St. Abrahams Lutheran Church

St. Abrahams Lutheran Church 4029 Beckleysville Road
Hampstead, MD 21074

Sundays:
Sunday School - 9:30 a.m. Morning Service - 9:30 a.m. Come Grow With Us!

We are a small church but are very active in the community and participate in a wide variety of activities. Located in the small town of Beckleysville, St. Abrahams was once called Shavers Church or Abrahams Church. The country ministry was an important part of the community of Beckleysville, which by 1875 was a thriving town with a population of 400 due to the Beckley Paper Mill.

01/23/2026

Due to anticipated amounts of snow, we will be closed for morning services on Sunday. Please come join us next week at 9:30 am.

12/25/2025

Enjoying the Christmas Eve service at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, led by Vicar Don Helfer.

12/24/2025

Reminder that St. Abrahams will not be holding our traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight service this year, instead we will be joining our sister church-St. Peter's Lutheran Church (4300 Church Road, Hampstead)- at 7 pm. We hope to see you there.

12/22/2025

Today we celebrate the 4th Sunday of Advent, continuing the preparation of the birth of Christ. We hope that you will also be able to attend a Christmas Eve service at a church near you to worship together and celebrate his birth. If you would like to join us we would be happy to see you at St. Peter's Lutheran Church at 7 pm on Christmas Eve.

12/19/2025

St. Abrahams will not be holding our traditional Christmas Eve Candlelight service this year, instead we will be joining our sister church-St. Peter's Lutheran Church (4300 Church Road, Hampstead)- at 7 pm. We hope to see you there.

12/14/2025

Church service cancelled today due to the unexpected amount of snow during the night. Join us next week as we continue to celebrate Advent as we prepare for the Lord's birth.

On this third Sunday of Advent we light the Shepherds Candle (pink candle along with the two purple candles previously lit). Remember to light your Advent wreath at home as well.

Today, on the Second Sunday of Advent, we light the 2nd purple candle--the Bethlehem Candle--which represents Christ's M...
12/07/2025

Today, on the Second Sunday of Advent, we light the 2nd purple candle--the Bethlehem Candle--which represents Christ's Manger.

In addition, we hope you will enjoy the attached photos of some of the Chrismons made by the Sunday school class and used to decorate the church Christmas tree each year.

We invite you to join us next week for the Third Sunday of Advent beginning at 9:30 am.

Tomorrow, November 30th is the beginning of Advent in the liturgical year. It is a time of waiting and preparation for t...
11/30/2025

Tomorrow, November 30th is the beginning of Advent in the liturgical year. It is a time of waiting and preparation for the celebration of Jesus's birth at Christmas, beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. Common practices include Advent calendars, lighting the candles on an Advent wreath, praying an Advent daily devotional, erecting a Chrismon tree, as well as other activities. Each candle represents a specific ideal. On the first Sunday, the first candle is lit. On the following Sunday the first candle and the second candle are lit, and so forth with the final candle, the Christ Candle being lit on Christmas Eve.

Advent Candles:
Advent 1 – Purple, Prophecy Candle represents Hope
Advent 2 – Purple, Bethlehem Candle represents Christ’s Manager
Advent 3 – Pink, Shepherds Candle represents Joy
Advent 4 – Purple, Angel Candle represents Peace
Christmas Eve – Christ Candle represents Life of Christ that has come into the world

We invite you to join us at St. Abrahams at 9:30 am this Sunday to celebrate the season of Advent and Christmas.

11/28/2025

As we look forward to the beginning of a new church year with Advent, we look back on the past year of service as a congregation and member of the Resurrection Parish. We welcomed the return of Don Helfer as Vicar while biding a fond farewell to Interim and lead pastor Amanda McCafferty who has accepted a full time call at a church in Glen Burnie. Our community outreach this year included making baskets for shut-ins, our annual community picnic, the purchase of a medical alert pendent, the monetary collection for a local family which lost everything in a house fire. We hosted the first Joint Parish Worship Service outside on a beautiful Sunday morning with a pot luck lunch following, continued with our monthly Fellowship Lunches after the morning service, collected food for NESAP, hosted Soup Suppers during Lent and ended with collecting 26 Christmas boxes for the crew of the Iwo Jima. It's been a busy and productive year and we are thankful for the opportunity to continue to serve the Lord and share his love with others. We hope that you will join us on a Sunday morning at 9:30 am.

09/28/2025

Weather was nice so we had morning worship outside. Very nice gathered together with a gentle morning breeze blowing through the woods with the birds singing and leaves gently falling.

09/14/2025

St. Abrahams Holiday Collection for the
USS IWO JIMA CHRISTMAS PACKAGES

St. Abrahams is currently collecting items to send Christmas Care Packages to the servicemen and women that serve on the Deck Crew of the USS IWO JIMA which will be distributed to those who do not receive anything at mail call.

We are asking our congregation (and our sister churches in the Parish) to collect specific items to be collected/forwarded to St. Abrahams for the boxes to be prepared for mailing the 1st week of November to ensure that they will receive these at packages at Christmas while they are on ship, deployed, and far from home base. St. Abrahams will be paying for the postage for the boxes.

Getting ready for tomorrow, hope to see you there.
07/11/2025

Getting ready for tomorrow, hope to see you there.

Address

4029 Beckleysville Road
Hampstead, MD
21074

Opening Hours

9am - 1pm

Telephone

+14103744726

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