St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Sidney, New York 

Backpack Program

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Lilly and Samantha from SFCU presented St. Luke's Lutheran Church Backpack Program Team with a check for $500.00, donated by Sidney CSD Class of 2025 Real World Event.

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For the past ten years, St. Luke's has provided weekly backpacks of non-perishable items to food-insecure students, giving them six meals for the weekend.  This past school year we filled 26 bags per week.

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Our funding comes largely through a local grant, United Way, and through private donations.  Most of the food comes from the Northeast Food Bank in Albany, which delivers it once a month to the Southside Mall in Oneonta.  Team members pick up the food order and bring it back to church where volunteers unload it, take inventory, and stock the shelves.

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Sarah Grote is the coordinator of the program and is responsible for placing food orders and keeping track of all the volunteers.  Using a guide sent by the food bank, she plans the menus for each week and emails them to team members who pack bags or backpacks from this list on Thursdays.  They are delivered to Sidney Elementary School on Friday mornings.  At Christmas time, the families of the backpack children are provided a holiday meal box with a ham or turkey and all the trimmings.

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Sunday School?

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Sunday school for children in pre-kindergarten through 6th grade will resume depending on needs and attendance.  Please contact Pastor Laura if you have questions about this.  We have established a Kids' Nook at the rear of the church sanctuary so that children who need to move around a bit, enjoy toys, coloring, crafts, etc. may do so during the worship service.

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Covid-19

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We have resumed in-person worship St. Luke's and continue to follow CDC guidelines, and will make changes if needed, following the recommendations of the CDC and Bishop Miller.  We have suspended regular livestreaming our worship services to Zoom and Facebook Live, and we encourage everyone to worship in person.  We celebrate Holy Communion on most Sundays.  Please contact us if you need any additional information about these things, or to request an invitation to worship events by email.

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Pasta Night

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Pasta Night in February was such a success that we hope to schedule another one in the coming year.  Warm summer temperatures have us thinking about other activities, however, so this may have to wait until things cool off again in the fall.

 

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Cycling Cherubs

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The weather has once again brought the bicycling season to a close.  Winter can be a great time to clean up your bike, inspect it for any needed repairs or desired upgrades, and perhaps even to schedule an appointment with a professional mechanic for an evaluation.  If you have a training stand, you may want to put the bike on the stand so that you can try to stay in shape for cycling even during the winter months.  Remember that it's important to keep your faith in shape this winter, too!  Regular attendance at worship helps keep your spiritual life from getting rusty, and sharing joys, sorrows, love and anxiety with other Christians can help us all to let the light of Christ shine in our lives!

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Pictures, Anyone?

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Pictures of interest to the congregation may be posted in the Members Only section of the website.  If you have some that you would like to post, or need help viewing photos posted there, please speak to Chris Camann.

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