St. Philip in Mt. Dora

04/11/2026

If St. Philip has been a place where you’ve felt welcomed, encouraged, or reminded of God’s love… we have a small favor to ask 💛

Would you consider leaving us a review on Google?

Not because we’re chasing stars ⭐ (though we won’t turn them down!), but because your words help others who are searching—quietly, maybe even courageously—for a church home, a place of hope, or a community where they can belong.

Sometimes the hardest step is walking through the door. Your review might be the gentle nudge that helps someone take that step.

You don’t have to write a lot—just share what St. Philip means to you.

Thank you for being part of this community and for helping us extend Christ’s welcome beyond our walls.

✨ Expect Love. Expect Acceptance. Expect God.

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04/09/2026

“Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart” (ELW
574).

04/05/2026

Christ is risen.
He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

This morning we gather with bells in hand, flowers for the cross, and hearts full of all that life is holding.

Easter doesn’t ask us to have everything together.
It meets us right where we are—and proclaims that life, love, and hope still have the final word.

Come as you are.
Bring your joy, your questions, your weariness.

There is a place for you here.

🕊️ 9:30 AM – We’d love to worship with you.

04/03/2026

It is a holy thing to sit in the weight of this night.
Tonight, we remembered love that does not turn away… even from the cross.

And because of that love, we dare to hope.

We would love to celebrate Easter Sunday with you at 9:30 a.m.
Bring a bell to ring out the Alleluias 🔔
Bring a flower to help transform the cross 🌸

Come as you are. There is a place for you here.

04/03/2026

Tonight, we gathered for Maundy Thursday—
a night where we remember not just what Jesus said, but what he did.

He knelt.
He served.
He stayed.

We shared the table.
We remembered our baptism.
And we left in silence as the altar was stripped—
a powerful reminder of what is to come.

We now walk with Christ into the night…
holding onto the promise that even here—
he stays.
Worship continues tomorrow at 4 pm for Good Friday.

04/01/2026

For the younger demographic…

Introducing All Creation Screams. All your favorites— just louder!

Hand in hand with Evangelical Lutheran Worship, this supplement invites us to expand our prayer and song by screaming our way through praise, lament, and holy angst, joining the full-volume cries of the whole creation God so marvelously (and loudly) made.

- 200 hymns and songs, many of them newly created over the last fifteen years, now imagined with maximum distortion, double kick drums, and enough emotion to shake the pews.
- Two liturgies of Holy Communion with new musical settings perfect for ambitious tenors and fed-up organists.
- A Service of Word and Prayer designed especially for contemplative worship... if your idea of contemplation includes cathartic yelling.
- More than seventy-five new prayers and liturgical forms for diverse occasions and circumstances, from joyous praise to righteous screaming into the void.

Earplugs optional.

03/25/2026

Check out our newly designed newsletter!

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03/11/2026

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02/25/2026

🔴Quick Update About Livestreaming: Internet Outage‼️ - https://mailchi.mp/stphiliplc/quick-update-about-livestreaming-internet-outage

Midweek Lenten Service at 4 p.m.

02/22/2026

02/18/2026

Drive-thru ashes 8:30-10 a.m.
Worship with imposition of ashes and communion at 4 p.m.
Come and experience Ash Wednesday with us.

Ash Wednesday has never been subtle. It starts with dirt on our foreheads and words we don’t usually hang on the fridge: “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” There’s no cheerful twist. Just a clear reminder of something we spend most of the year forgetting — that we are fragile, finite, and made of dust.

02/18/2026

Ramadan Mubarak!

We wish our Muslim neighbors a blessed Ramadan as they journey through their holiest month of the year.