Our Mission Statement:
Journeying through faith in a joyful, safe community, welcoming and serving Belmont and beyond
Embrace, Grow, Connect, Give
Journeying
Through faith
Safe community
Welcoming
And serving
Belmont
- We recognize that all members of our congregation and community are on a unique faith journey
- Each of us, however, is on a different point of this path
- We meet, embrace and support everyone where they are on their unique faith journey
- We encourage and enable all we engage with to grow in their faith
Through faith
- Our faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit and anchored in Jesus Christ
- We experience God’s kingdom work now and strive to make it known to others.
- We profess and believe the creeds of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
- We respond to God’s grace with joy
- God desires joy for us, even as a broken world challenge us.
- Our joy is expressed throughout our lives, including through music, fellowship and love for others
Safe community
- It is not our call to judge each other. Churches are hospitals for sinners, not hotels for saints.
- Holy Comforter is a safe place to:
- Wrestle with your faith
- Be accepted, even celebrated, for who you are
Welcoming
- As all people are created in God’s image, all are welcome at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Comforter
- We embrace unity in Christ, not uniformity in people
- We seek to create an environment where all who enter our doors can connect with others
And serving
- Following the example of Christ, we view ourselves as servants
- Our faith is manifest by works:
- Feeding the hungry
- Supporting the poor
- Comforting the sick
- Welcoming the stranger
Belmont
- God has planted us in Belmont and we will serve our local community
- Our service extends into the world as God leads us
What do Lutherans believe?
Lutherans believe in the Holy Trinity. God created and loves all of creation -- the earth and the seas and all of the world’s inhabitants. We believe that God's Son, Jesus Christ, transforms lives through his death on the cross and his new life, and we trust that God's Spirit is active in the world. We are part of God’s unfolding plan. When we gather for worship, we connect with believers everywhere. When we study the Bible or hear God’s word in worship, we are drawn more deeply into God’s own saving story.
ELCA Statements of Belief
Lutherans believe in the Holy Trinity. God created and loves all of creation -- the earth and the seas and all of the world’s inhabitants. We believe that God's Son, Jesus Christ, transforms lives through his death on the cross and his new life, and we trust that God's Spirit is active in the world. We are part of God’s unfolding plan. When we gather for worship, we connect with believers everywhere. When we study the Bible or hear God’s word in worship, we are drawn more deeply into God’s own saving story.
ELCA Statements of Belief
What does the Holy Comforter cross represent?
Pentecost is 50 days after Jesus died and rose from the grave. The Holy Spirit descended upon His disciples and gathered believers into the Church of Christ. He gave them the Christ-earned forgiveness of sins and salvation, and established Christ’s kingdom, made manifest through the Gospel for all the world. The Bible was translated, read, preached and taught to many different people in their native languages.
The Lutheran Church of Holy Comforter’s logo honors the day of Pentecost. The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit descending upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ. The fire represents the tongues of fire for which the Gospel flowed. The “HC” flames of the fire remind us that ordinary people at Holy Comforter can be extraordinary, faithful instruments of the Holy Spirit, which flows through us to others when we use our spiritual gifts, time and talents. Just as we are sometimes broken, the incomplete cross reminds us “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). Surrounding the cross are two colors. The band of blue symbolizes the spiritual force of the Holy Trinity. The band of green symbolizes our Earthly journey with Christ.
Pentecost is 50 days after Jesus died and rose from the grave. The Holy Spirit descended upon His disciples and gathered believers into the Church of Christ. He gave them the Christ-earned forgiveness of sins and salvation, and established Christ’s kingdom, made manifest through the Gospel for all the world. The Bible was translated, read, preached and taught to many different people in their native languages.
The Lutheran Church of Holy Comforter’s logo honors the day of Pentecost. The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit descending upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ. The fire represents the tongues of fire for which the Gospel flowed. The “HC” flames of the fire remind us that ordinary people at Holy Comforter can be extraordinary, faithful instruments of the Holy Spirit, which flows through us to others when we use our spiritual gifts, time and talents. Just as we are sometimes broken, the incomplete cross reminds us “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26). Surrounding the cross are two colors. The band of blue symbolizes the spiritual force of the Holy Trinity. The band of green symbolizes our Earthly journey with Christ.
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:1-4).
