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This weekend we celebrate the first Sunday in Advent with worship at both 8:30 and 10:45 am. Stay for coffee, snacks and conversation in between services and/or Sunday School at 9:40. All are welcome! About worship this Sunday 12/2: Advent is about the “coming days.” God’s people have always lived in great expectation, but that expectation finds specific, repeated enunciation in the texts appointed for these four weeks. The ancients anticipated a “righteous Branch to spring up for David.” The Thessalonians awaited “the coming of our Lord Jesus with all the saints.” Our Lord’s contemporaries hoped for the time “to stand before the Son of Man.” With them we eagerly await the coming days: anoth
Join us tonight for Thanksgiving worship at 6:30 pm, then stay for our annual Pie Fest following the service. This is a potluck style pie fest, if you are able, please bring a pie to share... drop off in the kitchen prior to worship.
Happy Birthday, St. Peters! Our 125th anniversary celebration is here! Saturday night is the banquet and Sunday we will continue the celebration. 9:00 am Worship with holy communion and... our Worship Choir, Jubilee Bell Choir and Sunday School Choir are performing, and Bishop Steven Belzer will be preaching. Stay for a reception following worship! Sunday School families: make sure you come by 8:30 to give the kids one last rehearsal! Meet in the Sunday School classrooms. Directories are here! Be sure to pick yours up! Also here are the clothing items from our first round of orders for St. Peter's Swag!
Join us for worship this Sunday morning! Worship at 8:30 or 10:45 with coffee and snacks in between. All kids are welcome for Sunday School at 9:40. This weekend we will welcome the St. Olaf Gospel Choir to the 10:45 service. We'll pack in a shortened worship service with lots of time for the choir! About the lessons on Sunday 11/11: Widows are visible everywhere in today’s readings. Jesus denounces those scribes who pray impressive prayers but devour widows’ houses. He commends the poor widow who in his view gave far more than the major donors. Jesus doesn’t see her simply as an object of compassion or charity. She, like the widow of Zarephath who shares her last bit of food with Elijah, do
Worship with us at 8:30 or 10:45! Stay for coffee and snacks between services. All kids are welcome for Sunday School upstairs at 9:40! This Sunday 11/4 we will remember those received into the arms of God's mercy, into the glorious company of the saints in light; and those joined to Christ in the waters of baptism over the last year. About worship: Isaiah and Revelation look forward to the day when God will wipe away all tears; in John’s gospel, Jesus weeps along with Mary and all the gathered mourners before he demonstrates his power over death. On All Saints Day we celebrate the victory won for all the faithful dead, but we grieve for our beloved dead as well, knowing that God honors our
