As a member congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, we'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to First Lutheran. We invite you to visit us often - both in person and via the web. As time passes you'll notice these pages growing to include online messages, Bible Studies, and a whole host of ministry opportunities. Thanks again for stopping by. We hope to see you often. Pastor Z

The FLC Vision

We are deeply committed to our Savior Jesus Christ - desiring to lengthen and strengthen His Kingdom through worship and caring groups.

Lengthening means extending the Kingdom of our Savior through evangelistic or “missional” activities. “How can we connect broken people to a healing Jesus?” needs to be the backdrop for every activity and encounter.

Strengthening means providing every support possible for the personal spiritual growth of those who have already been won for eternity.

Core Values

Word - We believe that like God, His Word does not change. Furthermore, it is of the utmost importance that the good news of salvation contained in this Word be kept not only pure, but also be spread to others in the most meaningful ways possible. God's Word is not just something offered and believed, but also something to be lived.

Outreach - The Lord has given His Church one “great commission” - seek and save the spiritually lost. This is our foremost task while on earth.

Service - We love God by loving and caring for those whom He's placed around us.

Excellence - In every aspect of ministry, there is no excuse for anything but the highest quality of which we are capable - the very best of which we are capable - and that we must continually seek to improve everything we do.

Anticipated Behaviors

Spiritual Growth - Faith that does not grow becomes stagnant and can die. Growing to spiritual maturity is essential for everyone.

Prayer - The Lord blesses prayer beyond what we can imagine, according to His infinite power and love.

Generosity - Contributing to the work of the Kingdom from “first-fruits” is both the privilege and duty of every Christian. To do this requires faith that God will bless what is gladly given with an abundant harvest of souls.

Accountability - Personal and mutual accountability builds mutual trust. Clarifying and respecting boundaries, doing what we say we're going to do, and following through are all extremely important for building Christian relationships.

Teamwork - We are “the body of Christ.” Bodies function best when each part works cooperatively with the rest of the body, using the gifts we've been given by God. We are inter-dependent, not independent of one another.

...as Dr. Luther writes in the Preface to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans:

“Faith is a divine work in us, that changes us and regenerates us of God, and puts to death the old Adam, makes us entirely different men in heart, spirit, mind, and all powers, and brings with it the Holy Spirit. Oh, it is a living, busy, active, powerful thing that we have in faith, so that it is impossible for it not to do good without ceasing. Nor does it ask whether good works are to be done; but before the question is asked, it has wrought them, and is always engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works is void of faith, and gropes and looks about after faith and good works, and knows neither what faith nor what good works are, yet babbles and prates with many words concerning faith and good works. Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain that a man would die a thousand times for it. And this trust and knowledge of divine grace renders joyful, fearless, and cheerful towards God and all creatures, which the Holy Spirit works through faith; and on account of this, man becomes ready and cheerful, without coercion, to do good to every one, to serve every one, and to suffer everything for love and praise to God, who has conferred this grace on him, so that it is impossible to separate works from faith, yea, just as impossible as it is for heat and light to be separated from fire.”

Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, Good Works, Art. 10-12