SLB's Happy 175th B-Day, Come join our celebration throughout the year.
St. Luke's at Christmas, Come join our celebration throughout the year.
We open our kitchen to all as part of Harvest Kitchen every 2nd Sunday.
We celebrated Pentecost with our Brockport church neighbors!
Come join in with our wonderful choir each Sunday at 10am!
Upcoming Events & Activities per the FRIDAY FLYER.
The FRIDAY FLYER has been temporarily suspended.
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Click Here to see our own Krista+ and Josh (joyfully) discussing the May 3rd Youth Happenings event!!
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St. Luke's in Action in our Community Click Links below to find out more:
Brockport (BEOC) Clothing Closet, Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf, Brockport Ecumenical Toy Shelf, BEOC & Migratory Farm Workers, Amnesty International, North Porch - for new Moms & Babies. Want to join us to find out more about God, click HERE for our Ministry Study.
The one constant in life is change! And change is good…most of the time!
The end of spring is always a time for change for our young people. Some are graduating from college, some from high school, and some from pre-school! We adults are happy for them. They do have concerns such as keep-ing friendships, making new friends, learning a new school or campus, and figuring out a new way of doing things. We know they will get through it and even thrive, but not without some angst. My question to myself and to other adults; why is it we have such a hard time with change? It is inevitable. I have finally embraced getting old…er. Now I am “re-framing” this process as the next big adventure in life!
What gives me hope and such joy is our young people. I love to hear Colton attempt to out preach me. I love to see Sarah and Mitch in their personal front row pew with their toys laid out so carefully. I love seeing our teens sing and play music for us on Sunday mornings. All our youth assist me at the altar. I appreciate and respect their commitment to St. Luke’s and its mission and worship.
Joshua Barrett, our newest confirming-his-faith member, is a “human sponge” when it comes to anything litur-gical. He asks me about some practices we don’t do here. He finds these practices online as he scopes out other Episcopal Church websites, Facebook, U-Tube, and blogs. He is a wealth of liturgical knowledge and knows how to use all the social media options.
He has given us our own set of Sanctus bells. Please see my article in Liturgical Practices in the Anglican Tra-dition. I use this booklet during confirmation class. They are also available outside the office doors. I will keep adding articles to this booklet as the years go by. We will have these Sanctus bells blessed and dedicated soon. In the meanwhile time, I would like us to re-acquaint ourselves to this liturgical practice. I see these bells in many of our Episcopal Churches in our diocese. I will be introducing them on Sunday mornings. We can then experiment with these bells and develop our own new/old liturgical practice. It is nice to see young people interested in our liturgy and also want to be involved! We are blessed by their presence, energy, and leadership.
On the subject of change and young people, we have many of us attending Happening #1 (revisited) on May 3-5 at The Church of the Good Shepherd Webster. Jessica Longstreth and I are part of the adult team leaders, Josh Barrett is taking a lead teen role during the retreat and Jack Tremblay and Sarah Banzer will be attending. To me, this will be one of the heart and soul activities of our diocese and our own church. This retreat introduces our youth to a personalized relationship with God through the life of Jesus with their peers leading them! This was my entry point as an adult youth minister in finding my own personalized relationship to Jesus. The teens led me back to Christ. This is important work we are doing as both adults and youth.
If this present generation doesn’t know who Jesus is; there will no longer be the church as we understand it. We adults need to accept the fact that our church worship will change with the newer generations—if we listen to them. This will not be a bad thing; just a different thing. It will not be without our own angst! In times of change, we do not throw out the old, but embrace the new and then blend the two together. This practice keeps the family of faith together. Church is primarily about relationships with each other and God. Are we ready to embrace our future church? I am just not sure if I am willing to give up my child-like ways for the sake of grow-ing old…er!
It is often said in spiritual circles; stay close to the children; they will lead us into life and light, and the ring-ing of bells! Growing older with my faith community,
Krista+
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