American Lutheran Church Burbank

06/23/2026

Fraudulent Email Alert
June 23, 2026

Dear Friends,

We want to make you aware of a fraudulent email that is currently circulating and appears to come from a staff member at American Lutheran Church of Burbank.

These emails may display the staff member's name, but they are not legitimate. The sender's actual email address is not associated with our church.

These messages usually request recipients to purchase gift cards or otherwise engage with fraudulent requests.

Please do not respond to these messages. Do not click any links or fulfill any requests.

When you receive an email request from anyone with an ALC Burbank email address, please verify that it comes from an official church email address ending in .org before responding or taking any action.

In addition, if you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from ALC Burbank, please feel free to forward the email, or send a screenshot, to us for verification. Send it to Ric Hauck at [email protected] and/or [email protected].

Grace and peace,
American Lutheran Church of Burbank

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06/06/2026

03/21/2026

Final power hour of our Rummage Sale happening Now! Come to American Lutheran Church Burbank Fellowship hall for 50% off everything!

02/28/2026

As a reminder - a service opportunity tomorrow morning at 10 am!

Property Committee Request: All Hands on Deck!

Please join us on Saturday, February 28th at 10:00 AM in the gym for a congregational call to help deep clean 28 tables. Please wear comfortable clothes that you don't mind getting a little dirty or wet, and bring your own rubber gloves. The more volunteers we have, the sooner we will finish!

02/21/2026

Hope to see you all tonight for a Saturday night community hang from 5 pm to 7ish. We will have snacks and all kinds of beverages and unstructured childcare from 5 pm to 6:50 in the gym. Come through and connect in joy and community.

02/18/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm. To remember we are dust and to dust we return

In a time when so much is crumbling, is burning, I don’t want to romanticize the ashes that come with destruction and devastation. As we approach Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, I do want to keep asking what the Holy One can do with dust, and to keep looking for how I can be part of that. So many blessings to you, beloved ones, as the new season arrives.

BLESSING THE DUST

All those days
you felt like dust,
like dirt,
as if all you had to do
was turn your face
toward the wind
and be scattered
to the four corners

or swept away
by the smallest breath
as insubstantial—

did you not know
what the Holy One
can do with dust?

This is the day
we freely say
we are scorched.

This is the hour
we are marked
by what has made it
through the burning.

This is the moment
we ask for the blessing
that lives within
the ancient ashes,
that makes its home
inside the soil of
this sacred earth.

So let us be marked
not for sorrow.
And let us be marked
not for shame.
Let us be marked
not for false humility
or for thinking
we are less
than we are

but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made
and the stars that blaze
in our bones
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “Ash Wednesday Cross”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

01/23/2026

This Sunday at 10 am, we will join with all other Reconciling in Christ communities across the country Reconciling Ministries Network to celebrate the diversity of God's family using special liturgy. We are proud to be a q***r affirming and anti-racist church; come and celebrate with us!