Celebrate milestones with your St. Luke's family.
Celebrate milestones with your St. Luke's family.
The monthly "St. Luke's Celebrates" newsletter helps St. Lukers connect to one another as we navigate life together. 
We wish a very Happy Birthday to all our St. Lukers! Click the button below to help us celebrate the next few months of birthdays. 
We appreciate the faithful commitment St. Lukers make to St. Luke's ministries. Click the button below to help us celebrate the next few months of church partnership anniversaries.
Grace Flaherty married Ethan Contreras on May 21 with the Rev. Jenn Stiles Williams officiating. Grace and Ethan have been a part of the theater ministry team for the past five years. Congratulations!
St. Luker Katie Thedford married Hunter Johnson on June 26 in a beautiful ceremony in the sanctuary. Katie and her family are longtime St. Lukers and we are grateful to be able to finally celebrate their union with their friends and family. Congratulations to you both.
Congratulations to the Malick family on forty-eight years of marriage! Ruth and Keith met at Otterbein University. They have been members of St. Luke’s since 1983. Happy Anniversary!
St. Luker, Anthony “Tony” Aslanian passed away on June 7 surrounded by his family. Tony, his wife Jessica, and their children Michael and Catie have been partners with us since 2007. A memorial service was held on Friday, June 18 at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary. Please continue to lift this family in your prayers.

Milestones
Drive It Forward webpage
Drive It Forward Video
St. Luke's "Drive it Forward" car ministry is celebrating its faithful volunteers and partners who help Restore Hope for Central Florida families. Watch the video above and read the latest news to learn more about this thriving ministry and the next oil change event on July 31. 
Learn More About "Drive it Forward"
St. Luke's VBS children had an amazing time being back on campus, singing, learning the Bible stories in Bible drama, making crafts, and finding ways to create clean water in Costa Rica. Over 150 "shipmates" climbed aboard the "SS St. Luker" to join a hero’s quest to discover our core values in the parables of Jesus. Ms. Lana and her team did a fantastic job planning, writing, and making VBS so special.
St. Luke's Sanctuary Choir gathered for the first time in person in over a year, and sang a beloved hymn together! Now's a great time to join the choir. Email Amy Martin Cole for details.
St. Luke's Facebook Page Videos
In case you missed it, St. Luke's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee presented two powerful video programs last month:
Grow It Forward Micro Farm Expansion
St. Luke’s, in partnership with Grow Orlando, welcomes Orlando Baptist Temple in Pine Hills as a new farm in the Grow It Forward network.
Community members, Grow Orlando staff, and St. Luke’s volunteers joined together to prepare the land for a September groundbreaking of this new farm.
Community leaders and children from The Legal Labb, Inc. and Big Sis, Inc. summer camps, gathered to taste produce grown at the St. Luke’s Farm and suggested the fresh vegetables and fruits they would like to plant on their farm.
St. Luke's thanks No Kid Hungry for the grant funding of four new farms in the Pine Hills and Winter Garden areas in 2021.
For more information or to get involved, contact Amy Winslow.
This month's featured Staff Shout Out goes to St. Luke's Director of Adult Discipleship and Evangelism, Liz Vasquez! 
For being so compassionate and creative with connecting people to discipleship. She is helping Missions shepherd volunteers to get excited about joining discipleship groups.
Congratulations Liz!
St. Luke's Shout Outs!
Share notes of affirmation for St. Luke's volunteers and/or staff members who are going above and beyond. These "St. Luke's Shout Outs" will be used to select a featured volunteer or staff member who will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of the St. Luke's Celebrates newsletter!
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