Our Mission

Welcome

We, at First Lutheran Church, invite you to come away from the busyness of your lives to be fed with the promises of God’s love, grace and forgiveness and then be sent to be Christ’s presence in the world wherever life takes you.

We invite you to come, taste and see, hear and feel how God can make a difference in your life and through you and all of us together make a difference in the world.

We are the church building found between the city and “the sea”; we sit between God’s magnificent creation of Lake Superior (Gichi Gami) and the human creation of this city on the hillside. We seek to be stewards of God’s good creation and creators of justice for all God’s people.

We aspire to have worship be one of those thin places where divine and human intersect.  We value good preaching, wondrous music, the liturgical seasons and high holy days, blessings for our daily lives, and worship that enlivens us.  We seek to be creative and engaging of all our senses.  We invite everyone to participate, if they so desire.  People come as they are—some dress up, some come in jeans.  We are happy that people come and hope they leave having tasted God and inspired to live as Christ’s people in the world.

God’s Mission Through FLC

We are the church found between the city and the “sea”: we celebrate God’s good creation and our role of stewards within it; we seek the care of our neighbor and justice for all the city’s inhabitants.

We seek to welcome everyone as created in God’s image and as partners with us in this mission of

Growing in faith, spreading God’s love, and gathering in community

FAITH

We believe growing in faith is a life-long journey where we never fully arrive. We continually grow and deepen through asking questions and pondering Scripture together. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus the Christ? Green is for the seeds nurtured and growing

LOVE

As the letter of I John says, “God is love.” We believe spreading God’s love for all people near and far is our calling. “Love your neighbor,” Jesus commands, “as you love yourself.” Red is for the Spirit who sends us out into the world

COMMUNITY

We are created in and for community. We gather each week around water, word, and meal to be reminded of whose we are and of how we are called to live. Gathering in community we receive the power to go forth to bring healing to a broken world. Blue is for the waters of baptism through which we are made one in Christ