Pastor Wayne will be available to meet groups in the Fireside Room on October 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th for the hour preceding worship. In-person groups are limited to 8 persons. He will also be available via Zoom on Tuesday, September 29th, and Wednesday, September 30th, at 7:00 p.m. The Zoom links will be sent to all members on September 28th. Please…
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Join us for All Saints worship beginning in the columbarium on October 31st and November 1st as we remember the saints that have gone before us. Our saints will be listed in the bulletin and remembered with a tolling of a bell during the services. On Sunday morning a bagpiper will lead us into the…
503 years after Martin Luther’s brave act of nailing his 95 theses to the church door, we will celebrate The Reformation on October 24th and 25th. Whenever and however you worship, please wear red to remember Luther and this church festival!
On September 13th we begin our regular fall/winter schedule with Christian education classes for all ages (most via Zoom), and in-person worship at 10:15 a.m. Our online service will continue to be available after 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Evening Light will also continue in person at 5 p.m. on Saturday evenings. Please wear a mask…
Lutheran World Relief accepts donations of “school kit” backpacks which they distribute around the globe to school-aged children (https://lwr.org/instructions). The St. John’s children’s Sunday school plans to assemble LWR backpacks on Sunday, September 27, 2020. We hope to make 100 bags this year. We need: · 70-sheet notebooks (wide or college rule) · 30-cm rulers (inches on…
On this retirement weekend for Pastor Cynthia Krommes we will give thanks to God for our 24 years of life together as pastor and people of St. John’s. Note: there are three services this weekend—Saturday, Evening Light at 5 p.m., Sunday Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and Sunday Holy Communion at 10 a.m.
On this Confirmation Sunday—postponed from Pentecost on May 31st because of COVID-19—how appropriate it is that our Gospel reminds us that Jesus is with us through the storms of life, even when we are full of fear. Let us rejoice as Luke, Evan, Nathan, Andrew and Jason affirm their baptisms and are confirmed in faith!
You are invited to sign up for VBS Your Way using Sparkhouse’s Summer Splash curriculum. There will be five Bible stories for you to do all in one week or spread throughout the summer; perhaps saving them for a rainy day or when it is too hot to go outside. Each Bible story will be…
Click here to view the service in its entirety.While the word “trinity” is not found anywhere in theBible, just about every week we begin our worshipwith: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love ofGod, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be withyou all. More than a doctrine, the Trinity expressesthe heart of…
Our first reading from Acts 2 for this weekend begins: “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place . . . .” We won’t be “together in one place,” but we do know that God is with us, blessing us and empowering us to share love with others. We will be missing the…