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COVID-19

Returning to Small Groups in the Church

The agreement between “Houses of Worship” and the State Governor allows for churches to resume holding meetings, small group Bible Studies, and other small group activities indoors. We are asking each group to decide from among their participants if and when they would like to meet again. Then call the church office so that we can reserve appropriate safe space. Other spaces…

Indoor Worship Guidelines

By agreement of the Minnesota South District President and the Governor of Minnesota, indoor worship is now allowed to the those congregations which have a written plan to avoid exposure to the Corona-19 virus which follows certain requirements and recommendations. Below is an overview of our plan so that members can decide which service they wish to attend and what they can…

Special Pandemic Volunteers Needed

Learn to run the FM broadcast for our parking lot services. Learn how to find, edit, process, and upload past worship services. You’d need a top end computer and fast internet. Learn how to post announcements, devotions, worship services and the like to our website and Facebook page. Others can provide the content. It’s the tech-savvy that is needed. A willingness to…

A Collection of Pandemic Thoughts from Pastor Lauer

How we May Look to Future Generations I remember a man who grew up in Weimar Germany – the period between the Word Wars when Germany was a political and economical disaster. His wife had also come to America from impoverished Europe. The experiences of their youth changed their lives forever. He loved the seclusion and of Northern Minnesota. She loved the…

Your Easter Options

On Easter Sunday, a worship video from a previous year with classic pipe organ, rousing hymns, all the flowers, and of course the Easter Gospel read and preached will be posted here on our website. The same video will be shown on Easter Sunday on local access channel KTV (Charter/Spectrum channel 181 or Consolidated Communications channel 7 (digital 507) at 9:30 a.m.…

Palm Sunday Order of Service

The order of service for Palm Sunday has been uploaded to it’s regular place on our website under “worship” and “weekly order of service.” You you can get there easily by clicking HERE. Use this order of service to follow along with the service on our website recording which will be posted by Saturday evening. This service was recorded April 9, 2017,…

Changes to Drive In Service Plans

Due to the Minnesota Governor’s Executive Order 20-20, known as the “Stay at Home” order, we will not be able to hold our Palm Sunday drive in service at Franklin Elementary. We will still do a “practice service” in our own parking lot on the corner of Broad and Lime with a limited amount of parking in order to “work out the…

April Events Cancelled

All services and activities, other than those described below, are cancelled for the entire month of April. The Church Council will announce plans for May at a later date as circumstances change. Pastoral Care Walk-In Hours Call for Specialized Pastoral Care Both Pastors and the Deaconess are available to provide individual pastoral care as we always have. We are not permitted to…