New Orleans Night Fundraiser for the ELCA Youth Gathering

Join us for a New Orleans Night Fundraiser for the ELCA Youth Gathering!

New Orleans Night will happen May 3 from 6-9 pm at St Luke Lutheran Church in Gales Ferry. This event will benefit the Youth traveling to the Youth Gathering in New Orleans and will feature the Ledyard High School Jazz Band. Tickets can be picked up at the door with suggested donation and include dinner, dancing, and entertainment. The food will be New Orleans themed and there will be a silent auction! RSVP here.

Green Hair for Pastor Heidi!

Thank you for all your generous donations toward the Coin Challenge! We raised $2,606.73. Pastor Heidi will have green hair at New Orleans night on May 3rd as well as at work on Sunday, May 5th!

JuBELLation Performance 5/11

JuBELLation will be performing in Tono Dolce’s spring concert on Saturday, May 11^th, 7pm at St. David’s Episcopal Church located at 284 Stoddards Wharf Rd in Gales Ferry.

Bishop Election 2024

The Bishop Election of the ELCA New England Synod information can be viewed online here. Please look over the information for each candidate. Printed information about the Bishop election is also available in the Narthex.

To share your thoughts and for questions please contact Pastor Heidi, Jim Sammons or Fawn DeMello.

Grins & Giggles Openings



St. Luke Grins & Giggles Preschool has three remaining open spots in our Tuesday/Thursday (9AM - 2PM) class for the 2024-2025 school year!

Message Grins & Giggles at 860 912-8150 or call today at 860-464-7897 for more information or to schedule a tour!

Help Is Needed

Help is needed to assemble two in-the-box tables for the Bookkeeper's office. Please contact Diane Hansen (860-464-7897 Ext 14 or dianeh@stlukegf.org) to set up a day and time.

Please Update Your Information

for Our Directory

St. Luke is updating our directory. Please attend service in the month of May to pick up a form to update your directory information. Drop off your form with Cyndi Arnold who will be in the Narthex collecting forms.

Please include any helpful community contacts you may have in the Shepherd's Guide at the bottom of the form.

Download the form here.

Please Plant Extra

Seedlings This Spring!



Plant one or two extra plants this Spring so you will have extra vegetables in August to donate to our "God's work. Our hands." event. The Outreach Team needs your extra produce on August 25!

We're organizing a FREE Farmers Market in the St. Luke parking lot on August 25. The St. Luke Community Garden weekly harvest and member donations will fill the tables. We will wear our yellow "God's work. Our hands." T-shirts. We will ask shoppers for a donation to ELCA World Hunger, to honor the 50th year anniversary of this vital ELCA mission. Need a shirt? Want more information? Contact outreach@stlukegf.org.

May Scroll

The May Scroll has arrived! View it online or pick up a copy in the Narthex.

Spring Compost

Spring Compost can be put in the wooden bins up the hill near the garden or in the black compost bin beside the driveway near the back entrance to the church. See Ray & Penny Heller for more info.

Summer Salad Sunday 5/26

Save the Date for a Summer Salad Sunday fellowship opportunity following the service on Sunday May 26th. More information to follow.

Memorial Day Parade

Volunteers Needed

Memorial Day Parade volunteers needed to walk in the parade, as well as a garden trailer and vehicle with a driver. See Gina for more information.

Tag Sale June 7th & 8th!

Please bring us stuff to sell, come help us

organize it, then come to the Furniture

Bank Tag Sale on June 7th (6 to 8 pm) and

8th (8 am to 2 pm) to buy stuff to fill up the

space you gained by getting rid of stuff.

Please start cleaning out your basements

and garages and attics, and save the good

stuff for the sale.

It takes a whole week to set up and run the sale. It’s a huge undertaking, but also a fun and

rewarding way to reach out to the community. The more people who help out, the easier and more fun it becomes. Please consider joining us! We start setting up for the sale on June 2 right after church, and we’ll need lots of help!

For further information, ask Karen or Mike Wuesthoff, or call the furniture bank at 860 381-9224.

Presentation 5/2 at Ledyard Congregational

Join Ledyard Congregational Church and Park Congregational for OWL: Our Whole Lives on their discussion of The Complexity of Sexual Identity on May 5th at 2 PM in the Fellowship Hall at Ledyard Congregational Church.

Book Talk at Niantic

Community Church

Niantic Community Church welcomes Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice and the American City, to discuss and sign copies of his book on Sunday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Women's Group!

The Women’s group meets on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month in Classroom 2.

Drop-ins are always welcome!

Picnic in the Narthex every Wednesday!

Join St. Luke members for Picnic in the Narthex (entryway to the worship space) every Wednesday at 11:00 AM at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Gales Ferry. Pack a snack of your own liking. Ours is an expandable circle; so, come and join us and get to know your church friends better! Email Bob Erickson at eerickson22@gmail.com for more information and to confirm location.