Immanuel Lutheran Church

06/05/2026

We will be at Swede Valley Lutheran Church this Sunday at 10:30am. The church is located just south of Ogden. All are welcome!

Hope to see you this Sunday at 10:30 am! All are welcome.

05/28/2026

🎉 Free Lunches for Kids Start THIS Monday, June 1st — at the Library from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

This summer, Community UMC Missions Commission and Immanuel Lutheran Church are teaming up to offer FREE lunches for K–12 students — and they kick off this Monday!

📍 Where: Leonard A. Good Community Library, 208 West Mulberry St., Ogden, IA
🗓️ When: Every Monday, June 1 – July 27
(May be extended if there is a continued need)
⏰ Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Each meal includes a sandwich, fruit, chips, water, and a sweet treat. No sign-ups. No cost. Just show up!

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Want to volunteer or donate? We'd love your help!
📞 (515) 275-4015
📧 [email protected]

04/26/2026

Congratulations on your baptism Finley Larson!

04/08/2026

We will be blessing quilts to go to Lutheran World Relief and synod assembly this week. Thank you to our dedicated quilters for their work so that others may feel the warmth of God’s love.

04/04/2026

Holy Saturday. This is the day that calls us to breathe. This is the day that invites us to make a space within the weariness, the fear, the ache. This is the day that calls us to hold our anguish and our hope in the same hand. This is the day that beckons us to turn toward one another and to remember we do not breathe alone.

IN THE BREATH, ANOTHER BREATHING
A Blessing for Holy Saturday

Let it be
that on this day
we will expect
no more of ourselves
than to keep
breathing
with the bewildered
cadence
of lungs that will not
give up the ghost.

Let it be
we will expect
little but
the beating of
our heart,
stubborn in
its repeating rhythm
that will not
cease to sound.

Let it be
we will
still ourselves
enough to hear
what may yet
come to echo:
as if in the breath,
another breathing;
as if in the heartbeat,
another heart.

Let it be
we will not
try to fathom
what comes
to meet us
in the stillness
but simply open
to the approach
of a mystery
we hardly dared
to dream.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “The Sixth & Seventh Words: It Is Finished/Into Your Hands”
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

04/03/2026

Join us for Good Friday worship at 7pm. We will be worshipping with folks from CUMC.

04/02/2026

Maundy Thursday worship at Immanuel will be aat 7pm

On Maundy Thursday, we remember Christ's last meal with his disciples, but the central focus is his commandment that we love one another as he loves us.

"The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, 'This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.'

In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me! For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1 Corinthians 11:23-26).

03/31/2026

Easter Greetings from Presiding Bishop Curry

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Immanuel!

12/24/2025

Today is Christmas Eve!

"But the angel said to [the shepherds], 'Do not be afraid; for see — I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a child wrapped in bands of cloth and lying in a manger.' And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!'" (Luke 2:10-14). —Bread for the Day