WELCOME TO BURLINGTON LUTHERAN CHURCH!

UPCOMING EVENTS

ANNUAL MEETING:  Our Annual meeting will take place directly after the worship service on Sunday, January 27. All Burlington Lutheran Church members are encouraged to attend this short, but important, meeting!

BIRTHDAY POTLUCK:  Please join us on January 27 after the Annual Meeting for a “Birthday Potluck.” We will have 12 decorated tables with a cake at each, and we will celebrate everyone’s birthdays for the whole year! Please bring a dish to share and all else will be provided. If you would like to host a table or help with decorating beforehand, contact the church office. 

FAMILY PROMISE:  Family Promise is a local organization that helps homeless families with children obtain permanent housing. Until they can get housing, area churches host the families on a rotating schedule. This means they spend nights at the churches and we provide breakfasts and dinners.

Burlington Lutheran will be hosting Family Promise guests Sunday, February 3 through Sunday, February 10. If you would like to volunteer with meals or be an overnight host/hostess, or would like more information about this program, please contact the church office.

SMALL GROUP:  Families with kids, meet us on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month (starting Jan. 13), 12-2 pm, at Grant and Claire Burwash's house on Samish Island. Discuss topics of interest and build a community of support. Contact Claire at claireburwash@gmail.com for more information and directions.

WELCOME STATEMENT

“God is love. We are all God’s beloved children and are recipients of God’s radical love and grace.  All are welcome in this church community. You are welcome here if you have ever felt excluded or judged because of your gender, ethnicity, race, religion, status, ability, sexual orientation, doubts or questions. We believe in Jesus’ commandments to love God and love neighbor. Join us!”

SUNDAY WORSHIP

10:00 a.m. Worship and Children's Church

We are located at 134 E. Victoria Ave in Burlington, WA

Directions

Burlington Lutheran Church is a a multi-generational community of faith that worships and serves together. We take God’s love seriously and believe that the work of the church extends beyond Sunday mornings as we move out in God’s grace daily. For us, being a part of this community of faith makes a difference in our lives.

We are glad that you have chosen to visit this site. Please continue to peruse to find out more about our community, the ministry we do and for more about what we believe you may look at our denomination’s website, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America: www.elca.org.

Many churches make the bold claim, “all are welcome.” Most state that sincerely, but their theology provides caveats to that statement (i.e. “love the sinner, hate the sin,” “you can worship with us but you cannot serve or commune with us until _______”, “you can come here as you are and we will change you”).

I can unequivocally say, as pastor of BLC, YOU are welcome in our church. Your questions, your intellect, you doubts, your hurts, your hopes - all are welcome in our church. Your simultaneously sinner and saint selves are welcome here. Your children are welcome to be themselves in our community, you are welcome to be who God made you to be in our midst. You have gifts that will bless us, we have gifts that will bless you and, together – with God’s help, we can infiltrate the world with God’s love. 

Join us at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings and beyond.

Grace and Peace,
Pastor Bethany