Hello,

My name is Willard Uhler, and I am Pastor of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church located at 99 Church street in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. 

I want to welcome you to visit our web-site and invite you to participate in our congregational activities.

Since February is noted for Valentines Day and sharing love.  I think sometime the giving of cards, candy, flowers and gifts accentuate the holiday.  However, since it really is about love,  I thought it was high time to take us back to the source of love that helps keep marriages together. I found a prayer in The Lutheran Prayer Book which I believe, is appropriate for couples-those in love-and those who want their love to grow –in Christ.

          A Prayer for Husbands and Wives

 Lord, inspire those men and women who bear the titles “Husband and Wife.”

Help them to look to You
to themselves
to one another
to rediscover the fullness and mystery
they once felt in their union.

Let them be honest enough to ask:
Where have we been together
and where are we going?

Let them be brave enough to question:
How have we failed?
 

Let each be foolhardy enough to say:
For me, we come first.
Help them, together
to re-examine their commitment
in the light of Your love-willingly, openly, compassionately.

Help them, together
to believe how fragile, yet powerful-
how weak, yet how strong-
how impossible, yet attainable
their love can be.

Give “Husband” and “Wife” the courage
to be for each other a person
rather than a title.

                           Pastor Uhler