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Lutheran Church of the Cross of Bismarck, North Dakota, where you will find a welcoming environment with friendly faces and meaningful worship experience. We are a participating member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Please take some time to see what we’re all about. Get to know this wonderful church and make some friends along the way!

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Please call us at 701-223-1001 or email:
churchsecretary@midconetwork.com

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You can also give directly to Lutheran Disaster Response by going directly to www.elca.org/hurricanes

Announcements

Click here to see the weekly announcements or scroll to the bottom of the page to see the e-bulletin board.

Altar Focus for October – ELCA World Hunger

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Our focus this month is the 50th anniversary of ELCA World Hunger. We want to be part of the generation to wipe out world hunger! Make a donation to help ELCA World Hunger’s work locally, nationwide and globally with feeding programs, animals, water wells, health care...
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Confirmation, Youth, and Church School Schedules

by | September 11, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

It seems crazy that school is starting again already! And so is fall programming here at LCC. September 8: Rally Sunday – come meet your church school teacher during worship, and fun activity afterward! Think scavenger hunt! September 11: Rally Wednesday –...
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WND Fall book read and coaching Workshop

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The WND Synod will host a fall book read and coaching series, focusing on Embracing Diversity, the book by Darrell Jadock & William Nelson The series, facilitated by ELCA-trained coaches, will: Consist of 8 Sessions, 1 hour each. October 3rd through November 21st...
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Buffalo Supper at UCC

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The UCC will be holding their annual Buffalo Supper with a quilt raffle on October 12 from 4:30 -8 pm at UCC, 1200 E. Highland Acres Road. Cost is $22 adults, $10 child (4-10), 3 and under free. Call their church office for tickets M-F 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. 100% of...
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Skills for Bridging the Gap

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

We encounter difference around us – in religion, culture, and politics. With the right skills, we can learn how to respectfully and bravely reach across the divide. This 4 session series is on Wednesdays at 10 am (October 2, 9, 16, 23) at Faith Lutheran Church and...
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Called to Care Training offered October 18-19

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Some members have told me it would be wonderful to have a training for people who might be interested in visiting others on behalf of LCC, but don’t really know how to go about it. Serendipitously, our neighbors at UCC have invited us to join them in a training called...
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Trunk or Treat October 27th!

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Have you noticed Halloween decorations starting to proliferate around town? This is our cue to think about Trunk or Treat! We will once again host trick or treaters by decorating our car trunks and donning costumes to hand out candy, right in our own parking lot (or...
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All Saints Services

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

All Saints Day is Friday, November 1st. Join friends from all over Bismarck at a Taize’ worship that evening at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 601 N. 4th Street, Bismarck, at 6 pm. All Saints Sunday is November 3rd. Be sure to join us, live or online, for worship, and...
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Reformation Sunday

by | October 5, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

It’s been 507 years now since Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg! Wear red on October 27, get ready to sing some favorite songs and hymns, and let’s celebrate our beginnings and the church which stays true to its roots in...
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In the Footsteps of Paul Trip update 

by | September 8, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

You are still welcome to join Pastor Lisa and other members of LCC, family and friends on a trip to Greece and Turkey, March 18-30, 2025. There is also the possibility of an extension for a fascinating couple of days to Istanbul at the end! If you have been...
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New Member Orientation

by | September 8, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Are you interested in joining Church of the Cross, or hearing more about it? Let Pastor know of your interest, and she will check schedules for what will work best for the group for a new member class! 
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Who we are

We started as a home mission congregation…

of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1955. Trinity Lutheran Church of Bismarck acted as the sponsoring congregation. The first services were held in the current building on the 11th of March, 1956, and the rest is history.

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