Christ Lutheran Church of Bloomer

09/09/2026

Spread the word to the teens you know!
Pizza and Prayer resumed today!

09/02/2026

We are gearing up for another year of youth group! The students' favorite part from last year was all of the delicious meals that were provided! The mealtime is a valuable opportunity to share highs and lows and offers teachable moments in the course of regular conversation.

If you would like to sign up to provide a meal, please click the link below.

Meal Details:
We will begin our meal at 6pm on Wednesday nights and wrap up around 6:30pm. We expect about 10 teens, and 4 adults each week.
Food allergies include: nuts, cheese, and fish. **If you are able to leave cheese out of main dish or include it as an optional side, that would be helpful too!

Please select a date that works best for you and indicate what you plan to prepare. Thanks in advance!

We will begin our meal at 6pm on Wednesday nights and wrap up around 6:30pm. We expect about 12 teens, and 4 adults each week. Food allergies include: nuts, cheese, and fish. **If you are able to leave cheese out of main dish or include it as an optional side, that would be helpful too! Please selec...

09/02/2026

September Pastoral Letter
Let us Follow Jesus as He Walks
We’re in the midst of a sermon series called The Unhurried Life of Jesus. The idea for the series came from the book An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus’ Rhythms of Work and Rest. As I ponder being more unhurried, I keep remembering a conversation I had with a retired teacher in my first congregation. He gave me some valuable feedback; feedback I took to heart then but probably have failed to put into practice as consistently as I should have in the 36 years of ministry since then. He told me that some people in the community had told him that I didn’t appear very approachable, that when someone saw me on my daily walk to the post office, I looked like someone who did not want to be interrupted. This wise teacher encouraged me to relax a bit and pay more attention to my surroundings, especially the people I may encounter. In other words, he was telling me that I should not just preach about the love of Jesus on Sunday, but should also try to embody the love of Jesus the rest of the week.
Doing so would require me to walk more slowly, probably more at the pace that Jesus walked throughout his ministry. In fact, walking is one of the common images in the New Testament for following Jesus, for being his disciple, as we saw in our series on Colossians: Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” (2:6-7) A slower pace allows more space for the love Jeus gave me to spill over into the lives of others.
The apostle Paul would call these blessing that we share with others the fruit of the Spirit. Consider this passage from Galatians:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (5:22-23)
As you look at each of those fruits, I think you’d agree that they are generally not very compatible with a fast-paced temperament or lifestyle. Paul says this explicitly in 1 Corinthians 13: Love is patient.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (13:4-7)
This is the walk of Jesus. Over and over again, as we read in the Gospels, Jesus set aside time for his Father and time for others. He allowed himself to be interrupted. May we grow in becoming more comfortable with Jesus’ slower pace. Unfortunately, ‘slow’ has a negative connotation in our culture, as John Mark Comer writes, author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,
In our culture slow is a pejorative. When somebody has a low IQ, we dub him or her slow. When the service at a restaurant is lousy, we call it slow. When a movie is boring, again, we complain that it’s slow. Case in point, Merriam-Webster: “mentally dull; stupid; naturally inert or sluggish; lacking in readiness, promptness, or willingness.” The message is clear: slow is bad; fast is good. But in the upside-down kingdom, our value system is turned on its head: hurry is of the devil; slow is of Jesus, because Jesus is what love looks like in flesh and blood.
Oh Lord, help us to slow down so that we may truly walk with your Son Jesus!
Your brother in Christ, Pastor Bruce

09/01/2026

THANK YOU to that have already donated the much-needed School Supplies for our 100 shoeboxes! There are still a few categories left of items to buy to make our shoeboxes FULL and FUN! And if you aren't a "shopping person", we are still in need of $10/shoebox donations to cover the shipping & Gospel materials! (if you have any questions, contact Kelly!)

2026 Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Packing

08/30/2026

8.30.26

08/19/2026

Just a reminder that worship this Sunday is a combined worship service at the Riverside Park in Sand Creek at 10:00 am. Address is E9271 County Road V.

08/17/2026

This Sunday we began an 8-week sermon series on living an unhurried life. In this series, we will learn how hurry prevents us from living as children of God and can damage our souls. We will read about the unhurried life of Jesus and how slowing down allows for deeper spiritual growth, genuine love, and true fruitfulness.

The series will be based on the book, An Unhurried Life by Alan Fadling.

08/11/2026

August Newsletter: A Temporary Dwelling

Last summer, about this time, my kids and I pitched a tent in our backyard. We are NOT an adventurous family, so this was (admittedly) my kids’ first time sleeping in a tent. My wife thought the idea was not worth the trouble, but she gave me her blessing and spent the night in the house! How bad could one night in a tent with three young kids really be?

The night started out as you would expect with kids: great excitement and way too many trips into the house to use the bathroom! Eventually, the excitement turned into quiet giggles and then steady breathing of sleeping children. The temperature was ideal for sleeping outside, but the night proved to be anything but comfortable for me. One kid started snoring, another one’s foot kept intruding on my space, and the third decided he had enough and stumbled over me on his way out of the tent. After a few solid hours of sleep the birds started their morning, and so with heavy eyes, we did too.

Would I do it again? I think so, but only because I have the promise of returning to my usual bed the following night! Paul used this same image in 2 Corinthians 5:
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling—

Paul compared our earthly bodies to that of a tent. A tent makes an excellent temporary shelter and does a decent job of keeping out the rain and the wind. But a tent is, by no means, a place that you would choose to live permanently. In my case, I only chose to endure the hardships of tent sleeping because of the promise and guarantee of my permanent home.

Living in our earthly bodies and in this world is not always comfortable. Our bodies get aches and pains, they get sick and infected, human bodies grow old and wear out. They were not created to last forever. But, God has promised us an eternal “building” in the heavens that will last forever. God will raise us up with permanent bodies that will not wear out or grow old or get sick. That very promise has the power to sustain us in our present moment:
4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Think about the last time you headed home after a long trip. I always feel that the trip back home takes much longer. Perhaps it is because I have such a longing to be back where life feels secure, familiar, safe, and stable. How much more do we long to inhabit the dwelling prepared for us by our Heavenly Father? We each need this sort of encouragement as we endure the “burdens” of our “earthly tents.” And so we walk by faith in what is unseen, to help us persevere until Christ takes us to our eternal homes.
6 So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight… 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

Your brother in Christ,
Pastor Adam

08/04/2026

Please remember that worship on Sunday will be at the Bloomer Fairgrounds (beer garden) at 10:00am. Please bring nonperishable food items to donate to the food pantry and a lawn chair!

We are also planning to hand out lemonade from the Service Station during the parade on Sunday afternoon. If you are willing to help and be a friendly face, please meet at the Service Station at 12:00 pm. It would be nice to have 3-4 people. Please respond to this email or call Pastor Adam if you can serve!

If you are looking for a place to watch the parade, there is some shade at the Service Station that I will try to "reserve." Alternatively, Jay and Kelly have seating near Napa and have invited anyone to come and watch from there.

Enjoy the Bloomer Fair!

08/01/2026

If you would like to take advantage of the school supplies sales...or grab a few extras when shopping for your own kids, follow this link to find information about packing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at Christ Lutheran Church!

2026 Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Packing