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Congregational Meeting
Sunday, April,19, 2026
Following the service. Lunch to be served after the meeting.
Pastoral Transition Announcement
from
Pastora Lea Walker-Clark
Beloved St. John–San Juan Lutheran Church Leadership Council,
I want to share an important update about my next leadership chapter. After conversation with the synod and much prayer in my part, it has been decided that my contractual agreement as your Transitional Pastor will end on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
I will continue serving you with love, integrity, and dedication until that date. In the coming weeks, I will create opportunities for conversation, questions, and prayer as we walk through this transition together.
Please keep our staff, congregation, each of our council leaders, and this process in your prayers. I am deeply grateful for the St. John-San Juan Lutheran Church bilingual ministry we have developed.
These four years have been phenomenal, and I believe God will continue to guide each and everyone of us in this community with hope and faithfulness.
With love in Christ,
Pastor Lea Walker‑Clark
Following the service. Lunch to be served after the meeting.
Recommended
Reading
What is Lutheranism
Martin Luther was eight years old when Christopher Columbus set sail from Europe and landed in the Western Hemisphere. Luther was a young monk and priest when Michaelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
A few years later, he was a junior faculty member at a new university in small-town Germany, intently studying the Scriptures, “captivated with an extraordinary ardor for understanding Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.”
In these days Luther was tormented by the demand for righteousness before God. “I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners, and secretly, if not blasphemously, certainly murmuring greatly, I was angry with God.” Then, in the midst of that struggle with God, the message of the Scriptures became clear, like a long-shut door opening wide. When he realized that a “merciful God justifies us by faith … I felt that I was altogether born again and had entered paradise itself through open gates.”
What Luther discovered is the freedom of Christians trusting God’s mercy in Christ. As he later wrote, “Faith is God’s work in us.
