Visitors who are baptized believers are invited to share Holy Communion.
Children are regular participants in worship.
Prayer was an important part of each day when a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane crew was detained in the People's Republic of China, said Commander Shane Osborn, a Lutheran who piloted the U.S. military plane. I prayed several times a day-a long one before going to sleep at night, and before each interrogation. Osborn said he grew up as a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Norfolk, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. They included family reasons related to her husband's health plus her preparation to enter the ordained ministry. Braasch said she hopes to begin the internship and residency phase of the processs when she steps down.