St. John’s exists as a living part of the body of Christ, as a
vibrant part of our community, as a dramatic presence at the
corner of 17th and L streets, and as a home of God’s gifts of
grace, peace, love, tolerance, generosity and hope.
St. John’s exists as a living part of the body of Christ, as a
vibrant part of our community, as a dramatic presence at the
corner of 17th and L streets, and as a home of God’s gifts of
grace, peace, love, tolerance, generosity and hope.
The Rev. Martin E. Marty, Lutheran theologian, author and
teacher, answers that question quite simply: “A Lutheran is a
follower of Jesus Christ, a member of the Christian Church. He or
she would be defined as an evangelical Christian. The term
“evangelical” refers to a term Protestants like to use to point
out that their faith centers in the good news of what God has
done for people in Jesus Christ.”
California Lutheran College, BA in English & Philosophy
(1982)
Hastings College of the Law, Juris Doctor (1985)
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, MDiv (2000)
The Call Committee met this past week (Jan. 31) with Pastor Nancy
Nelson from the Synod staff to discuss the process under which we
will operate over the coming months. It was a productive and
informative meeting.
And now our work begins.
The committee’s goal is to create an environment of
collaboration, an environment of imagination, an environment of
respect for ideas with all of the members of the congregation. We
will be talking with as many members as possible, individually
and in small and large gatherings, with the newest members to the
longest in tenure, and with every age group. Your thoughts, your
suggestions, your hopes and dreams for St. John’s future are
needed and we want you to share them with us.
We will keep you informed as much as possible through St. John’s
website and The Spokesman and with occasional temple talks.
Our hope and our prayer is that through this process, we, all of
us, will embrace the changes that are needed to strengthen the
foundation that has been built here so that we can continue to
grow as a vibrant urban church.
St. John’s Lutheran Church is located at the corner of 17th and L
Streets in Midtown Sacramento. To view a map of our location,
visit our Directions page.
Despite our location in the busiest part of Sacramento, we are
blessed with ample free parking on Sundays. We have a small
parking lot on the church grounds as well as a parking garage at
the corner of 18th and K Streets. Check out our Parking page for
more information.
At St. John’s we believe that worship is a creative and engaging
experience, and we worship in a wide variety of styles. Visit our
worship page for more information about our worship times and
styles.
Some changes to the Constitution and Bylaws were approved by the
Church Council and at the Annual Congregational Meeting in
February 2009. The majority of the changes were needed for St.
John’s Constitution to be in line with the ELCA model
constitution. The rest were editing changes made to clarify the
meaning and intention of the articles.
Man and woman, woman and man, come together in marriage, in love,
in unity. This unity is compared in Scriptures to the oneness of
Christ and his church.
As God is love, so has God given to us the capacity to express
love, and marriage provides us the opportunity to reflect on the
divine relationship of love.
Love is kind, love is considerate, love is giving rather than
getting, and it is such love that is embodied in the gift of
marriage.
St. John’s is located in the middle of a vibrant city and we
recognize that parking can be a problem. That is why on Sundays,
free parking is available in our garage on the corner of 18th
& K Streets. It’s right next door.
The garage opens at 8 am and closes at 2 pm. It re-opens for our
Sunday evening worship at 4:30 pm and closes at 8:30 pm. In
addition, there is some metered street parking on L Street and
other nearby streets. Sunday is normally exempt from fees.
It was 1867, in what was then a young city named Sacramento, when
a small group of men and women, German immigrants, came together
with a dream, a vision and a mission. They wanted to start a
church in the middle of town. And they did.
