Posts from 2016

January 2017 Newsletter

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: It was a brutal battle – one that could very easily have gone either way.  The participants were well-equipped and well-prepared to engage the enemy.  Spears and arrows were sharpened; cannons were loaded; the troops were summoned and assembled for what may go down in history as “The Battle of the…

DECEMBER 2016 NEWSLETTER

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: As I sit down to write this opening article for this last newsletter of 2016, it is the morning of November 3.  I would normally wait another week or so to do it, but something happened last night that is worthy of my time to write it now.  Amid all the…

November 2016 Newsletter

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: For the past 24 years I have had the privilege of serving as the pastor of Salem Lutheran Church.  For each one of those years you have observed Pastor Appreciation Month.  In fact, I believe you were one of the first congregations in our community to do that for their pastor. …

October 2016 Newsletter

FROM PASTOR MEYER’S DESK: Life is full of milestones, isn’t it?  And I would say that a majority of those milestones occur during the first 18 years.  We’re getting close to one of those milestones with our grandson Ryder who can crawl like a little army tank, but who is also real close to taking…