About Us

Faith Lutheran Church is located in the heart of Chico, CA.  It was founded in 1950 with 28 charter members.  We belong to 

	the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:  Rev. Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop History of the ELCA Synods of the ELCA
	and to the Sierra Pacific Synod 2010 Highlights Rev. Mark Homerud, Bishop.   2010 Bishop's Report

The congregation worships an average of 280 on Sundays from September through May and 213 on Sundays during the summer with traditional and contemporary settings of worship and educational and service opportunities for all ages.  

All are welcome!

The Cross....to us who are being saved it is the power of God."  1 Corinthians 1:18b.  

The cross is the Christian symbol of Christ's death and resurrection.  

This particular cross is a Faith Lutheran creation.  When the new church building was built in 1989, a new large cross was created to hang above the organ in the sanctuary.  In the old church building hung a large crown of thorns, a symbol of Christ's suffering.  It was decided to combine the crown of thorns and the cross into the symbol you see.               

Time is a gift of God's creation. People order time in various ways, often based on the rhythms of nature. The church organizes time by the curch year. It tells the story of God, who is beyond time, acting in history-above all through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

All Sundays of the year are festivals of our Lord Jesus Christ. In a profound sense, Sunday-the first day of the week, the weekly celebration of the day of resuurection-is the primary Christian festival. Other principal festivals and observaces are the Nativity of Our Lord and the
Epiphany of Our Lord, Ash Wednesday and the days of Holy week, the Three Days of Maunday Thursday, Good Firday, an the Resurrection of Our Lord; the Sundays of Easter, the Ascension of Our Lord, and the Day of Pentecost; and the Holy Trinity.

The curch year includes the Christmas and Easter cycles of seasons and a period of time after Epiphany and after Pentecost. The Christmas cycle begins with the first Sunday of Advent, four Sundays before December 25, and concludes with the Epiphany of oOur Lord on January 6,. The Easter cycle begins with Ash Wednesday forty says before Easter and concludes with the Say of Pentrecosst on the fiftieth day of Easter. The weekly progression of Sundays charaxcterizes the Time after Epiphany ans the Time after Penecost.

Lesser festivals are additional days when we celebrate the life of Christ, the witness of those who accomplanied and testified to him, and the gifts of God in the church. Commemoations illuminate various aspects of the chruich's life and mission throughthe lives of women and men who havw followed Christ in succeeding generations.

The propers include scripture readings and other text that are chosen to suport the church year. Many Christian churches unite around a three-year set of Bible readings, the Revised Common Lectionary. Other propers include the prayer of the day. Additional prayers for assemby whorship and devotional use are also located in this section.

(from the Evangelical Lutheran Worship book, page 13)

The Vanderbilt Library provide the three-year set of Bible readings on-line. The link provided to their web site gives the Bible reading for the current season of the church year.

The church year starts in late November of each year and ends in early Noverber of the following year. The Lectionary reading are a three year cycle: Year A, Year B & Year C. See the dates below for the major events of each year.

Year C (2009 - 2010)

Advent Season starts

Christmas Season starts

Epiphany Season

Lenten Season starts

Holy Week starts

Sundays and church festival days are assigned colors.  The colors are blue, white, green, purple, scarlet, gold and red.          

The background color for all pages in this web site match these Sunday and church festival colors.The first season in the church year starts with Advent (about the 1st of December), and the last season is Pentecost that end near the end of November.

Advent Season

1st thru 4th Sunday

Holy Week

Palm Sunday

Christmas Season

Christmas Eve & Day

scarlet

Monday thru Thursday

white

Sundays in Christmas

Epiphany of Our Lord

6th of January of each year

Easter Season

Easter Sunday (gold)

Epiphany Season

after Epiphany

white

2nd thru 6th Sunday in Easter

Baptism of Our Lord

1st Sunday in Epiphany

white

Ascension of Our Lord

Other Sundays in Epiphany

white

7th Sunday in Easter

Last Sunday in Epiphany

red

Pentecost

Lenten Season

Ash Wednesday 

Pentecost Season

after Pentecost

purple

1st thru 5th Sunday in Lent

Holy Trinity 

1st Sundayin Pentecost 

green

Other Sundays 

Christ the King

 Last Sunday in Pentecost

      

    
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