sunday worship
8:00 am - Holy Communion with a mix of traditional and contemporary music
9:15 am - Learning and Fellowship opportunities
10:30 am - Holy Communion with a mix of traditional and contemporary music
Welcome!
Atascocita Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We are located in a rapidly expanding suburban community 25 miles northeast of Houston, Texas.
Atascocita Lutheran Church is made up of people who are on a journey of faith. We come from a variety of backgrounds and traditions. We are sinners who come to hear words of hope and forgiveness. We are learners who do not know all the answers but seek to grow together in faith.
We are people who have experienced pain and hurt in our lives but join together to receive comfort from God and one another. We are people that strive to be faithful disciples of Jesus by serving those in need. We are people who worship together, pray together, laugh together, and sometimes even cry together.
But most of all, we are people seeking to know and experience the love and grace of Jesus Christ in our lives.
If you do not presently have a church home, we invite you to join us in our faith journey.
news and events
Thanks to God and All Volunteers For a Fantastic Fall Festival Benefit! God once again blessed us with a gorgeous day for our 30th annual Fall Festival Benefit. Our bishop's new motto, "God's work, our hands," was never more evident than on October 11th! For more information about the benefit and where the funds raised will be used, see our November Seeds of Grace newsletter.
A Community Thanksgiving Worship will be celebrated on Tuesday, November 25th at 7:00 p.m. at Christ the King Episcopal Church. ALC is sponsoring this service along with Christ the King, Atascocita Presbyterian Church, and Atascocita Methodist Church. Please join our Full Communion partners in giving thanks that day. Clergy from all congregations will be leading the Eucharistic Service. The choirs from each congregation will come together as one providing amazing music. Offerings will go to support Family Promise of Lake Houston homeless ministry.Come and Give Thanks!
Dessert & Conversation About Stewardship for a Vision Community is a series of events hosted at ALC for all of the households of the congregation. During these information and fellowship sessions we will have a dialogue about the 2009 Vision & Mission for our community of faith. Make plans to attend the event to which you are invited.
November 23 is Statement of Intent Sunday for the 2009 Vision of the congregation. All of us, as disciples-in-training, will be asked to complete a statement of intent about our giving plans for the coming year.
Liturgy of Healing Sunday, November 30th, 7:00 p.m. As a worshiping community of Christians, God calls us to come together for the sake of healing and renewal. Set within the Liturgy of Holy Communion, people may come forward for laying on of hands and anointing with oil. All of us suffer from disease in our lives whether it be physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. The Church, as the Body of Christ on earth, has been given the privilege of offering healing to a broken world. Please take time out to encounter God’s healing touch in your life.
Going Green...Caring for God's Creation: ALC now has a recycling program! If you look near our shed on Pinehurst Drive you will see a blue square box provided by Hum-ble Recycling. We are accepting all plastics 1-6, metal, aluminum, paper and cardboard. Please put all metal/aluminum and plastics in trash bags, but cardboard and paper can be thrown in loose. There are also receptacles inside the ALC building for plastics bottles/aluminum cans and paper. Please use these containers as good stewards of the beautiful earth God entrusted to us. And be sure to tell your friends and neighbors that there's a new place available in our community to accept their recyclable items.
November Resources: November issues of Seeds of Grace, the ALC Calendar and the Worship Calendar are now available on our resources page.
pastor's corner
As all of you should know, November 4this Election Day in our coun-try. This year we will not only be electing candidates running for local offices, but we will also be electing a new President of the United States. In a way, I can’t wait until it is over so the news channels will again focus on other things that are going on in our world...[read full article]
