Weekly Chapel Service

“A Change of Times” Chapel Worship December 30, 2020

This is the last Wednesday Chapel Service for 2020. And what a year it’s been. So much has changes! And there is more changing times ahead!! So we need to be thinking a bit about change. So we will.

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

Advent 4: “Something about Mary” Chapel Worship December 23, 2020

The story of the Annunciation to Mary holds a special place in the Christian tradition. There is something about the story that captivates us and urges us to remember that God is with us.

https://youtu.be/03CcvGroObw

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com and Joanne Lorenzo for the Advent candle lighting music.
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

Advent 3: “Where Are We…And Where is the Good News Anyway?” Chapel Worship December 16, 2020

John the Baptist said he wasn’t the light. He just was pointing to it. That was then. Today, we need to point out some things too.

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com and Joanne Lorenzo for today’s hymns.
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

Advent 1: “Keep Awake” Chapel Worship December 2, 2020

Advent is here!
It’s easy to sleepwalk our way through Advent as we get ready for what amounts to a day and a half of…the big event. Our text tells us to Keep Awake!

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com and Joanne Lorenzo for today’s hymns.
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

“The Heart of the Matter” Chapel Worship November 25, 2020

We celebrate Christ the King Sunday. The past few weeks have all touched on loving our neighbors to one extent or another. Today’s text helps us learn how living into the understand of Christ being sovereign in ourselves makes loving our neighbors second nature, and what that says about us as people in the end.

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com for today’s hymns.
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at the Community Missions website, CommunityMissions.org.

“Getting Ready To Get Ready” Chapel Worship November 11, 2020

Advent is coming!
The texts for the final few weeks before advent are also all about getting ready for Christ to return or be born, or be with us, or well…. there are a lot of ways to look at it. Today’s text from Matthew 25:1-13 is a parable that points us to looking at getting ready in a particular way: how we live in the world each day.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com for today’s hymns.
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

Interfaith Prayer Service For Mental Illness Recovery And Understanding

For the past 9 years, Community Missions has been presenting this interfaith prayer service. It is held on the National Day of Prayer For Mental Illness Recovery and Understanding. this day of prayer is part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, which is the first full week in October each year. This year, our 10th anniversary of the service, was presented as an online service because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Good Intentions” Chapel Worship September 2, 2020

Good intentions are generally…. well, good. But sometimes we miss the mark and so things don’t go as we expect. Peter had good intentions one day, the best actually. He just got is wrong on this occasion. The question becomes what does he, or we, do about it when we miss.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

“So Many Boundaries” Chapel Worship August 19, 2020

The world often sets up so many boundaries….well, let’s be more honest than that. WE humans set up boundaries that are pointlessly driven by our selfishness. We create all these “Other-isms”: racism, sexism, classism, nationalism, etc., etc. All of it is driven by our fear that someone might get what we have or need. In the process we take (tangible and intangible) stuff away from someone else and set up the idea of the Taboo and The Other. These boundaries get baked into our societies so thoroughly that we often thing we are just doing and being like good conforming people should. Even Jesus faced this and fell into expected patterns and behavior– until he broke the patterns and started crossing all these boundaries.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

Special thanks to TheHymnalProject.com for today’s hymns.
“Holy, Holy, Holy” & “Come Thou Font of Every Blessing”
Arrangement: Peter Prochonow
Setting: Benje Daneman
Arrangement ©2018 and Video ©2020 Michigan District, LCMS.

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.

“Walking on Water: Faith and Doubt” Chapel Worship August 5, 2020

Faith is hard and doubt is easy. It is always a struggle to live faithfully as Christians. Some days are easier, some harder and God is with us through it all. Peter’s chance to walk on water meets with both success and failure– with strong faith and distracted doubt. Jesus remained faithful to Peter when there was doubt. Since that is true for us as well, we should take heart.
See below video for links to Podcast versions.

About this channel: Weekly worship normally takes place at Community Missions each Wednesday morning in our Chapel at 1570 Buffalo Ave. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have moved the service online. A new chapel worship service will be posted each week on the Hope For Niagara YouTube Channel.

Daily Reflections and links to other resources can be found at https://www.HopeForNiagara.org and at https://www.facebook.com/HopeForNiagara.

A Podcast version of the weekly Chapel Services is available at:
Anchor Podcasts https://anchor.fm/hopeforniagara
Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com (Search for “Hope For Niagara”)
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6xoT6yYdSIwrXqDpBs4RlS
Breaker https://www.breaker.audio/hope-for-niagara-podcast
PocketCast https://pca.st/7cmrysun
RadioRepublic https://radiopublic.com/hope-for-niagara-podcast-8Qkznl
RSS Feed https://anchor.fm/s/1d7041a4/podcast/rss

Information about Community Missions in Niagara Falls can be found at https://CommunityMissions.org.