Messiah News

Messiah Lutheran is hosting a Godly Play workshop on Saturday, August 9 from 9am to 3pm at Messiah Lutheran Church in Hazel Dell. All are welcome to attend, and no previous Godly Play training or experience is required.  This interactive workshop will be led by Joy Studer - a passionate and experienced Godly Play trainer who has helped impleme...

Brewed Theology is back! On Wednesday July 9 at 6pm  Pastor Robyn will be leading a session of "Brewed Theology" (material written by Peter Braafladt, Ben Eisele, and Joe Natwick ) at Heathen Brewing Feral Public House (1109 Washington Street Vancouver, WA 98660 The topic will be "Division and Gratitude."  Recommended homew...

Beginning this Sunday, June 29, our sermons will focus on some of the daily themes from our upcoming Vacation Bible School program. The overarching theme of VBS this year is "True North" and it's an arctic setting. Similar to the program we will look at how it is easy to lose sight of what is true in the world today and when we trust Jesus to be ou...

VBS is coming up, and there are a lot of items still needed to help make VBS run smoothly.  In order to make sure we have the right amount of what we need, please sign up with your name and the quantity you plan to donate on this spreadsheet (please only edit this spreadsheet by adding your name and what you plan to donate in the corresponding...

June 13th and 14th was the 33rd Synod Assembly for the Southwest Washington Synod of the ELCA.  I've been to 19 assemblies in six different synods, and I can honestly say that this was one of the smoothest and best-run assemblies I've attended. Even more importantly than that, there was a real sense of collaboration and camaraderie among the p...