First Lutheran
@1stlu.bsky.social
First Lutheran is a Reconciling in Christ (RIC) congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), where we welcome all, we build community, and we serve our neighbor. Located in Onalaska, WI.
YES! It's a Caring Cards Saturday! Come join in the fun of making cards to share with others and to let them know our church is thinking of them. THIS Saturday, Feb. 14, 9am in the Fireside Room.
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
YES! It's a Caring Cards Saturday! Come join in the fun of making cards to share with others and to let them know our church is thinking of them. THIS Saturday, Feb. 14, 9am in the Fireside Room.
Join us for Ash Wed, this Feb 18, as we begin the season of Lent…
• 12:15pm in-person worship (light lunch offered before, at 11:30am)
• 6:15pm in-person worship & live stream (light supper offered before, at 5:30pm)
All services include the imposition of ashes
• 12:15pm in-person worship (light lunch offered before, at 11:30am)
• 6:15pm in-person worship & live stream (light supper offered before, at 5:30pm)
All services include the imposition of ashes
February 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Join us for Ash Wed, this Feb 18, as we begin the season of Lent…
• 12:15pm in-person worship (light lunch offered before, at 11:30am)
• 6:15pm in-person worship & live stream (light supper offered before, at 5:30pm)
All services include the imposition of ashes
• 12:15pm in-person worship (light lunch offered before, at 11:30am)
• 6:15pm in-person worship & live stream (light supper offered before, at 5:30pm)
All services include the imposition of ashes
All members are invited to attend First’s Annual Tailgate THIS Sunday, Feb. 8, at 11:45am. Since it is a tailgate, feel free to bring a side/dessert to share, but if you forget, come anyway!
February 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
All members are invited to attend First’s Annual Tailgate THIS Sunday, Feb. 8, at 11:45am. Since it is a tailgate, feel free to bring a side/dessert to share, but if you forget, come anyway!
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone… And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:4-13
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone… And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:4-13
Vigil for Peace: Sunday, January 25th at 6pm at First Congregational UCC. All are welcome. Led by leaders of various faith traditions, this vigil will include prayers/readings, songs, candlelight, and space-holding for a moment such as this.
January 25, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Vigil for Peace: Sunday, January 25th at 6pm at First Congregational UCC. All are welcome. Led by leaders of various faith traditions, this vigil will include prayers/readings, songs, candlelight, and space-holding for a moment such as this.
It is a wonderful time of year and a great way for our kids to share their Christmas joy! Join us TONIGHT, Wed. Dec. 17 for the Sunday School Christmas during 6:15pm worship!
December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It is a wonderful time of year and a great way for our kids to share their Christmas joy! Join us TONIGHT, Wed. Dec. 17 for the Sunday School Christmas during 6:15pm worship!
If you’re looking for a way to get into the Bible in the new year, watch for the launch of a new Enter the Bible podcast in January.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you’re looking for a way to get into the Bible in the new year, watch for the launch of a new Enter the Bible podcast in January.
enterthebible.org/the-bible-in...
enterthebible.org/the-bible-in...
LAST CHANCE to take the Missional Assessment Profile! All members are asked to take it at 1stlu.org/MAP before midnight TONIGHT, Nov 10. We have 100 replies so far, but want to hear from everyone, age 14 and up! All answers are confidential. Help shape the future of First!
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
LAST CHANCE to take the Missional Assessment Profile! All members are asked to take it at 1stlu.org/MAP before midnight TONIGHT, Nov 10. We have 100 replies so far, but want to hear from everyone, age 14 and up! All answers are confidential. Help shape the future of First!
In search of fabric scraps! Any blues and purples will work. Bring to the church office by Sunday, Nov. 16 so they can be cut and ready for Advent Around the Table. Questions: contact [email protected]
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In search of fabric scraps! Any blues and purples will work. Bring to the church office by Sunday, Nov. 16 so they can be cut and ready for Advent Around the Table. Questions: contact [email protected]
Our OWLs (our Older Wiser Lutherans at First, for anyone 55+) had a fabulous fall! Sept brought a great lunch cruise on the LaCrosse Queen, and int Oct was a trip to Sugar Creek for Yesterday’s Youth and fun filled Halloween party!
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Our OWLs (our Older Wiser Lutherans at First, for anyone 55+) had a fabulous fall! Sept brought a great lunch cruise on the LaCrosse Queen, and int Oct was a trip to Sugar Creek for Yesterday’s Youth and fun filled Halloween party!
We give thanks for the gift of baptism and for these people, one with us in the body of Christ, who publicly affirm their baptism this Sunday, Oct. 26.
October 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We give thanks for the gift of baptism and for these people, one with us in the body of Christ, who publicly affirm their baptism this Sunday, Oct. 26.
A big thank you to everyone who baked cookies for LuMin's Free Cookie Wednesday this past week! Cleary Pastor Karyn and everyone had a great time giving away free cookies to students on campus, as did Honey Whiskey the therapy dog!
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A big thank you to everyone who baked cookies for LuMin's Free Cookie Wednesday this past week! Cleary Pastor Karyn and everyone had a great time giving away free cookies to students on campus, as did Honey Whiskey the therapy dog!
A little trip down memory lane with our OWLs (our Older Wiser Lutherans at First, for anyone 55+), flying back to 2021 when they took a dinner cruise on the Mississippi Queen paddle boat.
And they're flying there again! THIS Friday, Sept. 26. RSVP to Brian at [email protected]
And they're flying there again! THIS Friday, Sept. 26. RSVP to Brian at [email protected]
September 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A little trip down memory lane with our OWLs (our Older Wiser Lutherans at First, for anyone 55+), flying back to 2021 when they took a dinner cruise on the Mississippi Queen paddle boat.
And they're flying there again! THIS Friday, Sept. 26. RSVP to Brian at [email protected]
And they're flying there again! THIS Friday, Sept. 26. RSVP to Brian at [email protected]
That I am loveable… that God and God’s people love me… that "this is not all there is." We can forget that the Creator of all things chose to live and die as one of us; and chooses again today to be in communion with us still at all times, in all places.
September 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
That I am loveable… that God and God’s people love me… that "this is not all there is." We can forget that the Creator of all things chose to live and die as one of us; and chooses again today to be in communion with us still at all times, in all places.
"What brings us? Hopefully, you feel called here by God to be a crucial part of a community that does hard things; to be a part of a family of faith that needs you; that’s better because you ARE here."
- Hear Pastor Stanton's full message from Aug. 17, 2025 at 1stlu.org/message.
- Hear Pastor Stanton's full message from Aug. 17, 2025 at 1stlu.org/message.
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"What brings us? Hopefully, you feel called here by God to be a crucial part of a community that does hard things; to be a part of a family of faith that needs you; that’s better because you ARE here."
- Hear Pastor Stanton's full message from Aug. 17, 2025 at 1stlu.org/message.
- Hear Pastor Stanton's full message from Aug. 17, 2025 at 1stlu.org/message.
Wednesday evening worship resumes TONIGHT at 6:15pm. Pastor Stanton will be providing his message on Luke 14. Join us!
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wednesday evening worship resumes TONIGHT at 6:15pm. Pastor Stanton will be providing his message on Luke 14. Join us!
Add these songs to your music library and get ready sing 'em this Sun in worship! Join us at 8am & 10am at First Lutheran, 410 Main St, Onalasa WI!
Soul on Fire by Third Day • The Blood by Bethel Music
Listen to these and our full playlist at 1stlu.org/spotify
Soul on Fire by Third Day • The Blood by Bethel Music
Listen to these and our full playlist at 1stlu.org/spotify
August 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Add these songs to your music library and get ready sing 'em this Sun in worship! Join us at 8am & 10am at First Lutheran, 410 Main St, Onalasa WI!
Soul on Fire by Third Day • The Blood by Bethel Music
Listen to these and our full playlist at 1stlu.org/spotify
Soul on Fire by Third Day • The Blood by Bethel Music
Listen to these and our full playlist at 1stlu.org/spotify
Come celebrate community and join in the fun at the Northside Neighborhood Block Party on Monday, Aug. 11, 5–7:30pm at Trinity Lutheran Church (1010 Sill Street, La Crosse). Free food, music, games, dunk tank & more!
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August 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Come celebrate community and join in the fun at the Northside Neighborhood Block Party on Monday, Aug. 11, 5–7:30pm at Trinity Lutheran Church (1010 Sill Street, La Crosse). Free food, music, games, dunk tank & more!
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Only a few more days left to sign up for Vacation Bible School at First Lutheran! Starting Sun Aug 3 @ 5pm, & running thru Thur Aug 7. This year our friends from Sugar Creek will be bringing the fun to VBS! Don't miss it! Reg at 1stlu.org/vbs
July 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Only a few more days left to sign up for Vacation Bible School at First Lutheran! Starting Sun Aug 3 @ 5pm, & running thru Thur Aug 7. This year our friends from Sugar Creek will be bringing the fun to VBS! Don't miss it! Reg at 1stlu.org/vbs
Most every summer our youth & chaperones serve & grow on service trips throughout the country, & this summer is no different. THIS SUNDAY, July 20, at both services, we will bless the youth & chaperones going on middle & high school service trips. JOIN US!
July 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Most every summer our youth & chaperones serve & grow on service trips throughout the country, & this summer is no different. THIS SUNDAY, July 20, at both services, we will bless the youth & chaperones going on middle & high school service trips. JOIN US!
Kathryn’s envisioning all the sand castles to be built with these new birthday gifts!
When you have receive a birthday postcard from First, bring it to church M–F, 9am–3pm and pick up a small gift! (perhaps one of these new blocks for building sand castles!)
When you have receive a birthday postcard from First, bring it to church M–F, 9am–3pm and pick up a small gift! (perhaps one of these new blocks for building sand castles!)
July 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Kathryn’s envisioning all the sand castles to be built with these new birthday gifts!
When you have receive a birthday postcard from First, bring it to church M–F, 9am–3pm and pick up a small gift! (perhaps one of these new blocks for building sand castles!)
When you have receive a birthday postcard from First, bring it to church M–F, 9am–3pm and pick up a small gift! (perhaps one of these new blocks for building sand castles!)
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Pick one that you feel uncomfortable with, seems hard, or when you look at it, makes you squirm.
Then pray this prayer each day, and fill in the blank of the prayer with that gift of the Spirit you chose…
Pick one that you feel uncomfortable with, seems hard, or when you look at it, makes you squirm.
Then pray this prayer each day, and fill in the blank of the prayer with that gift of the Spirit you chose…
July 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Pick one that you feel uncomfortable with, seems hard, or when you look at it, makes you squirm.
Then pray this prayer each day, and fill in the blank of the prayer with that gift of the Spirit you chose…
Pick one that you feel uncomfortable with, seems hard, or when you look at it, makes you squirm.
Then pray this prayer each day, and fill in the blank of the prayer with that gift of the Spirit you chose…
…It is the uncontrolled spirit of hope that erodes the authority of oppression. Love is the human soul made visible.
Once we see it in one another's eyes, no force on earth can compel us to deny its reality.
~ Steven Charleston, Episcopal bishop
Once we see it in one another's eyes, no force on earth can compel us to deny its reality.
~ Steven Charleston, Episcopal bishop
July 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
…It is the uncontrolled spirit of hope that erodes the authority of oppression. Love is the human soul made visible.
Once we see it in one another's eyes, no force on earth can compel us to deny its reality.
~ Steven Charleston, Episcopal bishop
Once we see it in one another's eyes, no force on earth can compel us to deny its reality.
~ Steven Charleston, Episcopal bishop
Starting THIS Sunday, June 15 thru the summer: Sunday worship will be at 8am and 10am! Join us! Both in-person and online at 1stlu.org/live.
June 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Starting THIS Sunday, June 15 thru the summer: Sunday worship will be at 8am and 10am! Join us! Both in-person and online at 1stlu.org/live.