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Worship with us!
Sundays
9:00 &
10:30 A.M.
Sunday School 10:30
Holy Communion
Holy Communion is celebrated
every Sunday and at Festival Services
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Peace Lutheran Church
12250 Fort Street.
Southgate, MI 48195
734-284-1922
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Welcome
Hi, and welcome to Peace Church’s website. Whether you are a
visitor or a current member, I hope that you find this website
informative and enjoyable. We hope you will find our website
helpful in telling you about our church.
Peace Lutheran Church . . . Boldly Sharing Christ’s Peace
Worship
We have two Sunday services services, 9:00am and 10:30am. Though,
unlike years ago, the two services will be different in worship formats.
Many people dearly value the traditions of Peace and a more traditional
worship format. People in this category will find a nice
home at the 9:00am service. Worship will be very much what we’re
accustomed to and what we learned to most relate over the many years
here at Peace. There will be traditional order of worship, mostly
traditional organ music, sermons and gowned acolytes when they are
available. In this service, sometimes we’ll be worshiping from the good
‘ole “Setting Number 2 in the Green Book”. If those are the types of
worship services you best relate, and love here at Peace, you’ve got a
home at the 9am service!
Now, before getting into
what’s in store for the 10:30am service, let me give a little background.
As a kid growing up here at Peace in the 70’s and 80’s, coming to church
on Sunday was still the norm in society. That’s what most families did.
And coming to church was typically a dressy affair, with traditional
worship, traditional Bible studies, and Sunday School. Churches all over
the area had more occupied seats than empty. And I know this was the case
in the generation before me, back in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, probably
more. But now, times have drastically changed. Going to church is no
longer the norm, rather it is the exception. Many people’s beliefs about
church are different then they were. Priorities of how to spend Sunday
mornings have also changed, and what people expect from worship is
different too. Many people let God fall out of their lives for a wide
variety of reasons. For many, the culture of what worked in churches 30,
40, 50 and 60 years ago just doesn’t apply any more.
That’s where the 10:30am service kicks in. This will be a contemporary
service with potentially a wide variety of formats and music styles.
People will be encouraged to come as you are. Music styles will vary from
traditional contemporary Christian music to Latin, Jazz, Reggae, Blues,
and African and sometimes even Rock. Worship will often be more
simplistic in nature, appealing to more basic Christian messages in the
modern society. This service has great opportunity
to touch lives we’ve never touched before. Families and Youth will likely
feel most at home at this service, but all are welcome and encouraged to
attend.
Outreach
The people of Peace are involved in outreach, through our invollvement with
Blessed Hope in Lincoln Park. Through them, we are able to help
others with food, housing and clothing needs. Each July
we celebrate “March to the Manger”, which allows us to shop for items for
needy children. This provides them with a little “Christmas in
July”. We participate in the Wyandotte CROP Walk. Our fundraising efforts
and hands-on charitable projets often
qualify for matching funds through Thrivent for Lutherans, and benefit
local and world-wide needs. This summer we fielded a team to work in
Detroit on a Habitat for Humanity project. Other designated missions for
this year are World Medical Relief, and the Mercy Center, in Detroit. We
have an active tech team that runs our sound equipment, and is involved in
the production of PowerPoint presentations used frequently to enhance our
services and meetings.
Education
Several programs are running, here at Peace, for your spiritual growth.
The Sunday school did a program called “Bethlehem Village” followed
by a sister program called
“Galilee by the Sea”. Similar programs were incorporated for our
Vacation Bible School which in the past years has been a shared experience
with Emmanuel and St Phillips Lutheran churches, our neighbors, downriver. We are blessed with a group of creative adults who
work hard to creative very exciting, meaningful programs for our kids. We host a
2 local scout troop, and AA group, and a TOPS group. Adults
have participated the Thursday morning bible study program.
Fellowship
You’ll also notice a lot of social events in the “Activities” section of
the website*. Some feel, and rightly so, that this sort of
fellowship is almost as important as bible study! Our
ladies are involved in an active schedule of book clubs & social
outings, and are actively engaged in raising funds for various needs.
Our high school youth
attend the Michigan Lutheran Youth Gathering, and the Bass Lake Music
Festival.
If you decide to visit,
you’ll notice that we are what I call a “lingering church”. We are a warm
and friendly group. There’s coffee, tea, and hot cocoa in the parlor.
Pour yourself a cup, take a cookie, and introduce yourself to someone.
This is Peace at her best.
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Welcome Pastor Aller
Our Worship times
Sundays:
9:00 Traditional
10:30 Contemporary
Communion served at both
Sunday School 10:30 A
Euchre Group -
2nd & 4th Mondays
7-9 pm, church parlor
4th Wednesdays,
noon until 3:00pm is our day to work at Fish and Loaves food pantry
Third Sundays
- Help prepare and serve meal at Blessed Hope mission -

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