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Playful Creativity

I’ll give you three guesses … go ahead … three guesses on what the cover picture to this devotion is. Nope … this is a picture of the tape we had used to mark off the church sanctuary when we opened up worship on June 6th.  We taped off every other pew as a help…

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Children's Jubilate Choir offering special music during worship
Music Ensembles

This fall, St. Peter’s musicians will regather to make music together in vocal and handbell choirs. Below is a list of opportunities to get involved. For more information or if you have questions, please email Adam Lefever Hughes, the Director of Music. All are welcome! Herald Choir The Herald Choir is for singers 9th grade…

Musical Arts 2021-2022 Series

We are proud to announce our 2021-2022 Musical Arts Concert Series. After a year of online offerings, St. Peter’s is pleased to return to making music together in our beautiful space. Schedule Sat., Aug. 7, 2021Lancaster British Brass Band Mini-ConcertNote: This is an online concert found by heading to our youtube page youtube.com/stpeterslutheranlancaster Sun., Dec.…

The Rats in Our Lives

Our thanks to Greg Hand for offering this week’s devotion! Plato was reported to have said, “The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.” Samuel Johnson put it a slightly different way: “Man needs more to be reminded than instructed.” And Robert Fulgham probably received substantial royalties from his book,…

Mission Partners: Busoka Lutheran

We give thanks for the church of Christ at home and throughout the world. Our mission partners, the Busoka Lutheran Church in Tanzania wanted to share some good news with us. They have a new pastor! Busoka Lutheran congregation welcomed Pastor Nazareth Mwaitebele on June 6, 2021. Additionally, the rebuilding of the church building that…

July 1 Worship Update

This week we bring you an update from Pastor Ross and Adam about our next steps in resuming our in-person worship life together. Here are the highlights:– Two indoor, traditional worship services every Sunday at 8:00 and 9:45 am.– Two hymns now sung at every service.– Masks required while singing. Otherwise, please follow CDC recommendations…

July 2021 Herald

This month’s Herald is available for download. Inside This Issue . . . Worship Schedule – 2 Mission Campaign – 3 Adult Christian Ed. – 7 Committees – 8 Worship & Music – 10 Groups & Events – 11 Pastoral Letters – 12 From the Director of Music – 14 St. Peter’s Preschool – 14…

A Perfect Day

FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENT — for those who wish to attend the funeral service for Pastor Dick Geib, it will be this Friday, July 2nd at 1:00 p.m. in the church sanctuary. Bring a mask as we will be singing two hymns. A time of greeting with the family will be held from Noon to 1:00 p.m.…

Christians and Climate Change

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 Our ELCA Social Statement “Caring for Creation:…

Outdoor Family Service

This Sunday our outdoor service takes on a different flavor. We’ll have our first “family service” of the summer. These services are meant to be very friendly to families with young kids. We’ll have more action during worship, music that is easy to learn in the moment, and prayer and praise in language that will…

What Lies Beneath

Nope.  Not thinking about the 2000 release of the Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer horror movie of the same title.  I’m thinking about a tree.  An apple tree.  An apple tree that stands in the northeast corner of my yard.  An apple tree whose days are numbered. On Saturday night, as I was returning from…