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Wednesday Outdoor Worship:  May through August at 6pm.
No Worship August 22nd.
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​Our mission statement:
HEAR IT, FEEL IT, LIVE IT, ​SHARE IT - GOD'S LOVE 
Gods Work - Our Hands
Sunday September 9th, 2018


Welcome to Our Savior's Lutheran Church, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (The ELCA). Our Savior's Lutheran is a dynamic congregation ministering to people of all ages and places. From providing to a food pantry to peoples of many countries, we feed body and soul and embrace God's children of all ages.

Worship is central to our faith life at Our Savior's Lutheran. All services include the sacrament of Holy Communion and our primary worship resource is the ELW. Our music is varied and we have choirs for all ages. Worship happens at 9:00 am at Our Savior’s with fellowship hour to follow.  
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Ministries of Our Savior's include but are not limited to: combating local and global hunger, Operation Christmas Child, domestic mission trips, youth and family events, Luther Point Bible Camp, WELCA, MIM, choirs, care for the homebound, education and any way that we make Christ's name known.

Our Savior's is supporting a Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) volunteer, Rachel Mann, who is volunteering in Fianarantsoa, Madagascar! To learn about the YAGM ministry, her mission there, or to giver her support, check out her website here!

There are many ways to connect with others at Our Savior's Lutheran Church

Confirmation/Aftershock
Meets Wednesday nights.

SOS/Kids Crew for 1st-5th graders
Meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
WELCA
Quilting for LWR is held on the last Wednesday of the month,  January- September

Monthly Bible Study - check our calendar for specific dates

Men in Mission
Meets the third Saturday of every other month. ​

Our Savior's Lutheran is well known for its Lutefisk Supper
held on the last Thursday of October and for our Easter Vigil with fireworks.

Weekly Devotional

John 6:60
60 When many of his disciples heard [what Jesus was saying], they said, "This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?"
 
In his book The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about the difference between cheap and costly grace. Cheap grace was the kind of grace that didn’t expect any kind of change, that didn’t lead anyone to become a fuller image of Jesus, that didn’t conform anyone’s life to that of the kingdom of God. Bonhoeffer, witnessing the barbarity of the Nazis and the ease with which Christians got on board with its evil beliefs, easily found cheap grace.
 
Costly grace, on the other hand, was what Christians were called to. Costly grace was the kind of grace that radically transformed lives, that made people see the world differently and act differently as a result. Costly grace demanded that Christians reject evil out of hand, not accommodate to it because it’s easier than resisting it.
 
Jesus’ teachings are difficult. They call on us to give up the ways of the world that draw lines between people, that rank people’s worthiness, that demand we hit back twice as hard, that tell us we need more power, more guns, more money, more force to keep ourselves safe. So it’s little wonder that we don’t take Jesus’ words seriously; that we want cheap grace that doesn’t interfere with our lives. Because this teaching is hard; who can accept it?
 
But Jesus calls us to accept it. When we were baptized into the kingdom, we were brought into this new world that strips us of the need to live like the world lives. We are instead called to live according to the kingdom: to forgive and be reconciled instead of getting revenge; to be generous whether the recipient is “worthy” or not; to be vulnerable and humble when the world screams for us to be powerful and proud. Jesus’ teachings of the kingdom life are hard, but they are the way to real life.
 
And Jesus has enough grace to lead us there. Jesus is the way that frees us from the bondage to the ways of the world. He is the one who lifts us from all its demands and terrors and brings us into the life of the kingdom that won’t be stopped, even by death. He draws us into a new way of living that is real living, real community, real hope that we will find in the presence of God.

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