leap for joy” (Luke 6:21–23). “If Christ has not been raised,” our faith is in vain and we are most to be pitied (1 Cor. 15:14–19). But, in fact, just as “Christ died for our sins,” so has He also “been raised from the dead” (1 Cor. 15:3, 20).
Worship Service at 10:30am

Reader: Pastor
Ushers:
Coffee Service: Suspended

Worship Committee
2022-02-14 12:30 - 14:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
The worship committee gathers to plan music for the worship services.

Divine Worship
2022-02-20 10:30 - 12:00 | St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 394 Shepherd Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X1, Canada
Worship Service at 10:30am
SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER THE EPIPHANY
(20 February 2022)

Genesis 45:3–15
1 Corinthians 15:21–26, 30–42
Luke 6:27–38

As the Son of God Is Merciful and Forgives Your Sins, You Also Be Merciful and Forgive

Your inheritance as a child of Adam is sin and death, but in Christ you are made alive through His resurrection from the dead (1 Cor. 15:21–22). As you have died with Him in Holy Baptism, so are you raised with Him to newness of life. Therefore, “do not go on sinning” (1 Cor. 15:34). Instead of serving your desires and harming your neighbors, live as “sons of the Most High,” and “be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:35–36). Deal with others as you would have others deal with you (Luke 6:31, 37–38). As Christ loved you when you were at enmity with Him, as He blessed and prayed for those who abused Him, and as He did good to those who hated Him and hurt Him, so also “love your enemies, do good” (Luke 6:27–29, 35). For God sent His Son to bear the cross and suffer death, not to condemn the guilty, but “to preserve life.” So does He provide a place for you within His Church, where He is near and deals kindly with “you and your children and your children’s children” (Gen. 45:5–10).

Reader:
Ushers:
Coffee Service:
