Peace ✠ Peoria
L u t h e r a n
Church and Preschool
God's work. Our hands.
Join us for family-friendly Sundays at 9:30 AM!
Lenten Potlucks on Wednesdays at 6:15 PM,
followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 7:00 PM.
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L u t h e r a n
Holy Week and Easter at Peace
Palm Sunday
March 29,
9:30 AM
Maundy Thursday
April 2,
7:00 PM
Good Friday
April 3,
12:00 & 7:00 PM
Easter Sunday
April 5,
8:30 & 10:00 AM
Egg Hunt at 9:30 AM
We are preparing our campus for another generation of service to Jesus and his good news!
We are preparing our campus for another generation of service to Jesus and his good news!
Everyone Is Welcome!*
*and everyone means everyone!
Everyone Is Welcome!*
*and everyone means everyone!
Warmest welcome to our joyful, multi-generational congregation of Jesus' fans, friends, and followers. As we practice and proclaim Jesus' Way of self-giving love, we are learning to live by five truths that sum up his message for us:
✠ Jesus is Lord.
✠ Jesus is Lord.
✠ Everyone is welcome.
✠ Everyone is welcome.
✠ Love changes people.
✠ Love changes people.
✠ Everyone has something to offer.
✠ Everyone has something to offer.
✠ The world needs what we have.
✠ The world needs what we have.
We'd love to have you join us this Sunday at 9:30 AM!
Pastor Ryan and Pastor Kylee
Peace Worship:
Peace Worship:
March 8, 2026
March 8, 2026
the third Sunday in Lent
GOSPEL: John 4:5-42
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In today’s gospel the Samaritan woman asks Jesus for water, an image of our thirst for God. Jesus offers living water, a sign of God’s grace flowing from the waters of baptism. The early church used this gospel and those of the next two Sundays to deepen baptismal reflection during the final days of preparation before baptism at Easter. As we journey to the resurrection feast, Christ comes among us in word, bath, and meal—offering us the life-giving water of God’s mercy and forgiveness.
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GOSPEL: John 4:5-42
5 [Jesus] came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”
27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” 30 They left the city and were on their way to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39 Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
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Rooted in joy, early childhood, and Jesus!
Educating children ages one through five. Peace Lutheran Preschool is a place where early childhood education and the love of Jesus collide! Our highly effective teachers will create engaging and safe early childhood experiences while preparing your little ones for kindergarten and beyond; all while sharing the love of Jesus throughout their time at preschool. The perfect mix of education and play!
Come take a tour and see what we are all about!
Preschool is open Mon-Fri 7:30am - 5:30pm
BEST OF PEORIA FOR 6 YEARS!
MANY THANKS TO ALL OF OUR WONDERFUL FAMILIES, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT US.
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