“Looking Back with Awe and Forward in Faith”
You, the people of First Lutheran, deserve much praise for First Suppers’ 10 years of faithful, diligent, and caring service to others. Just a guess, but that is at least 40,000 meals! Incredible, but not as incredible as the people who did it: you all! Please come this Sunday, November 10, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of First Suppers with a patio fellowship after worship. So many of you have helped so much. No act of gratitude can truly suffice.
Look back with awe, and then look forward in faith.
Last Sunday, many of you gathered with the ‘Community Service Dream Team’ to discern how God might be calling First Lutheran into the future with regards to community service. The chair of the Common Table board gave a presentation and answered questions pertaining to how weekday meals would transition to the Lincoln Education Center (across the street from First Lutheran). Here are just a few highlights:
- Common Table meals will begin at the Lincoln Education Center on 1/6/2025.
- Meals will be served every weekday at 6 pm.
- Volunteers will be needed to cook, serve, and clean.
- Details will be forthcoming on how volunteers can sign up and participate.
- Common Table will find out desires of how each church would like to help.
- First Closet can use space at Lincoln Education Center for clothing and goods ministry.
The conversation last Sunday included much not listed here and will expand to other areas besides meal ministry. Look forward to more ‘Community Service Dream Team’ meetings and please pray for one another in a process that will take time and patience. This change is not without some loss and the grief that accompanies it. But the future is one filled with hope. Why? Because God’s will will be done; we pray that it may be done among us.
Thank you to each and every one of you for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed. It brings true love to fruition, justice to action, and death to new life now and into eternity.
In Christ,
Pastor Stephen