Serving Those Who Serve Us

Last Sunday, our congregation once again reached out in love to our area firefighters to deliver cookies as part of our observation of God’s Work, Our Hands Sunday (GWOH). For around ten or so years, LCC has carried on this tradition that was started by Rita Sewell to say “thank you” to our first responders. […]

Women’s Candlelight Dinner 2021

The women who gathered at the annual Women’s Candlelight Dinner at Lutheran Church of the Cross on Thursday, December 9, 2021, generously donated personal care products to the Baldwin Women’s Residence.  The contributions included bars of bath soap and bottles of body wash; shower accessories and towels; toothpastes and toothbrushes; packages of feminine products; grooming […]

Clothes To Kids 2021

The people attending LCC’s JOURNEY THROUGH BETHLEHEM on December 4, 2021 generously contributed many packages of new underwear and socks to benefit Clothes To Kids in St. Petersburg, FL. Clothes To Kids is a Tampa-based non profit organization that provides new and quality clothing to low-income or in-crisis school-age children, free of charge. By our best count, […]

God’s Work, Our Hands 2021

189 dozen cookies for over 100 firefighters at 14 stations packaged and delivered by dozens of volunteers from LCC and the LCC Day School.   Each included a handmade Thank You card made by our children.  Thanks to all for showing our appreciation to those who protect us on God’s Work Our Hands Sunday!

LCC School Supplies Drive Fall 2021

The School Supplies Drive at LCC this year was invisible. I did peek. But I never actually saw anyone put anything into the bins we had set out in the Narthex. Yet the pile grew. I think of it as The Pile, capitalized, because it grew so magically, expanding day by day, week by week. […]