Sitka Lutheran Church is a community of persons who, in varied ways, share the experience of the healing, freeing, and reconciling Word of God. Through Word and Sacrament, we are incorporated into the Body of Christ. In thankful response, we join together for worship, learning, and fellowship.

Called and empowered by Christ’s spirit, we are caught up in a vision of the entire creation being brought to wholeness and a new life in Christ. Therefore, we participate joyfully and hopefully in His mission of proclaiming God’s reconciling love through faithful, disciplined lives of witness and service in Sitka and throughout the world.

WHERE TO FIND US Map of downtown Sitka. We are No. 6 in the legend. Use your browser's BACK button to return to our web site as the Back to MAIN PAGE above the map takes you to www.travelsitka.com.

We have two services each Sunday: an informal family-oriented service with weekly communion at 8:30 a.m. using With One Voice as our primary worship resource and our more formal worship at 11:00 a.m. with the Lutheran Book of Worship as primary resource. Here's more about worship.

We welcome the presence and the participation of children in all our activities. Holy Communion is open to all baptized Christians. On Wednesdays we have soup at 6 p.m. followed by Evening Prayer at 6:30. Holy Communion is offered on an irregular schedule on Wednesdays.

Learning takes place in a variety of ways. Sunday School (ages 3- 12) and Adult Forum begin at 9:45 a.m. every Sunday. Confirmation Class (grades 5 and up) also meets at 9:45 on Sundays. We currently have a Thursday text study at 12:05 p.m. which looks at the coming Sunday's lessons.

Witness and Service includes our Outreach Committee as well as support for several local social service  agencies including the Salvation Army Food Bank, Sitkans Against Family Violence (SAFV) Shelter, and local grade school breakfast programs.

Resources stays busy managing our Year-round Stewardship program, facility use, finances--budgeting, planning--the Summer Volunteer and Volunteer Musician Programs.

History is an important part of our life here. But we try to share it in such a way that we don't spend all our time looking backward, but use our congregation's rich and abiding history as a way to learn, motivate, and remind us that God keeps faith with his people. Our congregation, in God's hands, has kept faith with our community for 160 plus years. That consistency in offering ministry is a wonderful foundation on which we continue to build.

We also have an active Women of the ELCA that meets twice a month, a choir which meets weekly from September through May or early June, a thriving and incredibly gifted Altar Guild, Quilters group, and Care & Share Ministry which handles the Sunday tasks such as Ushers, Greeters, Readers, Communion Assistants, Tellers (people who count the offering each week), Acolytes, and more. Other Small Groups form as a need arises and members volunteer to lead.

Sitka Lutheran Church  •  224 Lincoln St.  •  PO Box 598  •  Sitka AK 99835
Office phone: 907.747.3338  Office E-mail  •  Last updated: 04/02/2008

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