Dear Faith Family and Friends: I had a Christmas Countdown Candle in my office this past year. It was both exciting and depressing to watch the candle burn down the 25 days of Advent to Christmas. The year of 2022 was a lot like that candle with...
December is the month of holy days, family gatherings, wonderful food, busily doing last minute shopping, and most of all, gathering with the Family of Faith to worship the Newborn King.It is a time to reach out to those who are ill, those who...
Over the next few weeks, families around the United States will prepare to gather with family, eat turkey, and perhaps partake in some shopping. The problem is that there is not a lot of factual information from the first...
Did you know that at Faith Lutheran Church, Naples, FL one of the only original items on the property is the large Ficus aurea? I love to use it as a landmark to let folks know where we are located. This tree is native to Florida, the northern...
That may sound like an odd question. Have you ever thought about, or made a list to try to answer this question? You and I if we took the time could come up with an entire page , or two, of singled spaced answers from Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa...
“Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.” Psalm 96:1 This past month, a visitor to Faith Lutheran Church Naples, FL, talked with me between services and this is basically the conversation we had: Visitor...
I recently went through my change to donate to the Pregnancy Resource Center, LWML on their 80th Anniversary, and a First Responders Fund of SW Florida. I just noticed the number of US quarters that are being produced. (Guess I wasn’t...
Years ago, our art class from O.E.Dunckel Jr. High, was invited to a local pottery place to make clay pots. They gave us a glob or gray clay and they helped shape them into small jars. No matter what shaped they ended up as our teacher took these...
Holy Week and Easter Sunday with the messages of Pastor Hildebrant, Pastor Maconachy, and myself and from each of you reminds me of God’s Truth: There is power in peace. There is a hope in forgiveness. There is reconciliation in love. From...
Did you know we are living in one of the most opportune times to grow Lutheran education in America? Right now, LCMS schools (early childhood, elementary and high schools) are the second largest parochial educational system in the United States...
