Watch Pastor Corey’s video message below as he shares the excitement of his family’s move into the parsonage and into their community, and reflects on how acceptance helps turn a house into a home. He also introduces this week’s message on the core value of acceptance, exploring Jesus’ invitation for all people to belong through the Great Commission in Matthew 28.
We hope you’ll join us in worship on Sunday as we continue this meaningful conversation together, because it’s not St. Luke’s without U!
Please click here to read the full Weekly Update from May 28, 2026.
Hey everyone, happy Thursday. It’s me, Pastor Corey, here at 5314 Foxshire Court. This is where we are moving this week and my family and I, Carol, Gavin, and Isaiah, we are so extremely excited. It’s been a long transition, a long time knowing that we were moving this way for 15 months and five months of commuting. So, we are finally happy to be here in town in the zip code of 32819.
You see, when it comes to moving, it’s more than just packing up stuff and preparing to leave a home and then to settle into one. It’s also settling into a new neighborhood, a new community, and into new relationships. And at the center or at the core of that is acceptance. You see, not only are we moving in, but that gives a servanthood opportunity to our new neighbors to receive us and to accept us into their lives. And so we are excited to be a part of this new community, this neighborhood here in Turnberry and to share family ministries in the same place that Pastor Bill and his family and Pastor Jen and her family did as well.
And so as we look to making this house our actual home, we have to do so alongside our neighbors and their acceptance of us. But this Sunday, we move on Love University into a classroom. We’ve been wandering around campus for a while. We were at the intersections during Lenten season and then of course we were in the commons, the student union. Well, now we go sit in a classroom as we take the class prerequisites. These are some requirements of us as Christians, as faithful followers of Jesus, and as St. Lucers.
And so we will look at these core values of the church over the next five weeks. We will look at hospitality, community, discipleship, and service. And this week we start with acceptance. We’ll turn to the Great Commission found in Matthew 28, as Jesus sends us out into the world to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
And so when Jesus does this, he is embracing and welcoming all of humanity into a relationship with him by the way of discipleship. Yes, we’re called to go into all nations. And so here we see the radical acceptance of our God, of our Lord Jesus, as Jesus wants to be a part of everyone’s life, accepting them into this walk of life.
We hope that you’ll be there Sunday, May 31st. We’ll see you then. I love you. God bless you. Peace.
