1245 Hamilton Street Allentown, PA 18102

info@christ-atown.org

(610)433-4271

Main Office hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday & Friday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Our Parking Lot is directly across Hamilton Street, opposite the front of our building.

Allentown CROP Walk

The 2026 CROP Walk will be held October 18. Step-off is at St. Timothy Lutheran Church (140 S. Ott Street) at 1:30 PM. Across the country, CROP walks are part of Church World Services work to respond to victims of disasters as well as fight global hunger. To learn more, check out the Allentown CROP Walk page.

The Entire Bible, for Everybody!

A unique Bible Course will be shared at Christ Church by Pastor Richard Mathisen, Interim Pastor at St. Luke’s Lutheran, Allentown. For Christian believers, it starts from the assumption that the Bible answers the most important questions in life, including “What is the Meaning of Life?” The Bible supposedly covers everything that a Christian believer ought to know, from Genesis through Revelation, and how it all fits together.

Course Description

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Band on Broadway

The Allentown Band comes to Christ Church to present Broadway and Showtunes as part of their America 250 lineup! Jillian Rossi will be featured as a guest soloist. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Concerts at Christ series. The concert is open to the public, and a free-will offering is accepted in support of the series.

a-town Bundle

Our church leaders will continue to meet with a consultant, our Exploratory Team has an August meeting scheduled, and each Church Council is continuing discussions as part of the exploratory process since the Reveal Gathering on June 28.

If you attend worship or interact with Christ Church, you will probably hear the terminology A-town Bundle. This reference currently includes five Lutheran congregations of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod’s Lehigh Mission District exploring what it would look like to intentional bundle our ministry resources and staff together. This exploration process takes time and is designed to be centered around relationships and mission - not money. Here’s a few details:

The congregations involved are:

St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
Christ Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
St. Timothy Lutheran Church

What Exploration involves:

gatherings that inter-mingle members of each congregation
gathering data about knowns and unknowns, advantages and fears, scripture, and mission to discern where congregational values and goals lie
using that information to form mission and vision statements if we look at the five congregations as ministry partners
draft a sample covenant agreement for each of the five church Councils to review
each congregation as a whole votes on whether or not to enter into the Bundle, while still maintaining their own facility and site-specific budget

These congregations have been in Allentown a long time yet, in many ways, are still getting to know one another. Here is the October Newsletter of the A-town Bundle, sharing ministry highlights with one another.