Posts from October 2025

Greetings from Peace Lutheran Church as the last days of October soon turn to cooler days of November! I continue to be grateful to be serving this congregation that has so many fine program opportunities – Bible Studies, Sunday School, Adult Education, music offerings, and so much more! (Didn’t the Sunday School Singers sound great during last week’s Reformation Service? And our Confirmation Students are looking forward to being more visible on Sunday mornings as they welcome people to worship!…

Greetings from Peace! October is winding now, which means that it’s time for our annual celebration of our Lutheran heritage this week on Reformation Sunday! Please join us this Sunday morning at 9:30am when we gather for a festive worship service followed by our “Harvest Fest!” During worship we’ll sing, pray, and hear a message about the life of Martin Luther and the beginning of the Reformation that took place over 500 years ago. And then after worship during the…

Greetings from Peace Lutheran Church! It’s been a cool, drizzly few days outside at Peace, but it’s been nice and dry inside! We’ll just have to wait and see what the rest of these fall days have in store for us! Last Sunday morning we had a great day – our kids blessed the Lutheran World Relief Personal Care Kits during the Children’s Message, we learned about healthy sleep practices during the Adult Education Hour, and the Transition Team held…

Greetings from Peace Lutheran Church! What a great week we’ve just had! On Sunday, we gathered for worship, Sunday School, Personal Care Kit Packing, and another Transition Forum during our Adult Education Hour. On Monday our Transition Team met to take our next steps forward in the Call Process. (Have you signed up for a Listening Session yet?) And on Wednesday night our Confirmation Kids experienced firsthand what it means to “walk by faith and not by sight” by leading…

Welcome to the first weekend of October! Where did the summer go? Where did the beginning of fall go? Temperatures will soon be dropping (I think next week already!) and we’re on our way to those wonderful fall colors! This past week I had the joy of spending a few days up in Alexandria at the annual Bishop’s Theological Retreat with about a hundred other pastors from the Minneapolis Area Synod. We spent time in worship, prayer, and conversation, as…