Welcome to Saint Andrew’s Lutheran Church of San Mateo
9For Sunday Worship
join us live at 9:00 am (coffee and treats begin at 8:45am):
in-person at 1501 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo
by internet on this page via YouTube (replay afterwards),
Offering donations:
can be mailed to the church office
at 1501 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94402,
Thank you for considering and your generosity as we seek to maintain operations.
While things have changed a bit, God’s presence and our ability to creatively gather remains.
We are a church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. Liberated by God’s unconditional love shown through Christ, we embrace you as a whole person – questions, complexities and all. We have them too.
Our ambition is to create community that affirms, welcomes and supports everyone just the way they are in age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic or family status, physical or mental abilities.
Come add your perspectives and life experiences to the diversity of views as we gather to share each hope and dream, each challenge and concern, each joy and lament, building up the message of love, respect and authenticity for one another.
Upcoming Worship and Festival Name:
Baptism Sunday
Reflection or Question for the Week:
Have you ever felt a spirit or energy or sense before?
Gospel Reading:
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”
– New Revised Standard Version
Church Year at a Glance
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