Hutchinson’s Bethlehem United Methodist Church will celebrate its sesquicentennial anniversary this weekend. There will be live music by the Prairie Fiddlers, heritage food demonstrations, a country store and an ice cream social. For a complete schedule of events, see the Oct. 6 print edition of the Leader.
More than 1,200 Lutherans from throughout the United States and Canada took actions Saturday, Sept. 26,
Leaders of organizations favoring and opposing further involvement of people who are gay and lesbian in the church praised and denounced actions taken at the churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lut
The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted today to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships.
The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America adopted "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust" with a vote of 676 (66.67 percent) to 338 (33.33 percent) on Aug. 19.
A cluster of villages in the Central American country of Guatemala continue to benefit from the ongoing generosity of a group of dedicated Hutchinson-area people.
The Crow River Area chapter of the Word Alone Network, a group composed of area Evangelical Lutheran Church of America churches and members, is opposed to several proposals on the agenda at the ELCA
Workers continued to make progress on the replacement of Faith Lutheran Church’s office and classroom complex this week. Much of the basement block is in place and steel beams were being erected this week. The parking lot will be built over the wells and should be done by September. The entire project is slated to be done by Easter 2010.
With Minnesota’s short summer season, no one wants to miss a moment of warm and sunny weather.
Students and teachers of Word of Life Outreach Center's Agape Christian Academy and Preschool marked the National Day of Prayer over the noon hour Thursday with a release of dozens of red, white and blue balloons. Each balloon carried aloft a prayer from each participant.

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