Dear Friends, This is a hard week. A tragic week for our region. The fires that started in the midst of a violent windstorm have...

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! I hope that you are all doing well and avoiding the illnesses that are spreading everywhere. So far, my...

Dear Friends, On Friday morning I went to Whole Foods to pick up some last-minute ingredients for a family and friends’ dinner that I am...

Dear Friends, I live in a historic Oxnard neighborhood which is also one of the many Christmas Tree Lanes that one can find around the...

Dear Friends, I hope you all had wonderful Thanksgiving dinners with family and friends. As I type this, I am also aware that the...

Dear Friends, Happy Thanksgiving week! Here are a few things for which I am grateful: This week with the youth group we had a...

How are you all doing this week? I know that for many it’s been a hard week. Are you doing anything differently? I’ve quit watching...

Dear Friends, I thought I’d share some of what I am thinking after the election. First, I recognize that we do not all have the same...

Dear Friends, On Sunday, we commemorated All Saints Day. The actual day for All Saints is November 1, so in worship it is always the...

Dear Friends, HAPPY REFORMATION! These words, Happy Reformation, seem a bit odd. We, as Lutherans, celebrate the Reformation as the...

Dear Friends, I want to thank everyone who came to the budget workshop a few weeks ago. It was helpful for church leadership to be able...

Hello Friends, Sunday, October 6th, I ran my 14th marathon in Minnesota. It was a beautiful course that took us from downtown...

Dear Friends, I’m writing this message from Minnesota where I’ll be doing a marathon on Sunday. Earlier in the week I was at ELCA...

Dear Friends, Welcome October! We have a busy month ahead of us. First, there will be a budget workshop after worship on October 13. We...

Happy Saturday! I hope that you are able to do something enjoyable this weekend, and I hope to see you at worship tomorrow morning. I...

Hello Friends, In this week’s gospel Jesus invites those hearing him to, “pick up your cross and follow me…” Most of us are familiar with...

Dear Friends, I hope you are all finding ways to stay cool in the midst of this heat wave. While Oxnard is much cooler at 86°, it is very...

Dear ALC Family, Happy Labor Day weekend. It seems fitting that we are concluding this journey through the book, “Sabbath as Resistance:...

Dear ALC Family, Happy weekend! My half marathon last week went well…it was hard and hot and still fun. Overall, we had a wonderful...

"Do not let the foreigner joined to the LORD say,
 "The LORD will surely separate me from his people";
 and do not let the eunuch...