We have been at the corner of Hoyne & LeMoyne since 1879. The current building dates from 1906 and presents limitations to how the community can gather. We are embarking on a $1.4 million+ campaign to address these limitations.
This phase will better (1) welcome diversity with an elevator and ADA-accessible, gender-neutral bathrooms, (2) preserve and restore our historic architecture, and (3) enhance community spaces.
We’re well on our way to hitting the goal. and our support will ensure historic architecture and community engagement will continue for generations to come!
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Rev. Jason S. Glombicki February 18, 2026 Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount were deceptively simple. He said, “Beware of practicing your righteousness before others in order to be seen by them.” Notice that he did not criticize prayer, generosity, or fasting. He assumed them. Instead, what he exposed was something deeper — the human desire to be seen as good, to be admired for our faithfulness, to measure our worth by how we…
Wicker Park Lutheran Church Vicar Sarah Freyermuth February 15, 2026 During Youth Group a few weeks ago, we were watching a video that talked about how important it is that Jesus came to the world as a poor baby from Bethlehem, which the video jokingly and not-so-nicely referred to as a “backwater of a backwater town in those days.” And after the video, I asked the youth why they thought it mattered that Jesus came to us in this form,…
In last week’s gospel, we heard the Beatitudes where Jesus blessed the poor in spirit, the grieving, and the persecuted. In today’s reading, that story continued as he looked at the crowd and said, “You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.” And in English it can sound like Jesus is pointing at individuals – you are salt, and you are light. But in the original Greek, that “you” is plural. So, it actually reads as: you all are salt. Y’all are light. He didn’t say try to become salt and light; rather, it was a declaration about a people that were formed together…
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