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…
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…
Every spring, a group of us trade our Sunday best for golf shirts and head out to the fairway — and honestly, it might be one of my favorite days of the year. On April 13th, Emmanuel was once again represented at the sixteenth annual Spring Golf Outing benefiting Agapé Kure Beach Ministries, held at Lochmere Golf Club in Cary, NC. For several years now, we’ve sent a team — sometimes two! — to this event, and every year I…
Some endings deserve more than turned-in keys and a moved-on moment. For more than forty years, the Emmanuel Senior Enrichment Center has made its home in our building. Aging adults and people with disabilities found welcome there — meals, community, dignity, a place to belong. And in offering that space, we were shaped by it too. The ESEC wasn’t just a tenant. It was a living expression of things we say we believe: that generosity matters, that community is worth…
Here’s something they don’t always tell you in seminary: Easter is hard to follow up. Christmas has a whole season of buildup. Lent is forty days of preparation. But Easter? Easter Sunday arrives in a blaze of lilies and alleluias and brass instruments, and then — Monday happens. The decorations are still up. The leftover ham is in the fridge. And life, with its very ordinary demands, resumes more or less on schedule. As Lutherans, we actually have something to…
