Next Worship Gathering will be April 19th

Our next worship service will be Sunday April 19th, the third Sunday of Easter.  Yes Easter is a season of 50 days not just one Sunday.  If  you'd like to join us follow the links to our Google +  event page or Facebook event page, for the details and location.

Worship Service this Sunday

There will be no worship service at 5 pm this Sunday July 31.   Our services resume at their usual time of 5 pm on Sunday August 7th.

Pastor's Office Hours over the Summer

from June 27 through September 9th Pastor Larry Kamphausen will not be keeping his regular Office Hours at Metropolis Coffee and the Coffee Studio.   If you would like to or need to meet with Pastor Larry please contact him at the church's e-mail or by phone to set up an appointment.

Worship the next two Sundays

This Sunday June 26th Our 5 pm worship is a service of Evening Prayer and Holy Eucharist.  This is a more meditative service that includes a time of meditation and discussion together on the Scriptures read in place of a sermon.

The following Sunday July 3rd we will not be having our regular 5 pm service.  We will resume with our regular worship on Sunday July 10th.

Summer Worship Schedule- June - August

Sunday June 19 (Holy Trinity Sunday and Fathers Day) - 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday June 26- 5 pm, Evening Prayer with Holy Eucharist

Sunday July 3- no worship service.

Sunday July 10- 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday July 17- 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday July 24- 5 pm, Evening Prayer with Holy Eucharist

Sunday July 31- 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday August 7- 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday August 14- 5 pm, Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday August 21-  5 pm. Evening Prayer with Holy Eucharist 

Sunday August 28- 5 pm. Holy Eucharist (using adapted Lima Liturgy)

Sunday September 4 (Labor Day Weekend) - 5 pm, Evening Prayer with Holy Eucharist

Next Study and Gathering: A Christ-Haunted Soul

Tuesday May 3rd, Potluck and Study:

A Christ-Haunted Soul: Bob Dylan and the American Religious Experience (Follow link for location and other details)

An Exploration Christian Faith and American religion through the music of Bob Dylan, using as a launching pad Dylan’s three “Christian Albums”: Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love. This is an exploration of Christian Religious themes as interpreted by Dylan through out his work, and as expressed in the American experience. Teasing out how both Dylan’s interpretation fits with the American Religious experience and how both Dylan and American Christianity connect up and depart from a historic and catholic and orthodox Christian faith. No one here will be an expert come and listen, ask questions, give your answers. We’ll have a good time.

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami responce

Bellow are a couple of links to Church agencies partnering with agencies relief agencies in Japan. If you are looking for a place to send money for aid in disaster relief these are reliable organizations:

Covenant World Relief

And

ELCA Disaster Relief

Schedule of Services

Worship at Reconciler: Sunday March 20 - Lent 2: Evening Prayer with Eucharist Sunday March 27 - Lent 3: Eucharist - Adapted Lima Liturgy Sunday April 3-Lent 4(Leatare): Eucharist -Adapted Lima Liturgy Sunday April 10 Lent 5: Child inclusive service Sunday April 17 Palm/Passion Sunday: Procession of the Palms and Reading of the Passion. (For Holy Week and Easter follow this link) May 1 2 Easter- Eucharist -Adapted Lima Liturgy May 8 3 Easter- Evening Prayer with Eucharist May 15 4 Easter - Eucharist -Adapted Lima Liturgy May 22 5 Easter -Eucharist -Adapted Lima Liturgy

Lenten Series on Spiritual Pracitces

This Lent together with Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Elias Christian Church, and the Community of St. Francis we are having a series on Spiritual Practices on Wednesday evenings.

The evening starts at 6:00 p.m. with Lenten Soup supper, followed at 7:00 pm with Lectio Divina.

At 7:30 p.m. there will be presentations on 5 different Spiritual Practices appropriate to the season of Lent.

March 16th focus on Fasting

March 23rd focus on Lectio Divina

March 30th focus on Giving/Alms/Tithing

April 6th focus on Walking Meditation: Labyrinth

April 13th focus on Walking Meditation: Stations of the Cross.

Posting Audio of sermons

Some how ended up being over a month behind in posting the audio of sermons preached.

Here are two posted today: Sunday October 17th and Sunday October 24th. The rest to follow soon.

this Friday and Sunday

Friday November 5th:

Theology on Tap at Moody's pub, 5910 N. Broadway. We are meeting at 7:30 p.m. Topic Saints and Sainthood.

Sunday November 7th:

All Saints Sunday joint service with Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Elias Christian Church, Community of St. Francis at 10:30 a.m.

There will be no service at 5 p.m. on Sunday November 7th. Our services at 5 p.m. resume on Sunday November 14 with Evening Prayer and Eucharist.

Technical Difficulties

We apologize for the sermon's recently posted both of which started playing upon coming to the site. As is perhaps obvious we have fixed the problem.

Worship Sunday July 25th

There will be no worship service at 5 pm on Sunday July 25th.
Reconciler will be joining the worship services of either Immanuel Lutheran Church Sunday Morning 10:30 am or the preceding Saturday evening, July 24, with the Community of St. Francis at 5 pm.

We will return to our regular Sunday Worship at 5 pm on Sunday August 1st.

This Sunday May 16th and Sunday May 23rd, Pentecost, we will begin having children inclusive services. Our intention is that we will have these services every few weeks

This means we will be having a service in which we will be seeking to have the children present and participating in our liturgy as they can. We are making a few small changes. There will be no children's Sunday School or childcare. All children who come will be in the service.

Come and explore this with us.

Our plan is to have this sort of service on a regular basis.

If your interested in the pastors thinking on inclusion of children in worship, you can find a reflection on the pastor's personal blog here

Sunday school and childcare this Sunday

There will be no children's Sunday School or childcare this Sunday Janaury 31, 2010.

pastor Larry's Office Hours

Due to change in closing time at Ennui Cafe and some other scheduling conflicts Pastor Larry is not keeping regular "office Hours". He plans to begin to have "office hours again once he figures out a new schedule and places to hold them. If you'd like to meet with Larry please e-mail or call to schedule an appointment.

Announcements

Larry will be out of town from October 23rd through November 1st. He will of course not be at his office hours until November 2nd.

This Sunday October 25, we will have our service at our regular time of 5pm, Rev. Monte Johnson will be preaching and presiding.

November 1 we will have a joint service with Immanuel Lutheran for the feast of All Saints, 10:30 am. We will not have a service at 5 pm in the chapel.
Also remember that Daylight Saving Time ends November 1, be sure to turn your clocks back 1 hour before going to bed on Saturday October 31.

November 8 we will return to our usual worship time at 5pm and Rev. Dave Hedges will be preaching and presiding.

Vacation and office hours

I am currently on vacation and will not be at my office hours this week.
Upon my return times and locations will be moved around.
Starting August 31st I will be at Ennui Cafe Tuesday evenings 7:30 to 9:30 pm.
I will be at Metropolis coffee Thursday Afternoons 3:30-5:30 pm.
And Friday early afternoons at the Coffee Studio on Clark at Hollywood, starting September 18th.

Ascension Vespers with Holy Communion

We are invited to join the the Community of the Holy Trinity in worship for the Feast of the Ascension Vespers with Holy Communion. Thursday, May 21st at 7 PM in Immanuel's Chapel.

No Office hours this week

Pastor Larry Kamphausen will not be at his office hours either today at Metropolis coffee or Thursday at Ennui Cafe.