As followers of Christ, we at Emmanuel Lutheran believe we are called to live in unity with all of creation. Therefore, we are committed to serving God and sharing Christ’s love with all people…
I’m writing this from camp. Not metaphorically. Actually, from camp — where I’m spending a week this summer alongside youth from Emmanuel, and where, I’m happy to report, things are off to a great start. There’s bug spray in my bag, and a song stuck in my head, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Camp has been part of my whole life. As a kid, I spent a week every summer at Lutheridge, a Lutheran camp outside Asheville…
Two Sundays ago, on May 31st, our space filled with almost 200 people — and the whole place came alive. It was our Spring Concert with Triad Pride Performing Arts, a partnership that has become one of the genuine joys of ministry here at Emmanuel. We’ve been hosting their choruses twice a year for several years now, and somehow it keeps getting better. The choir keeps growing. Familiar faces we’ve come to love over the years are now mixed in…
Something happened yesterday that I don’t want to let pass without naming it. Following worship — worship where we sat together in the upper room with Jesus and his disciples, in that charged space between Ascension and Pentecost, between what has been and what is coming — a group of Emmanuel members stayed. They gathered around a table. And we began something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: We held our first meeting of Emmanuel’s strategic visioning…
This Sunday, we will celebrate Graduate Sunday, honoring two graduates in our congregation: one graduating from high school and one from college. We will also share in a “Farewell and Godspeed” for our high school graduate and their family as they prepare for a new chapter in another place. All of it has me thinking about transitions — about the many thresholds of life. A threshold is that place where something is ending even as something else is beginning. Life…
