Following are links specifically for those who have chosen to be members of Christ the Savior Lutheran Church.  If you are a member and have difficulty accessing information, please contact the church office for assistance, magnifies@christthesavior.org.

 

Access

Access gives members online access to their family's information in the church database.  After signing in to this secure feature, members can update personal records, view their giving records and register for events online.  Sign in now.  Learn more about Access. 

 

Annual Report

Our fiscal year runs from August 1 through July 31.  Annual reports are issued in September after the fiscal year financial records are closed.  Annual reports include stories of ministry, reports from each steeple area and the financial report for the year.

2009-2010 Annual Report

2008-2009 Annual Report

2007-2008 Annual Report

 

Church Organization

Our organizational structure is based upon the primary premises that Christ is the Head of the Church, and that all members are His servants and thus called to serve others.  It is the responsibility of staff to equip, empower, and encourage members to serve and to lead as God has called them.  Leadership responsibilities are shared by staff and elected leaders who serve on the Visioning Body and the Board of Leaders.  The church organization is based upon the mission statement and ministry of the church.  Our six primary organizational departments are called Steeples, they are Magnification, Membership, Maturity, Ministry, Mission and Administration.  Organizational Diagram 

 

Congregational meeting

There are two congregational meetings each year, in January and in June.  The primary purpose of the January meeting is to elect lay leaders.  The primary purpose of the June meeting is to approve the budget for the new fiscal year which starts August 1. 

 

Electronic Giving

"Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."  2 Corinthians 9:7 Today's New International Version  

 

To make a gift, click

 

Stewardship is a way of life that acknowledges everything we have belongs to God.  It is also understanding that it is our responsibility and joy to share with others.  One way we can do this is through financial gifts that make ministry possible.  Through our online donation feature, it is possible to make a one-time gift or to establish a recurring electronic funds transfer as an ongoing contribution to the ministry of Christ the Savior Lutheran Church.  This secure feature is offered through Vanco Services.   

 

When using this online feature, the individual specifies a one-time donation or a recurring donation (which can be set up without having to turn in any paperwork/voided check to the church office).  The individual determines the account that the donation will be drawn from, the transaction date, and views their donation history without any assistance from the church office.  This feature also allows us as a church to be immediately responsive to a plea for disaster assistance. If you already participate in Simply Giving and would like to use the online feature to make changes and view your history, the church office will need to specify an email address in your already existing Simply Giving record.  Please contact Kim Brooks if you would like to do that 842-5649, ext. 225.

  

Ways to Serve

Serving Christ by serving others is an important way we express our life as His follower. He gave us the example to follow, at the Last Supper when he donned a towel and took the role of servant.   "When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.  “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet."  John 13:12-14 New International version 

 

There are many opportunities to serve, in your family, in your community, in the church, in the world.  To help you find a place to serve that fits the person that you are, click here.  

 

Why is serving so important?  Because....

• The ministry of serving others is an act of love and devotion to Christ.  Worship is not something that occurs only at Sunday morning services.  Worship happens each moment of our lives when we offer what we are doing to God.      “I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – which is your spiritual worship.”  Romans 12:1
• God has a unique purpose or calling for each of our lives.  All Christians – clergy, lay persons, men, women, leaders, followers, younger, older, educated and disabled – are “…God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”     Ephesians 2:10
• We all have been given gifts to fulfill our calling.  “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.  If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God.  If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.  To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”   1 Peter:10-11
• Gifts are given not to be left idle, but to be used in community to serve God and others.  The purpose of spiritual gifts is not to build up the individual, but to serve the community.  God has described His church as a body, a unit made up of many parts.  A body of many parts is only healthy when all parts are fully interconnected and functioning properly in their own assigned niche.  When there are ‘missing pieces’ in our churches, the church suffers and God’s work in the world suffers.  Each person is absolutely necessary.  And there are multiple blessings; by saying ‘yes’ an individual becomes more fully formed as a person, Christ’s purposes are served and Christian community and beyond are benefited.
• We more deeply understand our personal relationship with Christ as we serve in community.  “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”  Ephesians 4:15-16  God did not call us to live alone as isolated persons, He calls His people to live in community.  A personal relationship to Christ truly flourishes when it is grounded in the accountability, grace, patience and love that only community can provide.   
• Spiritual growth is activated when we serve others.  Spiritual growth involves many things, including Bible study, prayer, spiritual disciplines, the Sacraments, fellowship with other believers, giving to support God’s kingdom and worship.  Spiritual growth is also activated as we serve others, because it is in the act of serving that our faith is given living expression.  “Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says.  Anyone who listens to the Word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like…Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this; to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.  What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?  Can such faith save him? …In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”                                    James 1:22-24,27; 2:14, 17