As members of the body of Christ in this place and time, we are a welcoming congregation of people who gather to worship God, to share life together, to grow in love for each other and to be shaped by God’s Word, with the purpose of living out God’s love and being a sign of God’s loving and forgiving presence in our community and world. We hope you will join us!
Sunday, March 23, 2025 – Third Sunday in Lent
10:00 am Worship
This Sunday, Pr. Olaf is the presider, and Pr. Kristin-Luana is the preacher. Here is this week’s Sermon News:
March 23, 2025, Luke 13:1-9, Metanoia: Turn to God
How do we turn to God? How do we make room for God’s voice in our lives? How do we make sure that we can hear it? Where and when do we allow for the peace and quiet needed to make space in our hearts and minds to be able to listen to what God says to us? What does this spiritual transformation Luke calls metanoia look like in our world today? How do we let go of our urge to control, and allow God to take over?
Let’s ponder these questions this Sunday, 10 AM, at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St. S., Issaquah and on YouTube.
– Pr. Kristin-Luana
Click the “Worship With Us Live” logo above to worship online with us, and click the buttons below to view the bulletin and the hymns and follow along.
11:00 am Coffee Hour
Learn about Eastside Lutheran Church Community (ELCC)
During coffee and fellowship hour we’ll hear from Carolyn Ferris, a representative from the Eastside Lutheran Cluster about the ELCC, Eastside Lutheran Church Community. A cluster is a regional grouping of churches, all belonging to the same synod. The ELCC is an exploration of how closely cluster churches can cooperate with each other.
Budget Requests Due to Wendy Winslow, OSLC Treasurer, by Friday, March 28
Budget preparation for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026) is underway. Emails and forms went out to point persons for committees and ministries. Please contact Wendy if she missed you in the distribution, or if you know of or wish for something to be included in this upcoming budget. Please submit budget requests by March 28 to [email protected].
Hygiene Donation Drive for Vine Maple Place, NEXT Sunday, March 30
NEXT Sunday, March 30, the Community Outreach Committee will collect hygiene and home care items for Vine Maple Place. Vine Maple Place is a non-profit organization in Maple Valley that’s working to help homeless families with housing and other services. Families are having a difficult time affording hygiene supplies, and Vine Maple Place’s Hygiene Closet is running out of supplies. The list of essential hygiene and home care items is available via the button below so you can take it with you when you go shopping. Please bring your donations to church next Sunday, March 30. There’s also a box in the Narthex if you’d like to drop off items before March 30. Please give generously! Thank you!
Soup Supper and Holden Evening Prayer Continue on Wednesdays during Lent
On Wednesdays through April 9, please join us at 6:00 p.m. for a soup supper in Anderson Hall. At 6:45 p.m., we’ll listen to a video greeting and devotion titled “Sumud Lenten Series 2025,” with a theme for each week, created by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. At 7:00 p.m., Holden Evening Prayer will be in the sanctuary. Hope you can make it!
Volunteers Needed for Easter Brunch
Back by popular demand, OSLC’s Easter Brunch will occur on Sunday, April 20 at 11:00 a.m. in Anderson Hall following Easter worship. Volunteers are needed to help create a festive, delicious brunch! If you can donate food, set up, cook, serve, and/or clean up, please contact Suzanne D’Errico at 425-445-6892 to sign up. On Saturday, April 19 at 10:30 a.m., volunteers will set up and cook. Thanks!
Seeking Volunteers for the Performing Arts Festival of the Eastside at St. Andrew’s, April 22-26
Do you like to spend time with kids and listen to classical music? The Performing Arts Festival of the Eastside, hosted by St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church (SALC) in Bellevue (one of our cluster churches), is looking for volunteers for this GREAT music festival! The musicians are kids—ages 8-18—who play piano, strings, and woodwinds. This year it’s being held from Tuesday, April 22-Saturday, April 26 (the week after Easter). Adults are there to help adjudicators and families. Volunteers do get a nice lunch! The festival needs adults who can help out for a four-hour morning or afternoon shift that week. Joyce Arnold at SALC is the volunteer chair. You may have met Joyce at the Women’s Retreat! For more information, email Joyce at [email protected], check out the website pafenorthwest.org, or you can also talk with Debra Zadinsky.
Sunday, March 23
10:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary and online)
11:00 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship Hour with Carolyn Ferristo to learn about the ELCC, Eastside Lutheran Church Community (Anderson Hall)
Monday, March 24
3:00 p.m. Companions Bible Study (online)
Tuesday, March 25
7:00 p.m. Church Council (Online)
Wednesday, March 26
10:00 a.m. Renters’ Spreadsheet Meeting (Narthex)
12:00 p.m. Eastside Ministerial Meeting (Anderson Hall)
6:00 p.m. Lenten Soup Supper (Anderson Hall)
7:00 p.m. Holden Evening Prayer (Sanctuary)
Thursday, March 27
9:30 a.m. Mission Quilters (Anderson Hall)
12:00 p.m. One Day I Wrote Back Book Study (Anderson Hall)
Sunday, March 30
10:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary and online)
11:00 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship Hour (Anderson Hall)
Each time you give your regular offering, you are ensuring support for your church community and the work Jesus calls us to do. Whether making offerings when you worship each Sunday, or with a check via postal mail, or giving online using the “Electronic Giving” tab above, together we move forward as God’s generous, caring, supportive people—doing the work Jesus calls us to do! Warmest regards from your Stewardship Committee.
Prayers Your prayer requests are important to us. Requests for prayers can be taken by email or phone, and will be added to the weekly worship bulletin, Prayers of the People, and staff prayers. Email [email protected], or call 425-392-4169 and leave a message with your prayer.
Emergency Pastoral Care
For emergency pastoral care, please contact Pr. Olaf Baumann at 360-912-1830 or [email protected], or Pr. Kristin-Luana Baumann at 360-912-1245 or [email protected].