What Should I Expect?

When you come to St. Paul's, you should expect to find loving and caring people enthusiastically offering praise to God, earnestly praying for His help and eagerly learning how His Word can help them grow in faith and wisdom. That being said, please don't expect that the people here will always live up to this ideal. We are a people with the highest of goals and standards, but we all fall short of them. We accept this, while striving to do better.

When you come to St. Paul's you should expect to find age and racial diversity, but also a church that reflects its Lutheran heritage. Our history and traditions are important to us, even as we explore new ways of expressing the faith. Most of us like to dress up for worship, but we don't make it a rule. We strive to know and use the content of our hymnal in worship, but we use resources beyond it also. We seek to make guests and newcomers feel welcome. We love to have children in our worship services, though very young or disruptive children might need to go to the nursery.

In particular, you can expect that our office will be open and available to you from 9 - 2:30, Monday through Friday. You can expect that if you write us a note or leave us a voice mail we will get back to you quickly.

You can expect that a pastor will be there to visit with you if you make an appointment. You can expect that your presence will be welcomed at all worship services and activities, regardless of whether you are a member or not. You can expect that we will follow up with you and encourage you to make the commitment of church membership, whether here or someplace else. You can expect that the Word of God will inform all that we do and say.