Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Atascadero, CA

Due to state requirements related to COVID-19, Church Worship Services are being conducted outside at the O'Briens Home in South Atascadero. See Directory for Address or call the church office.

Here is a beautiful story! I was at the grocery store this morning and heard a loud crash and something shattering. Being nosy, I walked towards the sound and saw some people whispering and looking back to the end of the next aisle. When I walked down that aisle, I saw an older lady had hit a shelf and many things had fallen to the ground and broke. She was kneeling on the floor embarrassed, frantically trying to clean up. I felt so bad for her, and everyone was just standing... there staring at her. So I went and knelt beside her and told her not to worry and started helping her pick up the broken pieces. After about a minute, the store manager came and knelt beside us and said, Leave it, we will clean this up. The lady, totally embarrassed said, I need to pay for all this first. The manager smiled, helped her to her feet and said, No ma’am, we have insurance for this, you do not have to pay anything! If you have read this far, I would like for you to give me a minute. Wherever you are, close your eyes, and imagine God doing the same for you! Collecting the pieces of your broken heart from all the blows life has thrown at you. The bill for your faults, sin and folly has already been paid through the precious blood of Christ. God will heal all your wounds. He wants to gently lift you to your feet again, clean up your mess, and pick up all the broken pieces. He wants to heal you! He wants to take care of your soul! We can have that same insurance and it’s called GRACE! See more

We are now meeting every Sunday in church. We are following social distancing and have pews marked off so that we only sit in every other pew. (In fact we have placed our beautiful quilts over the in-between pews so you can see all the beautiful quilts that we have made this year to send to Lutheran World Relief. Our quilting group makes at least 100 quilts for Lutheran World Relief, plus some baby quilts and quilts to be taken to Mexico when men and women from churches in our circuit go down to build houses. Please come and join us!! If you would like to watch our live stream worship services please go to our website: www.redeemeratascadero.org

We tried a live stream today for our worship service. We had some difficulties but hopefully that helped us to realize what needs to be different and how to make it better. Please don't give up...we will continue to try to make this possible and our tech people are working really hard to make this a reality while we are unable to meet in person. Have a blessed week in the Lord!

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Hallelujah!

Just a reminder that Pastor Wayne's sermons are being posted on our website: redeemeratascadero.org Most of February and March sermons are listed for the audio only, and then once it was decided to close down during the corona virus his sermons are on with video and sound. Just go to the website and on the far right you'll see Spoken Word Podcasts. Hope this helps to keep us all connected. Stay safe and know that we are praying for you all.

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This is so...true.

Here is a beautiful song to add a smile to your day today.

We are a church that loves the Lord and want to be HIS hands and feet as we serve others.