Welcome to King of Glory Lutheran Church and Pre-School

   We have all seen the bumper sticker that says, “It takes a       village to raise a child.” 

    At King of Glory, we feel everybody needs a village, not just children.  To live life well, to laugh well and to love well and to suffer well and to mourn well all take a village.

    We are a village.

    It’s hard to imagine a village in our ever-flashing and beeping lives, but we found a way to be one:  we gather together. 

     We gather to laugh and celebrate (and laugh).  We gather to welcome.  We gather to remember.  We gather to sing and shout.  We gather to bring our children together.  We gather to learn from those who have been there before.  We gather to share what little we have.  We gather to hold each other to account.  We gather to say goodbye.

     We are a village of ordinary people gathered by the extraordinary love of the Living God. 

     We trust God’s Spirit is present in our failures and in our pain. 

     We believe God will bring blessings and healing and peace from what’s broken in our lives because we have seen it before.

     We believe in love.  Love has made us a village.

     We struggle to receive this love, this unearned mercy, and to live forgiven, serving the needs of strangers, enemies, and neighbors.

      As Christians, we confess the Triune God and celebrate the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

      As Lutherans, we hold firm to the promise of God’s grace:  God’s love for us will not be earned and cannot be forfeit.

      We gather to hear again about this wondrous love and to worship the Living God on Sunday mornings at 9:30 with Children’s time during the sermon. 

     We also celebrate communion every week.  King of Glory is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

     We also serve out of love, and our KOG village has been serving the children and parents of the Conejo Valley for seventeen years through our pre-school.

     King of Glory Lutheran Pre-School provides a developmental approach to learning in a Christian environment.  Our King’s Kids are the heart of our village.

     We believe life is good.  And life is hard.  And when life is hard, we celebrate life is good.  And when life is good, we reach out to those whose life is hard.

     We are not big but we are a village.  And a village is what it takes.

     Please, accept our invitation to visit our village.  It is a great place to raise a child, and so much more.

    Pastor Todd Payne