Sunday Worship
8, 9:30, & 11 am
Orders due by Sunday, April 6
$15 per plant
If you would like to purchase an Easter flower and list a dedication in the bulletin, there are two simple steps!
1. Submit to the church office:
Your name
Email address
Number of daffodils, tulips, or lilies
Dedication in honor or memory (optional)
Are you planning on taking your flowers after Easter worship?
2. Submit your payment. Please make checks payable to Lord of Life and mark them "Easter Flowers". You can place your order in the collection plate or email it to the church office. You can also pay online.
Madison Pease,
Saturday, March 29, 7 pm
in the Fellowship Hall
Is your game euchre? Five Crowns? Card players of all abilities are welcome. Bring an appetizer to share and your beverage.
RSVP to Anita Chiaramonte,
April 6-11, Sign up to serve! Help is needed!
Lord of Life is a host church for Family Promise of Butler County, which addresses the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness in Butler County by providing shelter, meals, and comprehensive support services. As a host church, we will open our doors and transform our Fellowship Hall into a home for a week, as well as providing meals and hospitality to families enrolled in the program.
This will be a shortened host week, with guests in residence Sunday – Friday morning. All meals, hosting, and overnight stays will take place here at Lord of Life. There are opportunities to serve before, during, and after our host week, interacting with our guests or behind the scenes! You can partner up with friends, your Bible study, or relatives to share the load and the fun of serving!
We are especially in need of Bridge Hosts and Overnight Hosts to help make our guests comfortable! If you are able to help, please sign up at the link above.
Amanda and Keith Spangler
Lenten Wednesdays: Dinner Church and Activities
March 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 9
6:30 - 7:30 pm, in the Sanctuary and online
Sign up to help with the potluck: www.tinyurl.com/LentDinners2025
Bring your family, bring a neighbor, bring a friend, and join with us on Wednesday evenings for a meal, conversation, worship, and activities. Can you help us? We’ll need soups, salads, and bread, as well as extra hands to help with setup and clean-up. Sign up online or in the Gathering Space. Please come even if you can’t bring anything; there is always plenty!
Angie Seiller,
Applications due April 30
Lord of Life is excited to again offer a $1,500 college scholarship. This non-renewable award has been created by church members who, through gifts and memorials, have endowed a scholarship fund that will award one scholarship each year.
The scholarship will be awarded to a graduating high school senior who is a member of Lord of Life, displays exemplary service to the church and community, who will be attending a technical college or pursuing a four-year college degree on a full-time basis, and provides an essay on their faith journey in the application.
Complete details about the scholarship as well as the application are now available and can be picked up in the church office. Completed applications must be turned in to the church office in person or by email (
Palm Sunday
April 13 at 8, 9:30, & 11 am
Maundy Thursday
April 17 at 7 pm
Good Friday
April 18 at 7 pm
Easter Sunday
April 20 at 8, 9:30, and 11 am
All worship services are available on site and online.
Serve in Worship
We will need over sixty volunteers for Holy Week worship. Grab your family! Grab a friend! Many tasks take place behind the scenes. Training provided! Watch the announcements for opportunities to sign up soon!
We will not have 9:30 youth classes on Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday so families can worship together.
Saturday, April 12, 9 am
It’s an Easter Egg Hunt right here at Lord of Life! We begin with registration and doughnuts and then hunt some eggs. Rain or shine! We'll hunt inside if the weather is bad. All are welcome!
Helpers needed! We need volunteers and older youth to hide eggs and set up. Please sign up at the link: www.tinyurl.com/LOLegghunt
Angie Seiller,
March 25, 5 - 7 pm
Hosted at Faith UMC, Cox Road
Sign up to donate food for the meal!
Prepare and serve a hot meal to neighbors who need one. All you need are willing hands and a willing heart; volunteers of all ages and abilities can participate. No sign-up or RSVP is needed.
What is Stepping Forward? It's a ministry of the Faith Alliance, providing a weekly community meal and enrichment opportunity that equips low-income families with the skills, knowledge, and nourishment they need to take the next step forward in life. Hosted at Faith Community Methodist Church, West Chester.
Food donations can be dropped off at the church on Sunday mornings or during office hours. If you have perishables and cannot drop them off during office hours, please be in touch with the church office (
Kathy Calihan
Current Preschool Director Paula Drake is retiring, and LOLCP is looking for a new Director to continue the amazing mission of our preschool.
Lord of Life Christian Preschool (LOLCP) is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Preschool Director to lead the daily operations of our preschool. The Director will be responsible for the children enrolled, the supervision of staff and parent volunteers, and will act as a key partner with the Lord of Life Lutheran Church. The Director reports to the Preschool Board.
For more information, please visit https://lolcp.com/join-our-team.
Those interested should submit their resume via email to
Are you interested in learning more about what’s in the Bible but don’t know where to begin? Join a Bible Study! Newcomers are welcome at any time during the year, and all of our studies emphasize learning together - no special knowledge or skills needed to get started!
Men’s Bible Study
3rd Mondays, 7 pm
off site
George Bryans,
Couples’ Bible Study
1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
in the New Space
Revelation
Lois Hills,
Women in the Marketplace
1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 7 pm
in the Lighthouse Room
Michelle Swinney,
Women at the Well
1st Monday of the month, 7 pm
in the New Space
Wednesday Morning Bible Study
Wednesdays, 10 am, in the New Space
Not meeting during Lent
Pastor Lowell Michelson,
Winter Book Study
4th Monday of the month, 7 pm
Begins January 27, 2025
in the New Space
Pastor Lowell Michelson,
Adult Sunday School
Sundays, 9:30 am, in the Library
Ed Williams,
Pick Them Up in the Gathering Space
Everything [In] Between is an invitation to navigate the polarities in our lives with more faith, intention, and openness to be transformed. Each weekly sub-theme explores two supposed binaries, like “faith & works” or “rest & growth,” or “grief & hope.” This Lent, we invite you to look beyond black and white binaries and easy answers. Imagine where God might be meeting us beyond the categories we create.
Daily Devotional Cards
Beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing through Easter Sunday, use these daily devotional cards to expand and deepen your spiritual walk through Lent. You might place the stack of cards by your bed to read first thing in the morning or right before you sleep at night. Display the cards that resonate with you so you continue to see their reminders.
Daily Devotional Book
As you journey through this devotional at your own pace, you will find scriptures, poems, art, reflections, and hymns filled with promises of God’s abundant and expansive grace.
ELCA World Hunger Calendar – 40 Days of Giving
Find inspirational ideas for daily reflection and action, as well as prayers, relevant Bible passages, and more.
Coloring Daily Prayer Calendar
40 days of prayers and actions for children or the child at heart. Color in the spaces along the path, and see what’s in store for your prayers each day.
NO FAITH LEARNING ON PALM SUNDAY OR EASTER
Register your kids (infant through 12th grade) for Youth Ministry! CLICK HERE to register.
Youth Sunday School
Such exciting times at Lord of Life! Our youth ministry is rooted in God’s love for all of us and growing together. We have a passion for our children to know the power and peace that a life grounded in the teachings of Jesus can bring our families. Our community is filled with fun and joy too.
Kindergarten-5th Grade: Our younger kids begin in the Sanctuary for worship. Children will join in activities in the Fellowship Hall after the Children’s Message and return to worship at Holy Communion.
6th-8th Grade: Meets in the New Space weekly with days off to worship as a family, or other special days, including retreats, church visits, and service projects.
9th-12th Grade: Meets in the Lighthouse Room with days off for time spent in worship or other special days.
Nursery
Our nursery is staffed on Sunday mornings during the 9:30 am education and worship hour. Little ones are welcome to join the nursery at any time. Many opt to stay in worship through the Children’s Message.
Adult Sunday School
Our adult Sunday School meets in the Church Library. Led by Pastor Ed Williams, they are studying Native American Christianity. If you're looking for other adult learning options, check out our Bible studies; there's something for everyone!
Join the Yarn Benders
A Knitting and Stitching Group
2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month, 7 - 8:30 pm
in the New Space
Yarn Benders is a group for people who enjoy needlecraft or want to learn! Experienced needlecrafters and the yarn-curious are welcome! Come as often as your schedule permits. Your project can be knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery, or anything else you enjoy.
NEW KNITTERS: We will teach you how to knit! Your first project will be a hat or scarf. Bring size 8 needles and a skein of worsted-weight yarn.
EXPERIENCED KNITTERS: Bring your own project or you are welcome to join with us in making baby hats for Hopple Street Health Clinic. We will have patterns available for both knitting and crocheting baby hats.
If you plan to knit a baby hat, bring your size 5 & 6 double-pointed needles and a skein of DK yarn.
If you plan to crochet a baby hat, bring a size 4.0 mm (G) crochet hook and a skein of DK yarn.
Grab a project, grab a friend, and we'll see you at Lord of Life to bend some yarn!
Barb Mackey & Susan Cramer,
1st and 3rd Mondays, 10 am, in the New Space
The quilting ministry creates beautiful blankets for local charities and baptismal blankets for our little ones. We always welcome additional hands to help cut, sew, and knot quilts! Bring your own scissors and needle, all other supplies are furnished. If you want to learn more or are ready to jump in, come and be part of this creating ministry.
Ann Popoff,
We encourage you to share prayers of gratitude and celebration as well as requests for healing, the grieving, and those who protect and serve. Prayers for healing will be included in the Prayers of the Church each Sunday. To make a prayer request you can email us at
Do you have a little one in your life? Sign up for Splash! This ministry welcomes newborns to the congregation by sending Splash mailings each month. These mailings are filled with ideas to help you support your baby and toddler as they grow spiritually. The pages include ideas for faith-filled play, songs, worship, meals and prayer. Contact the church office to add a family to the Splash mailing.
Stephen Ministers provide one-on-one Christ-centered caring. A few examples of struggles that a Stephen Minister can walk alongside you through are: grief, divorce, illness, job loss, loss of a home, military deployment, loneliness, or spiritual crisis.
If you would like more information about receiving care for yourself or a loved one, please let us know.
If you would like to explore being a care giver, please contact us.
Ava Fiebig, Cindy Campbell
Alcoholics Anonymous
7:30 pm Sundays, in the Fellowship Hall
child care available
7:30 pm Thursdays, in the Fellowship Hall
Al-Anon
7:30 pm Sundays, in the Library
child care available
Offering on site and online meetings! Contact the administrator for the login details.
All Addictions Big Book Step Study Group
7 pm Mondays, in the Library
All are welcome to the All Addictions Big Book Step Study Group. We are a group of men and women dedicated to studying and practicing the 12 steps of recovery as laid out in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Big Book Step Study meetings work by providing clear-cut directions on how to recover from any addiction. The terms all addiction and practicing and studying the steps as they are laid out in the Big Book is what differentiates this from the Sunday night Alanon meeting. Join us.
Volunteer in the garden!
Help us provide fresh produce to local food pantries. Garden knowledge is not necessary, training is provided, and learn by doing. Enjoy being outside in fellowship with others to work in the garden as physical abilities allow. We work in the garden primarily on Tuesday mornings especially once produce is ready to pick to align with the pantry hours. However, as weather impacts our plans, we schedule other days and times to keep up with activities. Communications are through regular emails and texts to keep everyone current with weather impacts. We avoid working in the heat, cold, rain, or mud. Attend as you are able.
Dennis Reynolds,