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A description from Voyageur’s Lutheran Ministry: Camp Hiawatha and Camp Vermilion offer traditional summer camp experiences, day or weekend events, and comfortable spaces for your next retreat or family/friend gathering.  Looking for more adventure? We also offer guided trips into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.  We provide the ideal combination of place and program for Christian community and personal renewal. We look forward to seeing you in God’s great northwoods!

• Call 800-331-5148 for any assistance needed to register for camp sessions or events.
• Summer Camp info: https://www.vlmcamps.org/summer-camps

At Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Virginia, we offer “Camperships” which are scholarships for your child to attend a camp session. You do not need to do anything to get this help to pay for the camp session, just be a member or ongoing attendee who wants their child to try camp during the summer. Call the church office for more information. In addition, VLM offers financial assistance to the campership, it can be found on their website under Summer Camps-Sessions and Fees (or ask the church to print you a copy). Or simply call them at (800)331-5148. With these opportunities, it ends up not being such a financial hurdle to cross if your child/children want(s) to attend!

Mid-winter greetings Our Savior’s and friends,

How are you?  Mid-winter always seems like a good time to check in with loved ones and friends.  Though it may appear on the outside there are smiles all around, in the bleak midwinter there is often struggle.  Struggle with less day light.  Struggle with energy.  Struggle with the cold temps and not being able to get outside and breath in that fresh air.  Struggle with the state of the world.  So much…

Winter can feel heavy for those of us that are here in God’s great north woods, unless you are an avid skier, snowmobiler, ice fisher person.  The winter does offer a lot of great outdoor activities when the temps stay above zero!

But the point here, is how are you doing?  Where are you at in terms of grief, joy, life, discipleship?  What does your soul long for?  We can get caught up in the everyday busyness of life and forget to check in with each other and ourselves.

As we enter into the second month of 2026, it will be filled with red and pink, hearts and chocolate as February 14^th is Valentines Day.  So, while the world around us consumes and buys into this secular “holiday” why don’t we buy into this notion of love and spend the month loving on each other?  Who knew February 17^th is National Random Acts of Kindness Day!  Let’s make it an entire month!

Checking in with friends, church family, loved ones.  Send a letter, a card, an email just to say, “hey I’m thinking of you.”  Why not make February a month of random acts of kindness and love?

I challenge you to do something kind for someone each day this month with no strings attached and no need to receive anything in return.  Because the reality is your heart will be filled with joy by the end of February. 

February 18^th is Ash Wednesday, a day we come together and accept the invitation into the discipline of Lent.  The day we are reminded that we are but dust, and to dust we will one day return.  A day we pause to worship, pray, confess and come together as followers of Jesus and bring with us all that weighs us down so that during the season of Lent we can begin to unpack our heavy hearts, clear out our cluttered minds and prepare our imaginations to be ready to receive the Good News on Easter morning that Christ is alive!  Alive for you and for me, and for the world!

Beloved family, let us love one another in a time such as this where division, hatred, lies, twists, deception, name calling, and so much heaviness is consuming our souls, our hearts and our minds!  Let us love one another as God first loved us!  May it be so!

Pastor Liz

WORSHIP:

In-person worship is 9:30am Sundays, and if you are at home you may listen to our services on 1340 AM Radio each Sunday at 9:30am.

LIVESTREAMING of our worship services are available to watch on Youtube or Facebook Sunday mornings. Also, we are on the cable channel # 5 (the latest Sunday isn’t available until Thursday of that week).

Click on the link below for the sign-up form to our weekly newsletter:

https://eepurl.com/dEV1Jr

Call the church office if you would like to receive the email newsletter weekly, or to have a Christ in Our Home devotional, or even a Bible or a Hymnal brought to you. We will be happy to provide what you need to worship at home. Our phone # is 218-741-6207, email us at office@oslcmn.com

https://go.augsburgfortress.org/christ-in-our-home-email-subscription
(Christ in Our Homes online – same as the booklet devotionals we have at Church)

https://www.luthersem.edu/godpause/
(Devotion on the lectionary Gospel reading for that week)

https://www.elca.org/Faith/DailyBible  
(Daily Bible passages & schedule)

https://www.womenoftheelca.org/blog/category/daily-grace
(Daily Grace Devotion)

https://www.gathermagazine.org/
(a WELCA Publication)

https://eepurl.com/dEV1Jr (Our weekly email sign-up form) The Weekly Witness email provides a weekly devotional, prayer updates, announcements and a copy of the week’s bulletin for you.

CALL US IF YOU WOULD LIKE A CHRIST IN OUR HOME DEVOTIONAL OR BULLETINS MAILED TO YOU.

WE ARE HAPPY TO ACCOMMODATE YOU~ We can be reached at 218-741-6207.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. 1 Chronicles 16:34