The Reuniting St. Luke’s Task Force met in February to discuss any adjustments to our standing Phase 4 guidelines. They made recommendations to the St. Luke’s Council, who at their February meeting approved the following addition to the Phase 4 guidelines, still in effect…
Worship at St. Luke’s in the season of Lent will focus on the theme of COVENANT: God’s good news for our bad situations. Each Sunday in Lent will bring us the story of a covenant that God makes in the Hebrew Scriptures, and each Sunday is also an opportunity to reflect on the covenant made with each of us in baptism…
When St. Luke’s elected new Council members last January, few of us could have imagined the task ahead. Little did we know that after February, we would not meet in-person for the rest of the year; that we would have to make the difficult decision to move all St. Luke’s ministries online; that more than
Join Casey VanderStel, Pastor Erin, and others from the Antiracism Ministry for a conversation about the future of our church’s welcome statement. We will discuss what we feel is missing from our current statement, what could change, and how we want to communicate our antiracist stance as a church…
Our Annual Report for 2020 is here! Please take time to read and reflect with us on the amazing things that God has done among us in this past year. The Annual Report contains includes reflections, photos, celebrations, and numbers relevant to our congregation’s life, including the budget.
Saved by grace through faith, through no works of our own. Saved by Christ’s work for us and the power of the Holy Spirit. These are familiar core beliefs of Lutheran theology. What and how can they speak with a liberation theology tradition that understands working for justice as essential to Christian faith?…
St. Luke’s Annual Congregational Meeting is Sunday, January 31st at 9:00 a.m. on Zoom. Following the meeting, we will worship together on Zoom. Your participation is very important! Please plan to join us.
As we hope to turn from the doldrums of this past calendar year to the promises of a new year, St. Luke’s Council gives its thanksgiving this December to the work of our treasurer Gretchen Burch. Thanks to Gretchen’s dedication (along with the willingness of outgoing treasurer Scott Shippy) and her fast-acting awareness this past
The word vocation has come to be associated with one’s profession or occupation–the labor for which we earn a living. But a Lutheran understanding of vocation is no so limited. Our Christian vocations are nothing less than the summons we receive from God, when the voice of God speaks to us…
For December, St. Luke’s wants to thank the Public Faith Team, who offered their time and effort to the Illinois Fair Tax campaign. At a time when traditional modes of advocacy were either unavailable or rapidly changing, these folks took up an important initiative that sought to provide better funding for public goods and services