American Ev. Lutheran Church
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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 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 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 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 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

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 28, 2025: Tuesday Bible Study on Acts 7:37-53 Good morning my dear friends. Please continue to pray for Becky Prasek as she undergoes testing to reach a diagnosis that will help her specialists to plan a course of treatment. It looks now like it may well be a nerve getting too crowded in her spinal column, so pray for great test results for Becky. Please also pray for Mark and Linda Backer who live in Wisconsin. We pray for their health throughout the past six months