The Good News
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A Few Recent Newsletter Articles
As the 2023/2024 program year comes to an end this month, I see plenty of reasons to celebrate. Our weekly worship attendance continues to creep up as we slowly build our in-person worship numbers from the post-shutdown lows that we and every other church experienced.
This last week, the opportunity presented itself to reflect on the history of music I learned about while on sabbatical. You see, as much as my time in the South was focused on Civil Rights and the African American experience, you can’t learn about those things without learning about the art that was created out of these experiences and the deep impact that art had on our country and the world…
This year, the committee is awarding 11 scholarships to area high school seniors, who are moving on to post-secondary learning this fall.
It’s been a month and a half since I returned from sabbatical, and while December was filled with all the things Advent and Christmas are full of, I continue to reflect on my time away. Over and over again, I remember the stories of how human beings are born to be in community.
This past year, we awarded the following community groups grant money which they applied for on our First Lutheran Church website…