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Lutheran Lompoc Day 66

US Flag I strutted across, expecting to be greeted by them. As I approached, however, it became increasingly clear that they were not interested in me at all. I headed instead toward a clergyman on one side of the group. "Our Lutheran congregation," he told me proudly, "use this building four nights a week and every Sunday, of course, for our services and Sunday School." Indignation swelled up inside and as courteously as I could manage, I probed further, "When do the Episcopalians meet then?" "Them," he replied, a smile spreading across his face, "there aren't many of those in town. They don't use this building much, except their service after ours have finished!"

A New Start

Lompoc St Mary Church That first dull, foggy Sunday in Lompoc, a group of us waited in the rain outside the Episcopal Church. The inside was crowded with this other Lutheran congregation who had nurtured a strong and growing fellowship in the same building in which our Church was dying. I was shocked that our people had agreed to rent the church for only forty dollars a month to help pay their own expenses. "I'll write to the Bishop about this in the morning!" I vowed quietly to myself. The Bishop agreed, the Lutherans moved, and we began repairs on the church and Parish house.

"The Lutheran congregation in Lompoc Episcopal Church."

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