Click HERE for Wednesday worship 3/3.  This worship can be shared in your own time or we will be premiering the worship at 7 pm on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/PeaceLute or our website: https://www.peacenb.org.  

The season of Lent is a deep time of spiritual renewal for forty days remembering that we are journeying with Jesus to the cross.  

Join us for our third week in our Lenten series, "Voices in the Wilderness", as we raise our laments before the Lord, but also witness the hope of the cross of Jesus. This week we are joined by the Clark family sharing their testimonies of lament and hopes for God's healing.

Online Lenten resources can be found by clicking the button below or at https://www.peacenb.org/pages/worship

Our worship series focuses on the lament Psalms and finding ways to express the challenges we continue to face and to seek God’s healing.

Click HERE for a video walkthrough.

The Peace Lutheran Church facilities were flooded during the winter freeze. Join Pastor Jake for a walkthrough on the damage, but also a message of God's restorative power during the times we feel overwhelmed and flooded with challenges.

Sunday March 7

8am Parking Lot Worship @ Peace
10am Livestream Worship (St. Andrew's site for March 7)
1pm Parking Lot Worship @ St. Andrew in Canyon Lake

Wednesdays during Lent

Precorded Worship sent in the Wednesday e-blast(see Voices in the Wilderness above) and set to stream on Facebook live and peacenb.org at 7pm

We continue in Phase 1 of our Regathering Guidelines. Hospitalization percentage in our area moved below 15% for the second week in a row. In normal circumstances we might be entertaining in-person worship again, but with the damage to our facility due to the winter weather, we cannot recommence at this time.  Stay tuned to future announcements on the timeline for repairs.      

We are tracking members that we are aware of that have tested positive as well as vaccinations to date:

·       1 death
·       3 active cases
·       Vaccination for members - 49 responses to survey
        o   Yes – 23
        o   No – 19
        o   Planning for future - 4
        o   Not getting - 3

If you have tested positive or know of anyone within our congregation that has tested positive, please notify the church promptly.  We will be doing contract tracing and let others know of who might be at risk.  Additionally, we would like to support our church family with care.

In this map you will see the highlighted area, Area P.  This is an exceptionally large area which includes San Antonio.  The current statistics as of February 23, 2021:

Hospitalizations: 11.67%.  We had a decrease an additional 1% in a week's time.  Numbers are steadily declining.

The Peace Regathering Team will be monitoring the daily COVID statistics and will continue to advise the church council on changes that impact our in-person worship services and church community. Our Peace Regathering Guidelines are modeled after the State of Texas opening guidelines.  Instead of using active cases, which have proven to be difficult to gauge, we are monitoring the percentage of hospitalizations.  

Seekers and Sponges
Join Seekers & Sponges on Sunday at 8:45 AM via Zoom as we continue a discussion of a series of video presentations, "Great Figures of the New Testament" by Amy-Jill Levine, who is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Each week is a stand-alone lecture, so feel free to join in any week you would like. This Sunday our topic will be Pharisees and Sadducees.

Sweet Hour of Prayer Group
Our weekly Prayer Group Zooms every Monday at 9:00 am. 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) and she will send the Zoom link. All prayer requests will be kept confidential.

Pastor's Virtual Conversation
Every Monday from 3 pm - 4 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

Stephen Ministers
Are here to listen and help: If you need help or support, click HERE to learn more about Stephen's Ministry at Peace Lutheran Church.

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 or Deacon Darcy Mittelstaedt @ darcy.mittelstaedt@gmail.com

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.