Welcome to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church!

Thank you for your interest in Grace Lutheran.  We are happy to have you with us. Things have been a bit different these past two years because of the covid-19 pandemic. We have recently restarted  in-person worship with Sunday services at 10:00 a.m.  Additionally our Sunday morning services and our Thursday Noon Prayer services are live-streamed on our website and on Facebook.

We believe that God has called each of us and we each have spiritual gifts to be used for the good of all. We welcome all people and believe that God calls us all together and that we are stronger as a result.

 

 

Our Mission & Values
VISION
Our vision for our life together flows from the waters of our baptisms through which we were brought into relationship with God and one another and is celebrated around the cross - the cross that marks the life and death and resurrection of Jesus

 

 

IN OUR BAPTISMS, WE MADE A COVENANT WITH GOD TO -

           Live among God's faithful people

            Hear the word of God and share in the Lord's supper

            Proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed

            Serve all people, following the example of Jesus

Strive for justice and peace in all the earth.

 

THIS IS OUR VISION FOR OUR LIFE TOGETHER.  IT IS CHALLENGING AND FULFILLING.  LIFE-GIVING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING.  PLEASE JOIN WITH US.

We are church

We are what God has made us – people whom God has created by grace to live in union with Jesus Christ and has prepared to live faithful, fruitful lives by the power of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:8-10). In Jesus Christ, God has reconciled us to God and to each other. As we gather around word and sacraments, this life in Christ is what defines, shapes and guides us as a community of faith, the church. 

By God’s grace we can and do live confidently and generously in this community of faith and in service of others, amid the mysteries and paradoxes of this life in Christ – including our human limitations and failings, and the ambiguities, uncertainties and suffering that we experience.

We are Lutheran

We are a church that walks by faith, trusting God's promise in the gospel and knowing that we exist by and for the proclamation of this gospel word. We proclaim Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead for the life of the world. As the apostle Paul wrote (Romans 1:16-17), and we echo in our Constitution (2.02), we are not ashamed of this gospel ministry because it is God’s power for saving all people who trust the God who makes these promises. “We are to fear and love God, so, that we do not despise preaching or God’s word, but instead keep that word holy and gladly hear it and learn it” (Small Catechism). God’s word, specifically God’s promise in Jesus Christ, creates this liberated, confident and generous faith. God gives the Holy Spirit who uses gospel proclamation – in preaching and sacraments, in forgiveness and in healing conversations – to create and sustain this faith. As a Lutheran church, we give central place to this gospel message in our ministry.

We understand to be Lutheran is to be ecumenical – committed to the oneness to which God calls the world in the saving gift of Jesus Christ, recognizing the brokenness of the church in history and the call of God to heal this disunity.

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