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St. Luke's sits in the cotton fields of Southern New Mexico just a few miles north of El Paso, Texas. We are a simple, sacred and rural community of worshippers. We are not a church with attitudes, agendas, causes or politics. We worship, fellowship then go home to gather again the next Sunday and do it again. We intentionally do little, but we do it well. We use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We have a few pot luck lunches a year and open our Outreach Barn four times a year to serve the community. The first Saturday of October we hold a country fair. That's about it. In 2009 we attracted almost 1000 people and 150 dachshunds to race plus a Noah's Ark of other animals. If you are looking for a place to worship and are tired of pleas for money or joining cell groups or protesting this or that, then St. Luke's is the place for you. We are liturgical, meaning we follow the life of Christ in the tradition of Anglicans around the world. We pray together and sing together and confess together. We light candles, sign hymns badly, and there are many stained glass windows. We have a sacred burial ground for cremation remains and a fish pond. No one will call you and bother you. You will not be told that what you are doing is wrong. We let the Holy Spirit convict you Himself. You will be instructed on things to do that will help you grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. We are faithul beleivers. We preach the Gospel. We teach the Gospel. We love, we eat and we live knowing that God loves us. We will let Him take care of the final judgement when He comes again. Our duty is to love Him today, seek the Kingdo of God first, and love our enemies as ourselves. He can manage the rest. We acknowledge that each of us is the enemy of someone else and we all need prayer and need rto ead the Bible. At St. Luke's, we do not form committees, join committees or have meetings, except for those we must. We trust God and let His will be done. We do the little that is necessary to stay prosperous. We pay our bills and the few salaries for a full-time priest and one part-time helper. We ask that those who attend give just enough to meet these needs. Our budget has remained the same for four years, about $170,000 a year. Prasie God for volunteers with pure hearts. We are Christians, then St. Lukians, then Episcopalians. Maybe you would like to join us. If so, leave your attitudes and agendas and causes and politics at home and come and worship and love. Then come back again and do it one more time. We are different not only because we are rural, ancinet and bible-based, but we are diffeent because the Priest is not seminary trained. He is a graduate school academic, so he is not churchy in the sense of many others. Also, as an emotional, educated spirit, He allows the Scriptures to move him deeply, then with the annointing of God's grace, he uses that emotion to convey the meaning of the Gospel in a way that has meaning to our lives TODAY. Some like his style and some don't. That's why there are so many types, methods, churches and denominations: everyone must find where the Holy Spirit calls them. The question is this: Are you called to St. Luke's? Come and see. For 93 years, through thick and thin, St. Luke's has prospered as a small, rural parish. We intend to stay a small and prosperous rural parish for the next 93 years, be it God's will. May God's peace, that wonderful and glorious mystery, be yours now for forevermore. The Rev. Jeff Lambert - Rector
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