American Ev. Lutheran Church
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February 24, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 13:13 Good morning. I am hopeful that you find this somewhat overly warm weather a pleasant surprise considering the cold and rainy weather we had just a few weeks ago. In our prayers for today I ask that we all pray for the unknown people around us who need prayers for their health, economy, safety, and more. I did announce on Sunday that the Church Council action to order whistles for anyone who would like to be carrying one h

February 17, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 13:1-3 Good morning on this rainy blessing for our desert. This winter really reminds me of winters when we first arrived in Tucson, and the call to serve Gospel of Jesus Christ at American Lutheran. Winter mornings were usually quite a bit colder than this winter has been, but it was the winter rain that was always so wonderful. We had great generous showers on the southeast side of town today. I want to remind you this morning

February 16, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 12:20-25 May the LORD'S blessings surround you today, and always, and may the courage of your faith sustain you for all the ins and outs of life in this time in our world. Thank you for your continuing prayer support for members of our congregation. Please keep Pastor Ron and Becky in your prayers as they meet the need for some monthly medical treatments while figuring out if they will be able to get to Tucson at all this winter.

February 10, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 12:1-11 Good morning, dear friends in Christ Jesus. I hope that you will continue to offer your prayers for the requests which I asked for prayers for yesterday, and if you have not already started to pray for the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, please do include her and her family in your prayers every day. I wonder regularly about how people in our modern world think that war, interring large numbers of non-criminal immigrants, k

February 9, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:27-30 Good morning, and blessings for you and yours on this wonderful warm desert morning here in Tucson. It has been an exciting weekend with the UA men's basketball team continuing their undefeated record, and, of course, all the excitement of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Of course, we are in the midst of the world's largest gem show too, and coming soon will be the largest non-mechanized parade in the U.S.A. with rodeo at t

February 3, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 11:22-26 Good morning my dear Bible Study group. Today please remember to pray for Joyce and Larry who have suffered a serious breach of personal information, and have had their finances, and even their home in danger. This morning Joyce is trying to come up with $1500.00 to stop an auction on their new home. This has been a very difficult time for them. If I seemed to be a little off this past week including Sunday, I have been

February 2, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:19-21 We are all living in the warmth and light of our Savior Jesus Christ. May our hope and trust in Christ fill our lives and truly create in us a desire to offer invitations for others to join us surrounded by God's Grace and Love. That is called evangelism. We seem to often be afraid of it, but as we look at our passage from the Acts of the Apostles today, this is exactly the means by which the early church grew and expande

January 26, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 11:1-10 May the peace of the Lord be with you this morning, and throughout the entire day! Good morning my dear study friends. It is good to be back with you this Monday. I ask you for prayers today for the Olivas family, former members of American who moved to Phoenix to be close to their daughter's family and the grandchildren. We received word on Sunday, right after church, that Joyce Olivas had become a heavenly triumphant sai

January 20, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:44-48 Good morning, and may your day be filled with the LORD'S richest blessings of Grace and Comfort. This morning, I would ask you to pray with thanksgiving to God for Roy's and Christina's birthdays this week.  We are also quickly approaching the 76th birthday of our congregation.  Pray for Americans continuing ministry for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, remembering that it takes all of us in dedication to the work to which th

January 12, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 10:17-33 Blessings and Peace be with you on this beautiful sunny morning. What a gift the weather has been this winter in the desert! Along with you, I love the warmer trend of our desert winters, but I also know how important it is for us to remember that environmental change means that there is something wrong in the world that has caused that change. We have seen it in raging floods in the Carolinas, severe weather in the deep

January 6, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:9-16 Good morning, and happy Epiphany, the season of the church year when we celebrate God's revelation of Himself through His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the day we lift up the entry of the Wise Men into the life of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, providing them with the means to escape the coming life trials of Herod's action to destroy all the young children in, and around, Bethlehem.  It is only through the gifts of the Ma

January 5, 2026:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 10:1-8 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. I pray that your Christmas and New Years celebrations were times of joy for you and your family and friends. We had 16 for Christmas lunch and desserts, and 11 for homemade potato leek soup and split pea and ham soup on New Year's Day. Now the house is quiet, and our wonderful and beautiful collections of tree decorations, angels, snowmen, Santas, and around our house all the signs of

December 16, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 9:32-43 The sounds of Advent songs in church, and the neighborhood yard and house decorations all lend to this very important season of preparation and waiting. Once again, the gathering light of God's Truth and Love for all people is shining more brightly on our home Advent Wreaths, and on the one on the altar at church on Sunday mornings. We are now just a few days away from the fullness and light of the birthday of Jesus Chri

December 15, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 9:26-31 Blessings and peace, be with you on this third week of Advent. Though this study may reach you before tomorrow morning, I am working in the evening on Sunday. Not only is the red of our new tablecloth on the dining room table with poinsettia and an ornament and surrounded by goats. Yes, that is right, goats. In my family heritage from Sweden goats have always been a decoration for Christmas. They are generally constructed

December 8, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 9:19-22 In this Advent season of the church year may your days be filled with anticipation for the joy which we all know in our lives because of Christ's birthday. It is a remarkably busy time in the life of the church. This coming Sunday we will have worship at 10AM followed by time to decorate the Sanctuary for Christmas. This includes getting the tree ready, filling our electric candles for the tree with new batteries, and plac

November 24, 2025:  Monday Bible Study There will be no Bible Study today. After a night of no sleep due to a painful back molar, I spent the morning with the dentist. The tooth has been extracted. However, I finally have no pain in my face like last night, so I will be with you tomorrow for the Tuesday Bible Study in the morning. Thanks for your understanding. With Love in Christ, Pastor Kim ============================================================= November 25, 2025:  Tu

November 18, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 8:14-25 Blessings and Peace to you on this Tuesday morning. Yesterday's study did not happen as I continued to recover from an illness over the weekend, including Sunday, and I spent much of yesterday sleeping. I want to thank you for your prayers. Please pray for Lisa who is having testing and surgery for a possible pre-cancer condition, or for an existing cancer, that the surgery results will be good. Continue your prayers for

November 3, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 7:54 - 8:1 Good morning on yet another lovely autumn day here in Tucson. I pray that your weekend was an opportunity to grow closer to Christ our Lord, and that in that growth, you have become committed to applying the Law of Christ's Love in every circumstance in which you find yourself. I was so happy to see Teri H. back in church on Sunday morning for the first time since her new type of hip replacement surgery nearly a month a

October 27, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 7:17-36 Blessings and Peace be with you this morning in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. As I walk out the door on these cool and crisp mornings I give thanks to God for such beauty and comfort. I must admit that I think my teens don't get it. For them it seems to be just another day of commitments and schoolwork, so I comment every day to them about the wonderful quality of the morning and deep blue of the morning sky. Perhaps

October 21, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 7:8-16 Good morning my dear friends.  An urgent matter for prayer today is to keep our parish administrator Debbie, and her husband Jeff in your prayers.  Jeff is about to have a second surgery as he has developed complications from his first surgery.  Please keep them both in your prayers.  Also pray for Becky healing from weakness, and future testing to determine its cause.  Also continue to pray for Teri who is working to rega