Brothers & Sisters in Christ! Here we are at the beginning but yet the end of a year. As we enter into the season of Advent, we begin a new church year. And yet at the same time we have entered into December 2023, the last month of this year. So maybe we have…
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ! Thanks to the hard work of our Cross Committee, the 18-foot-wide and 35-foot-tall cross has been put up in the back lot of the church. This project started because when the latest addition was added on, the large wooden cross on the west side of the building had to…
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I decided for this month’s newsletter I would reach back into the files and bring back something from the depths of my High School Youth Newsletter devotions. What would you say is one of the most useful inventions ever to be thought up? I’m sure there is…
FROM DEACONESS JESSICA’S DESK: Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ! Change? How will you handle it? As I’m writing this, today is Faith and Heath’s first day of school. Last night as they were getting ready for bed Faith was telling Heath about how prepared she was for school. She told him how she had…
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ! Physical pain which prevents you from doing what you want can be rather annoying and just flat out … painful. Let me tell you a story about what happened to me in college. In attempt to spike a volleyball in a college intramural game (for the game winner of…
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, I’m sure I’m not the only person who has asked this question, actually, I know I’m not the only person. I would confidently bet that each and every one of us at one point in time or another has asked … “God, what in the world do you have…
FROM DEACONESS JESSICA’S DESK: Salem Lutheran Church…where friends become family… When we first heard of Salem and I saw this phrase on the website my cynical-self thought, “Where we want our friends to become our family.” You see…in the four churches I had the privilege of being part of in the past…this was not the…
FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Brothers & Sisters in Christ! Sometimes I can be a very impatient person … especially when it comes to this time of the year. Spring is here, but then it feels like winter again, and then spring is here, and then some more winter like cold and wind. Flowers have…
FROM PASTOR MIKE’S DESK: Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ, Well, deer season is officially over! While I didn’t have the greatest year in terms of how many deer I tagged and put in the freezer, I still thoroughly enjoyed my time out in the woods, out within God’s great creation. I just love being…