Emanuel's dining room decorated to celebrate the installation of its new pastor.

Current News

• April 2004 Calender -- Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file (download the free Acrobat reader)

News Archives

• Emanuel launches drive for roof repair (fall 2002)
• Tanysha Williams is first African-American woman from congregation to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Her ordination and installation service was celebrated at Emanuel on July 20, 2002.

• Cornelius D. Eaddy installed as Emanuel's first full-time pastor in more than a decade, January 19, 2002 [read sermon online]

• Discipleship classes mean congregational renewal. (October-December 2001) [DETAILS]

• Emanuel sponsors a bike clinic.
  Mechanics from Neighborhood Bike Works perform safety checks while congregation members fix flats. (August 2001) [DETAILS]

• Former Emanuel leaders sponsor Seminary ordinands in August 2001 service. [DETAILS]

• New mentoring pastor. (January 2000) With the election of Dr. Philip D. W. Krey to the presidency of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, he takes a new role at Emanuel, that of Pastoral Associate. Stepping in as mentoring pastor will be The Rev. William G. Erat, who also serves as Executive Director of Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania.

• Sermons Online! You can share in the powerful messages of our pastoral team with these online versions of selected sermon texts.

• The January 23, 2000 implosion of the two high-rises at Southwark has changed the skyline and Emanuel's community, with new challenges and new opportunities for Christian service.

Daily Devotions (from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America web site)