Serving Others

We share God's love by serving others...everywhere, everyday, locally and globally, because that is what Jesus invites us to do.   

We share God's love through
Love In the Name of Christ of DeKalb/Sycamore, by collecting food for and working at the DeKalb Food Pantry, growing fresh produce for area food pantires and shelters in The Giving Garden, delivering Meals on Wheels to shut-ins, preparing meals for Hope Haven, a homeless shelter, and for Lutheran Campus Ministry at NIU, building homes through Habitat for Humanity, making quilts for people who need them locally and globally through Lutheran World Relief, selling Equal Exchange coffee, tea and chocolate, sending short term missionaries and supporting long term missionaries in Ketumbeine Parish in Tanzania, Africa, and the School of the Saints in Guatemala, and providing financial support to countless ministries and relief projects in the United States and around the world through our giving to the Northern Illinois Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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We share God's love by serving others...everywhere, everyday, locally and globally, because that is what Jesus invites us to do.   

We share God's love through
Love In the Name of Christ of DeKalb/Sycamore, by collecting food for and working at the DeKalb Food Pantry, growing fresh produce for area food pantires and shelters in The Giving Garden, delivering Meals on Wheels to shut-ins, preparing meals for Hope Haven, a homeless shelter, and for Lutheran Campus Ministry at NIU, building homes through Habitat for Humanity, making quilts for people who need them locally and globally through Lutheran World Relief, selling Equal Exchange coffee, tea and chocolate, sending short term missionaries and supporting long term missionaries in Ketumbeine Parish in Tanzania, Africa, and the School of the Saints in Guatemala, and providing financial support to countless ministries and relief projects in the United States and around the world through our giving to the Northern Illinois Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Love In the Name of Christ Love In the Name of Christ
We a partner congregation with Love INC of DeKalb/Sycamore. This organization includes 32 churches in the community, working together to better meet the needs of people who come seeking help
  The Giving Garden
Growing fresh produce to give away to area food pantries and shelters
  Feed 'em Soup Community Project
We partner with the Feed 'em Soup Community Project by inviting the hungry to a meal at First Lutheran on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month from 5-7PM.  Read more at www.feedemsoup.org
Guatemala Mission Trip 2011 Guatemala Mission Trip 2011
January 7-11, 2011 we are joining Journeys of Hope in Guatemala to work on the School of the Saints and work in a medical clinic for the poor. 
  Stubbs Family Missionaries in Tanzania
The Stubbs family is in our fourth year serving as missionaries with the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) doing leadership development, capacity building, and evangelism through the new music department at Makumira University College in Tanzania, East Africa. After serving First Lutheran Church in DeKalb, Illinois for 19 years, our journey has now taken us to a community halfway around the world
  Lutheran Campus Ministry at NIU
We are active partners with Lutheran Campus Ministries at NIU.  Click on the link http://www.lcmniu.org/ for more information about this thriving ministry for young adults.  
  Habitat for Humanity - Thrivent Builds
First Lutheran partners with ThriventBuilds to help build homes for Habitat for Humanity  
  Boy Scout Troop 33
Our very active Boy Scout Troop 33 meets every Monday evening at 7PM. They schedule camping trips, service projects  and other events monthly. http://members.tripod.com/~CGolden/troop33.htm
 
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