Altar Guild

Our purpose is to prepare the altar area for worship, weddings, funerals and Holy Communion services.

Angel Food

Angel Food Ministries is dedicated to providing grocery relief to the Hot Springs community while providing opportunities for service and fellowship with volunteers from other area churches. Our volunteers help at the Hot Springs host site at Westminster Presbyterian Church once a month on a Saturday morning. The truck is unloaded and food is packaged assembly-line style and then distributed to those who placed orders the previous month. For more information about Angel Food, see their website at www.angelfoodministries.com

Braille

The Braille Ministry brings Christ to those in darkness by making Books of the Bible in Braille. The group meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Children's Ministry

Our purpose for Children's Ministry is to lead children to Jesus, help them grow in faith, and to share his love with others. We offer Sunday School classes for children in preschool - 6th grade; Wednesday evening J.A.M. (Jesus and Me) Club (K-4th graders) and J.A.M. 56 (5th & 6th graders); special seasonal events and a dynamic Vacation Bible School.

Sunday Morning: Sunday School--9:45 a.m.
Wednesday Evening: J.A.M. Clubs--6:30-8:30 p.m.

J.A.M. CLUB SHARES LOVE WITH COMMUNITY HELPERS. The kids made cookies to share with local firefighters who then shared fire safety tips with the children. We learned important lessons on serving God and others with out very best!

Choir

Our Choir sings special music at the 8:30 Traditional Worship Service and also presents Christmas and Easter Cantatas. Rehearsals are on Sunday mornings at 7:30 a.m.

Little Lambs Preschool

Mission Statement: To reach all children and their families with God's love, to guide parents in assisting their children into useful and purposeful lives, and to help children serve the Lord through discovering and developing their abilities.

Little Lambs Prechool focuses on developing the Whole Child -- spirit, mind and body! Little Lambs offers an exciting "hands on" kindergarten readiness program for children ages 2-1/2 through five years of age. The curriculum is interactive and Bible-based. It encourages children to explore while encompssing all the pre-kindergarten skills such as the recognition of numbers, colors, shapes, alphabet letters, rhyming words, fine and gross motor development and much more. Gymnastics, music and art are offered with qualified teachers and staff.

For more information contact Misty Burroughs, Director at 520-0500.

Prayer Shawl Ministry

The Prayer Shawl Ministry is a way to reach out to people going through a life challenge and projects the message they are being prayed for and cared about. Each shawl becomes a physical reminder of God's healing presence. It brings feelings of peace, healing, love, comfort and hope. In addition to the shawls, lap robes and scarves are knitted/crocheted for the patients at the VA hospital.

Working meetings are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. Members of this ministry also work on projects at home between meetings.

Small Group Ministry

To make a large church "small," we have several Small Groups that meet one or two times a month either in homes or at the church. The target size for these groups is 10-12 persons. Small Groups promote growing in our faith, supporting and building relationships with others, and serving God and others joyfully.

Special Delivery

This ministry serves families of newborn babies! We understand the fatigue factor that sets in when a newborn baby comes home from the hospital. We try to help the new mother and father by preparing and delivering evening meals to them for at least one week when they are ready for them. Sometimes it isn't until two or three weeks after the baby comes home does this need arise, so we're ready to serve when the family makes the request! We liberally sprinkle God's love and blessings on this new little one and the family!

Stephen Ministry

Our congregation's Stephen Ministry equips lay people to provide confidential, one-to-one Christian care to individuals in our congregation and community who are experiencing difficulties in their lives.

We all experience challenges in life, times when we could benefit from the support of a caring Christian friend. Stephen Ministers are ready to provide the cmotional spiritual care we need when faced with a cricis or difficulty, such as:

  - loss of a loved one
  - hospitalization
  - divorce or separation
  - unemployment or a job crisis
  - a terminal illness
  - And many more

For more information about Stephen Ministry, contact the church office @ 525-0322. We will forward your request to our Stephen Leaders.

Touch Team

The Touch Team is dedicated and committed to serving God by serving the members of First Lutheran Church, their families and friends when the need arises.

The Touch Team
- Encourages a spirit of serving to be embodied by the entire congregation
- Enlists others to give their time and talent in preparing and serving food at various church-related functions

These opportunities
  - Encourage members to become involved in other areas of service
  - Provide an arena for members to work side by side and become better acquainted
  - Allow care and concern for each other as well as those they are serving
  - Discover the joy of using the gifts God has given us

Meetings are scheduled as needed, generally once a month, and on Tuesdays at 1:30pm

Women's Ministry

Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML)
... Assisting women in affirming their relationship with God, enabling each to use her gifts in ministry to the people of the world.

Ladies Night Out: Gathering at a local restaurant, we invite friends to join us for a time of fellowship, encouragement and support.