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Calvary Lutheran Church is
located at
2415 S. 320th St.
Federal Way, WA 98003
You'll find the
church one block east of the Commons at Federal Way mall,
right near
Exit # 143 of
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Our Vision
Calvary
will be a faith community - full of enthusiastic and diverse
people - trained to meet a changing culture, by
- believing that Jesus is
for all,
- practicing our faith:
supporting each other, learning together, and sharing
intimate and authentic relationships,
- expecting to serve the
community and world,
- doing the unique work
of telling others that God saves by his grace, through faith
in Jesus Christ.
Our Mission
Calvary Lutheran exists to
* Invite you into life in Christ,
* Inspire you for a deep faith relationship,
* Equip you to use your gifts in service,
* Engage you in ministry.
Our
Guiding Principles
Everyone is God’s child and is welcome here. Jesus makes
no distinctions between people; neither do we.
Our focus is on the one Lord, Jesus. Jesus calls us to
follow him. We strive to be faithful to that call in all we do
as a congregation.
God saves by grace through faith. Forgiving sins, putting
things right, and promising eternal life are God’s work, not
ours. We don’t have to do anything because, in Jesus, God has
done it all.
Jesus brings us to the Father and each other. Because of
Jesus, we don’t need to fear God but we are free to love God. We
love one another as God has loved us.
Jesus calls us to love, serve, share the good news, and enjoy
life together.
Every day marks a new life in Christ. Jesus sends us into each
day to be his servants and ambassadors with our hearts full of
gratitude and joy.


Calvary
Lutheran Staff

Interested
in finding out more about membership at Calvary?
Those interested in finding out
membership at Calvary are currently meeting and will be received
into membership on Sunday, February 19th.
Meeting Dates & Locations
Friday, January 27, 7:00 P.M. Karin Johnson’s home
Monday, January 30, 6:30 P.M. Marlise Ross’ home
Sunday, February 12, 12:15 P.M. Social Hall
If you are interested in membership and haven’t connected with
this group, please contact
Karin
Johnson.
Take a look at
Calvary's
Long-Range Plan
Look at the
Long-Range Plan presentation from the January 29 Annual
Meeting.
Calvary Church
Council Begins New Year
At the Annual Meeting on January 29, the congregation will vote
to elect six new Council members. Members may also write in a
name for their vote. Upcoming dates for our new Council:
February 5 Council members installed at the 9:00 A.M. service
February 7 Council member social and nomination of officers,
7:00 P.M.
February 14 New Council member orientation, 6:00 p.m.
Election of officers at Council meeting, 7:00 P.M.
Church Office
Closed for Presidents’ Day
February 20
Mission Start
Videos These are links to YouTube videos about new ELCA mission starts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK9fdsUpN4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3qE6fFJvWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8fOLGk_b8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm5OYZbqSdg
Member Pictorial Directory
A Note from Pastor Cornell
CALVARY’S FUTURE, 2012
There is hope for your future, says the LORD:
your children shall come back to their own country. (Jeremiah
31:17)
Welcome to 2012. It may seem to be a year like any other, but
this is a year that we at Calvary have an opportunity: to be
shaped by God’s plans for our future.
The words spoken by the prophet (above), capture a time when
Jeremiah had witnessed first the destruction of Judah, and then
Jerusalem. It is a period in Israel’s history when there was no
turning back: the northern kingdom was long gone, and the
southern kingdom had become a victim of circumstance (the
Babylonians) and their own devices (they had sold out the
northern kingdom to Assyria to save themselves.) Things were not
looking promising for God’s people.
I spent time at a retreat recently where I heard some pretty
staggering statistics: The vast majority of Lutheran
congregations are not growing, and many are not maintaining
their current membership numbers. This decline isn’t just in the
Lutheran church, but in other mainline traditions, and in the
evangelical churches too. The truth of the matter is that
churches are aging, and younger members are not showing up at
the door to replace those who have died.
Hope
But the question is not, Is there any hope for the church? The
answer to that question belongs to God, who says, “There is hope
for your future.” God has shown us his mercy in Jesus Christ.
Christ is the reason that we confidently asserted in Advent and
Christmas that “the light shines in the darkness and the
darkness has not overcome it.” That means that only one question
remains for us to answer: What kind of future will we have?
In 2012 we have the opportunity to begin to shape our answer to
that question—to show our trust in God’s assertion that “there
is hope for our future.”
Last year Calvary’s Long-Range Planning Team rolled out a
10-year plan for our future together. 2011 was a year of
planning, with the beginning of some action: Suzanne Higgins was
identified as the Nurture Team leader for Equipping Ministry, to
bolster our support to members in need of support beyond the
walls of the church. The Council also consulted with the
congregation about staffing in the area of Youth and Family and
Young Adult ministries.
But 2012 is a time for us to begin in earnest to give traction
to our plans: The Council is currently considering proposals for
updating our website, improving Sanctuary lighting, possibly
updating the Narthex. There are many physical plant and
technological improvements that will make our space more
inviting. These efforts will improve our space to help us
accommodate and welcome newcomers. But while these changes may
enhance the quality of community life for those who are already
here, by themselves they will not be enough to attract new
believers to join us. To truly welcome others requires our
hearts.
My prayer
for Calvary in 2012, and my personal commitment to you, is to
dedicate my heart in prayer and action to welcoming newcomers
more intentionally into our community. To do that I will be
praying for those who visit, and I will ask our “first contact”
folks (who call visitors that have worshipped with us) to pray
for these newcomers also. I will ask our Prayer Chain to pray
weekly, asking God to open our hearts to make room at Calvary
for others to feel welcomed. Our prayer will be that these
newcomers grow in their faith and love of Christ, and that we
may have a hand in nurturing that. My more impassioned prayer
will be that our prayers will shape the culture of Calvary, so
that we make room in our hearts, minds, and ministry for new
faces.
The truth is that we need God to make us more eager to have
others experience the love of Christ at Calvary. So while we are
praying for God to bless our church with new friends in Christ,
the underlying truth is that we are asking God to change us to
be more welcoming followers of Christ. As C. S. Lewis said, “I
don’t pray because it changes God, I pray because it changes
me.”
May God so fill us with hope for our future, that our prayers
may change us into a community that actively welcomes and loves
others.
In Christ’s love,
Lori
Pastor Lori Cornell
Ministry
Directory
Take a look at this
directory
of the ministries at Calvary and the contact people. The
directory is in PDF format. If you would
like further information from any of the contact people, send us
an
email and we will respond to you promptly.
We are an Equipping Church.
Find out more.
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Prayer Requests
We would be glad to include your prayer request
on our Prayer Chain and in our weekly worship bulletin.
Forms
Obtain forms for
use at Calvary. |