Can I still say that I am a somewhat new pair of eyes? I have been amazed and grateful to observe you conduct a listening season and a Strategic Vision Planning Process with great energy and faithfulness. This vision to Connect again with one another coming out of the pandemic, to connect to our community and world through the Gospel has given us spiritual energy and holy imagination.
Join the 2022 Crop Walk on October 16, beginning at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, 620 N. Northwest Hwy. to walk with our team. If you cannot walk; please support our team.
As I have had opportunity to visit some of the elders of St. Luke’s I’ve learned from them we have a long and rich history of creating tie-quilts for Lutheran World Relief. Among our “shut-ins” are women who remember day long quilt workshops with large crews of cutters and piecers and as many as three sewing machines running at any one time. However, these quilters had heard little first-hand witness to the on-the-ground impact our donated quilts had.
After taking a summer hiatus, Spirit Matters begins again in September. We meet every Third Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Our gatherings will be hybrid as each feels comfortable in person or via Zoom.
Beginning this coming Sunday at 8:45, and for the next four Sundays, we will be spending time in the Gospel of Luke. We are in Series C of the lectionary, “the year of Luke,” and most of the Gospel readings are from that gospel. I am hoping that our deep dive into the Gospel together will help enrich our hearing God’s word when we worship.
On September 18, a picnic will held following the worship service.The menu will feature Tim McCurry’s renown pulled pork sandwiches, as well as hot dogs, potato chips and more. Plan to join us and bring your friends and neighbors. (the picnic will be held indoors if the weather doesn’t allow us to be outside.)
September 11 has been commodified, interpreted, and cited to support going to war, fearing and blaming immigrants, jingoistic “America First” rhetoric. It has been buried in the history which followed it. We bombed Kabul 21 years ago in the name of 9/11. And today we cringe and grieve as suicide bombs go off in Kabul, and bombs burst on civilians in Ukraine. But for me the true feelings of that day are not buried or papered over, but are as vivid and searing as ever.