Redeemer Lutheran Church

Coming this spring - The Redeemer Free Concert Series! 4 great concerts to benefit the Shiloh House Remodel Project, creating 2 affordable housing units for Lancaster. First up: The Jazz Ministers - Sunday, March 22, 3:00. Additional events: Auscultation Brass, Sunday, April 12, 3:00, and Sunday, June 14, 3:00, Lancaster Musical Art professional and student recital. Concert 4 will feature Christian artist Todd Miller - back by popular demand, date and time TBA. Join Us for an outstanding season concerts to support housing in Lancaster!

The recorded worship service for today can be found at https://youtu.be/YHxGNZ6YZl0. Thank you to Pastor Gretchen and Holy Spirit for making this available.

Tomorrow morning, January 25th, we will be sharing an online service with our friends at Holy Spirit at 9:30 am. The service can be found at https://www.youtube.com/. This link will also be posted on the homepage of our website.

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Holy Spirit Lutheran Church Sharing videos from our Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Due to the impending winter storm, worship and all other activities for Sunday, January 25th are cancelled. Please stay safe during this time of severe weather, and hold in prayer all those without shelter or who must work during this time.

The images below contain the text of prayers for the day, today's Gospel reading, and a reflection on the Gospel.

Due to technical difficulties with YouTube, we're unable to live stream a service today. Materials for home devotions and a reflection on today's Gospel trading will be posted here shortly. We regret any inconvenience.

Worship service scheduled for 9:30 AM tomorrow, January 18th, has been cancelled in anticipation of snow and sleet. Pastor Bob will lead a brief devotion online at 9:30. Please use this link to join:

Redeemer Lutheran Church Welcome to Redeemer Lutheran Church Lancaster, Pa. May the Abiding Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ fill you with joy and peace. Redeemer has ministered with the people of Lancaster, Pa. for more than a century, serving as a center for worship, faith formation, and mission to our neighborhood and t...

February 1 - New Service Time at Redeemer 9:00 a.m.

Because of our collaboration with Hamilton Park UCC, the regular Redeemer Sunday service will begin 9:00 a.m. starting February 1. Please join us at this new time!

As beautiful a hymn as "Silent Night" is, the nativity was likely neither calm nor bright. Two terrified first-time parents, stranded and unhoused far from home, surrounded by strangers, bedding down in the only place they could find, probably praying the baby wouldn't come until things got better.

But he did come. In the dark and the messiness and the unsettledness, he came. To us a child is born; to is a son is given.

If we want to keep Christ in Christmas, if we want to find the savior the angels sang about, perhaps we should look where he was found the first time: among the marginalized, the poor, the unhoused, the terrified. It's not likely to be calm, or bright. But the glories that streamed from heaven afar into that stable all those years ago are still streaming. Into shelters, and alleyways, and soup kitchens, and all the other places we seldom think to look. The incarnation keeps happening. The Savior keeps coming. And we can still find him, if we keep our eyes open, and look in the right places.

"José y Maria", Everett Patterson, 2014

Look what you did now! This afternoon, a dozen turkeys were delivered to Wheatland Middle School to be distributed to students and families in need. More turkeys will go out Monday.

Sometimes the gospel looks like a sermon. Sometimes it looks like a prayer. Sometimes it looks like 214 pounds of turkey, given without strings but with great love.

Registration is open for Weave Together, an all day retreat hosted by Bergstrasse and Salem Lutheran Churches. The retreat will be held at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church (26 Owl Hill Road, Lititz, PA 17543) from 8:30 - 4:00 p.m on Saturday, October 4th. Through prayer, scripture, reflection, fellowship, and laughter, the day will explore and strengthen the connections we have with one another through the making of squares and assembling of blankets. Squares either crocheted or knitted, 12"x12" any worsted weight yarn, any stitch can be made throughout the day, or beforehand and brought to Salem on the day of the retreat. Finished squares will be assembled together and donated to various organizations in Lancaster County serving the unhoused.

To register online: https://forms.gle/zg99wGfJEmcjydSC9.

For more information, please contact Pr. Traci Glover at Salem Lutheran at (717) 627-0048.