You are joyfully invited to the
Installation of The Rev. Allison Bengfort
as Lead Pastor of
St. Andrew Lutheran Church
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 10:30 am Pacific Time
Charcuterie reception to follow
12405 SW Butner Road, Beaverton, OR 97005
Pastors/deacons are invited to arrive at 10:00 am to vest and process. Stole color: rainbow or green.
In the Spotlight
Events at St. Andrew
The Immigrant Story: October 27, 11:00am
On Sunday, October 27, 2024, in the Fellowship Hall, Sankar Raman, founder of The Immigrant Story; Elizabeth Mehren, author of the book, I Lived to Tell the World; and Emmanuel Turaturanye, survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide will lead a discussion on immigration and sanctuary. All are welcome to attend.
Andy’s Room, St. Andrew Podcast
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Worship
We worship in our beautiful Sanctuary, Chapel, and Sanctuary of the Firs. Worship is vital to our community; we worship together on Sunday mornings at 9:30, in person, on YouTube Livestream, and on Zoom. Click on the “Get Connected” button to receive the links for online worship.
Adult Education
“If adult education does not become a priority for a congregation, at some point that congregation will cease to exist because its members will simply not know or understand the purpose of the congregation and their role in fulfilling that purpose.” —Neal Boese, Blueprint for Change, page 83.
Children & Youth
Children are not the “future” of the church; they ARE the church. Our Director of Next Generational Ministry, Kyler Vogt, is continuing to connect children, youth, and adult mentors during this time when connection is more important than ever.
Learning to Be We
Perhaps there is no more important challenge to twenty-first-century Christians than learning to think communally and globally, working to live together as the body of Christ. African cultures have a word for this: Ubuntu. It means I am because we are. It means we are because Christ is. It means we do life together! Ubuntu is a benediction, a way of understanding that personal identity is integral to communal identity and that all identity comes from Christ.
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Recent Sunday Worship
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