Month: August 2013

Worshipping together with brothers and sisters in Christ was one of the great highlights of the 2013 LCMS National Youth Gathering. There were two particularly memorable worship services that took place in San Antonio, and we’d like to share some of the elements of those services with you as your youth and adults return home. The first service took place on Sunday, June 30 (the day before the opening of the 2013 LCMS National Youth Gathering) at the  Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Several hundred pastors, teachers, DCE’s, deaconess, musicians, and Lutheran lay people met  together for what is known as...

For use in a congregational setting, worship service, or at a special service for Gathering participants and their families. The pastor or leader may invite the youth and adults going to the Gathering to the front of the church. Download a PDF of the Live Love(d) Participant Commissioning...