Mt Olivet Lutheran Church

05/18/2026

Wonderful morning at Mt. Olivet this morning with a baptism and celebration of our college graduate.

04/30/2026

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Esther Toepfer. Esther passed away on April 16. Link to the obituary can be found here: https://www.iowacremation.com/obituary/2026/Apr/Esther-Mary-Toepfer

Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 2 at 10:30am at Mt. Olivet. The family invites you to join them for a luncheon following.

Esther Mary Toepfer Obituary | Born on: November 2, 1931 | Departed on: April 16, 2026 | Resided in: Mount Vernon, IA

04/22/2026

All the women of Mt. Olivet are invited to a garden party. Wednesday, May 6th at 5:30pm.

Bring a salad to share. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided.

04/12/2026

Humor Sunday with the cat in the hat. We had a great time with good jokes and a Dr. Seuss theme liturgy.

04/05/2026

The next Bread Breakers lunch will be Wednesday, April 8 at noon. Bring a friend and come enjoy a baked potato bar lunch! All are welcome.

04/05/2026

Christ is Risen. Alleluia! Wonderful Easter worship at Mt. Olivet and the kids got to hunt Easter eggs after worship. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

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

01/01/2026

You are invited to participate in a community wide remembrance event on Sunday, January 4. We will honor the strength and resilience of the Perry community and remember the lives lost in the tragedy that took place in our school on January 4, 2024.

We are asking that you display a luminary the evening of January 4 from 5-7pm. At 6pm please observe a moment of silence for the lives lost in that event.

Luminaries may be picked up at any of the Perry Public Schools on Friday, January 2 or at the community center or library on Saturday, January 3. While supplies last.

If you participate, please share a picture on social media using the hashtag