Over the season of Easter, St. Peter’s experimented with having communion during all Sunday morning services. The staff, with the hopes of talking about the many ways that communion can touch our lives, put together thoughts about the sacrament for the bulletin each Sunday. Here they are in their entirety. Pastor Geib In the well-known…
Church and IKEA. At first glance, you might think that these two entities are completely unrelated with absolutely no overlap. Church is certainly not about purchasing pieces of furniture of varying quality. Furthermore IKEA, meatballs aside, certainly doesn’t market itself as a religious experience. One phrase does unite these two polar opposites: some assembly required.…
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” John 2:5 Like Jesus, we are called to “do something,” to follow Christ’s lead and listen to what he says. The church’s mission is to act when we see something happening that is detrimental to others. Like Mary, we often think the solution involves getting…
Each week we’re spotlighting a ministry at St. Peter’s to show our mission in action. This week, we’re looking at our Worship Ministry. Our Ministry We gather as the Body of Christ, so that we are spiritually fed by God’s gracious hand and equipped for ministry in the world, through worshiping together in services of…
St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lancaster invites the community to a Manheim Township Community Thanksgiving Eve Service on November 21 at 7:00pm. Several pastors and church leaders from the community will be co-leading a service of thanksgiving, prayer, and giving. As part of giving thanks, we will be collecting canned goods which will be…
Can we think of going to worship as going to a party? When you think about it, our Sunday morning gatherings look like ritualized parties; parties where our actions have been more formalized than if we were going to a party at a friend’s house. In some ways the four parts of our communion services,…
