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. Kristin-Luana is the presider, and Pr. Olaf is the preacher. Here is this week’s Sermon News:
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March 30, 2025, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32: Radical Grace
When we talk about grace in the Lutheran church, we talk about something very familiar. We all have heard sermons on grace; we have discussed grace in classes and bible studies; we learned about grace in Sunday school. It is a word so familiar to us, it goes together with Lutheran church culture like potlucks and coffee. But we need to remind ourselves every now and then that grace is an extremely radical concept, and Jesus applies it in radical ways. How does Jesus do it?
Come and find out this Sunday, 10 AM at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 745 Front St S. in Issaquah, WA and on YouTube.
– Pr. Olaf
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.
Hygiene Donation Drive for Vine Maple Place
THIS 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 help us support women and children by bringing your donations to church on or before Sunday; you’ll find a large box and a table in the narthex for your donations. 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!
Timber Ridge Communion Service, Thursday, April 3
OSLC will be leading the Timber Ridge Communion Service Thursday, April 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Join Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church for a Mission Trip Fundraiser on Saturday, April 5
Message from SHLC: “Please join us for a special Mission Trip Fundraiser for our cluster trip to Rwanda supporting the mission of Love With Action, an organization that cares for children with disabilities. We have members from Sammamish Hills, Mt. Si, and Our Savior Lutheran churches going to serve in Rwanda in May. We invite your support! Join us for a Rwanda Meal, silent auction, and trivia game on Saturday, April 5 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.T ickets for this dinner can be purchased at the door for $30. We also welcome any basket donations or other fun donations for our auction! We hope you will join us and/or consider making a donation. All proceeds from this fundraiser go towards our service projects in Rwanda. Our fundraising goal is $8000-$10,000! Help us make a difference in the lives of children.”
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 30
10:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary and online)
11:00 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship Hour (Anderson Hall)
Monday, March 31
10:30 a.m. Congregational Care Ministry (Library)
3:00 p.m. Companions Bible Study (online)
Wednesday, April 2
6:00 p.m. Lenten Soup Supper (Anderson Hall)
7:00 p.m. Holden Evening Prayer (Sanctuary)
Thursday, April 3
9:30 a.m. Mission Quilters (Anderson Hall)
12:00 p.m. One Day I Wrote Back Book Study (Anderson Hall)
2:00 p.m. Timber Ridge Communion Service
Sunday, April 6
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].