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| Event Schedule |
December 24 - Candlelight Christmas Eve Services: 7:00pm & 11:00pm
(Holy Communion at 11pm)
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December 25 - Christmas Day Service: 10:30am (Holy Communion)
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| Deutsch: Christvesper Dec 24 at 5pm |
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 So you’ve found our website. Maybe it was a fluke, maybe it was just lucky, maybe you don’t know how you got here, but I’d like to think of it as a blessing. A blessing for us because every guest is a blessing. We value that, we value you. More importantly, God values you.
And then we believe that we don’t just live for ourselves, so we hope that we can be a blessing to you.
Perhaps you will find here something useful, interesting, or inspiring. Hopefully you will see that while this site has many purposes we’d mostly like this to be an invitation, an invitation to believe but also to explore the Christian faith. Maybe, if you live close, you’ll find a reason to drop in in person. We would be very glad if you did.
Pastor Christoph Reiners
on behalf of the people of Peace Lutheran
| Back to Church |
Back to Church Sunday
is a simple idea born in England. It is about inviting a friend, neighbour, colleague, or anyone we know, to come to church with us. Some people we may want to invite may never have been to church but it’s still Back to Church Sunday for the church is our place of belonging.
Some churches are tucked away in quiet neighbourhoods and no one ever knows they are there. Our church is at a busy street corner and we can expect traffic only to increase. I am happy to exchange a little bit of quiet for the great visibility this busy intersection offers. We want people to notice us and to know we are here. But people don’t visit a church simply because they know it’s there (unless it’s Notre Dame or Westminster Cathedral or something like that). Church is not about the building. People need an invitation because church is about relationships.
We’re not used to inviting people to come to church. We’re used to inviting people to all kinds of things but we keep our faith pretty private, we don’t want to come across as zealous or religious, or something. But how will people find their way into the community of the church and through the community of the church to Jesus, if they are not invited? Chances are some of us are here because we were once invited.
We have room in our pews but inviting people to come to church with us is never about filling the pews, it’s about life and salvation, belonging and becoming.
Inviting someone is simple. All it takes is for us is to care: About them, and about the life with God.
Invite someone to church for October 16 or for any other day. It’s not only good for them, the practice of inviting is good for us too.
Yours,
Pastor Christoph
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| Posted by J. Christoph Reiners on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:18
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