Little kids have it great.  When they do good or just look cute, we are quick to praise and coddle.  When they make a mistake we forgive and help teach.  They are taken care of unconditionally and have little worry of things to come.  Oh to be a kid forever.  In fact, on All Saints Day we celebrate exactly that – we are God’s kids forever.  Our Baptisms have brought us into God’s family as his beloved kids.  We are perfectly cared for, even thru physical death.  On this All Saints Day we celebrate the victory Christ has won for us – a victory we enjoy because of our baptisms into His family.

Celebrate the victory this Sunday, November 1, as we celebrate All Saints Day.  Worship begins at 10 a.m.  God’s service to us will be Setting One from the Lutheran Service Book.  Pastor Clancy will lead our worship and share the Word of Life with us.  If you would like to prepare by reading the lessons, they are:  Isaiah 61:1-3, Revelation 7:9-17, and Matthew 5:1-12.  The Lord’s Supper will be celebrated in our worship.  If you will be a visitor, please speak with Pastor Clancy before communing.  Sunday School will start in the service and then move to a special experience just for them.  They will rejoin our worship at Communion time.  Pastor Clancy’s study of John will not Zoom for the next two Sundays.  It will resume on November 15th.  Welcome to the family because we are building