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Join us for an online worship service! This Sunday, June 28, is the 4th Sunday after Pentecost and Vacation Bible School Sunday!  This year’s theme is Rocky Railway.”  All this week Terri and her helpers have been conducting VBS by Zoom.  Some said they were crazy to want to have a virtual VBS – that they had loco motives – but Terri and […]

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for June 26, 2020: How will you mark June 29th? In case you have not seen the important message from the ELCA I share it with you now. “The Church of Christ in every age, beset by change but Spirit-led, must claim and test its heritage, and keep on rising from the

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for June 24, 2020: Dear Zoomed-in-and-out Saints! Do you know this feeling of tiredness after a Zoom meeting? This deep exhaustion after having stared at the screen and it’s so hard not to get distracted and to start doing something else (like checking my Emails or turning off the video and muting

Pastor Barbara’s Devotion for June 22, 2020 Dear Church, In the very first chapter of The Acts of the Apostles, right before the Holy Spirit came to them at Pentecost, the apostles were in a dilemma.  There were only 11 apostles left after Judas betrayed Jesus.  So they did something unexpected.  We are told that 120 believers gathered

Join us for today’s service! This Sunday, June 21st, is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost, Fill the Food Barrel Sunday, and Father’s Day!  Unfortunately, as we still aren’t worshiping in person, we can’t have the children hand out tiny wrenches to all the men in the congregation, but we will have a Liturgy for Men of Faith during our online worship service. Also this

Pastor Tim’s Devotion for Friday, June 19, 2020: JUNETEENTH Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It recalls how the states of Louisiana and Texas heard the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Slavery continued in those two states for more than two years

Pastor Tia’s Devotion for June 17, 2017: Dear worthy siblings in Christ! I remember when first coming to the US 1,5 years ago, I wondered about these signs. Black signs with white letters saying, “Black Lives Matter”. I didn’t know anything about the history of this movement, the ignorant European I was. The black sign

Dear Church, Oh!  It was wonderful!  As I didn’t ask permission to use the photo, please Imagine the other people gathered in a bunch of other boxes surrounding mine for Holy Redeemer’s first Zoom Communion service!  As Aaron, one of our members called it, Zoom-union!  I was so excited that I forgot and actually ate regular bread!  I haven’t touched