About Our Values and Beliefs
Resources
St. Luke will fund and support its ministry through the following:
- Tithes and offerings
- Capital campaigns
- Fees and tuition
- Volunteerism and use of Spiritual Gifts
- Donations of tangible personal and real property
St. Luke Lutheran Church
5589 Vanatta Road
Haslett MI 48840
(517) 339-9119 phone
(517) 339-5430 fax
(517) 339-2333 preschool
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) email
http://www.stlukehas.com website
We are a member congregation of the Michigan District of the The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
JOIN US FOR WORSHIP!
Sunday Services:
8:30 and 11:00 am Worship
9:45 Bible study, Sunday School
Thursday Summer Service:
7:00 pm Worship
All of our Worship services and all of our activities and ministries are firmly based on Scripture with Jesus Christ as the focal point
All of our worship services are “blended”, combining traditional liturgy and organ music with contemporary service formats and praise band music.
JOIN US FOR BIBLE STUDY
Sunday 9:45 - several adult studies
Thursday 7 am - Men’s study at Coral Gables
Thursday 10 am - Women’s study
Friday 9 am - young Mom’s study
(with nursery available!)
Our History
We held our first worship service in 1986 in an elementary school gymnasium in Haslett.
In 1988, we completed Phase I of our building project on a 15 acre campus at our current location in Haslett. The project included an all purpose area for worship and fellowship, offices and classrooms.
In 1992, we added Phase II - a classroom and education wing, at our current location.
In 2007, we dedicated our Phase III project including a new sanctuary (seating 400 worshipers), fully equipped nursery, office complex (and a space for our future fellowship center). We renovated our older space to make our former all purpose area a full time Fellowship Center.
In 1996, we completed our beautiful Outdoor Worship Center just south of our main facility. The center is in a natural setting overlooking a wetland area. The 4 1/2 ton altar and the separate seating blocks (for about 230) are all limestone quarried in Alpena.
Some Fast Facts about us
We have a large nursery, staffed for all worship services.
We serve about 320 worshipers on a weekend.
We have 876 baptized members on our membership roll.
Our new sanctuary, completed in 2007, seats over 400.
We have a staff of 11 full time and part time workers.
Our Christian preschool serves 3 year olds, 4 year olds and pre-kindergarteners. Two qualified preschool teachers are part of our staff.
We are a member congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
Home Groups
Join a Home Group for fellowship, study and service. Spend an evening weekly with 10 or 12 fellow Christians
After School
Our Middle School Youth Center offers activities and study time for middle-schoolers during the school year, 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
WORSHIP WITH US IN THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION
Our Outdoor Worship Center overlooks a protected wetlands area and our Meditation Garden and features a natural limestone altar and chancel area, limestone seating for 150 and a dramatic 20 foot illuminated cross. The Center is an ideal setting for worship services during the summer months, for meditation during the evening hours and for weddings of our members and other special events. We hold our worship services in the Center regularly on Thursday evenings (and on some Sundays) all summer long.
The Lord Will Provide . . .
A Little History in the Building of the St. Luke Outdoor Worship Center
St_Luke_Outdoor_Worship_Story.pdf
Together In Mission
We help support financially and with our prayers the ministry of Pastor David Erber and his family, missionaries in Nigeria, through the LCMS’s Together in Mission Program. Pastor Erber corresponds with us regularly by email and visits us occasionally to report on the progress of his vibrant ministry to Nigerian nationals.
Lutheran Bible Translators
We give special financial and prayerful attention to the ministry of Pastor Chuck and Karen Tessaro of Lutheran Bible Translators who are working to provide a written version of the Bible (and a written language) to the people of Nigeria.
Gabriel Messengers
Gabriel Messengers’ goal is to assist in the development of pastors for future service in pulpits of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.
For more information on this effort, please visit their website Gabriel Messengers
International Student Ministries - Friendship House
Many of our members participate in the International Student Ministry-Lansing Area ministry of friendship with hundreds of international students, scholars, visiting professionals and their families at nearby Michigan State University and Lansing Community College.
For more information or to receive the bi-monthly ISM-LA Newsletter, please refer to the ISM-LA website: http://www.msu.edu/user/intlstum or send an email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Some Interesting Facts about the St. Luke Outdoor Worship Area
- The Limestone used for the Outdoor Worship Area came from a quarry in Alpena, Michigan and weighs over 350 thousand pounds!
- The Altar is 10 ft. wide by 3 ft. deep and weighs 9,032 pounds!
- The chancel flooring measures 23 ft. by 20 ft. and weighs over 75,000 pounds!
- The Outdoor Worship Area was totally built by St. Luke volunteers. Over 50 individuals donated their time and expertise totally over 2,000 hours!
- There are 116 seating stones – capacity for 232 people.
- The smallest seating stone is less that 2 feet wide (weighing about 800 lbs.) and the longest is over 5 feet wide (weighing over 3,000 lbs.)
- There are 8 rows of seating. For an amphitheater effect, each row is 6 inches higher than the previous row except for the last two rows; they are only 3 inches higher.
- The stones have a lot of character. Many have fossils, seashells, Petoskey stones, and pyrite (also known as fool’s gold). Can you find the stone with the most fossils?
- The heavy-duty tow straps used to lift the stone into place had a capacity of lifting 10,000 lbs. We wore out 6 of them!
- One stone has a dynamite hole with a golf ball stuck in it. Can you find the stone?
- There is a cross embedded in the chancel flooring. Can you find it?
- The most difficult stone took over 2 hours to set; the easiest took only 15 minutes to set.
- Deer have constantly visited our Outdoor Worship Area. Tracks have been seen almost daily, up and down the aisles and even up on the chancel flooring.
- In 2003, a 20 foot tall cross was added behind the altar. It weighs over 800 pounds and is anchored in a cement casing designed by one of our volunteer structural engineers. The cross illuminated all year provides an inspirational view.
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