Welcome friends !
The New England Diocese of the Lutheran Orthodox Church welcomes you. I am Rev. Randy G. Wagoner and I am humbled to serve as the Archbishop here in New England. My wife, Christine and I reside in New Hampshire with our two children and have a considerable extended family both personally and in the Church. We both have a long history in ministry, counseling and serving our neighbors as we preach HIS Inspired Word.Martin Luther stated, "I'd rather that all my books would disappear and the Holy Scriptures alone would be read..." We believe that The Bible is The Word of God. We feel that it is our responsibility to preach HIS word while remaining welcoming to all people of all beliefs and communities.
The Lutheran Orthodox Church (LOC) is a Lutheran Church in valid and historic Apostolic Succession. We hold ourselves very close to the traditions of Martin Luther and his early followers, and consider ourselves a Lutheran denomination in the Evangelical Catholic tradition, celebrating traditional Catholic observances and feasts.
We celebrate two Sacraments; Baptism and the Eucharist (Holy Communion). We also recognize five Sacramental Rites; Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders (Ordination), Extreme Unction (Anointing of the Sick), and Penance (Reconciliation).
Our services follow a prescribed format - an easy-to-follow liturgy, hymns, a short homily, and the celebration of Holy Communion. Our Ministers usually wear formal vestments during services.
All believers are welcome to our services and we hope you will find our congregations open and friendly, and our services refreshing and spiritually uplifting. Anyone who is baptized and believes in Our Lord Jesus Christ is invited to participate in the Lord’s Supper.
I hope that you will find the LOC to be warm and friendly. I pray that you find the worship experience to be one of the most spiritual, inviting and refreshing worship experiences you've had and that you remain refreshed in body and soul as you leave to go about your daily lives, always in wonder and awe of the awesome God we serve, the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
"Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry."
2 Timothy 4: 2-5
May you be Blessed and remain under the watchful protection of Christ our Savior, Amen.
The Most Rev. Randy G. Wagoner
Archbishop - New England
VP - Lutheran Orthodox Church
Lebanon, NH 03766
603.443.1603
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