Upcoming Events

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Please join us for worship and Holy Communion every Sunday at 10 am - all are welcome! Masks and social distancing are required. Worship services will also be livestreamed and can be accessed here.  

Our next gathering of the “Rainbow Connection” ministry will be held on Sunday afternoon, October 2, 2022 at 4 pm. The get-together will take place in the Fellowship Hall at the church.   Rainbow Connection gatherings are intended to be a safe space for LGBTQIA+  persons and allies to gather, socialize, network, and share their concerns.  This intergenerational group is open to anyone in the Blacksburg area.  Anyone over the age of 18 is welcome, and students and faculty from Virginia Tech are  encouraged to participate.  

Immediately following worship on Sunday, October 2nd,  volunteers from our congregation will provide lunch for The Well Campus Ministry students.  

The Blacksburg-Radford Fellowship is offering a Men's Bible Study once a month on the first Thursday of the month at 7:30 am. The group meets in person at St. Michael Lutheran Church, located at 2308 Merrimac Road in Blacksburg.  Breakfast will be served.   

We have been invited to join with Edges Methodist Church in a book study and workshop. It will be based on a book, "Beyond Shame", by Matthias Roberts, about sexual values. Lutheran Campus Ministry and Wesley Campus Ministry will also join the study.  We will meet at 11:30 am on October 9th and 16th - please bring your own lunch. We will meet at 4 pm on October 23rd.  Click here for more information.  

The Luther Forum will resume weekly meetings September 11 at 8:45 am in the Lutheran Campus Center.  This year the forum will use On Earth As In Heaven:  Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century
Christians, by N. T. Wright, as its discussion springboard.  Wright is one of the most influential Biblical scholars of the past fifty years.  On Heaven As In Earth is a compilation of excerpts from his many books, edited and organized around the church year.  Readings are short enough to be used as daily devotions and the class will focus on the assigned readings for a week.  Participants generally obtain their own book (either printed or electronic),  but if you would like the church to get a book for you, please contact Bill King. The class will meet in person, but persons may also participate via Zoom using this link. If you need to call in use this number: +1 646 931 3860.  

The Men's Bible Study is held via Zoom every Thursday morning at 8 am.  The focus of this men's Bible Study will be to study the Gospel reading designated by the Common Lectionary for the upcoming Sunday. Please contact John Hess (jlhess@vt.edu)or Bill King (luthercm@gmail.com) for more information.  

 The Faith and Life class led by Phil Jordan will meet every Thursday morning at 10 am in the Fellowship Hall.  The topic is "Skeptics and Believers: Religious Debate in the Western Intellectual Tradition".  We will watch a 30 minute video lecture by Grinnell College religion professor Tyler Roberts followed by discussion.  It's central theme revolves around 'religion and modernity' from the time of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment through all manner of 19th and 20th century movements.  It will focus on such thinkers as Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacker, Marx, Freud and Barth, to name but a few. 

Interested in joining The Well Campus Ministry for upcoming events!  Check the Luther Memorial calendar to find out what's happening, read the weekly e-mail on The Well website page, visit The Well Facebook page, or e-mail thewell@lmlc.org and ask to receive the weekly e-mail about upcoming activities!  

Peace and Hope, a new digital Synod Authorized Worshipping Community in the Virginia Synod, launched in June 2021 to provide a place for congregations to combine their gifts to provide digital worship and digital learning opportunities for individuals around the Synod.  

If you are out of town for the weekend or are in need of a digital worship service, feel free to visit www.peacehopeva.org.   Services take place at 10 am and 7 pm each Sunday and may be viewed here.  Click here to view the latest recorded worship service.  If you have any questions, reach out to Pastor Monica or Pastor Bryan. 

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.  Thanks to Rev. Colleen Montgomery of the Virginia Synod for this gift of online worship!   More information on this and Pastor Bryan Katz's Peace and Hope Digital Ministry...