What to Expect...
...in Bible study
Our Sunday morning classes focuses on a specific book of the Bible. On occasion we’ll work through a doctrine/topic for a time, such as discipleship, prayer, or even what goes into writing a sermon. It’s usually a calm and casual environment with moments of passionate discussion.
...in Sunday School
As our church continues to grow we expand our Sunday school program as needed. We are currently using a 3-year series titled “Growing in Christ,” published by Concordia Publishing House. Through the year the children all learn the same stories of the Bible, together, as well as keeping along the readings used in the worship service. During each Sunday session, there is a time of prayer, singing, teaching the lesson, and activity. We’ve adopted this curriculum in hopes of fostering an environment of learning beyond the Sunday school classroom. As the child has learned the lesson in Sunday school, she will also hear it again as she worships with her family, and then at home, as the parents are sent home with a few questions to engage the child in God’s Word.
...in Worship
As we gather on Sundays, and at other times, we are not merely hear to offer prayers and praises to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but we are also to be served by Him – as He delivers his grace and forgiveness to use through the preaching of His Word, the proclaimed Absolution, the giving of Himself in the bread and wine of the His Holy Supper, and Holy Baptism.
Following the teaching of the Word, the worship service is ordered and faithful to the Scriptures. To help facilitate the service of God, we use the orders of worship found in Lutheran Service Book and sing its hymns. Our most often used liturgy is the Divine Service in which we participate in serving God with our prayers and praise and also receive from God his gifts – His Word and his Sacrament. Our Sunday services last between 45 minutes to an hour.
Holy Communion/Lord’s Supper
Drawn from our understanding from Matthew 5:23f.; 10:32f.; 18:15-35; 26:26-29; 1 Cor. 11:17-34. The Lord’s Supper is celebrated on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month and on festival days of the Church year. . We confess that our Lord gives us not only bread and wine but his body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins. Our Lord invites to his table those who trust his words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as he forgives and loves us. Because those who eat and drink our Lord’s body and blood unworthily, or unprepared, do so to great harm and because it is a confession of the faith, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of this congregation and the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and yet desire to receive the sacrament, are asked first to speak with the pastor or an elder.
...in Bible study
Our Sunday morning classes focuses on a specific book of the Bible. On occasion we’ll work through a doctrine/topic for a time, such as discipleship, prayer, or even what goes into writing a sermon. It’s usually a calm and casual environment with moments of passionate discussion.
...in Sunday School
As our church continues to grow we expand our Sunday school program as needed. We are currently using a 3-year series titled “Growing in Christ,” published by Concordia Publishing House. Through the year the children all learn the same stories of the Bible, together, as well as keeping along the readings used in the worship service. During each Sunday session, there is a time of prayer, singing, teaching the lesson, and activity. We’ve adopted this curriculum in hopes of fostering an environment of learning beyond the Sunday school classroom. As the child has learned the lesson in Sunday school, she will also hear it again as she worships with her family, and then at home, as the parents are sent home with a few questions to engage the child in God’s Word.
...in Worship
As we gather on Sundays, and at other times, we are not merely hear to offer prayers and praises to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but we are also to be served by Him – as He delivers his grace and forgiveness to use through the preaching of His Word, the proclaimed Absolution, the giving of Himself in the bread and wine of the His Holy Supper, and Holy Baptism.
Following the teaching of the Word, the worship service is ordered and faithful to the Scriptures. To help facilitate the service of God, we use the orders of worship found in Lutheran Service Book and sing its hymns. Our most often used liturgy is the Divine Service in which we participate in serving God with our prayers and praise and also receive from God his gifts – His Word and his Sacrament. Our Sunday services last between 45 minutes to an hour.
Holy Communion/Lord’s Supper
Drawn from our understanding from Matthew 5:23f.; 10:32f.; 18:15-35; 26:26-29; 1 Cor. 11:17-34. The Lord’s Supper is celebrated on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month and on festival days of the Church year. . We confess that our Lord gives us not only bread and wine but his body and blood to eat and to drink for the forgiveness of sins. Our Lord invites to his table those who trust his words, repent of all sin, and set aside any refusal to forgive and love as he forgives and loves us. Because those who eat and drink our Lord’s body and blood unworthily, or unprepared, do so to great harm and because it is a confession of the faith, any who are not yet instructed, in doubt, or who hold a confession differing from that of this congregation and the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, and yet desire to receive the sacrament, are asked first to speak with the pastor or an elder.