10:00AM  In person and livestream  

When told by the other disciples that Jesus had been raised and was alive, Thomas didn’t want to believe them. Why, I wonder, was Thomas reluctant to immediately embrace and celebrate this amazing news? Why did it require Thomas coming into direct physical contact with Jesus to proclaim, “my Lord and my God!”? Do we sometimes share Thomas’ reluctance to accept and respond to the grace of the risen Christ? How is it that grace becomes tangible for us today, and how are we, in turn, called to be instruments of tangible grace in our world? 

 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time." Habakkuk 2:2-3 (The MSG) 

You are invited to come and create a Vision Board for Peace Lutheran Church on Sunday, April 16^th from 11:30 AM til 2:00 PM. There will be a free-will offering lunch. You have been invited by Pastor Jake and the leadership teams of Peace Lutheran to listen for God’s whispering voice of what God has in store for Peace Lutheran.

What is a vision board? It is a visual and written representation of our prayerful hopes, dreams, goals, and promises from God for our future. This is a creative process, and we encourage and invite all, including kids to come and participate.

We are looking for OLD magazines and newspapers that can be donated for this project. You can drop them off in the designated area in the church narthex.

Register HERE by April 12th. 

The Day Trippers are heading to Fredericksburg’s Wildseed Farms. This is the nations largest working Wildflower Farm. There are 200 acres of wildflowers that bloom from March to October. There are walking trails that are wheelchair accessible. There is a beautiful Gift Shop, a Lantana Nursery. There are Butterfly Gardens and Hummingbird feeders everywhere!

They have a Café that serves light snacks and sandwiches if anyone wants to eat before we return home.

We will meet at the church at 9:00 a.m. and carpool to Fredericksburg. Please call Becky Voges at 830-587-4003 and let her know that you plan to go so we wait for you.

Wildseed Farms
100 Legacy Drive
Fredericksburg, TX 

We are so excited about being able celebrate spring once more in the beauty of Cypress Bend Park. St. Andrew Lutheran will be joining us that day.  We will be in the large Pavilion for the 10:00 a.m. Worship and the meal afterward.

Please bring a folding chair if you are able, chairs will be available if needed.  We will provide meat, water and tea.  Please bring a side dish and a dessert to share.  Please bring the children and grandchildren... there is a playground and we will have mega bubbles, washer toss and a few other games to enjoy for the big kids as well.   If you have never been to Cypress Bend, you are in for a treat!  The Guadalupe River runs next to the park and you can see it from the Pavilion.  You can walk down and even put your feet in if you choose to. 

So, please mark your calendars to be with us for worship, good food and a beautiful day in God’s creation!  Special thanks to Thrivent For Lutherans for providing the meat for our event.  For more information, call Becky Voges at 830-587-4003.

Cypress Bend Park
503 Peace Ave.
New Braunfels, TX 78130  

All children who have completed Kindergarten—5th grade are invited to join us at Peace Lutheran Church for a fun week of VBS adventures, led by camp staff from Camp Lutherhill.  Friends are welcome, too!  VBS Day Camp will meet from 8:30am to 3:30pm each day @ Peace Lutheran.  The cost is $50 per camper for the week. 

Our theme for this year’s Day Camp is “Amen!  Let It Be So!”

"Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.”  1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (The Message)

God invites us to pray, Jesus teaches us to pray and the Spirit intercedes when we have no words to pray. Prayer is God’s holy invitation to give thanks and seek help each and every day.  So let us pray!

Online registration on SignUp Genius is open now.  Click HERE or the button below.   After you sign-up, you will receive an email from the church with Day Camp details, a Registration/Consent form and instructions for payment.  For more information about our Day Camp or if you would like to volunteer to help, please contact Deacon Andrew (deaconandrew@peacenb.org).         

You are invited to participate in Peace Feast (a small group gathering for a meal and conversation to get to know one another). The host of the month will be in contact with you to determine the date, time, and location of a meal. It can be either at a restaurant or in a home.

If interested in partaking in a meal, register HERE. For more information or questions, please contact Jane Moeller at 830-214-0539 janecmoeller@gmail.com or Darcy Mittelstaedt at 480-231-0658 darcy.mittelstaedt@gmail.com   

P.S. We have/had 24 people signed up for February! One group has already met and reported it went very well and looking forward to the next month. 

Snapology is an interactive camp meant to teach kids STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills through play.

The program offers a wide variety of FUN programs for children ages 5-14.  From fun LEGO-themed programs to robotics to engineering to animation. Peace is partnering with Snapology for the summer hosting its programming efforts as an outreach to the community.

This summer our Peace facilities will have kids utilizing the Fellowship Hall and Nursery areas from Monday—Friday.  For a full schedule you may visit our calendar page: www.peacenb.org/pages/calendar    

For a detailed list of scheduling and to register you may visit:  https://pages.e2ma.net/pages/1924293/34150 or click the button below.      

Peace has a new hearing assist system to support those with hearing clhallenges. 

The new system moves away from a proprietary FM radio based system to a more flexible service  leveraging current day standard wifi and bluetooth technologies built into many modern day hearing aids, cochlear implants, and as well supports a broad base of wired and wireless headphones and earbuds.  This moves us from a 'one size for all' solution to a solution that can accommodate a broad variety of use cases across our members and guest.

If your hearing assist solution supports Bluetooth connectivity and you have a smart phone, the best way is going to be for you to install an app called Wavecast, available from Williams AV. It is available for free on your iOS or Android device. At church you will connect to the church's wifi network.  The Wavecast app will pick up the church service audio being transmitted over the church's wifi and then relay it to your hearing assist device of choice via Bluetooth (hearing aids, ear buds) or wired connection (ear buds, headphones,etc.)!

Sound complicated?  It may, but it really works like many standard services you likely already use today!  Someone will be available to assist you to get started.

Don't have a smartphone?  No worries! We will also have four handheld receivers (basically they are wifi only Android phones) with headphones or earbuds similar to the solution we use today, but can also be used to connect to your personal bluetooth enabled hearing assist devices or any wired devices, just like your personal cell phone can connect to!  You can bring your own listening device and connect to these receivers if you like!

We look forward to offering those with hearing challenges in our congregation some new, improved way to engage more fully in the worship experience!

If you want to know more, feel free to talk To Jeremy Davenport or Don Hodde at church. They would be happy to assist. 

SEEKERS AND SPONGES:   meets on Sunday mornings @  8:30AM in-person and ZOOM  

Seekers and Sponges has started a new five part video series by Richard Rohr called  'Embracing an Alternative Orthodoxy'.  In this series, Richard Rohr explores five topics central to Franciscan theology and practice:
1.     Atonement Theory
2.     Eco-Spirituality
3.     The Christ who Existed before Christianity
4.     Orthopraxy vs. Verbal Orthodoxy (Living Like Jesus)
5.     Mysticism over Moralism

Each session starts with a video and then our class will discuss reflections from the talk. Our discussions are lively and bring out various perspectives about how faith impacts our lives.   Please join us in the multimedia classroom at the end of the hallway.  Your faith walk will be deepened as a result!  

Click HERE to join by Zoom. 

PEACE PRAYER MINISTRY:

Did you make any resolutions for the New Year? Many of us have a desire to have a more intimate prayer life, so might I suggest carving out more time for prayer and reflection? Peace Lutheran Church has an active Prayer Ministry. We have an Email Prayer Chain, we have a Zoom “Sweet Hour of Prayer” Group that meets every Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. and we have a Prayer loom that is included in our Sunday morning prayers. I would like to welcome new members to join our email Prayer Chain and our Monday morning Prayer Group. We have experienced some amazing, answered prayers this year and we have given comfort to many of our members in their times of distress. Please consider being a part of our Prayer Ministry in this new year. You can email me at beckyvoges@yahoo.com for more information.

Our weekly Prayer Group Zooms every Monday at 9:00 am  via Zoom only.   Click HERE to join by Zoom.  We have a devotion, share prayer requests and pray over each request. The group is led by Becky Voges.  If you would like to be a part of the group, please email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).  All prayer requests will be kept confidential. 

Prayer Chain Requests - email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).

PASTOR'S VIRTUAL CONVERSATION:  
Every Monday from 3 pm - 3:30 pm; Come join Pastor Jake on Zoom to ask questions, check-in, and lift up prayers. Join HERE - Meeting ID: 991 3660 5065; Password: 015347

TECH SUPPORT:
Need some technical support? Trying to stay connected in a virtual world can be frustrating when things don't work or the technological learning curve seems steep. If you need some help, contact: Patti Kassel @ kasselpatti@gmail.com 

We now have full use of our new media booth which utilizes a sound technician, a livestream operator, and a powerpoint operator. 

To sign up to be one of the media booth technicians/operator, please click the button below to be redirected to our SignUpGenius.  You can also sign up by clicking the link at the bottom of Peace's homepage @  www.peacenb.org

If you would like to learn how to be a media booth technician/operator or you have any questions, please contact the Peace office at 830-620-0618.

We are part of one church body organized in three expressions — congregations, synods, and the churchwide organization. Each expression has its particular functions but all three together share a common mission of doing God’s work in the world and proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Together, they ensure a solid foundation of leadership, active involvement in communities, opportunities for dialogue and diverse perspectives, creative partnerships, and support for members and ministries of the ELCA.