Clairemont Lutheran Church

I love this church… my church family. Open and loving; forgiving and merciful; serving and supporting our community. God’s presence is felt here!

I’ll tell you why I go to church. It’s for the music. Seriously. I don’t really listen during the readings, there’s a fifty percent chance I’m listening to the sermon, but if there’s music, I’m there!
This church gets music the way an Asian kid gets math. It’s SOLID. The director of music, who also happens to be the organist, is un-frickin’-believably talented. When the musical «Wicked» came to town and they were short a pianist for the orchestra, they actually called the director of music/​organist from CLC to play for them. He delivers awesome preludes, wonderful hymn accompaniment, and a kick-​ass (I mean KICK-​ASS!) postlude every week. A lot of the congregation sticks around to avoid the parking lot rush, and they stay and enjoy the postlude and applaud.
There are also a wonderful sanctuary choir and a top-​notch handbell choir who contribute to the worship services.
The church’s welcome statement is as follows: «All are welcome! As a community of faith, the members of Clairemont Lutheran Church/​Iglesia Luterana Clairemont are called to include all people seeking a relationship with Jesus, regardless of age, economic status, ethnic background, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, immigration status or marital status. We gather as one congregation, worshipping in two languages, celebrating many cultures. We affirm that in Christ ‘there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female.’ (Galatians 3:28).» I like that they make a point to include pretty much everyone, and did so before all of the Proposition 8 drama took place.
There are a small, but growing, number of young people who attend. The majority of the people who attend the English-​speaking services are very friendly blue-​hairs, or elderly people.
Services take place each Sunday at 8:00 a.m. (regular service), 9:15 a.m. (the more informal Celebration of Joy service), 10:15 a.m. (regular service), and 11:30 a.m. (Spanish service).
If you are interested in church music, joining a choir, being a part of a handbell choir, or just sitting next to a cute girl like me in a pew, why not try out CLC?