Weekend religious services
Christ Lutheran Church
This weekend is the final weekend before the beginning of Lent. The festival of the Transfiguration is celebrated this weekend at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, and 9 a.m. Sunday. At each liturgy we will bury the word Alleluia. This song of praise is not sung during Lent.
Lent begins on Wednesday, Feb. 10, Ash Wednesday. Liturgies will be shared with Epiphany Episcopal Church. The liturgy at noon will be celebrated with Father Ryan Wright presiding, at 7 p.m., Pastor Bogholtz will preside.
Christ Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Rev. Dr. William E. Bogholtz is the pastor. The congregation meets at Epiphany Episcopal, 2507 Del Prado Blvd., S., Cape Coral.; the mailing address is PO Box 152576, Cape Coral, FL 33915.
For more information about the services or the church, call 239-542-2709 or check the website www.christlutherancapecoral.org, or like us on Facebook.
Trinity Reformed Church of Cape Coral
Trinity Reformed Church of Cape Coral will hold the following services:
– Sunday, Feb. 7:
9:15 – 9:55 a.m. – Sunday School (children and adults).
9:55 – 10:15 a.m. – Fellowship
10:20 a.m. – Announcements/prelude
10:30 a.m. – Worship service – Sermon: “Expressions of Loving God” (Selected Scripture)
6 p.m. – Worship service – Sermon: “Family Matters: Children and Parents (Ephesians 6:1-6)
The message will be delivered by the Rev. Stephen Wetmore.
The church’s “Missionary of the Month” is the Rev. Vander Pol, a missionary and professor for Miami International Seminary. He writes theology courses in English for students around the world who study with MINTS. He supervises students and study centers in Southeast Asia. He travels to India, Myanmar and the Philippines to teach and supervise the work of study centers there.
The Rev. Vander Pol was pastor of Trinity Reformed for 13 years before he went into full-time missions. Prior to that he pastored churches in Minnesota and New Zealand; he pastored churches for 30 years. He attended Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia and Calvin Theological Seminary. He holds a D.Min. from MINTS International Seminary. He has written three courses and articles as well as a very important book on the Trinity:?”God in Three Perons:?Biblical Testimony to the Trinity.”
Trinity Reformed Church is a member of the United Reformed Churches of North America, a federation of churches located throughout the United States and Canada. It is part of the wider Reformed and Presbyterian family of churches.
You can listen to Trinity Reformed Church’s sermons every week free of charge at www.sermon-audio.com / trinityreformed.
The church is at 2220 Hancock Bridge Parkway in Cape Coral; please call 239-574-1424 for additional information about the church or its services and programs.