Welcome! We're a small church doing BIG things with the help of God!
We believe that God loves, values and embraces each person as a beloved child. Therefore, we welcome people of every age, size, color, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, ability and challenge. We welcome people from all faith traditions, those with doubts, and those with no sense of faith at all. We also commit ourselves to the pursuit of environmental, economic, social and racial justice.
Our mission is to meet God, practice community, serve Christ and live generously!
There is a story our world tells us every single day. We hear it so often we don't even notice it anymore. It says, "There isn't enough." Not enough money. Not enough jobs. Not enough housing. Not enough opportunity. Eventually that story moves inside us until we begin believing we aren't enough either. But Isaiah and Jesus tell a different story. When we've counted the loaves, done the math, and decided how the story ends, Jesus simply says, "Bring it here... to me."
The problem is that when we examine our own hearts—we find God's good seed and the bad seed growing together—both are present.
Every one of us knows what it is to love generously one day... and act selfishly the next.
The field isn't just out there. The field is in here. Inside our hearts.
Sooner or later, every one of us finds ourselves in an "off-ramp moment"—a place where hope has run dry and we begin to wonder whether God has forgotten us. Isaiah reminds us that God's Word is never empty. Like rain soaking into thirsty ground, it quietly brings life where we see only barrenness. Even in exile, even in suffering, even when we cannot yet imagine a way forward, God is already accomplishing the future he has promised.
The congregation celebrated with cake and presented Dr. Pridgen with an engraved crystal plaque thanking her for her leadership.
QUILT GROUP
We're doing what we love and living out our faith in the process.
Each quilt is a way of reaching out and touching someone else someplace else with God's protection and love.
Join us the 4th Tuesday of the month (January through November) from 9:00am - 2:30pm--and bring a sack lunch and sewing supplies. We work and talk...And eat and talk...and talk...and talk... and create as many as 70 quilts per year!
Building houses with Habitat for Humanity and on mission trips to areas impacted by hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Our Green Team plans and leads Earth Day activities for the students at John Diemer Elementary School every year.
Most years we have participated in Pride events by walking in the parade or having a booth with information about area Lutheran churches.
To help little ones get through worship, we provide activity packets to bring with them into the service.
Our gathering space (just outside the sanctuary) has a children’s play area with trains and other toys as well as coloring books and crayons. There’s plenty of room for adults to enjoy coffee and conversation while supervising children.
Rachel Griffard Smith and Jack Smith teach our children’s Sunday school class for ages 1 to 11. They bring a lot of energy and children really enjoy their teaching. Sunday School is from 9:15 to 10:00 Sunday mornings.
Every month we fill bags with groceries for the Metro Lutheran Ministries food pantry in Kansas City, MO.
