Have you or anyone you know ever been ill, had surgery, experienced a life crisis or grief? If you have, you realize how difficult life can be in such a situation. You don’t know what to do or exactly what you want or need to make you feel better. When a prayer shawl is wrapped

Every Pastor and congregational member has the desire to discover a way to make the sacrament of baptism more meaningful to the family of the child brought to God’s font for baptism. In 2008 the Director of Christian Education at St. John, Hamburg attended an event and learned about a tradition called the Baptismal Chest.