St. Michael's Lutheran Church - Kensington

05/06/2026

🙌🏼🙌🏼 Thank You, All! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Hi Everyone 👋🏼!

Vicar Connor here from St. Michael's Lutheran Church - Kensington.

I wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has purchased from our Amazon Wish List. This is AMAZING!! 🤩 We are so grateful for your support. ☺️

PLEASE continue to share our Amazon Wish List with family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, everyone you know. We are so appreciative of the support as we continue to feed our neighbors through our food pantry ministry! 🙏🏼

These donations pictured here are such a help to us, but will only be able to help us for one to two weeks given our numbers at the food pantry.

If you’d like more information on how to:
✅donate monetarily
✅donate your time by volunteering with us, or
✅drop off purchased donations,

please message us on here on Facebook 📩 or call our church office at (215) 423-0792. We’d love to connect with you!

Thank you all, again! So grateful for you! 🙏🏼

Blessings,
Vicar Connor

05/05/2026

‼️‼️ FOOD PANTRY DONATIONS STILL NEEDED ‼️‼️

⚠️ SPECIFIC NEEDS:
-Bulk packages of Canned Vegetables 🌽
-Bulk packages of chicken salad kits/canned tuna/protein snacks 🍴

Donations are welcome via our Amazon Wish List or via drop off to our church. Please message us or call our office directly if you wish to drop off donations!

Please SHARE with your friends!

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church Food Pantry is open every Thursday, 10am-12pm.

2139 E. Cumberland St., Phila., 19125
(Trenton Ave. & Cumberland St.)
Office: (215) 423-0792

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! 🙏🏼😊 We are so grateful for the community support!

04/30/2026

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Friends,

Today, the Philadelphia School Board voted (6-3) to approve a plan that proposes to close 17 schools throughout the city and makes drastic changes to many other schools in the district. Despite many Philadelphians making their views clear on the matter, and amid multiple attempts to delay the vote on the part of Philadelphia residents and City Council members, the School Board proceeded to meet via Zoom to cast their votes.

The decision made by the Philadelphia School Board today promises to have immediate and lasting impacts on the education of hundreds of Philadelphia students and their futures. These changes, as it were, will be implemented with the upcoming 2026-27 academic year; the impacts of these changes will reach far beyond the year 2027.

On a personal note, these changes will affect families in the Fishtown and Kensington neighborhoods. Students attending Penn Treaty School and Hackett School are facing unknown and uncertain futures in regard to their education. Tonight, I grieve with these families and pray for them; I pray especially for the students of these schools whose lives will seemingly be upended in the name of budgets.

I know my voice is a small one, but tonight, I want to document what has taken place in our city; I want to document the disservice that has been done to these students and their families. And I ask you to join me in prayer for the future.

And so I pray:

O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (ELW, p. 317)

Vicar Connor J. Watson
Pastoral Intern
St. Michael's Lutheran Church - Kensington & Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement

The facilities plan had gone through multiple revisions after backlash from the community.

04/29/2026

Stay connected with news & happenings across the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod! 📧

Check out this week's Ministry Link E-mail: https://conta.cc/4vZebZy

04/29/2026

‼️‼️ FOOD PANTRY DONATIONS NEEDED ‼️‼️

THANK YOU to our friends & community members who so graciously donated during a difficult period in the Fall! We are so fortunate and grateful. 🙏🏼

Now, like many other pantries across our area, we are still seeing an increase in food pantry clients while also dealing with increased difficulty in retrieving needed items.

We have updated our Amazon Wish List and are posting it here in a call for help.

⚠️ SPECIFIC NEEDS:
-Bulk packages of Canned Vegetables
-Bulk packages of chicken salad kits/canned tuna/protein snacks

Donations are welcome via our Amazon Wish List or via drop off to our church. Please message us or call our office directly if you wish to drop off donations!

Please SHARE with your friends!

St. Michael’s Lutheran Church Food Pantry is open every Thursday, 10am-12pm.

2139 E. Cumberland St., Phila., 19125
(Trenton Ave. & Cumberland St.)
Office: (215) 423-0792

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! 🙏🏼😊 We are so grateful for the community support!

04/03/2026

JOIN US FOR BINGO!

Second Saturday of every month. 🤩

Saturday, APRIL 11TH | Doors open 11:30AM

Tickets $25 includes 10 games (+2 specials) and lunch.

CALL TODAY to reserve your seats: (215) 423-0792.

See you there!!!

02/12/2026

Ash Wednesday services :
Noon at St. Michael's (Trenton & Cumberland Aves)
7 pm at Atonement (1542 Montgomery Ave)
Lent begins with Communion and the imposition of ashes.

01/25/2026

+For Sunday, January 25, 2026Third Sunday after EpiphanyYear A - The Year of MatthewIn-Person Cannceled due to snowstorm. +Visit our website (link on our ch...

01/24/2026

01/24/2026

For Sunday, January 25, 2026
No In-person service.
Vicar Connor's sermon will be posted on Atonement's YouTube Channel. The link will be posted in the comments when it is available.