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.