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Holy Week and Easter

ABOUT OUR SERVICES AND ONLINE OPTIONS LINK Holy Week this year will continue to be framed by our Lenten theme, “Seeking.” As we search for our place in the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection, we pray for new insights into where we might find a new life where we thought there might only be suffering and […]

Council Member Corner – Diana Myers

by Diana Myers Be Kind. Remember those yard signs Pastor G ordered a few years ago? I had to have one and placed it on the corner of our property. People stopped by, conversations happened, where can I get one, they asked? Our little neighborhood community was talking to each other because of the ‘Be […]

LWR Spring Health Care Kit Needs

Health care kits will be collected and assembled for Lutheran World Relief Spring loading and distributing to those in need globally. The following items are requested: Lightweight, dark colored bath towels.  Target has a great one, Everyday Living brand for only $3.00 each.  4oz size bath bar soaps Ivory is preferred, or other brands with […]

Sprouts Grow in Faith

by Dana Wright Sprouts continues to be a delight to Kari Guddal, Mr. Dana, and Red Bird. Our numbers remain rather small (2 to 6). Our unit for Fall 2022 centered on stories featuring children in the Old Testament (i.e. Isaac, Moses, Samuel, Jeremiah, etc. leading up to prophesies of the Christ child and the […]

Carolyn Swanson – An Appreciation

by Stephanie Running When the dictionary wrote the definition for “generosity”, they must have been thinking of Carolyn! Carolyn is from a seriously LUTHERAN family. Her father was an ordained pastor. She started teaching Bible studies more than 60 years ago. She taught the Bethel Bible Series in Burlington, WA and went to Madison, Wisconsin […]

Adult Forums in February

Sundays, 10 AM | Our Redeemer’s February 5 – The Transition Team will offer updates and receive feedback on the transition process. All are invited to come and be a part of the conversation.  February 12 & 19 – Deepening Our Callings: Listening for an Ear Toward God For the next two Sundays, Feb. 12 […]

Winter-Spring LiVE Project Learning Opportunities

Interrogating Privilege Class meets weekly 6:30pm – 8pm on Zoom Wednesdays – February 1, 8, Thursdays – February 23, March 2, 9, 16 This 8-week mini-course is designed specifically for lay leaders to open up transparent, and honest conversations around the ways privilege shapes and impacts our lives and communities of faith. If you’ve read […]

Lent: Seeking Honest Questions for Deeper Faith

by Pastor Gretchen Mertes Our Lenten scripture readings offer us many stories of Jesus encountering people who are seeking:  Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the veil of night,  He approaches a Samaritan woman at a well,  He heals a man born without sight.  In these stories, each person is seeking a new beginning, a different […]

From the Pastor Feb. 2023: Seeking a Future

The activity of seeking is a pursuit with energy toward a particular end. How that pursuit is explored and what energy is driving it may, in fact, vary. Each of us is seeking something in our lives, whether socially, economically, and yes, even politically. Each of us is motivated differently by what is that we […]

Festival & Auction “One Love”

Festival & Auction Saturday, February 11th, 5-8pm Visit the Auction Website! fundraiser.bid/onelove23 DONATE AN ITEM – CLICK TO DONATE   Our Redeemer’s Annual Auction is in 3 short weeks! It’s time to find your favorite island attire because we plan to have a jammin’ time in the Fellowship Hall Saturday night, February 11th! View all the […]