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05/17/2026

What’s Happening This Week at Hephatha? 📅
May 17–23, 2026

There is something for everyone this week at Hephatha Lutheran Church!

✨ SUNDAY
• Worship, Sunday School & Lunch – 9:00 a.m.
• Reconciling in Christ Team meets at lunch

✨ MONDAY
• Teen Confirmation Culver’s Night – 5:00 p.m.
• Women’s Recovery Meeting (Zoom) – 6:30 p.m.

✨ TUESDAY
• Strong Baby Sanctuary at Hopkins Lloyd School – 12:30 p.m.
• Tuesday Praise – 4:30 p.m.
• Dinner for All & Parenting Café – 5:00 p.m.
• Bible Study (Zoom) – 5:30 p.m.

✨ WEDNESDAY
• Poor People’s Campaign Meeting – 6:30–7:30 p.m.
(All welcome in the fellowship hall!)

✨ THURSDAY
• COLE Advocacy Meeting (Zoom) – Noon

✨ FRIDAY
• MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary – Noon

✨ MLK Scholarships Milwaukee Weekend
🍝 Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
Solomon Community Temple UMC

🏃 Saturday
Dr. King ALL-A-THON
Registration 7:30 a.m. | Event 8:00 a.m.

✨ SATURDAY
• Strong Baby Sanctuary – 11:30 a.m.

Please invite families with little ones and expectant mothers to Strong Baby Sanctuary programs ❤️

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Sunday, June 14th Pastor Afi from our Greater Milwaukee Synod visits us for worship: we post our Reconciling in Christ welcome statement and celebrate the upcoming Juneteenth Holiday.

05/15/2026

This Sunday at Hephatha Lutheran Church ❤️

We give thanks and celebrate as Brielle and Liyah are confirmed this Sunday!

Please keep them — and all of our young people — in your prayers as they continue to grow in faith, strength, wisdom, and love.

“God bless Brielle and Liyah and all of our young people!!!!”

Join us for Teen Confirmation Sunday
🕘 Worship at 9:00 a.m.
📍 1720 W. Locust Street, Milwaukee

Everyone is welcome at Holy Communion, Sunday School, and lunch following worship.

More information and Zoom links:
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Sunday, June 14th Pastor Afi from our Greater Milwaukee Synod visits us for worship: we post our Reconciling in Christ welcome statement and celebrate the upcoming Juneteenth Holiday.

05/02/2026

What’s Happening at Hephatha | May 2–9

There’s something for everyone this week — come be part of it!

SUNDAY (May 3)
🕘 9:00 AM Worship
👧 Sunday School
🍽️ Lunch (all welcome!)

MONDAY
🕔 5:00 PM Teen Confirmation
🕡 6:30 PM Women’s Recovery Meeting (Zoom)

TUESDAY
🕟 4:30 PM Tuesday Praise
🕠 5:30 PM Bible Study (Zoom)

FRIDAY
🕛 Noon MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary

SATURDAY
🕦 11:30 AM Strong Baby Sanctuary
(Invite families with young children & expectant mothers 💛)

✨ We are in the Easter season — a time of hope, renewal, and joy.
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

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04/29/2026

Join Us This Sunday at Hephatha – May 3 💛

Come and worship with us this Sunday as we celebrate
The Fifth Sunday of Easter

🕘 Worship at 9:00 AM
🙏 Holy Communion – all are welcome
🎶 Sermon by Pastor Jacobsen – The Lord’s Prayer
📖 Gospel: John 14

Stay after for:
👧 Sunday School
🍽️ Lunch & fellowship

No matter who you are or where you are on your journey — you are welcome here.

📍 Hephatha Lutheran Church
1720 W. Locust Street

👉 For more details or to join via Zoom:
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God’s peace be with you.

03/14/2026

📅 Hephatha Lutheran Church – This Week’s Calendar
Sunday March 15-Saturday March 24th

All ZOOM gatherings can be easily joined through our website:
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SUNDAY March 15
9:00 a.m. – Worship, Sunday Day School & Birthday Lunch
Thank you to the family of Nurse Chris for serving today’s meal!

MONDAY March 16
5:00 p.m. – Cooking with Cole!
Food, Lead Education, Lead-Safe Kits, Lead Testing & Activities for Children
(Please invite families—we pray and work for the end of lead poisoning.)
5:00 p.m. – Teen Confirmation Class
6:30 p.m. – Women’s Recovery Meeting (ZOOM)

TUESDAY March 17
12:30 p.m. – Strong Baby Sanctuary at Hopkins Lloyd School
(For families with young children and expectant mothers)
4:30 p.m. – Tuesday Praise
5:00 p.m. – Dinner for All & Parenting Café
5:30 p.m. – Lenten Bible Study (ZOOM – all welcome)

WEDNESDAY – LENTEN WEDNESDAY March 18
12:00 p.m. – Worship (Lunch served after)
5:15 p.m. – Dinner
6:00 p.m. – Worship

THURSDAY March 20
12:00 p.m. – COLE Advocacy Committee (ZOOM – all welcome)
1:00 p.m. – COLE General Meeting (ZOOM – all welcome)

FRIDAY March 23
12:00 p.m. – MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary

SATURDAY March 24
9:00 a.m. – Friends of Jesus Work Ministry

✝️ During Lent we gather for worship every Wednesday at Noon and 6:00 p.m.
Lunch is served after the Noon service and dinner before the 6:00 p.m. service.

As we journey through Lent, we pray, grow, and prepare our hearts for Holy Week and Easter.
Please pray about who you might invite to worship.

03/13/2026

✝️ Join Us for Worship – Fourth Sunday in Lent

You are warmly invited to worship with us at Hephatha Lutheran Church as we gather for the Fourth Sunday in Lent.

🕘 Sunday, March 15 | 9:00 a.m.
📍 1720 W. Locust Street, Milwaukee

Hephatha is always a place of faith, prayer, and community. All are welcome to join us as we walk the Lenten journey together—praying, reflecting, and preparing our hearts for Holy Week and Easter.

🙏 Holy Communion is open to all who seek God’s love and forgiveness. All communion juice is non-alcoholic.

🎶 Hymns this Sunday include:
• Open Our Eyes, Lord
• He Leadeth Me
• Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
• I Must Tell Jesus

Whether you are a longtime member, a neighbor, or visiting for the first time, you are welcome here.

“Be Opened!” – Mark 7:34

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Pastor Mary Martha here praying for you always and sharing a Lenten prayer with you today about fasting with our bodies and our spirits to draw closer to God.

03/10/2026

📅 Hephatha Lutheran Church – This Week

WEDNESDAY, March 11 – Lenten Wednesday
🕛 Noon Worship
Lunch served after the service

🍽 5:15 p.m. Dinner
✝️ 6:00 p.m. Worship

During Lent we gather each Wednesday at Noon and 6:00 p.m.
Lunch follows the noon service and dinner is served before the evening worship. Come walk the Lenten journey with us as we grow in faith and prepare our hearts for Holy Week and Easter.

FRIDAY, March 13
🕛 12:00 p.m. – MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary

🍽 6:00 p.m. – Hephatha Serves Serenity Inns Dinner
Please offer your food or help to Sandra Wilson.

We welcome everyone to join us in worship, service, and fellowship this week. Please pray about who you might invite to worship.

For more information, upcoming events, and ways to support the ministries of Hephatha, please visit our website:
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📍 1720 W. Locust Street, Milwaukee
“Hephatha – Be Opened!”

01/23/2026

✨ Epiphany invites us to look again. ✨

Not because Christmas is over—but because God’s light keeps unfolding among us.

This Sunday’s offering supports Outreach for Hope, where that light is made visible through steady, faithful care for families and neighbors.

In this short video, you’ll see one example through Hephatha’s Safe Baby Sanctuary Ministry—families learning practical fire safety, sharing a meal, laughing together, and being met with dignity and care.

Community, learning, and love showing up where it’s needed.

This is what it looks like when the church walks alongside others—not from a distance, but together.

▶️ Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yJFb8vGbc

Ways to Give
💻 Give online at OutreachforHope.org
✉️ Mail a check to Outreach for Hope, PO Box 341695, Milwaukee, WI 53234
💛 Other ways to give include Thrivent Choice Dollars, legacy gifts (including QCDs), company match, and sustaining donations.

Thank you for being part of this shared ministry.
The light is here—and together, we keep walking toward it. 💛

This video shares a true story of hope, learning, and community at Hephatha Lutheran Church in Milwaukee during the Safe Baby Sanctuary Ministry’s Strong Bab...

01/19/2026

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor faith in action, and one of our own.

This year, Rev. Joseph Ellwanger received the Mountaintop Award at the Legacy Awards Banquet as part of the Realizing the Dream celebrations. For those of us at Hephatha Lutheran Church, this recognition carries deep meaning.

Rev. Ellwanger is not only a nationally respected civil rights leader — he is a longtime supporter, member, and part of the living history of our faith community. He worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., marched in Selma, stood against injustice in Birmingham, and later helped build a racially integrated congregation in Milwaukee. His life and ministry have consistently reflected courage, conscience, and commitment to justice grounded in faith.

His witness reminds us that the Civil Rights Movement was not only led in the streets, but sustained in churches — by people willing to show up, speak out, and stay the course.

We also acknowledge the continued work of the Realizing the Dream Committee, organized in part by University of Alabama, whose annual events honor Dr. King’s legacy and challenge each generation to carry the dream forward.

Today, we give thanks for Rev. Ellwanger’s life of service — and we recommit ourselves to realizing the dream through faith and action.

12/31/2025

Happy New Years Eve from Hephatha!

A beautiful service today with a beautiful church family.
Grateful for worship, community, and the light that carries us into a new year. ✨

If you will head out tonight, please be safe. Make a plan.
One decision can change lives.

Sharing this important reminder from Enough is Enough ~ A Legacy for Erin — because caring for one another doesn’t end at the church doors.

🙏🚗💛
Please share and speak up.