by Wayne Zschech | Feb 17, 2021 | Learn & Grow
Join us for a virtual midweek Lenten series focusing on community. Using the readings from Mark’s gospel, Created for Community invites the virtually gathered assembly to reflect on what it means to be in community with one another, with the world, with creation, and...
by Wayne Zschech | Feb 17, 2021 | Learn & Grow
In our ELW hymnal, there is a hymn we have never sung in worship, at least not in the 8 years I have been serving at LCOS. It’s the translated version of a hymn I grew up singing as a child in my German Lutheran church, a hymn I played as a teen- age church...
by Wayne Zschech | Feb 3, 2021 | Learn & Grow
Despite the Coronavirus vaccine now being administered the threat of contracting the virus is still very much an issue. At the time of this article we are not planning to hold sanctuary worship at the normal 7:30 p.m. time but will provide livestream worship instead....
by Wayne Zschech | Feb 2, 2021 | Learn & Grow
Haegele’s Bakery in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia has been making the tasty Fastnacht (pronounced fahst-knocked) doughnuts Our Savior members and guests have enjoyed for decades on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. The tradition began when Germans...
by Wayne Zschech | Jan 17, 2021 | Learn & Grow
If you’ve ever wondered what it must have been like for those first early churches and the words of good news they needed to hear when Christianity was just beginning then you will enjoy our study of both Paul’s first and second letters to the Thessalonians. Join us...
by Wayne Zschech | Nov 25, 2020 | Learn & Grow
The year 2020 has been a challenging one to live through, yet we have…almost. As the days darken, both in the amount of sunlight and in the shadow of a pandemic, we long for a message of hope. In addition to the “Christ In Our Home” quarterly devotional resource...
