American Ev. Lutheran Church
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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

October 20, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 7:1-7 I pray that this beautiful desert morning has lifted your spirits, or no matter where you may be, that the witness of Stephen in our texts today, and for several studies of this part of the Acts of the Apostles, finds you comforted in your faith. Please continue praying for Kandice, Lisa, and Alexis.  Kandice continues in hospice care at home, and is very near to her triumph in Christ, and her entry into His heavenly kingdom

October 14, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 6:8-15 Good morning in the Name, and by the Power and Love, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I would like to ask for your prayers for my sleep patterns. Of late I have been having many dreams, none of them frightening, but they cause me to talk in my sleep, and thrash around. Last night I woke up to having gone over my side guard and was almost on the floor. Thankfully, I was able to get back up without a fall. I don't feel s

October 13, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 6:1-7 May the Grace and Love of our Savior give you comfort and peace and strength for this, and all coming days. Good morning my dear friends! Our church council met yesterday at American, and one of our business items had to do with homeless people around our building at night, and disturbances which they are causing in the neighborhood. The church property has been trashed, and human waste has had to be cleaned up. I started la

September 29, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 5:17-32 Blessings and Peace on this Autumn morning when the temperature was 66 as we left for school. Please remember that this Sunday is Gospel Music Sunday. I hope that you will come to worship this Sunday to support the Gospel Music group, and take part in the Sacrament of the Altar, and share in the carry-in Mexican meal after worship. We will need some help with breaking down the meal set up in the parish hall, because the

September 23, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 5:12-16 Good morning and may the blessings of Jesus Christ hold you in His care today...

September 16, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 5:1-11 Good afternoon. Well, my intentions were good to get the Tuesday Bible Study out...

September 15, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 4:32-37 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In the coming week I will be sharing with...

September 9, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 4:23-31 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. Please offer prayers of thanksgiving for...