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A Note From Our Pastor……
Welcome to Peace Lutheran Church! On this
website, you’ll find a bit of information about us – who we are and what
we’re about. But it’s of great importance that we also let you know
whose we are and why we’re about what we’re about.

“In
Christ, we preach, teach and live God’s Word.” That’s our mission
statement. That’s who we proclaim we are - or more accurately were we
come from - and what we’re about. We are “in Christ.” Christ is the
neighborhood/the environment/the atmosphere in which we live and move
and have our being. As the baptized children of God, we come first and
foremost not from our families, nor from Menomonie, nor from the USA,
nor from the world. We come from Christ.

Our location drives what we do, how we live and move and have our being
in the other places that we find ourselves: in our families, our
communities, our nation, our world, at work and at play. “In Christ,
we preach, teach and live God’s Word.” Wherever we are, we are
first of all in Christ. Whatever we do, our purpose is to preach, teach
and live God’s Word through what we do.
“In Christ, we peach, teach and live God’s
Word.” These are lofty words, describing a lofty lifestyle. They
should be. As children of the most high God we shouldn’t confine
ourselves only to little tasks, restrict our identity only to small
connections, narrow our focus only to temporary realities. The first
three words of our mission statement reflect that view. “In Christ,
we…” Whatever words describe the action we derive from that, that
action is performed not just by individuals, but by the whole community
– a community that finds its identity in a relationship with one another
and with God through Christ. “In Christ we” – not I.
Those actions have a goal of revealing God’s
Word. We preach, teach and live – as a community, as part of the whole
body of Christ - so that God’s Word may be known in us and to all
amongst whom we do that preaching, teaching and living.
You are most welcome to join with us in that
task.
Pastor Dave Whelan
In Christ, we preach, teach and live God’s Word.
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