Our Redeemer Lutheran Kinsley / Zion Lutheran Offerle

06/07/2026

Sermon - Matt. 9:9-13

06/03/2026

Ladies Spring Social at Our Redeemer

06/01/2026

"The best sermon is the conscientious life of a Christian. On the other hand, if a Christian leads a life of sin, he therby proves that he is not a Christian. He professes to know God, but in works he denies Him. Such a faith is a dead faith, a sham, hypocricy.... The good works of a Christian are not the purchase-price of salvation, but the thank-offering of a grateful heart."
- Rev. Theodore Dierks, LCMS (1889-1959)

05/31/2026

The Holy Trinity - sermon

05/25/2026

Blessed Memorial Day!

05/24/2026

Day of Pentecost - sermon

05/13/2026

PSA
May 17th will be Elder Led church services. Zion-Offerle will meet at 9:00 AM that day, as will
Our Redeemer-Kinsley

05/10/2026

Sermon - Easter 6

05/08/2026

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Meet Macy Froetschner, a junior at Concordia University Chicago (CUC), preparing to serve as a deaconess.

Macy didn’t grow up assuming she would be a church worker. As a little girl, she watched a deaconess walk with her cousin’s family through a serious heart condition. “She was there to pray with them all the time, do devotions and help them walk that journey,” she said.

And Macy admired her deeply. Later, when she discovered CUC’s five‑year deaconess program at an LWML conference, she realized this was a path where she could do that same kind of Christ‑centered care.

Her parents’ story also shaped her call. They became Lutheran just before she was born, after a difficult life event drove them to seek “spiritual care,” and they found deep consolation in the Lutheran church. Grateful for the gift of the Gospel, they filled their home in southwest Kansas with hymns, theology books and conversations about God’s Word, answering Macy’s many questions and modeling a love for good teaching.

From her small home congregations in Kansas and Indiana—where members, especially the women, showed generous mercy and pastors like Pastor Gumz and Pastor Jacob Hercamp encouraged her deaconess dreams—to her current fieldwork at St. Paul’s in Brookfield, Illinois, Macy has been surrounded by people who saw her gifts and spoke a word of “you could do this” into her life.

Today, through classes in theology and classical Lutheran education and hands‑on ministry with children, shut‑ins and women’s Bible study, Macy is preparing to serve God’s people with the same compassion she once saw in that deaconess at her cousin’s bedside.

Join us in praying for Macy and all those preparing to serve Christ’s Church. Leave a comment below to share a word of encouragement for Macy and future church workers.

05/06/2026

This is something that every LCMS pastor I know feels very strongly about, and needs to be reclaimed by more parents.