People are asking what we’re doing at Saving Grace Lutheran Church, the WELS mission in Mobile, to celebrate Jesus’ birthday.  Well, some of it probably isn’t too much different from many of y’all’s congregations.  Our Sunday morning services have made a normal transition to the Advent Season and we’ve got our decorations up.  Our Sunday [...]

Greetings from Mobile, Alabama.  There is no shortage of Christian churches in our part of town.  In fact there are 19 others, covering a wide variety of denominations, in just a three-mile radius around Saving Grace Lutheran Church.  That’s not to say that everyone surrounding us is churched, but many of them pass by so [...]

The WELS Mission in Mobile first kicked off as Living Word Lutheran Church in 1971 at the request of several households which had withdrawn from some other “too liberal” Lutheran churches.  Though the congregation eventually became self-supporting, we never experienced the growth we hoped for.  In 2000, with the support of the Board for Home [...]

I was nervous stepping into the new chancel on dedication Sunday. The day had finally come. Our wait was over. We were excited, we were anxious, and we were overjoyed! But to be honest, even as we were giving thanks for our new church home, I found myself asking, “Now what?”
Just a few months before, [...]