First Lutheran Church
Temple City, California

 

The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League of first Lutheran, Temple City, at the present time consists of three guilds. The Altar Guild, The Daylighters, which is a sewing group, and the Daytimers, which is a service group.

Daylighters meet weekly to sew, quilts, knit or crochet. They make quilts for World Relief and, lap robes for shut-ins. They also make banners, baby quilts, baby shawls and fancy quilts and other handmade items to sell at our annual Christmas Boutique. The Boutique is our main source of income for the three missionaries that we support.

Daytimers meet as needed to provide lunches for funerals, cards for shut-ins, home and hospital visits. We promote District and National LWML projects through our mite boxes.

The Altar Guild of 1st Lutheran Church, Temple City, is a group of dedicated ladies who work behind the scenes to make sure that various parts of the church service are prepared and ready for the pastor to use, to clean up after each service, and to make sure that the pastor is clean, pressed and presentable every Sunday.

These are our duties specifically:
1) To set up and clean up for each communion service, maintain the communion ware, and refresh supplies of wine, grape juice and communion wafers.
2) To clean and refill the pastor's and the deacon's individual communion sets used for home calls.
3) To set up for baptisms and have hand-embroidered baptismal napkins, scallop shells, and baptismal candles for the pastor to use and then give to the child's family.
4) To keep the chancel area clean, the plants watered and the candles renewed.
5) To design, embroider, and maintain the paraments, fair linen and the communion kneelers. And to change the paraments as the seasonal color changes.
6) To keep the pastor's, deacon's and acolyte's robes clean and pressed and to replace them as needed.
7) To provide robes for confirmands and maintain them.
8) To make, maintain and change banners that decorate the church and to change them as the pastor and the season dictates.
9) To provide flowers for the altar and chancel area for each service. After each service, these flowers are usually given to our sick and shut-ins.
10) To decorate the church for the major holidays, specifically: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Eastor.
11) To help the pastor in any way that will help him perform his duties. For example, Pastor Garrett always gets a dry throat when he gives his sermon, so we always make sure that he has a fresh glass of water on the pulpit so he may soothe his throat and finish his sermon. A previous pastor liked to wear a chausible, but only had one when he came to us. The Altar Guild provided him with four more, so he would have one for each color/season.
12) We meet quarterly to discuss the upcoming events that require our attention. We meet on the first Tuesday of December, March, June; and the second Tuesday of September. The pastor is always invited and welcome to attend our meetings.