Absolutely! All Christians are invited to come forward during Communion distribution.

All confirmed members of this congregation and confirmed members of our sister congregations in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) are welcome to partake of the Lord’s Supper. If you are a member of a church in another Lutheran church body, or are from another church body or tradition, please speak to the pastor or an elder before you take the Lord’s body and blood in, with, and under the bread and wine. For more of an explanation of our communion practice, please see the card “About Holy Communion” in the pew. Gluten-free wafers are available – please let the pastor or elder know you need one BEFORE the service begins.

Absolutely not! We all come to the Lord’s table recognizing that we are sinners continually in need of Christ’s forgiveness, including the forgiveness delivered in the Lord’s Supper. But we also recognize that the Scriptures say you can be HARMED by partaking of the Lord’s Supper without discerning the Lord’s body and blood (1 Corinthians 11:27-32). We at Messiah don’t want to be an instrument of harm to your soul.

Come forward and place your arms across your chest at the communion rail. The pastor will give you a blessing. You have received the forgiveness of sins which we ALL need in the absolution at the beginning of the service, and through the proclamation of that forgiveness in Jesus Christ in the reading of His Word and in the sermon. Rejoice!