Thank You from Diaconal Intern Lora Salley
Dear St. Luke’s community, As I finish my time as Diaconal Intern, I am filled with gratitude for the opportunity to have served at St. Luke’s. Thank you all for helping me grow in my ministry…
Worship in Easter | Hope Beyond Hope
This Easter season lasts for seven Sundays–a week of weeks to dwell in the promises of resurrection. Here at St. Luke’s our theme this Easter season is Hope Beyond Hope…
Good Friday with children
It can be hard to talk about death or understand what it means to have “new life.” That’s normal and it’s okay. Easter is a mystery that will keep taking on new meaning as we grow…
Maundy Thursday at home
With nightfall tonight, our Lenten observance comes to an end, and we join Christians around the world in celebrating the Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. This is one of the most intimate and embodied days of the church year…
Holy Week 2020
Welcome to the week that the church has set aside to remember the mystery of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. It gives me great strength and wonder to know that even as our world faces global crisis–pandemic exacerbated by pre-existing injustice–Christians around the world this week will open their Bibles, gather around their computer screens, sing across alleyways, and recite from memory the story that has always been the sure foundation of our faith…
Important updates from St. Luke’s Council
Grace and peace to you in this unique time. As with all aspects of communal life right now, St. Luke’s is reimagining what it means to be in community with one another. Your Council has been working alongside the staff to discern what our immediate future will be. We write with a few important updates…
Antiracism Ministry during COVID-19
On March 22, 2020, the St. Luke’s Antiracism Ministry gathered via Zoom to discuss Chapter 6 of “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and check in on our health and well being as a result of COVID-19 and the Illinois shelter-in-place order, including the racially harmful ways in which the coronavirus has been referenced…
Church Together Online
We are all trying to be creative as we figure out how to be connected in new ways. I want to tell you about a few opportunities to connect with your St. Luke’s community during this time of pandemic…
Ministry in the time of a pandemic
In the days, weeks, and months to come, we will see major adjustments in our routine as the world responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although much about our daily lives is changing, I want to assure you of my confidence that here at St. Luke’s we can keep becoming a powerful church that transforms lives and changes the world…
St. Luke’s schedule and COVID-19
This evening the staff and council made the difficult decision to adjust our schedule of worship and activities. We do not do this in fear. We do this out of an abundance of caution in an effort to “flatten the curve” of the spread of COVID-19 and in solidarity with healthcare workers and those most vulnerable to infection…