Welcome to the website of St. Martin's Evangelical Lutheran Church, also known as St. Martin's Lutheran Church and School!
Whether you've visited us before or are visiting this website for the first time, we welcome the chance to introduce ourselves to you and to offer you a picture of who we are as a Lutheran congregation in Annapolis, Maryland.
Sometimes simple words say it best. The three words we share with you here are "Come and See!". We borrow these words from Philip's invitation to Nathanael, in John 1:46, to come and see Jesus.
More than anything else, this is also what we strive to do at St. Martin's: We work to point people to Jesus, to introduce people to Jesus, to help people meet Jesus as Savior and Lord. We strive to do this as a worshipping, learning, growing and serving Christian congregation. We work to do this, not under our own strength and ability, but through the strength and ability which God Himself supplies through the Holy Spirit.
In this work as church and school, we participate in a Christian heritage and a Lutheran tradition which reach back many centuries. We are grateful to God for both of these. We participate humbly and gratefully in a great company of Christian people, people made right with God through the gift of His grace in Christ Jesus. We participate humbly and gratefully in a wonderful Lutheran tradition of Scripture-based law and gospel theology, Christ-centered education, uplifting worship and servant ministry.
We hope the words and pictures offered here will be helpful as an introduction to St. Martin's. We also hope for more than this: We hope, if we haven't already done so, to meet you personally.
Even better yet, we hope we might meet together in the joyful task of seeing, knowing and serving Jesus!
In this spirit, we cordially invite you: Come and see!
