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Worship
Sunday morning service times are to be shown on the home page. When in-person regular service times resume, several times throughout the year, there will be only one service at 10am called “One Service Sundays”.
Worship isn’t reserved for only Sunday service, but let’s start there. It’s going to be liturgy. This may be the one point in your entire week where you let go of all the other stuff and relax into the spoken or sung recitations and hymns and prayer at what is really eating at you so that you can let it all go to God. And that God might be felt in finding you. The Lutheran Church finds that expected order of service offers a rare connective tissue for you in its constancy that grants a special peace among chaotic living.
“Nurturing the Personal and Spiritual Growth of Our Community”
Here’s What Else You’ll FindAll are prepared for the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion. And we don’t silence children, as they are welcome at worship. We only silence our phones. During second service, you may also choose Sunday school or the school nursery for children under 5, as will be indicated on the schedule. |
More Worship & EventsOur newsletter and facebook page keeps you up-to-date on our activities. Frequently you will find gatherings during the week, musical events and special services during holy weeks. From quilting and coffee klatches that are open to everyone in the public, to choir and bell practice groups you are welcome to join, there’s always something happening. |
We Are a Reconciling In Christ Congregation
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Milwaukie Lutheran Church welcomes all, as God welcomes all. |
Each one of us is a beloved child of God: unique, valued and accepted. We welcome you, regardless of race, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, relationship status, or any of the factors that so often divide us. We welcome you, whatever your past, present, or future circumstances, wherever you are in your journey of faith. We accept you as you are and invite you to participate fully in the life of our community. We celebrate diversity and find our unity in Christ’s love and grace.
Labyrinth
Our prayer labyrinth we use for some commemorative moments may also be rented for use in your location. The collapsible canvas labyrinth is 36 feet with 11 circuits. Suggested donation for the rental is $150 per day.
About a Lutheran and Milwaukie heritage
Community is where a group of people choose to be together with those that they wouldn’t have necessarily curated for themselves. There is no single described box that God can be fit into, and likewise, his love for all people shows we cannot fit into a perfectly described box, either.
Liturgy and worship knits our unity, welcoming diversity honors Christ our Lord. Being in the world with our greater community is often meeting the stranger, and in the stranger we meet the experience of Christ.
If you were looking for definitive absolutes for what this passage happens to tell you, what you should recite as your thoughts, or what to do in this specific situation right now, then yeah, nope. Being Lutheran here isn’t really that sort of space. Being Lutheran here is about encountering the grappling with what do the great commands to love our neighbor and God and to go and make disciples do as they reach into your place as your life is lived. It doesn’t carry a rule book to push pat answers into your hands. It will hand you the respect as a beloved and accepted child of God, Gospel and the sacraments of the Lord’s supper; all to fortify you the way a good meal gives you sustenance to move through this world. Worship gatherings are where you are fed. Life is where faith is experienced.
The Milwaukie Lutheran Church of Milwaukie Oregon was formed on February 10, 1946 and became a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC). In 1960, Milwaukie Lutheran became part of the American Lutheran Church (ALC) and in 1987 joined the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Buildings
The first church building was erected in 1948 with the first service in the building held on Easter Sunday, March 28. There were 320 in attendance. This building was located across from Milwaukie High School in downtown Milwaukie. The building served the congregation from 1948 to 1963 when the congregation outgrew the original building.
Our present site was purchased at 3810 SE Lake Road. The first worship service here was held on August 25, 1963. Following the completion of the Educational Unit, Fellowship Hall and Church offices, work began on the sanctuary itself. On June 19, 1966, the present church sanctuary was dedicated.
In 2003, the congregation voted to purchase the “Corner Property”, a house that is situated between the church and Lake Road.
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