Denver Service Learning Trip
July 9 – 16, 2023


14 students and three adults traveled to Denver, Colorado for a week of service & learning.

Check out their posts below to learn more about their experiences while they were in Denver.


Indianapolis!

Indianapolis!

After a long 9 hours in the car, we made it safely to Indianapolis. The group is running around outside our host church to burn off some energy before we go to bed early tonight. We have about another 9 hours of driving tomorrow before we reach Lutherock, our final...

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Our Corporate Confession

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Again I share the theological reflections of Marjorie Suchocki from her chapter “Prayers of Corporate Confession,” In God’s Presence: “But while we are often quite aware of individual sins, we are often oblivious...

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Personal Confession

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. I share here some of Marjorie Suchocki’s theological reflections from her chapter “Prayers of Personal Confession,” In God’s Presence: Prayers of personal confession refer to naming ourselves before God as we...

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Prayer of Confession

Today's author is Prince of Peace's Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. In one of the more traditional versions of the Confession and Forgiveness in our Lutheran liturgy, we say that “We have sinned against [God] in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done...

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God’s Gracious Invitation

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Read Psalm 104: 1-13. In the Epilogue of In God’s Presence, Marjorie Suchocki’s writes: “God creates and works within an interdependent universe, both interdependent within itself and with God. The universe is...

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God’s Character

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson. Three New Testament texts that I find central to who God is are these:“God is love.” (I John 4:16b)“For ‘In [God] we live and move and have our being.’” (Acts17:28a)“Love is patient; love is kind; ...It does not...

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Touchstones

Today's author is Prince of Peace's Intentional Interim, Pr. Steve Sylvester. I did my seminary internship in 1988/89 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City.  A week before landing at LaGuardia airport, I was sitting on a granite slab in the early pre-dawn...

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Pentecost

Today's author is Prince of Peace member Steve Sveom. There are three primary festival days in the Christian calendar.  Christmas and Easter are the first two.  Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection are the focus.  The third key festival is...

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