{"id":13708,"date":"2012-09-28T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2012-09-27T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T03:43:50","slug":"faith-lutheran-church-serving-community-for-over-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/09\/faith-lutheran-church-serving-community-for-over-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Lutheran Church Serving Community For Over 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?attachment_id=13709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13709\" title=\"Faith Lutheran\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Faith-Lutheran-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Faith-Lutheran-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Faith-Lutheran-1024x618.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Faith Lutheran Church has been active for 50+ years now, being formed as a congregation on October 4, 1961 with the State of Florida.\u00a0 The church is also home to four other vibrant and vital churches: La Iglesias de Dios, Christ Redemption Ministries, Church of God of Prophesy and a new, small but active Spanish Assembly of God.\u00a0 Faith is located at 705 East Leeland Heights Blvd. in Lehigh Acres, Florida; Worship time is 10:00am on Sunday mornings; Sunday school classes for children begin at 10:15am; Communion will be distributed on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> &amp; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Sunday.\u00a0 This church is the only Lehigh Acres church with a Pipe Organ in the Sanctuary.\u00a0 Musicians from within the church perform regular concerts for the public, especially during the Advent Season and the Easter Season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bread distribution takes place on Tuesday, from 7:30am-9am; Alcoholics Anonymous meet on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 6:30 and 8:00pm in Whisnant Hall.\u00a0 NA and CA meet regularly during the week as well as a Hispanic AA group.\u00a0 The Lehigh Community Band meets on Tuesday evenings @ 7pm.\u00a0 The Lehigh Singers meet @ 7:15pm Monday evenings.\u00a0 Scout Troop 720 meets on Monday and Tuesday evenings @ 7pm. and Girl Scouts meet on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings.\u00a0 The Social Hall is available for rent for receptions and dinner events.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, with several starting gifts, Faith has opened an endowment fund to help defray maintenance costs for the future of the buildings on this 5 acre campus.<\/p>\n<p>With huge stained-glass windows, the Sanctuary is an imposing building.\u00a0 Many people, especially tourists, make a visit when in the area just to view the amazing design of these beautiful windows. There is a memorial rose garden at the entrance of the Sanctuary which contains the cremains of many former members of Faith Lutheran.\u00a0 You are welcome to visit anytime between the hours of 9am and 1pm M-F.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by\u00a0Faith Lutheran Church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith Lutheran Church has been active for 50+ years now, being formed as a congregation on October 4, 1961 with the State of Florida.\u00a0 The church is also home to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}