The Worship Team promotes and supervises this congregation’s worship and music ministries with the assistance of council and guidance from the pastor, the organist, and the choir director(s). Duties of this team include:
- Ensuring that services of this congregation are conducted regularly and in harmony with the published liturgies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its predecessor bodies
- Coordinating and training ushers, worship assistants, lay readers, and greeters
- Providing and maintaining hymnals and other devotional materials
- Maintaining the schedule for placement of flowers in the sanctuary and supervising seasonal decoration of the sanctuary
- Supervising and supporting the choirs and maintaining the choir robes and the musical instruments of this congregation
2026 Team Leader: Charles Nicholson
Members: : Isma Boland, Ruth Nicholson, and Beverly Nivens
Ex-officio Members: Melodie Capole and Pastor Gragg
2025 Report
In January we welcomed our new pastor, Joanna Gragg. During the year the team assisted the pastor and choir directors with the worship and music ministry of the congregation. We celebrated Easter with “Flowering of the Cross” outside and with donated Easter lilies surrounding the altar inside and with special music from instrumentalists, the vocal choir, and our handbell choir. The vocal choir prepared music for worship at rehearsals prior to the service each Sunday, and the bell choir, made up of many friends and family, practiced to prepare music for at least one service each month. The team, with help from other congregation members, decorated the sanctuary with our Chrismon trees, garlands, and donated poinsettias. Our beautiful nativity scene was again set up in the narthex.
In September Brent Holcomb retired after 50 years as organist and choir master at Our Saviour Lutheran Church. The congregation celebrated his years of service at a reception, and his picture was placed in the Cameron Building hallway. The team has begun the task of finding his replacement. Lucinda Shields is currently serving as interim organist.
Throughout the year the Altar Guild was busy preparing communion for each service and making sure the appropriate paraments, banners, and candles were set out.
Charles Nicholson, 2025 Team Leader