Sunday Worship8 & 10 am
NEXT WEEK!
Monday, June 16 – Thursday, June 19, 2025
9 am - noon
Join us as we transform Lord of Life into the Northern Wilderness this year for Vacation Bible School week! We will learn how to trust Jesus in this wild world. You can expect a week full of faith discoveries, memorable music, and epic adventures that help you grow in friendship with Jesus. Any child 4 years old through 4th grade by Sept. 30, 2025 is invited to attend. We will have a LIT (leader in training) event during the same time for 5th and 6th graders. They will learn how to make the leap from participant to student leader.
Please register now to attend. There is a $25/per family cost due at the time of registering. If this cost is prohibitive, please contact Angie for financial assistance. Sign up to volunteer here! We can’t wait to explore God’s amazing and wild world with you!
TRAFFIC AND CONSTRUCTION UPDATE: Please allow extra time to drive to VBS, as there will be road work happening around Lord of Life during the VBS week. Tylersville Road will close from Rolling Meadows Drive to Kennesaw Drive for a culvert pipe project beginning Monday, June 16. The road will be closed to all through traffic, but you WILL still be able to access the church building! Access to the church from the Cincinnati Dayton Road side (east) will be limited. Please come from the Lesourdsville West Chester Road side (west). Click here for more information.
Sarah Ball and Ashley Graziano, registration coordinators:
Volunteer coordinator:
Wednesday, June 18 at 7 pm
Lord of Life Lutheran Church Outdoor Worship Space
Join with Lord of Life and the other affirming Hamilton Pride congregations for a time of healing and affirmation. Attend in the outdoor worship space at Lord of Life Lutheran Church or online. This event is free and open to everyone!
Our message of full inclusion and welcome is sadly drowned out by other louder voices of judgment from many Christian communities. God’s love is a gift to all people, to be shared unconditionally, without regard to age, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression. Celebrate Pride with the affirming congregations of Butler County and the greater community as we share a word of lament and the promise of hope.
Angie Seiller, Director of Faith Formation,
Wednesday, July 30
Community Potluck Dinner 5:30 pm
Concert 7 pm
The award-winning St. Augustine Lutheran Church Handbell Choir from Gotha, Germany will be playing as part of their American tour this summer. The ensemble consists of 16 players, ringing more than 5 octaves of handbells, under the direction of Matthias Eichhorn.
Join us for a community potluck dinner before the concert! More information and sign-ups will be available in the coming weeks.
Volunteer to host! We will host the ringers and their directors for the night of the concert. If each host can offer beds to 2 people, we just need 9 host families. Let John know if you are available.
Don’t miss this night of phenomenal music! A freewill offering will be taken to help with tour costs.
Please visit Facebook @handglockenchor.gotha for more information and additional tour dates.
John Johns
Cincinnati Pride: Saturday, June 28
Sign up at www.tinyurl.com/LOL2025Pride
Learn! Serve! March! Worship! Lord of Life has a long tradition of welcoming and affirming marginalized groups by walking in the Cincinnati PRIDE parade, supporting Hamilton Pride with a festival booth, and welcoming all couples to be married here. Additionally, we collaborate with a group of area congregations that are working together to affirm everyone's belonging in the church and acknowledge that the church has hurt many by their condemnation of the LGBTQ+ community.
Our message of full inclusion and welcome is sadly drowned out by other louder voices of judgement from many Christian communities. God’s love is a gift to all people, to be shared unconditionally, without regard to age, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression. Humbly showing up and proclaiming this news is critical in affirming and loving all God’s children.
We invite you into this important work. Sharing unconditional acceptance is a year-round journey but Pride month in June is an additional opportunity to share God’s love and healing affirmation. This message can truly change lives. Sign up for all Pride opportunities in the Gathering Space or use this link: www.tinyurl.com/LOL2025Pride
Angie Seiller, Director of Faith Formation,
June 29 - July 5, Sign up to serve! Help is needed!
Lord of Life is a host church for Family Promise of Butler County, which addresses the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness in Butler County by providing shelter, meals, and comprehensive support services. As a host church, we will open our doors and transform our Fellowship Hall into a home for a week, as well as providing meals and hospitality to families enrolled in the program.
This will be a normal host week, with guests in residence Sunday until Saturday morning. All meals, hosting, and overnight stays will take place here at Lord of Life. There are opportunities to serve before, during, and after our host week, interacting with our guests or behind the scenes! You can partner up with friends, your Bible study, or relatives to share the load and the fun of serving!
We are especially in need of Bridge Hosts and Overnight Hosts to help make our guests comfortable! If you are able to help, please sign up at the link above.
Amanda and Keith Spangler
3rd Thursday of the month, June 19, noon
50 West Brewing in Mason
5224 District Pk Dr., Mason, OH 45040
3rd Thursday of the month, July 17, noon
Half-Day Cafe in Mason
8825 Wilkins Blvd., Mason, OH 45040
Everyone is welcome to join us for food and fellowship. Please let us know if you are coming!
RSVP by visiting https://lollunchbunch.rsvpify.com/
Tad Metzger,
Sunday, June 29
Pastor Grant Eckhart serves as the senior leader of Jacob’s Porch which is our Lutheran Campus Ministry at the Ohio State University - and soon the University of Cincinnati, too. Grant is married to Tammy who also serves in full-time college ministry. They have two sons Grayson (12 yrs) and Tobias (10 yrs).
Visit jacobsporch.com to learn more about this campus ministry connecting students to life and faith or to make a financial gift to the ministry.
In 2027, Lord of Life turns 40! In preparation for this momentous anniversary, we want to update our archives. We have old scrapbooks, plenty of pictures, Lifeline newsletters, and social media posts. We need some talented folks to tell the story of how we've been living, sharing, and celebrating God's love for the past 40 years. If you have a flair for scrapbooking, storytelling, or digital media, please contact Maddie in the church office.
Maddie Pease,
Some say Summer School, Discipleship, or Faith Formation. Whatever you call it, we’re all trying to be like Jesus. Learning and following, we make our way forward in faith watching, listening, and mimicking him, hoping that we’ll adopt his habits to make a difference in the world in Jesus’ name. This summer, our Sunday morning readings will ground us in the teachings of Jesus and we’ll learn to follow, go, grow, welcome, listen, pray, share, search, expect, trust, focus, savor, heal, feed, and invite. Pull up a seat in the sanctuary, outdoor worship space, or wherever you find yourself watching online worship and join us as we ask God to shape our hearts and minds to be a little more like Jesus.
Tuesday June 24, 5 - 7 pm
Hosted at Faith UMC, Cox Road
Sign up to donate food for the meal!
Prepare and serve a hot meal to neighbors who need one. All you need are willing hands and a willing heart; volunteers of all ages and abilities can participate. No sign-up or RSVP is needed.
What is Stepping Forward? It's a ministry of the Faith Alliance, providing a weekly community meal and enrichment opportunity that equips low-income families with the skills, knowledge, and nourishment they need to take the next step forward in life. Hosted at Faith Community Methodist Church, West Chester.
Food donations can be dropped off at the church on Sunday mornings or during office hours. If you have perishables and cannot drop them off during office hours, please be in touch with the church office (
Our church will be taking the month of July off from Stepping Forward while another group steps in to serve.
Kathy Calihan
"Take me out the ball game!" Come cheer on the Lord of Life Softball Team on Tuesday nights as they take the field with other area church teams. It's always a gorgeous night to be at the ballpark for FREE!
Here are some upcoming games: June 3 (8:45), 10 (6:45), 17 (8:45).
All games are played on Field 4 at Corwin-Nixon Park (behind Mason High School).
We're excited to kick off another successful summer of loving kiddos in our community... serving children ages 0-18 FREE lunch Tuesday-Thursday and providing them with opportunities to have fun.
Volunteers are needed to assist children with their lunches, talk with them while they eat, and be a friend during the activity. Children are welcome to volunteer when accompanied by an adult. Sign up to help once or volunteer throughout the summer to mentor children in need. We have two lunch sites where volunteers are needed.
HOWEVER... The Summer Lunch Program could not exist without volunteers. Period. Consider signing up for a 90-minute serving time!
Want to slip away to Greece next Spring? Pastor Lowell and Tera Michelson are thrilled to announce that they will be heading back to Greece next April in the weeks following Easter, April 9-20. This "In the Footsteps of the Apostle Paul" pilgrimage will explore Athens, Corinth, Kaval, Philippi, Thessaloniki, Berea, Meteora, Kusadasi, Ephesus, Patmos, Heraklion, Santorini, Piraeus, and more!
Package Price of $5490 from Detroit, MI includes: Roundtrip airfare, accommodations in double occupancy luxury hotels, breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, sightseeing in modern air-conditioned private bus, English speaking tour guide, 3 night cruise, and 2 shore excursions (Kusadasi & Patmos). An optional extension to Turkey, April 20-23, includes sites in Istanbul, a Bosphorus cruise and two continents for $990 per person. You do not need to be a member of Lord of Life to join this trip.
Find more details on our website. The registration deadline is August 1. Please reach out to Pastor Lowell (
Volunteer in the garden!
Help us provide fresh produce to local food pantries. Garden knowledge is not necessary, training is provided, and learn by doing. Enjoy being outside in fellowship with others to work in the garden as physical abilities allow. We work in the garden primarily on Tuesday mornings especially once produce is ready to pick to align with the pantry hours. However, as weather impacts our plans, we schedule other days and times to keep up with activities. Communications are through regular emails and texts to keep everyone current with weather impacts. We avoid working in the heat, cold, rain, or mud. Attend as you are able.
Dennis Reynolds,
Join the Yarn Benders
A Knitting and Stitching Group
2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month, 7 - 8:30 pm
in the New Space
Yarn Benders is a group for people who enjoy needlecraft or want to learn! Experienced needlecrafters and the yarn-curious are welcome! Come as often as your schedule permits. Your project can be knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery, or anything else you enjoy.
NEW KNITTERS: We will teach you how to knit! Your first project will be a hat or scarf. Bring size 8 needles and a skein of worsted-weight yarn.
EXPERIENCED KNITTERS: Bring your own project or you are welcome to join with us in making baby hats for Hopple Street Health Clinic. We will have patterns available for both knitting and crocheting baby hats.
If you plan to knit a baby hat, bring your size 5 & 6 double-pointed needles and a skein of DK yarn.
If you plan to crochet a baby hat, bring a size 4.0 mm (G) crochet hook and a skein of DK yarn.
Grab a project, grab a friend, and we'll see you at Lord of Life to bend some yarn!
Barb Mackey & Susan Cramer,
Begins THIS SUNDAY May 25!
Sunday mornings during the summer
Traditional Worship at 8 am - indoors
Contemporary Worship at 10 am - outdoors, weather permitting
Both worship services on site and online
Summer is here and so is our summer worship schedule! With our learning hour on summer vacation, we are moving our second service to 10 am to allow our tech team time to set up outdoors. There are only two worship services in the summer. Outdoor worship will begin on May 25, weather permitting. Grab a blanket, grab a friend, and join us in the summer sunshine. Online worship is also always available.
Help us make outdoor worship happen!
With summer vacations and moving outside for 10 am worship, we need extra volunteers over the summer. Please sign up to receive a weekly e-mail and/or text with the open volunteer spots. It's easy! Just take an open position when your schedule allows. All the roles can be done individually or as a family. Don't know exactly what to do? Don't worry, we'll show you! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Youth Sunday schools and adult Bible studies are on break for the summer. Enjoy your summer and the opportunity to worship outdoors as a family, and mark your calendar for Fall Kick-off on September 14!
Do you have a little one in your life? Sign up for Splash! This ministry welcomes newborns to the congregation by sending Splash mailings each month. These mailings are filled with ideas to help you support your baby and toddler as they grow spiritually. The pages include ideas for faith-filled play, songs, worship, meals and prayer. Contact the church office to add a family to the Splash mailing.
We encourage you to share prayers of gratitude and celebration as well as requests for healing, the grieving, and those who protect and serve. Prayers for healing will be included in the Prayers of the Church each Sunday. To make a prayer request you can email us at
Alcoholics Anonymous
7:30 pm Sundays, in the Fellowship Hall
child care available
7:30 pm Thursdays, in the Fellowship Hall
Al-Anon
7:30 pm Sundays, in the Library
child care available
Offering on site and online meetings! Contact the administrator for the login details.
All Addictions Big Book Step Study Group
7 pm Mondays, in the Library
All are welcome to the All Addictions Big Book Step Study Group. We are a group of men and women dedicated to studying and practicing the 12 steps of recovery as laid out in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Big Book Step Study meetings work by providing clear-cut directions on how to recover from any addiction. The terms all addiction and practicing and studying the steps as they are laid out in the Big Book is what differentiates this from the Sunday night Alanon meeting. Join us.
Stephen Ministers provide one-on-one Christ-centered caring. A few examples of struggles that a Stephen Minister can walk alongside you through are: grief, divorce, illness, job loss, loss of a home, military deployment, loneliness, or spiritual crisis.
If you would like more information about receiving care for yourself or a loved one, please let us know.
If you would like to explore being a care giver, please contact us.
Ava Fiebig, Cindy Campbell