Picture Albums

Ice Cream Social, August 2006

The Ice Cream Social was a Luther Memorial intergenerational event at Oakwood Village with seniors as honored guests. People enjoyed ice cream sundaes and warm fellowship. A number of the youth served the ice cream and and asssisted with the event.

The Church Garden

Passers-by on University Avenue often stop to admire the flower garden in front of Luther Memorial Church. Jean Sumi, a member of the church, restores and maintains it each year.

Perennial plants are coreopsis, phlox, pink and red monarda, veronica, Asiatic lily, guara, false dragon head, campanula, shasta daisy, and astibe; Annual flowers include marigold, wax begonia, verbena, and yellow marguerite.

Banquet, October 24, 2003

People around flower-decorated tables of food

Appetizers were served in the Crossing.

Two recorder players

Sandy Erickson and Dorothea Zeppenfeld were in the recorder ensemble that played before the dinner.

Photo of church interior

A large baptismal font stands at the entrance to the nave.

In recent years, Luther Memorial's transept balconies have been removed and replaced with small "aria" balconies, the semi-circular apse has been repainted, and lighting in the chancel and transept areas has been improved.

Closeup of ceiling over altar

Cross and circle stencil design

Like they had been before, the walls of the apse are decorated with stenciled designs. The new colors are lighter than the previous ones. A detail of the cross design in the stencil pattern is shown here.

		Sandy Erickson is ready to turn pages for Bruce Bengtson, Luther Memorial's director of Music, as he plays the Austin organ in the choir loft.
The Luther Memorial toddler nursery has colorful toys. Rooms do double duty for Sunday nursery and weekday preschool.

This drawing, by Mary Ellen Dean Mueller, is on note cards available for sale at the church office.

The church is open daily for prayer.