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Please join us for worship. Services are normally held:


• • Saturdays Contemporary Informal at 5 pm.
    
    • Saturday evening worship at 5 pm takes place in SHLC's Multiple Ministry Center (MMC). This room is designed to be used as both a gymnasium and an auditorium. Worship in this setting follows the lead of the space in being a more informal.

      Music is led by volunteer musicians who use guitars, keyboard, percussion, etc. The song selections are from current or recent artists and are projected onto a large screen in the front of the worship space.

      The worship structure remains more formal with printed orders of worship that guide the congregation through the worship hour.

  
  
  
• • Sundays Traditional at 8 am.
    
    • Sunday morning worship at 8 am takes place in SHLC's sanctuary. This room was built in 1971 and had a balcony added in 1985. Its distinctive architecture lends the space a very traditional mood for worship.

      The worship's music is always accompanied by an organ. Other instruments, such as strings and brass, are periodically brought in to enhance the experience of worship. Our choirs, from the Sunday school children to our Senior Choir, regularly provide special music for worship.

      The song selections for congregational singing come from the Lutheran Service Book as do the orders of worship that are used. The worship service is recognizably traditional.

  
  
  
• • Sundays Relaxed Traditional at 10:30 am
    (9:45 am in summer).
    
    • Sunday morning worship at 10:30 am takes place in SHLC's sanctuary. The organ and special music that are enjoyed at 8 am services are also enjoyed at this service.

      While the orders of worship and songs continue to be drawn from the Lutheran Service Book, songs used on Saturday evenings are regularly added to this service to give it a slightly less formal mood.

  
  
  
  
• Holy communion is observed the 1st, 3rd and 5th weekends each month.
  
  
• Lenten Services on February 24 and March 3, 10, 17 and 24 at 11 am & 6:30 pm. Lunch following 11 am service. Soup supper starting at 5 pm.
  
  
• Palm Sunday on March 28 at 8 am & 10:30 am.
  
  
• Maundy Thursday with communion on April 1 at 7 pm.
  
  
• Good Friday Tenebrae Cantata with Orchestra on April 2 at 7 pm.
  
  
• Easter Sunday with communion on April 4 at 6:30 am (sunrise traditional), 8:30 am (traditional) and 10:30 am (blended music). Easter breakfast begins at 7:30 am.
  
  
• Christian education is offered at 9:15 am on Sundays--and during selected times of the week.
  
  
• Nursery care is offered on Sunday mornings for worship and Bible study hour during the school year.
  
  
• The entire building is handicap accessible.
When Peace Like A River

Lutheran Service Book #763

Also known as, It Is Well With My Soul, this influential hymn was penned by Horatio Spafford in 1873 and set to music by Phillip Bliss. The hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford's life.

The first was the death of his only son in 1871. Shortly after, the Great Chicago Fire ruined him financially.

Then in 1873, he had planned to travel to Europe with his family on the S.S Ville du Havre, but sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business concerning zoning problems following the Great Chicago Fire.

While crossing the Atlantic, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with a sailing ship, the Lockhearn. All four of Spafford's daughters died. His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, "Saved alone."

Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.

Bliss called his tune Ville du Harve, from the name of the stricken vessel.

Spafford was born on October 20, 1828 in North Troy, New York. He was a successful lawyer in Chicago who maintained a keen interest in Christian activities, deeply spiritual and devoted to the scriptures.

Horatio's faith in God never faltered. He later wrote Anna's half-sister, "On Thursday last we passed over the spot where she went down, in mid-ocean, the waters three miles deep. But I do not think of our dear ones there. They are safe, folded, the dear lambs."

After Anna was rescued, Pastor Nathaniel Weiss, one of the ministers traveling with Anna remembered hearing Anna say, "God gave me four daughters. Now they have been taken from me. Someday I will understand why." Anna was utterly devastated.

Many of the survivors watched Anna closely, fearing she may try to take her life. In her grief and despair, Anna heard a soft voice speaking to her, "You were saved for a purpose!" It was then Anna remembered something a friend had once said, "It's easy to be grateful and good when you have so much, but take care that you are not a fair-weather friend to God."

The scripture reference is Psalm 46:1 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."