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 15, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 43 Blessing and Peace in Jesus Christ be with you today. This morning, I was able to practice at church without the need for a jacket in our unheated sanctuary. It was lovely there, and it always gives me an opportunity to appreciate our chancel area (the space which holds our altar, the Moravian Star, the Lectern, the organ, and the bell choir tables and bells). It is really a wonderful place to work on music and more. I will

January 13, 2026:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 10:34-43 Rejoice in the Light of Christ and always remember that this is the day that the LORD has made, rejoice, and be glad in it! I am doing all my Bible studies at home during this year. It is an attempt to keep heat off in the office area during these winter months, and to keep air off in the warmer and hotter months, except for the two days each week when the office is open. Here at home, the house is already heated, BUT ou

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 8, 2026:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 42 Good evening/morning, depending on when you choose to look at your emails and the Psalm study which normally comes to you late on Thursday morning. I pray for the LORD'S richest blessings to sustain you and to keep you fully faithful even in what may be difficult times. I know that the cold rain today is important to the health of our desert and its environment in which we live. But I must tell you as I sit in our 68-degree h

December 18, 2025:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 41:13 For my dear friends in Christ as we approach the end of the season of Advent at the beginning of the Church Year and move quickly on to Christmas and its 12 days of celebration that you know all about God's love for you.   I know that all too often, commercial TV and Radio act as if Christmas ends at midnight on December 25. You will find it hard, even in some churches, to sing carols any longer than Christmas Eve, or Ch

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 11, 2025:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 41:1-12 Good evening (it’s about 10pm on the 10th), and good morning if you are not seeing this until the 11th of December. Thursday morning, I have a great deal of practice to get my feel for the organ together tomorrow in the sanctuary. I am hopeful that I will be able to play more than just the three opening carols on the organ. I am really looking forward to the Christmas Eve worship. I get to be together with our church m

December 9, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 9:23-25 Good morning, dear friends in Christ. I pray and hope that this season of Advent finds you filled with wonder at the Bethlehem birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This is such a good time to take a few deep breaths, to ponder what God has done, and continues to do, in our lives, and in the lives of all people with the birth of His Only Begotten Son. Yesterday I reminded you about the busy schedule for this Sunday morning a

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

December 4, 2025:  Thursday Bible Study on Psalm 39 May the blessing of this sunny December day fill you with joy in the coming Light of God for all people, His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. A truly short reminder - Gospel Music Sunday this Sunday, Dec. 7. Chili luncheon to follow. Please join us for wonderful worship, the proclamation of the Word of the Lord, good music, and the living presence of Christ in the celebration of Holy Communion, all follo

December 2, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 9:10-18 Good morning my dear friends in Christ. This week brings us to the second Sunday of Advent, and we are reminded once again of the powerful gift that our Heavenly Father has prepared for every one of us. This week is Gospel Music Sunday at our 10AM worship, and we will gather for our traditional Chili Luncheon after the service. You may bring a dish to share. Please be reminded that our warming cabinet in the kitchen is no

December 1, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 9:1-9 I would say good morning to you; however, this Bible Study is coming to you on Sunday evening due to my schedule tomorrow which will not give me time to do the Bible Study in the morning. Today at worship we had wonderful Advent Season hymns, and an opportunity for laying on of hands for healing for anyone who wanted to take part. "O Come, O Come, Emanuel” In this season of the church year, we can all take the time to pray f

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 20, 2025:  Thursday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 38 Blessings, Peace, and staying warm on this November rainy morning my dear friends. In your prayers, please hold up Vincente who was in a bad car accident as a passenger. He has had several head surgeries since and has more to go at Banner UMC. Pray too for Caesar who suffered first time seizures at work this week, who is hospitalized in an induced coma. Also, pray for Lisa whose tests for cancer can now be

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 10, 2025:  Monday Bible Study on Acts 8:5-13 Good morning my dear friends in Christ.  I was shocked this AM when I saw the news that indicated that Chicago, and the eastern shore of Lake Michigan were receiving some rather large snowfalls today.  Around Chicago maybe as much as 18".  Both Melody and I remember all too well what it was like to have 36 inches of snow with 40 - 50 MPH wind when we lived just a couple of miles off Lake Michigan at our farmhouse.  We were

November 6, 2025:  Thursday Bible Study on Old Testament of Psalm 37:1-20 May the heart of Christ's love for you sustain you and keep you throughout this day, and always! Good morning my dear friends. I hope that you will continue to offer prayers as I bring to you the prayers that the prayer chain has been praying for during the week. This week we have had two. One is for a member's grandchild, Lucio, who is being treated for pneumonia. Please pray for his comfort and that t

November 4, 2025:  Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 8:1-4 Dear Bible Study folks, I hope that this passage today is a reminder of the power of the world to seek to undo the work of the Gospel that has been the mission of the Church now for nearly 2000 years. Though we are reading about Stephen's death by stoning, and, in today's passage, the outrage of the Jews at Christians in Jerusalem, and the Jews willingness to chase them down, enter their homes, and begin an early first cent