St. John's Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a caring family of believers committed to proclaiming the Gospel of Christ in its purity and truth in accord with Holy Scripture and the Confessions of the Holy Christian Church found in the Book of Concord of 1580.

Situated on a triangle of land at the corner of Court and Eighth Streets, across from James Field and Downers' Furniture (where Court divides into two one-way streets), our gothic structure testifies to our unity with saints of days gone by even as we continue in the use of the Divine Service handed down through 2,000 years of confessing faith in the virgin birth, perfect life, sin-atoning death, glorious resurrection, majestic ascension, and eagerly-awaited return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Each week, hundreds of our family members join together here for true worship--that is, truly, worth ship (as the word really means): receiving worth and worthiness despite our sin, through the cleansing blood of Jesus, and returning praise to the Triune God for what He has done and still does for us.

As our fathers in the faith said of our liturgy, it is truly 'Gottesdienst'--God's Service, the service that God Himself does for us, coming to us to bring us His grace and forgiveness through Holy Baptism, Absolution, the Preaching of the Cross, and the Holy Supper of Christ's Body and Blood. It is the continuous activity of God that makes clear what St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory" (1 Tim. 3:16). True godliness is a mystery to the non-Christian (and, sadly, to a great many Christians); it is not what we do, according to St. Paul, but what Jesus has done . By the grace of God and through our use of the historic liturgy of the Church, that is what the services at St. John's deliver.

We hope that you will stop back periodically to see our website as it develops, and that you would stop in and see us if you are in the area. If you're here on a Sunday, our Services are at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (with Bible classes and Sunday School for all ages at 9:15 a.m.) and at 7:00 p.m.

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