St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Stephenville is entering into a partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). A Sunday evening service geared towards college students done according to Evangelical Lutheran worship will be added to schedule of services at St. Luke’s. There is no ELCA congregation less than 45 minutes in any direction of Stephenville, and The Episcopal Church and ELCA are in full communion with each other.
Common Grace, a contemporary worship service to which all are welcome, will be the third Sunday of every month (April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21, August 18) at St. Luke’s, 595 N. McIlhaney Street, Stephenville, TX. Beginning in September, the service will be held every Sunday.
For more information, check St. Luke’s website www.stlukesstephenville.org or call the church at (254) 968-6949.
Both the Rt. Rev. Rayford High, Jr., bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and the Rev. Kevin S. Kanouse, bishop of Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), have signed off on the arrangement.