Lent 2025 Worship Services
Wednesdays of Lent 2025 Join us each Wednesday during Lent — between March 5 and April 9 until Easter — for our 40-day journey with Jesus to the cross, featuring our Lent 2025 Worship Services. The season of Lent serves not only as a time to meditate on the suffering that Christ endured on our behalf but also as an opportunity to reflect upon our own Baptism and what it means to live as a child of God. Midweek Worship…
Winterfest
Winterfest Chili Cook-Off and Pastry Auction Saturday, March 1, 2024 | 11:00am to 1:30pm | 12:00 Pastry Auction The Board of Elders at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, Missouri will be hosting Immanuel’s once annual “WINTERFEST: A Family & Friends Chili Cook-Off & Pastry Auction” on Saturday, March 1. The day will include a chili feed, chili cook-off competition, pastry auction, music, inflatables for the kids and fun! Invite your family, co-workers, neighbors and friends. Join us anytime from 11am to 1:30pm…
Super Subs Fundraiser
Super Subs Made fresh by our Youth on Super Bowl Sunday, February 9, 2025 — Thanks for ordering ahead! Support the youth of Immanuel as they raise money for various youth trips and activities throughout the year by ordering a fresh-made Super Sub Sandwich! This year our profits will support our high school youth as they raise money to attend the LCMS National Youth Gathering in New Orleans this summer! Make a secure, easy online donation to our Youth Group…
Christmas Day Service
Christmas Day With Holy Communion Christ the Savior is born! On that first Christmas, only a few experienced the miraculous happenings of the night before, but word was spreading. Fewer still knew the significance of this baby’s birth. Jesus has come to do no less than save the world! This perfect, tiny child, laid down in a manger, would grow up to lay down his life on a cross for the sins of all mankind. The Word became flesh and…
Advent Service
2024 Wednesdays in Advent — Worship together at an Advent Service! Join us each Wednesday until Christmas for a special weekly Advent Worship Service. Advent is a four-week season of preparation and anticipation as we get ready for Christmas, the celebration of the birth of Jesus, our Coming King and Savior! Midweek Worship Services at 7:00 pm are held after Thanksgiving each Wednesday evening between December 4 and December 18. Enjoy a thoughtful, grace-filled worship service together with those gathered.…
Church Picnic
Fall Worship and Picnic for All Sunday, September 8 | Beginning at 10:00 am Join the people of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin as we enjoy ONE worship service on Sunday September 8 under the shelter at Landreth Park. Bring a lawn chair and a friend for our 10:00 outdoor worship service. After worship, we’ll have FOOD – GAMES – SNOW CONES and MORE! Our Elders will provide a variety of smoked meats, including chicken and pork ribs. Bring a…
Easter Services
Easter 2024 is Resurrection Day! In-Person Easter Services, Sunday, March 31, 2024 | 6:30, 8:00, 10:30 | Immanuel Lutheran Church LCMS in Joplin, Missouri | immanueljoplin.com/EASTER Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia! The time of Lent is over. Holy Week has passed. Jesus, who died, is most certainly alive! Join us In-Person at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, Missouri as we celebrate all that God has done for us through Jesus Christ His Son. Forgiveness, Life, and Salvation…
Thanksgiving Eve Service
Thanksgiving Eve At Immanuel Before you gather with family to eat turkey and watch football, come and share in Christ’s Holy Meal with your church family at Immanuel at the Thanksgiving Eve Service! Join us on the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving for worship with Holy Communion at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin. Give thanks to the Lord for all He has done. In Jesus He has brought us forgiveness, life and salvation. Give thanks! Psalm 136 His Steadfast Love Endures…
Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil 7:00 pm Worship Service Holy Saturday is the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, marking Jesus’ time in the tomb. Immanuel hosts a special Easter Vigil service to mark the day. This service is appropriate from after sunset on Holy Saturday until sunrise Easter morning. This was the traditional time of baptism in the early centuries of Christianity. This service begins in darkness and a new fire is lit, from which the Christ candle is…
Bible Institute
Bible Institute 2023 Sunday Afternoons in March | March 5, 12, 19 | 2:00 to 4:00pm Bible Institute is fast approaching. As you may have heard, Immanuel’s FREE 2023 Institute will cover three Sunday afternoons: March 5, 12, and 19. We will be looking at Jesus Said WHAT?, a book produced by Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, MO. Joplin’s Bible Institute has been hosted at Immanuel for many years, featuring a variety of topics led by lay leaders from our congregation. Adults young…
LERT Training
CANCELED DUE TO LOW REGISTRATION. WE WILL RESCHEDULE. Lutheran Early Response Team (LERT) is coming to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, Missouri on Saturday, October 22, 2022. Basic Disaster Response Training for individuals from Lutheran congregations, LERT is a network of volunteers trained to respond in times of disaster. OCTOBER 22 TRAINING — SIGN UP HERE: https://www.lcms-lert.org/need/detail/?need_id=720464 Description A registration fee of $35 per person will help to cover the cost of lunch and snacks, training materials, and LERT T-shirt. Please…
Men’s Bible Breakfast
MEN’S BIBLE BREAKFAST 1st & 3rd Thursday Mornings in the Church Fellowship Hall | 6:30 to 7:30am NOTE: For a change of pace, we will be meeting for a time at Sami’s Family Restaurant on the corner of 7th & Duquesne. Join us! Be a part of the Immanuel Men’s Group! Guys from our church, school, and community gather on Thursday mornings from 6:30 to 7:30am for strong coffee, a tasty breakfast, and God’s Word to start their day off…