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First Lutheran Church | 600 Homer Ave. | Palo Alto, CA 94301 | 650.322.4669 | Map/Directions
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Highlights

  • Photos from pizza party with pastoral candidate
    This week at FLC
    Today
    7:00p Council Meeting - Fellowship Hall
    Thu May 15, 2008
    7:30p Choir Rehearsal - Parish Hall
    Sun May 18, 2008
    8:30a Mentoring Beach Trip - Departure from FLC at 8:30 a.m. See Vince Barich for details
    9:00a Sunday School/Adult Forum
    10:30a Worship - Holy Trinity
    12:00p Worship, Arts & Music Committee, Library
    Mon May 19, 2008
    First Words Deadline
    Tue May 20, 2008
    6:30p Ladies Night Out at Fish Market, San Mateo
    7:30p Choir Rehearsal - Parish Hall, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

    Complete Calendar

  • Come Worship With Us

    Madison
    Kids at a recent pizza party

    Mission. As a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, we are called to reach out to persons with the Gospel, to nourish individual and corporate faith through word and sacrament, learning and fellowship, and to express Christ's love in meeting human need. In fulfillment of this calling we commit ourselves to action.

    The ELCA Word and Sacrament. First Lutheran offers a musically rich, liturgical worship experience. We celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday and on many festivals throughout the year, in accordance with the ELCA statement The Use of the Means of Grace. We are a member of the Sierra-Pacific Synod.

    Sunday Worship

    Summer Worship: July - August, 2008

    A Reconciling-in-Christ congregation. First Lutheran Church is one of over 300 congregations in the United States that has declared that lesbian and gay people are equally welcome to join fully in the worship and life of this Christ-centered community.

    FLC 1920: The California Conference of the Augustana Synod began mission work among the Swedish Lutherans in the Palo Alto area. Later that year, Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Palo Alto was formed.
    1926: The congregation changed its name to First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Palo Alto, and constructed the present sanctuary.
    1951: Responding to post-World War II growth in the area, new offices, classrooms, library, fellowship hall and kitchen were added to the original building.
    1991: The sanctuary was remodeled, and other improvements, including wheelchair access, were made to the rest of the building.
    2002: The 26 rank, 1500 pipe Casavant Frères organ was installed and dedicated. We imagine it will serve well into the 22nd century.  
    2004: Reverend Sandra Dager is installed as Pastor, succeeding Pastor Kempton Segerhammar's 15 year tenure.  

    Now, First Lutheran is a community of about 330 baptized souls in 150 households. Average attendance at worship is 142.