The Service of the Rite of Ordination into the Office of the Holy Ministry for Paul “PJ” Aarsvold. Immanuel Lutheran Church humbly invites you to celebrate this special day in the life of the Church. From the Lutheran Service Book Agenda on the Rite of Ordination:

The Office of the Holy Ministry has been instituted by Christ Himself as a gift of His Church. Through the Christian congregation, as the holder of all churchly authority, God calls qualified men to fill this divinely established office and sends them as His ministers to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to administer the Sacraments publicly in the stead of Christ and by His command, with accountability both to God and to the Church. According to apostolic usage, ordination is the solemn, public confirmation of that call. (page 155)

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May God bless PJ’s ministry as he tends to the Lord’s lambs and sheep!