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Monday 9:30am - 5pm Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm Thursday 9:30am - 5pm Friday 9:30am - 5pm Sunday 8:30am - 12:30pm

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Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church

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Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church

Christ Our Savior is a Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod serving the community of Defiance, Ohio.

Worship - Sunday at 9:30 AM • Bible Class - Sunday at 8:30 AM

12/14/2023

Don't forget! Sunday (12/17) after worship is our Christmas Potluck and caroling at GlennPark of Defiance!

12/13/2023

When kids or grandkids want to play, parents or grandparents must get down to their level on the ground and enter the child’s world where the bad guys always lose and tea time can happen at the drop of a hat. In their world going to Mars happens in a millisecond and the Martian atmosphere is breathable! Who knows if playing with the construction set will produce an architect, or dressing and re-dressing Barbie in a multitude of outfits will encourage one to be a fashion designer or department store buyer of apparel? Who knows whether pretending to be a patient for the child to play doctor will produce a well-paid specialist? In any case, getting down to their level on the ground may produce unexpected results for the grown-ups, too - some aches and pains as you try to get up off the floor!

But physically lowering yourself is only part of the deal. If you are going to be successful, you have to be able to enter a child’s world of thought and logic. You may get tired and aggravated of hearing the question, “Why?” to everything they observe. But it is important
for their development.

Now at this point you are probably wondering what this has to do with Christmas. If you are able to enter a child’s world for a time but are glad to get back to the grown-up world and way of thinking, understand what it was like for the Son of God to enter into a world that was so much different from His heavenly realm. We happily or reluctantly enter a child’s world of play for awhile, but we don’t want to stay there! Jesus took on human flesh and blood and all the vulnerabilities that come with being human, but He didn’t get to shed it once His work was done. When we see Him in all of His resurrection glory on the day of His coming, we will see
Him in human form just as we will be resurrected in human form.

It is your love for the kids that you get down to their world an engage in make-believe things. It was the Son of God’s love for you that He came down to our world and became one of us. And that is what makes Christmas truly a merry season.

- 𝙍𝙚𝙫 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙚

10/09/2023

Join us for supper on Saturday, 10/28 ahead of the Defiance Lions Club's 2023 Halloween Parade!

F R E E W I L L D O N A T I O N

Menu includes brats + sauerkraut PLUS authentic German recipes made by our members. 😋

05/05/2023

Save the date! 📌

Saturday, 5/13 is Church Clean Up day! Many hands make lighter work so bring the whole family.

*Should it rain, we will move it to Saturday, 5/20.

02/26/2023

The COS Youth Group put together over 20 Birthday Bags today after worship to be donated to the St. John Lutheran Church food pantry! 🎉

When a family visits the food pantry and they have a child with a birthday coming up, they will be given a Birthday Bag that includes everything they need to throw a birthday party.

A huge thanks to the COS congregation for your generous donations!

Not pictured: Renee and Sara B.

02/06/2023

During the month of February, the Youth Group will be collecting items for Birthday Bags with everything you need to throw a party. Birthday Bags will be delivered to St. John Lutheran’s Food Pantry.

How does this work? Well, when a family comes to the food pantry and they have a child with a birthday coming up, they will be given a Birthday Bag!

🎉 A birthday gift bag will have a cake mix, frosting, aluminum cake pan, candles, birthday plates and napkins, birthday tablecloth, balloons, party favors, party hats, etc. 🎉

Check out the Youth Group table in the narthex to see an example of a Birthday Party Bag and contents! Items can be put in the box at the table. The Youth Group appreciates any help with donated items they can get from the congregation.

01/24/2023

Stay safe! ❄️

12/19/2022

Wednesday night‼️ The children of Christ Our Savior will present their annual Christmas program at 7 PM.

12/06/2022

Join us for our Wednesday Advent worship services at 11 AM and 7 PM. 🕯

12/01/2022

Imagine that someone opens a new deck of cards, lays the stack on the table, asks you to shuffle them and place them back on the table. Then he says, “I will bet you $1 that the first card I turn up won’t be the king of hearts.” The odds will be only 1 in 52 that you will win the bet. Not very good odds, are they? Suppose he turns over half the cards and still no king of hearts. Then he says, “OK. I will bet you $1 that the next card I turn over still won’t be the king of hearts.” Would you take the bet now that your odds have improved to 1 in 26? How about if he continued to turn over cards and then offered the same bet when there were only 6 cards left? The odds are now 1 in 6. Let’s say then it goes down to 2 cards. Your chances of winning the bet have greatly increased from when the game started. You now have a 1 in 2 chance of winning the bet.

When people consider Jesus’ return, they often reason incorrectly that because nearly 2000 years have passed and Jesus still hasn’t returned yet, that the odds are pretty good that it won’t happen in their lifetime. But that reasoning is faulty. For like the deck of cards, the more days that pass without His return, the greater become the odds that He will return in your lifetime. The only difference is that only the Father knows how many cards are in the deck! But even if there are a million cards left in the stack, with the passage of each day, the odds grow in your favor of being alive when Jesus
returns.

Already by the time Peter wrote his second letter, people were having doubts about Jesus’ return. “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised” they asked. “Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

Advent is that tap on the shoulder to remind us that Jesus will return to the acclaim of His people. The New Testament writers urge us to be prepared for that glorious day. The best preparation is to daily put on Christ and put off the old nature which seeks only to fulfill its narcissistic desires. “Count yourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ (Romans 6:11). For “Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed (Romans 13:11).” The odds are increasingly in your favor.

- 𝙍𝙚𝙫 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙚

Address

301 Carter Road
Defiance, OH
43512

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5pm
Friday	9:30am - 5pm
Sunday	8:30am - 12:30pm

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