ABOUT US
Holy Cross Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a caring family of believers committed to proclaiming the Gospel of Christ in its purity and truth in accord with Holy Scripture and the Confessions of the Holy Christian Church found in the Book of Concord of 1580.
We have gathered since 1982 in various locations in Albany, and constructed our first building in 1994, doing most of the labor ourselves. We give testimony to our unity in the faith with saints of days gone by as we continue in the use of the Divine Service handed down through 2,000 years of confessing the virgin birth, perfect life, sin-atoning death, glorious resurrection, majestic ascension, and eagerly-awaited return of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this way, we are brought together here for true worship: receiving worth and worthiness from our merciful Father, who takes away our sin through the cleansing blood of Jesus, and returning praise and thanksgiving to the Triune God for what He has done and still does for us.
As our fathers in the faith said of our liturgy, it is truly 'Gottesdienst'―God's Service, the service that God Himself does for us, coming to us to bring us His grace and forgiveness through Holy Baptism, Absolution, the Preaching of the Cross, and the Holy Supper of Christ's Body and Blood. It is the continuous activity of God that makes clear what St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory" (1 Tim.3:16). True godliness is a mystery to the non-Christian (and, sadly, to a great many Christians); it is not what we do, according to St. Paul, but what Jesus has done. By the grace of God and through our use of the historic liturgy of the Church, that is what the services at Holy Cross Evangelical-Lutheran Church deliver.
We hope that you will stop back periodically to see our website as it develops. If you are traveling and find yourself in our area, we hope you will stop in to see us. If you're here on a Sunday, the Divine Service, Holy Communion, is at 10:30 a.m., preceded by an Education Hour all ages at 9:15 a.m.. (Visitors are asked to speak to our pastor ahead of time if they wish to commune.) We also hold mid-week services during Advent and Lent at 7:00 p.m.
We have gathered since 1982 in various locations in Albany, and constructed our first building in 1994, doing most of the labor ourselves. We give testimony to our unity in the faith with saints of days gone by as we continue in the use of the Divine Service handed down through 2,000 years of confessing the virgin birth, perfect life, sin-atoning death, glorious resurrection, majestic ascension, and eagerly-awaited return of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this way, we are brought together here for true worship: receiving worth and worthiness from our merciful Father, who takes away our sin through the cleansing blood of Jesus, and returning praise and thanksgiving to the Triune God for what He has done and still does for us.
As our fathers in the faith said of our liturgy, it is truly 'Gottesdienst'―God's Service, the service that God Himself does for us, coming to us to bring us His grace and forgiveness through Holy Baptism, Absolution, the Preaching of the Cross, and the Holy Supper of Christ's Body and Blood. It is the continuous activity of God that makes clear what St. Paul wrote to St. Timothy: "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory" (1 Tim.3:16). True godliness is a mystery to the non-Christian (and, sadly, to a great many Christians); it is not what we do, according to St. Paul, but what Jesus has done. By the grace of God and through our use of the historic liturgy of the Church, that is what the services at Holy Cross Evangelical-Lutheran Church deliver.
We hope that you will stop back periodically to see our website as it develops. If you are traveling and find yourself in our area, we hope you will stop in to see us. If you're here on a Sunday, the Divine Service, Holy Communion, is at 10:30 a.m., preceded by an Education Hour all ages at 9:15 a.m.. (Visitors are asked to speak to our pastor ahead of time if they wish to commune.) We also hold mid-week services during Advent and Lent at 7:00 p.m.
