The Lord is risen! This past Sunday we celebrated the Resurrection of Our Lord and also had our first confirmation. Jared Campbell received instruction in the doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, drawn from the Holy Scriptures, as he learned to know it from the Small Catechism, and has confessed that it is faithful and true.
Jared's confirmation verse is Colossians 3:3 (from Sunday's Epistle reading), "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
Later in the Divine Service Jared got to be like the women coming from the tomb who not only laid hold of Jesus by faith, but laid hold of him physically. Jared received for the first time the body and blood of his Lord Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar.
A more general update will follow next week. Many things are in the works, but we have some decisions to make as a congregation before posting about them here.
In Christ
Pastor Andrew RichardSt. Silas Lutheran Churchwww.stsilaslutheran.orgwww.facebook.com/stsilaslutheranstsilaslutheran@gmail.com
