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Thank you to The Two Lilies for performing on Wednesday, July 15th in the second event of this season’s Listen Live at Lunch series.  First Lutheran’s stained-glass presentation of the nativity scene made a perfect back drop for “Ave Maria.”
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First Lutheran Church of Tacoma is proud to announce its 27th season of Listen Live at Lunch
CONCERT SERIES 2026 (PDF)
Wednesdays at Noon in the First Lutheran Sanctuary
JUL 8 — Bradley Hawkins, cello & Calder Failla, piano
JUL 15 — The Two Lilies, flute & piano
JUL 22 — Jinshil Yi, piano
JUL 29 — Kim Davenport, piano &am […]

First Lutheran Church of Tacoma is proud to announce its 25th season of “Listen Live at Lunch.”
CONCERT SERIES 2024
Wednesday at Noon in the First Lutheran Sanctuary
JUL 3: Elliot Sander & Alex Swanson, organists July 10: Reid Wolch, pianist, Dan Wolch, trombonist, Benjamin Sawrey, pianist
JUL 17: Wyatt Smith, organist
JUL […]

Grammy-nominated pianist Duane Hulbert joins his longtime friend soprano Elizabeth Procuronoff, in a recital that will benefit Tacoma’s Emergency Food Network, Aug. 20, 2:00 at First Lutheran Church, 524 S. “I” St, Tacoma.
The recital, Songs in the Key of Me, is a musical travelogue of the USA, South America and Europe featuring bot […]

LISTEN LIVE AT LUNCH SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 2022
WEDNESDAYS AT NOON AT FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
FREE ADMISSION
JUL 6—Rachel Nesvig, Hardanger fiddle, and violin. A program of Norwegian folk music, and more.
JUL 13—Two Lilies: Liliya Linder, flute; Liliya Sitdikova, piano. Works by Bach, Gossec, Handel, Loeillet, Mozart, Pachelbel, and Viv […]

In times of uncertainty, as the people of God, we need a hope that is unshakeable. All the things we have been putting our hope in, be it a growing economy, longer life expectancy, or increasing personal freedom and self-understanding, are suddenly revealed as a glass castle. What we need is an unshakable hope.
Surprisingly for some, this […]

Loving God, Holy One, your desire is for our wholeness and well-being.
We hold in tenderness and prayer the collective suffering of our world at this time. We grieve precious lives lost and vulnerable lives threatened. We ache for ourselves and our neighbors, standing before an uncertain future.
We pray: may love, not fear, go viral. Insp […]

I wish coronavirus was my first epidemic. As a medical missionary and a relief team leader in war zones around the world I’ve risked my life trying to save lives in more epidemics than I can count. There is nothing special about that. It has been the normal Christian life throughout history. Christians don’t run from a crisis. They ru […]

“Have no anxiety at all; but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God” (Philippians 4:6)
Loving God, we arise today to face the challenges on the road ahead. It is clear that our current situation needs us to be steadfast and persistent in our response to COVID-19; as this is a marathon […]