Genesee Lutheran Parish: St John and Genesee Valley

09/06/2026

Back in town at 10 am!
St. John Lutheran, (the town church!)

09/04/2026

JOIN THE PALOUSE & TSEMINICUM CLUSTERS FOR A POTLUCK!
Sunday Afternoon, 2pm-5pm
Sept. 20, 2026

St. John Lutheran (the town church)
648 W. Ash
Genesee, Id

We are so excited to see and get to know you better!
Main dish provided, please bring a side dish or dessert.
We invite all of our Full Communion Partners in the area as well as the Genesee Community Church (non-denominational) and Genesee's St. Mary Catholic Church for this ecumenical event! See you there!
Please RSVP: [email protected]
Genesee Lutheran Parish is taking participating in the ecumenical experiment with rural churches from Wartburg Theological Seminary's "CASTLE Project" called United at the Font. If we want to minister together, we need to get to know each other!

08/30/2026

Next Sunday, Sept 6th we return to “in town” worship. We get to sleep in an hour. Worship is at 10:00!

08/16/2026

“Light dawn on a weary world
When eyes begin to see all people’s dignity.
Light dawn on a weary world:
The promised day to justice comes.
The trees shall clap their hands;
The dry lands, gush with spring;
The hills and mountains shall break forth with singing!
We shall go out with joy,
And be led forth in peace,
As all the world in wonder echoes shalom.”

07/19/2026

Reminder that today is part 2 of 4 (maybe 5?) of our discussion on the Reconsideration of ELCA Statement of ‘Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust”. To clarify the previous post (a certain guy hadn’t done all the ‘required’ reading. . .):
The discussions are focusing on the church wide call for “Reconsideration #2: A fresh consideration of the “church’s current concept of the four positions of bound conscience” found on pages 19-21”.

Here’s that guy doing his homework by watching the podcast!

07/08/2026

Temporary, shortened worship next week and some future weeks! This upcoming Sunday, we will gather for the shortened Service of the Word, but WITH Communion (those don’t usually go together, we know. . .). This will be the 2nd and 3rd Sundays for July and August, and maybe one in September.

This is because we will be responding to the Church wide request for discussion on the following:

“Dear Siblings in Christ,
The task force leading the ELCA in reconsideration of a subsection of the social statement Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust is excited to share an opportunity for you and your congregation to participate in this important work this summer.
The task force has released a new study to foster conversation across this church and to generate feedback that will guide its work.”

07/05/2026

Not sure what the algorithm is doing. . . and why it’s not showing recent posts most recently. . .

THERE IS NO WORSHIP TODAY! Worship at another church of your choice on this 5th of July!

06/30/2026

Dear friends, due to so few being in town, there will be NO worship on the 5th!

Please worship at another church of your choice, wherever you may be!

Safe travels for the 4th!

06/21/2026

Worship at home or a church of your choice today!
There is NO Dwelling in the Word today 6/21.

Happy Fathers Day to all fathers and father figures!

06/13/2026

3rd Sunday after Pentecost. The laborers might be few, but the Lord will be witj them. And with you too!

Genesee Lutheran Parish; Genesee, Idaho; Paul Collins, Lay Pastor; ...