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Pilgrim Lutheran Church's primary focus is on God's Good News about the forgiveness of sins by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. (The English word "gospel" essentially means "good news".) In addition to our traditional proclamation of God's Good News in our services and Bible Classes, we make use of various other print and electronic media to communicate that Good News and other news about the congregation that we share with our members and the public. You may use this page to see or go directly to the most-recent postings in the News category, or you may use this page to navigate to the respective pages for each of the subcategories as described first below.
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July 07, 2017: Certificate of Occupancy
Capital Improvements Committee member and “contractor liason” Carl Gardner poses with the hot-off-the-press long-awaited Certificate of Occupancy for the new Parish Hall with Sunday School Classrooms. Photo: Barbara Wuthrich.
The City of Kilgore on July 07, 2017, awarded Pilgrim its long-awaited Certificate of Occupancy for the new Parish Hall with Sunday School Classrooms. At the precise moment that the Certificate was awarded, the parking lot was not yet completed, but City officials were confident that it would be and that the congregation would not “occupy” the building until it was. An Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) inspection was also yet to be completed, but the congregation was set to begin using the building after its dedication, set for the end of the regular Divine Service on Sunday, July 16, 2017. Vacation Bible School (VBS) that evening and the four following evenings would prove to be the first uses of the new Parish Hall. Sunday morning Refreshments, Adult Bible Class, and Sunday School would be in it before the Divine Service on Sunday, July 23, and after the Service there would be a covered-dish meal and Voters’ Meeting. The meal included the usual honoring of the High School graduates that would have taken place at the annual picnic that in 2017 was combined with the Voters’ meal.
July 07, 2017: Asphalting the Parking Areas
The Zebra crew’s second day of laying new asphalt at Pilgrim began with the old spaces along Broadway in the July mid-day heat. Photo: Jim Treadway.
The crew from Zebra Parking Lot Striping and Restorations put down new asphalt on Pilgrim’s old and new Parking Areas on Thursday, July 06, and Friday, July 07, 2017. The crew’s weeks worth of preceding work preparing all the surfaces was periodically interrupted by rain, but God granted largely sunny and dry days for the laying of the asphalt. Hot sun and air temperatures might have made the work go more smoothly but took its toll on the workers, who would return another day to stripe the parking areas after one Sunday of use. Glad to have the work finished, the congregation will anticipate seal-coating the areas and re-striping them in one year and be glad to have the Zebra crew back to do the job.
