Tuesday, April 20 at 1:00 p.m.

Calling all OWLs (Older, Wiser Lutherans)! It’s time for our monthly drive-in concert. This month’s concert is a mystery musician! You can listen from your car with the windows rolled down or through our FM transmitter or you can bring a lawn chair and sit in a parking space. Enjoy the music and the chance to reconnect with friends. Simply show up, no RSVP necessary!

As with all parking lot events at Abiding Presence, please wear a mask, practice social distancing and stay home if you aren’t feeling well. Please note that these safety measures will be required of everyone regardless of vaccination status.

RESCHEDULED! Tuesday, March 23 at 1:00 p.m.

Calling all OWLs (Older, Wiser Lutherans)! Now that the weather is getting nicer, our monthly drive-in concerts are returning. Gather in the church parking lot for a jazz concert featuring our own Craig Fraedrich on trumpet. You can listen from your car with the windows rolled down or through our FM transmitter or you can bring a lawn chair and sit in a parking space. Enjoy the music and the chance to reconnect with friends.

As with all parking lot events at Abiding Presence, please wear a mask, practice social distancing and stay home if you aren’t feeling well. Please note that these safety measures will be required of everyone regardless of vaccination status.

Wednesdays, February 24 through March 24 from 7:00-8:00 p.m.
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The need for Mental Health Care is at an all-time high right now, and Abiding Presence is discerning how to be the hands and feet of Christ in addressing this need. Pastor Keseley announced at our annual church meeting that we as a church community will be focusing on two needs this year: hunger, and mental health. In order to follow our call to be Christ to our community, we must first understand what is needed. In response, Pastor Vought and Sarah Snow, Congregational Care Minister, are leading a study during lent that will be a journey through the ELCA social message on "The Body of Christ and Mental Illness." Join us for this 5-week Lenten study. You will learn not only some basics about what mental illness is and looks like, but also how we are called as Christians to respond. Want a sneak peek of the social message? Click Here.

Tuesdays, February 23 through March 23 from 7:30-8:30 p.m.
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What will it take to end hunger? What if we got serious about not only asking the question, but also living into the answer? Join Pastor Keseley and Sharon Downs for a Lenten study around this theme. Join us over Zoom to read scripture, hear stories, dream, pray and wrestle with what it will take to end hunger.

• Special musical prelude starts at 7:45 & 9:45 p.m., featuring the musicians of Abiding Presence

• Christmas Eve Worship Services at 8:00 & 10:00 p.m.

Livestream Christmas Eve worship with candlelight, carols, scripture and Holy Communion. Worship with us at AbidingPresence.net/live or on any of our other usual worship platforms (YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitter/Periscope, smart TVs, or Zoom—tap here for instructions).

Click here to view the worship bulletin for the services.

Christmas Eve at 6:00 at AbidingPresence.net/live

Worship safely from home on the livestream with carols, the telling of the Christmas story, a sermon geared toward the whole family and the lighting of candles while singing Silent Night. This service is meant for multiple generations to be able to engage in together. The service will be at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our other usual worship platforms.

Click here to view the worship bulletin for the service.

Christmas Eve at 4:00 p.m.

Worship safely from home on the livestream with carols, the telling of the Christmas story and the lighting of candles. The service will be at AbidingPresence.net/live and on our other usual worship platforms.

Click here to view worship bulletin for the service.

Christmas Eve from 12:00-2:00 p.m.

Load up the car and drive through the Abiding Presence parking lot to see the nativity story come to life through carols, live animals, actors and more. Drive out ready to join the shepherds in “glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen.” (Luke 2:20). Plus, receive your glow sticks and/or candles for Christmas Eve worship on the livestream later in the evening.

Click here to read our Drive-Thru Live Nativity FAQs.

Click here to hear the Drive-Thru Live Nativity Audio.

Calling all OWLs (Older, Wiser Lutherans): come out to the Abiding Presence parking lot on Wednesday, November 4 at 1:00 p.m. for a very special drive-in concert by our own Joe McGavin. Joe plays acoustic renditions of your favorites from the '60s, '70s, '80s and beyond.

Here is how to attend this free concert:

• Sign up using the form found by clicking “read more.” We’ll reserve a parking space for you!

• Plan to arrive about 15-20 minutes early (around 12:45 p.m.) so you can be directed to your parking space and test your radio.

• Listen on your radio, just like at a drive-in movie theater! We will broadcast the live concert audio across the parking lot using our low-power FM transmitter, and we’ll give you the FM station as you arrive. All you have to do is tune your radio to our station and be within about 100 feet of the transmitter.

• Either remain in your car or bring a lawn chair. You can listen on your car radio, and we will also set up a public address sound system near the stage.

Every Sunday from 9:30-10:00 a.m.

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The Abiding Table will look a bit different this year, but we will still have an opportunity for adults to connect in small groups. Using Zoom breakout rooms, we will randomly group about 5 households together to build relationships, talk about faith and pray together. You bring the coffee, we’ll bring the connection! You can then stay on Zoom to worship or jump off to worship on your preferred platform.

Every Sunday from 9:30-10:00 a.m.

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Meeting ID: 826 2028 0255
Passcode: table

The Abiding Table will look a bit different this year, but we will still have an opportunity for adults to connect in small groups. Using Zoom breakout rooms, we will randomly group about 5 households together to build relationships, talk about faith and pray together. You bring the coffee, we’ll bring the connection! You can then stay on Zoom to worship or jump off to worship on your preferred platform.

September 21 at 1:00 p.m.

“Residents of the United States have a responsibility to make government function well; Lutherans see their responsibility in terms of a calling from God. We are called as faithful stewards of our own self-governance, to engage our democracy in a spirit of robust citizenship and not to abandon it. Lutherans consider government as a gift from God intended for the safety and flourishing of human life.” Excerpt from “Discipleship in a Democracy” ELCA 2020

Join us for a conversation with various Abiding Presence members about what it means to be faithful followers of Jesus and citizens of our country.
9/21/20 Roger Runningen – Life in the Press Corps: How do you understand/report on a Presidential Election?
10/19/20 Lori Rowley – Global Food Security: We are all in this together.
11/16/20 Ed Linz – Teaching Involving Special Needs: How do we do this from a distance?

Facilitator: Ivan Ives

Zoom Information:
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Every Sunday from 9:30-10:00 a.m.

Join Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID: 826 2028 0255
Passcode: table

The Abiding Table will look a bit different this year, but we will still have an opportunity for adults to connect in small groups. Using Zoom breakout rooms, we will randomly group about 5 households together to build relationships, talk about faith and pray together. You bring the coffee, we’ll bring the connection! You can then stay on Zoom to worship or jump off to worship on your preferred platform.

A Thursday night pause for music and quiet meditation, available live at AbidingPresence.net/live or on our YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter feeds.

Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

Join Pastor Joe, our Teaching Pastor, for a fall small group conversation about faith and life using short stories from the book Listening for God Volume 2 as the guide. You can drop in and out of this study as your schedule allows as each story stands on its own.

The book includes short stories literature, brief author profiles, discussion questions arranged into chapters.

The group will run on Tuesday mornings throughout the fall. The book can be purchased here or you can google the specific story to find it for the day.

Zoom Meeting Link (Meeting ID: 138 193 371 Password: 828042)

For more information, contact Pastor Joe at pastorjoe@abidingpresence.net

Sunday, September 13 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

We want to invite the whole congregation to celebrate kick-off Sunday in drive-thru style. Come drive through the parking lot at Abiding Presence for a back-to-school/back-to-work/still-in-pandemic-times blessing because these days we could all use a bit of blessing! Students and adults are encouraged to bring their electronic devices to hold up in the car to receive a blessing, too. We’ll have blessing stickers, September “grab and go bags” for Sunday School and “acolyte at home kits.” The staff will be there to wave from a safe distance and say hello. There will even be some surprises along the way as you drive. You don’t want to miss this event!

Please consider bringing non-perishable food donations for our food ministry. You can see the list of most needed items here. We will have volunteers waiting to unload donations from your trunk as your drive thru.

We will be asking everyone to please stay in their vehicle as they drive thru. If you would like to roll down your window to say hello, please plan to wear a mask. Watch for the signs at the entrance to the parking lot so you can tune your radio to our official “Abiding Presence Parking Lot Radio Station.”

See you next Sunday!Please consider bringing non-perishable food donations for our food ministry. You can see the list of most needed items here. We will have volunteers waiting to unload donations from your trunk as your drive thru.

We will be asking everyone to please stay in their vehicle as they drive thru. If you would like to roll down your window to say hello, please plan to wear a mask. Watch for the signs at the entrance to the parking lot so you can tune your radio to our official “Abiding Presence Parking Lot Radio Station.”

See you next Sunday!

Every Sunday from 9:30-10:00 a.m.

Join Zoom Meeting Link
Meeting ID: 826 2028 0255
Passcode: table

The Abiding Table will look a bit different this year, but we will still have an opportunity for adults to connect in small groups. Using Zoom breakout rooms, we will randomly group about 5 households together to build relationships, talk about faith and pray together. You bring the coffee, we’ll bring the connection! You can then stay on Zoom to worship or jump off to worship on your preferred platform.