From the Sunday following Labor Day weekend through the Sunday prior to Memorial Day weekend, our worship times are at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Between worship services, from 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. we have our education hour. We offer Sunday School classes for all ages from 3 years old through adult during this hour. Our worship services and Sunday School classes are open to everyone, whether a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church or not. We welcome you warmly.
During the summer months, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, our worship service is at 9 a.m. We do not hold Sunday School classes through the summer months. We have a coffee fellowship time, with local musicians playing background music, from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. and again following the worship service each morning. You are invited to join us for refreshments, conversation, and music each Sunday.
The third Sunday of each month, at both worship services, we worship with an alternative liturgical style led by a small group of musicians. Our liturgy for the third Sunday is called "Living Waters Liturgy" and was written for us by Laure Schwartz. All other worship services are led by our Holtkamp Tracker organ, with all Sunday worship including both Word (Sermon) and Holy Communion.
We always celebrate the presence of children at our worship services and most services include a “Children’s Sermon” at which time the children are invited to the front of the sanctuary for a special message from the pastor.
If needed, during our winter worship schedule months, we offer staffed nursery service for children (newborn through 5 years old) at the 10:30 a.m. worship service. The nursery is available for parents to bring their children to the nursery during the 8 a.m. worship services and during either worship service during our summer worship schedule, but we ask that a parent stays with their child when the nursery is not staffed. There is a speaker system in the nursery, so parents and children can listed to the worship service while in the nursery.
We also offer large print hymnals and hearing devices for those that would like to use either or both to enhance your worship experience. These are available by asking one of the ushers and they will gladly get them for you.
We invite you to be a part of our worship, fellowship and education opportunities. Please check out other areas on our website for more information about specific opportunities for fellowship, learning, worship, mission, and outreach at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Our facility is wheel-chair accessible, and has an elevator. We seek to be a welcoming and inclusive community of faith.
All are welcome at the Lord’s Table, whether Lutheran or not, a member of this church or not. The Lord’s Supper is for all baptized Christians. On the first Sunday of the month, communion is served by pouring chalice with individual cups, kneeling at the altar railing. On all other Sundays, communion is served by intinction in a continuous method. With intinction, the communion participant comes forward, receives the bread and then dips it into the chalice of either the wine or the white grape juice before eating it. Children not yet prepared for Holy Communion are encouraged to come forward and receive a blessing. If you are not able to come forward to receive communion, you are invited to inform one of the ushers and they will let the pastor know and communion will be brought to you in your pew. This is the table, not of the Church, but of the Lord. It is made ready for those who love him and for those who want to love him more. So, come, you who have much faith and you who have little, you who have been here often and you who have not been here long, you who have tried to follow and you who have failed. Come, because it is the Lord who invites you. It is His will that those who want him should meet him here.
