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9:15 AM
Morning Prayer
10:30 AM
Holy Communion

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9:15 AM
Morning Prayer

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Rt. Rev. David T. Hustwick
Rector

Rev. Paul Henderson

Assistant

Family-Friendly Worship

Welcome

Welcome, and thank you for visiting Saints Andrew & Matthias online. We hope that our website highlights the wide variety of worship, fellowship and service opportunities available. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbor.

Our Mission

We believe that the door to salvation is always open and so are the doors to our church. Our mission is to be fully devoted to Jesus by opening our arms to those in search of the truth. We show God’s love and concern for our fellow man at every opportunity. Through works of charity and opening our doors to listen and love, we feel that we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.

Prayers for Our Troops

Our church offers prayers for servicemen and women at every Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer service. 

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PRAYER FOR ALL IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY

  O Almighty Lord God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest; Protect and assist, we beseech thee, all those who at home or abroad, by land, by sea, or in the air, are serving this country, that they, being armed with thy defense, may be preserved evermore in all perils; and being filled with wisdom and girded with strength, may do their duty to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

2022 Vestry

Join us each Tuesday at 9:15 AM for Morning Prayer

Prayer For Our Police

  Almighty God, we beseech thee to pour thy blessing upon our country's police forces. Strengthen and protect them in all danger. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

The Collect

O LORD, we beseech thee, let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Trinity XVI

THIS WEEK'S TEXT

Isaiah 12

1 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  A Guy told me that he read Charles Dickens book Great Expectations last week......and It wasn't as good as he thought it would be.

  Today's first lesson, from the Old Testament prophet Isaiah, is an example of the great expectations that God's people had for the future time, when their Savior, the Messiah, would come. We know that great expectation was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 12:1 “And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.”

   Isaiah's prophecy of the great joy that God's children of the New Testament would experience, came some 750 years before Christ's birth. I'd like us to consider just why all Christians should feel this great joy and how that joy should be manifested in our lives as Christians.

   We should feel great joy over our salvation from God's wrath. God had, (and has),good reason to be angry with mankind.

  He created us in holiness and righteousness, in His own image, but we fell away from Him and into sin.

  We deserved punishment, but now through the saving blood of Jesus we are reconciled to God.

  This wonderful salvation was not accomplished by men, but by God. He sent His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. (as Saint Paul tells us), “into the world to save sinners”.

   Isaiah tells us “with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation”. These wells of salvation for the New Testament Church are the Word and the Sacraments. God's Word, the Bible, with its message of forgiveness and salvation through Christ, and the Holy Sacraments with the comforting knowledge that Christ is with us in them, should fill all Christians with joy.

   This great joy should be shown forth in us in three ways.

  First, by praising God, by worshiping Him not only every Sunday in His Church, but also by our daily private devotions. Our thankfulness for our redemption should cause us to be always praising our God for his great mercy toward us.

  Secondly we should always be trying to glorify God through living our lives according to His will. As it says in the Baptismal Office we are to be “fighting under His banner, against sin, the world, and the devil” and “continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant” unto our life's end.

  Thirdly our joy should be manifested in a real devotion to spreading the “Good News” of the great message of salvation to others.

  We each have talents, given to us by our Heavenly Father, that we can use to, in some way, help build his Church. We should be happy to use them to bring others to the knowledge of Christ's love for us.

   God has indeed met those great expectations that Isaiah told of, by Christ's sacrifice on the cross for us, and all Christians should feel great joy as well as thankfulness always!

VBS 2022
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see some pictures of the fun !!

Memorial Day in Middleville 2022

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Memorial Days

ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, in whose hands are the living and the dead; We give thee thanks for all those thy servants who have laid down their lives in the service of our country. Grant to them thy mercy and the light of thy presence, that the good work which thou hast begun in them may be perfected; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

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