50th Anniversary of my Baptism
Old Nathan drowned on this day...
“Nathaniel Isaac Hoff, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Bob Reike washed me with water and the word on the Fifth Sunday of Easter, 27 April 1975. I am eternally grateful for participation through my baptism into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. What relief! What hope!
Old Nathan
drowned on this day.
So new Nathan
could could rise
and say
“It’s not me who lives
but the one who to me gives
His kingdom here on earth
and in heaven
All on April 27!
Here is some written reflections on the closure of Glendale Evangelical Lutheran Church.
On the closing of a precious congregation
Glendale Evangelical Lutheran Church couldn’t have been planted at a more opportune time. 1944 was pregnant with hope. The end of the war imminent, the baby boom about to deliver, and next-ring suburbs, like Burien, Washington were filling to the brim with little families like Karl and Verona Hoff. Jobs were plentiful and the Servicemen's Readjustment …