Whimsical Textile Winter Art Installation – upcycled textiles, knitted and crocheted yarn form “sweaters” that wrap the grove of trees in front of Our Savior Lutheran Church on Front Street – made in collaboration with Issaquah Arts (January 2025)
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, January 19, 2025 – Second Sunday After Epiphany
10:00 am Worship
This Sunday, Pr. Larry Thomas is the presider and preacher since Pr. Kristin-Luana and Pr. Olaf are out of town.
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.
Pastors Out of Town: Sunday, Jan. 19-Saturday, January 25
Pr. Kristin-Luana and Pr. Olaf Baumann will be in Pittsburgh, PA attending their doctoral program from January 19-25. Pr. Larry Thomas will preside and preach at worship on Sunday, January 19. During the pastors’ time away, Pr. Krista Johnson (of Mt. Si Lutheran Church in North Bend) will be providing emergency pastoral care. Her cell phone is 206-473-7460.
National Day of Racial Healing Online Event: Tuesday, January 21
Join the ELCA on Tuesday, January 21, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Pacific time (10 a.m.-2 p.m. Central time) for a free, online event to observe the 2025 National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH). Presented by the ELCA in partnership with Augsburg Fortress Publishers, this educational event will feature worship, workshops, music, and guided reflection while centering the voices of ELCA leaders of color. Our exceptional lineup of workshops and speakers was designed to raise awareness of the need for racial healing and to inspire collective action toward building common ground for a more just and equitable world. The free event is open to all ELCA rostered ministers, lay leaders, and members. . . . We look forward to your joining us on Jan. 21. Learn more at ELCA.org/NDORH and register today!
– From an email sent by Judith Roberts, Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, ELCA
Meet Your Neighbors at Coffee & Fellowship Hour: Sunday, February 2
We invite you to come to Coffee & Fellowship Hour after church on Sunday, February 2 and meet your neighbor! We will seat people who live in close proximity to each other around the same table and provide you with some fun ice breakers. We hope that you attend this meeting—which could be the first of many—with a large portion of kindness and curiosity. After all, it is always good to meet your neighbors, and it is especially good to meet your church neighbors with whom you not only share a neighborhood, but also your faith.
Melodies of Love: A Valentine’s Recital by David Liu: Sunday, February 16
On Sunday, February 16 at 4 p.m., our talented Parish Musician David Liu will offer a free piano recital in the sanctuary. We hope you can attend “Melodies of Love: A Valentine’s Recital” to hear our beautiful new Schimmel piano in concert. It should be an amazing musical event. Hope to see you there!
Communion Services at Timber Ridge
Here are the upcoming dates for the services at Timber Ridge Retirement Community:
- Thursday, February 6, 2:00 p.m., led by OSLC at Timber Ridge
String Teachers Using OSLC Classrooms Downstairs
You will see Issaquah Suzuki Strings and other string teachers and their students around more often in the months to come, as they lost their teaching space at Hammond Ashley Violins because of the bomb cyclone. They are teaching in the classrooms in our basement now.
Becoming Better Stewards: Composting and Recycling
Please check out the bulletin board in Anderson Hall that shows what items are good to go into recycling and compost bins, and what items need to go into the garbage. Please use the bins below the bulletin board—blue for recycling, green for compost, and black for garbage to dispose of items correctly. Also, green compost bins are now in the bathrooms for paper towel waste. Thanks!
Sunday January 19
10:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary and online)
11:00 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship Hour
Monday January 20
10:30 a.m. Congregational Care Ministry (Library)
3:00 p.m. Companions Bible Study (online)
4:00 p.m. Knit-In (Narthex)
Thursday January 23
9:30 a.m. Mission Quilters (Anderson Hall)
Sunday January 26
10:00 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary and online)
11:00 a.m. Coffee and Fellowship Hour
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. Krista Johnson (of Mt. Si Lutheran Church in North Bend) while our pastors are away. Her cell phone is 206-473-7460.