Vacation Bible School

Pilgrim will again collaborate with Peace United Church of Christ to offer Vacation Bible School. Gordon Linn is Pilgrim’s contact person and coordinator. (218-213-3555 or linnfinity@gmail.com)


Cost: $20 per child if you register early ($50 max per family), or $25 per child if you register on the first day of VBS ($55 max per family). Early registration is so helpful as we plan our supplies, helpers, etc.

Vacation Bible School this year is all about serving. We will learn how God calls us to love and serve each other. We are looking for Volunteers! Are you willing to help lead a station for one or two days, or even the whole week? Stations will include: Arts and Crafts, Games, and Service Projects. Let Gordon Linn, or Charlotte Frantz know if you can help.

Supply Lists will be available in Salter Hall! As always we need our Peace Church and Pilgrim Church members to donate most of our supplies to keep costs down. Please take a donation slip or two or three! Donate items so that our kids can have a great experience.

Adult Leaders Needed for Activity Stations!

For this great event, we are looking for adults to team lead activity stations. All curriculum and supplies are provided. Volunteers may sign up for one or two days or a week long commitment. It’s a great way to get to know the younger generation. Please let Gordon Linn know if you are interested.

Youth VBS NEEDS YOU! We need your energy, experience and enthusiasm to help make this year’s VBS extraordinary. Let Charlotte Frantz or Gordon Linn know if you can help out! It will be a great week if YOU join us!

Check us Out in Person: Introduction to Pilgrim

Ever wonder what kind of congregation we are here at Pilgrim?  If you've been browsing our website or follow us on Facebook, come try us in person.  This Sunday, June 16, at 11:20, there will be a conversational gathering in the parlor--an opportunity for guests, visitors and new members to learn more about our life here at Pilgrim.  Check us out.  Follow us on Facebook for weekly updates of events and activites.

Worship every Sunday is at 10:00 a.m.--even in the summer!

Turkey Time!

The Turkeys are back!  The YMCA Church Softball season has begun with the first game being a draw last week.  The schedule for the remainder of the season is:
June 4-Turkeys vs. Cross Roads UMD Field 2, 8:00 pm
June 11-Turkeys vs. Peace in Christ Red UMD Field 2, 8:00 pm
June 25-Turkeys vs. The Waters Edge CC UMD Field 1, 7:00 pm
July 2-Turkeys vs. St. Benedicts Popes UMD Field 1, 7:00 pm
July 11-Turkeys vs. St Benedicts Cardinals UMD Field 1, 8:00 pm
July 16-Turkeys vs. Peace in Christ Blue UMD Field 1, 6:00 pm
July 18-Turkeys vs. University Christian Fellwoship UMD Field 2, 8:00 pm
Playoff begin July 25th.
Come out and cheer on the returning champions.  If you are interested in playing, please contact the church office.  Can the Turkeys make it three in a row?

School's Out!

At Pilgrim, we celebrate life's milestones and on the first Sunday of June we celebrate with our children and youth: School's Out!  On June 2 we will honor our high school graduates during the worship service.  Sunday School Children will present the musical Rescue in the Night: The Story of Daniel in the Lions' Den as the "message of the day."   At 11:30 we'll gather in Fellowship Hall for a kid-friendly meal to welcome the summer season.  Many, many thanks to all the adults who have helped with our children and youth programming this year.

Book Sale

Pilgrim's Annual Book Sale will be held Saturday, June 1, 9:00 am-4:00 pm.  Used books of all kinds--children and adult, fiction and non-fiction.  Donations of used books will be accepted up through Thursday.

Pentecost at Pilgrim

Fifty days after Easter, Christians celebrate Pentecost, marking the day Jesus' disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The story can be found in the second chapter of Acts.  As the story was told, the disciples were afraid and in hiding, but on this day they heard a great wind and saw flames of fire above one another's heads.  They fled into the streets and a great crowd gathered around them.  The crowd, in Jerusalem for holiday, heard the disciples speaking in many different languages.  For the Christian church, this occasion is often regarded as "the birth of the church."

Pilgrim is a progressive, mainline Christian congregation. On Pentecost we read the story in Acts and consider what it means for us to receive the Holy Spirit.  This year, Pentecost is May 19.  Worship with us at 10:00.

Pilgrim's services are regularly broadcast on cable television, channel 7, on Wednesdays at 3:30 and 8:00 pm and Thursdays at 7:00 a.m.

A New Creation by Rene Clausen

The Pilgrim Congregational Choir will present Rene Clausen's cantata, A New Creation, on May 12th at 10:00 a.m.  We are  located at 2310 E. 4^th Street, Duluth. 

Clausen is a contemporary American composer who serves as professor of music and choir director at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.  A New Creation is written for chorus, soloists, and accompaniment. The work uses both English and Latin texts taken from the Bible, the Roman Catholic Mass, and a hymn by George Herbert.  

In writing about this composition, Clausen said, "The various movements are attempts to characterize, through music, various aspects of the human/God, God/human relationship. Awe and wonder, unworthiness and doubt, mercy and forgiveness, love, joy, and peace, are all wrapped together in this piece, as indeed these elements are wrapped together in our daily lives.”

The Pilgrim Choir is directed by Dr. Bret Amundson.  Pilgrim’s Director of Music, Rachel Kresha, will accompany the choir.