Worship

Welcome! Thank you for joining us for worship today. In our services we gather before our almighty God to receive his gifts and to offer him our worship and praise. Through God’s powerful Word and Sacraments he renews our faith and strengthens us to serve in joy.

This Fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church has long celebrated the risen Jesus as our Good Shepherd — the one who leads us, feeds us with his Word, protects us from the roaring lion, and guides us into the green pastures of eternal life. Without his resurrection, we’d be left to choose our own direction, and like sheep, we’d quickly wander into trouble. But he lives, and that makes all the difference. We are not on our own. We have a Shepherd whose voice we can trust.

That same Shepherd has been at work in the lives of our confirmation students, feeding them with his Word through two or three years of study with our pastors. Today’s examination service is a chance for them to share what they’ve learned as they prepare to publicly confess their faith in the rite of confirmation next Sunday.