Family Game Night
Please mark the date on your calendar!
Time: February 10, 2022 at 6:30-8:30 p m
Place: Henderson Hall
Join together with other St. Luke’s members, playing board games, card games—fun, mirth and merriment for the evening!
Yolanda’s Story
AAMPARO is the ministry of the ELCA which accompanies migrant minors (and their families) in Central America, their country of origin (especially the Northern Triangle: Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador); in Mexico (the country of transit); and at the southern border of the US. I was Director of Domestic Mission for the ELCA and Rafael Malpica-Padilla was Director for Global Mission. We led a delegation to Central America to hear the stories of those who have been deported, and to hear what drives families to attempt to migrate to the US. This is one of the stories we heard
Men’s Breakfast
All St. Luke’s men are invited to a delicious pancake, sausage, juice and coffee breakfast on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. in Henderson Hall. Following breakfast, an interesting program will be presented by our speaker, Ken Lucchesi, the Director and Senior Manager of our Park Ridge Jewel-OSCO on Busse Highway.
Cozy in Christ
Hygge (pronounces Hue-guh) is a Danish concept that cannot be easily described in one English word but encompasses a feeling of cozy contentment through enjoying the simple things in life. If you’ve ever sat and simply watched it snow while you read a book or sipped from a warm mug, you’ve experienced hygee without even knowing it. If I had to put the concept of hygge into one English word, I would probably use cozy.
There is No Short Cut
Seventeen years ago, Amadou Diallo was killed in a hail of forty-one bullets from police guns in the Soundview section of the South Bronx, holding a wallet, not a gun, in his hand. Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it, “41 shots…American Skin.” When I wrote an editorial about it, it got me in a lot of trouble. I said that if Amadou had been my son (one of my sons was Amadou’s age), he would still be alive. I called on public and religious leaders to admit that we have a racial problem in our community and that we needed to find the resolve to face it together.
Spirit Matters
Due to the surge in COVID from the omicron variant, there will be no in-person meeting for Spirit Matters in January. Our meeting, Monday, January 17, will be exclusively on Zoom. Please note this change from the previous announcement. We will begin at 7:00 p.m. and our topic will be “Peace.”
Nature of Epiphany
I would like to reflect with you on the nature of Epiphany and the ministry we share at Saint Luke, especially as we find the mission field not somewhere else, but right outside our doors.