Vacation Bible School

aka:  VBS

Every summer we invite children from 4 years old through the 5th grade to enroll in Vacation Bible School.  The themes change every year, but the message is the same.  We want your children to learn about the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and have fun doing so!

2025 VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
was June 23-27, 2025
8:30-11:30 a.m.
For children ages 4-11

We had a wonderful week of Vacation Bible School!  There were 25 children registered, and our daily attendance averaged 19.   There were 9 Immanuel children and 14 non-member children.  In their Bible lesson each day, the children learned about Jesus and His glory through His life events – His birth, childhood, ministry, death, resurrection, and coming return.

Thank you to everyone who helped with Vacation Bible School!  Thank you for your prayers, financial support, and donations of decorating items, supplies, and craft items.  This effort of outreach and evangelism is the work of the whole congregation.  Without your support, we would be unable to provide a quality VBS program for the children of our community.  Thanks to our wonderful volunteers who used their God-given gifts to share the Good News!  Thanks be to God who is the giver of all good things.  We are blessed indeed!

Toddlin’ to Jesus

Toddlin’ to Jesus is taught by Lisa Solum, who has a BA in Music Education and is a certified teacher in Illinois and Michigan.  She currently teaches choir at St. John’s Lutheran School in La Porte.  If you would like more information or would like to register, please call the church office at (219) 872-4419 or use our contact us page.

Youth Group

We gather periodically for service, fellowship, Bible study, and activities. Call the church office for more information.

Higher Things Conference

All Things New

2025 HIGHER THINGS CONFERENCES

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Revelation 21:5

The one who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Jesus promises that just as He is risen, we will rise. The last great enemy has been destroyed. Everlasting life belongs to all who believe…one day.

But for us, some days, that day feels far away. Like it’ll never come… like it’s been made for someone other than you. 

Dear one, hear the promise for you today, too. “Behold, I am making all things new.”…right now. It doesn’t just mean that one day, everything will be fixed. It means that things are allowed to be broken today. Nothing can be so damaged that it can’t be made new. Nothing broken will stay that way. There is a resurrection of all flesh. 

We can look forward with hope, even when everything falls apart around us. The promise isn’t held at arm’s length. When today is still broken, He who sits on the throne wants you to cling to the promise now. You are already a child of God, and so you are already a child of the resurrection. Call the sin that destroys what it is. Call death the last great enemy. It has already been defeated. 

Live a steadfast faith today no matter what things look like because you rest on a yesterday that was made whole on the cross. Realize that God hates the same things you war against too, but he has already won the victory… the victory that makes All Things New. 

Please call the office at (219) 872-4419 if you would like more information.

Sunday School

We have Sunday School every week beginning at 8:45 a.m.  We have four classes which serve 3-year-olds to those in the 8th grade.  They begin with a snack and opening worship, then separate into classes.

Catechism and Confirmation

Catechism Class is a three-year program for youth that concludes with Confirmation.  We accept children into the program who are deemed ready by their parents, typically around the 5th grade.  Contact Pastor Solum for more information.

Confirmation is a custom of the Church which links the catechumens (those who receive the teaching of God) to their baptism. In baptism, we are brought into the faith by the Holy Spirit. We live the new life given in our baptism as we confess our sins, grow in God’s Word, and receive the Sacrament of the Altar. In Confirmation the baptized publicly confess the promises of God which belong to them. More important, though, is the formal instruction leading up to confirmation from the Small Catechism. This builds on the groundwork of faith given them in their baptism and through the teaching of their parents and the preaching and teaching in the church. Catechumens dive deeper into our Lutheran theology and prepare for lifelong growth in God’s Word.

First Communion can either happen at Confirmation or earlier. Communion is given to those who believe and are baptized, and have learned the Ten Commandments, Apostles’ Creed, Lord’s Prayer, Word’s of Institution, and can say what the Sacrament of the Altar is and why they should receive it.