Portals of Prayer is a daily devotional booklet STL gives to anyone who is interested. For each day of the month there is a reading from Holy Scripture, a thought about that word, a prayer, and the opportunity to dig deeper into the word. The booklet also contains a variety of special prayer resources in its back pages.
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Plans to host the inaugural Council of Lutheran Women Mission Focus, a mission expo designed to inform attendees about service opportunities at member ministry organizations and encourage involvement, have been postponed to 2021.
Council of Lutheran Women Mission Focus Postponed Read Post »
St. Thomas is having a Blood Drive on September 30, from 1-7pm, in the gym. All workers will be practicing safe distancing and sanitizing as well as making sure all participants are safe. Please wear your mask and sanitize your hands prior to coming into the gym.
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We are here to serve our community. As you worship with us online, the Lord Jesus is at work, uniting us as friends and family. If you are curious to learn more out ministry in the community, go to www.stl-eastpointe.org, or like us on Face Book. To get your questions answered in a more personal way, contact the church office (586-772-3370) and ask for a pastor/staff member to give you a call.
August 23rd, 2020 Bulletin Read Post »
I am what you might call the antithesis of a mechanical wizard or small engine expert. I have no clue as to what causes an engine to backfire or how to remedy the situation. However, when my lawnmower or anything else run by a small gas engine backfires as I turn it off, I believe it is not a good thing. My problem is that I generally then forget about it – until it happens again the next time I use the machine.
We are here to serve our community. As you worship with us online, the Lord Jesus is at work, uniting us as friends and family. If you are curious to learn more out ministry in the community, go to www.stl-eastpointe.org, or like us on Face Book. To get your questions answered in a more personal way, contact the church office (586-772-3370) and ask for a pastor/staff member to give you a call.
August 16th, 2020 Bulletin Read Post »
Looking for a simpler way to give your support (tithe) to the mission of STL? You can scan this Quick Response (QR) code, with a QR decoder on your smart phone, it will take you to our on-line giving form, where you can have your mission support offering automatically taken from your checking account, or use your credit or debit card. You can also set up recurring giving!
Many years ago, a wise old gentleman said to me, “Faithfulness is a long journey in the same direction.” My, how I have been thinking about that over these last few months. I was all geared up to handle the pandemic through June – even July, but now it is getting tough – and the end doesn’t even seem to be in sight! What is a person to do?
In a sad development for the pro-life movement, the long-awaited result for the Petition Drive for Banning Dismemberment Abortion in Michigan is now in, and apparently the State Bureau of Elections has decreed that we have fallen short in the number of valid signatures necessary to pass the petition due in part to Planned Parenthood challenging the legitimacy of some of the signatures. Click here for a related news article. Click here to read the update from Rev. Paul Clark, President and Pastoral Counselor for Lutherans for Life of Michigan.
Michigan Right to Life Petition to Ban Dismemberment Update Read Post »
