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	Here at Grace Lutheran Church, we are a very eclectic bunch! Worship liturgies at the 11:00 Festive Service cycles through the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) Setting I (during Lent) and Setting II; "Now The Feast" setting by Marty Haugen; and the Renewing Worship Resources provided by the ELCA. Check our home page for this week's liturgy setting and please join us. As the ELCA's Renewing Worship website states: The past three decades have seen not only a growing ecumenical consensus but also a deepened focus on the church's mission to the world. The church has embraced broadened understandings of culture, increasing musical diversity, changes in the usage of language, a renewed understanding of the central pattern of Christian worship, and an explosion of electronic media and technologies. These shifts have had a profound effect on the weekly assembly gathered around word and sacrament. The present situation calls for a renewal of worship and of common resources for worship, a renewal grounded in the treasures of the church's history while remaining open to the possibilities of the future. Our alternating liturgies is a response to these emerging changes in the life of the church and the world. The goal is to renew the church's worship as Christ's mission is carried out in a new day. Renewing Worship is a process that involves the whole church in the development of the next generation of worship resources. 2004-05 Annual Report of the Rewening Worship Task Force