COMMUNITY

Alex Plocher created this altar triptych for Living Hope, Commerce City, Colo.

Rachel Russow played for confirmation Sunday at Faith, Tallahassee, Fla.

Gerald Geiger (right) creates and shares wooden artwork. Matt Bauer, principal of Great Plains Lutheran High School, Watertown, S.D., is pictured receiving Geiger's gift.

Seventh-grade students at St. Paul, Onalaska, Wis., created this Post-it artwork of Jesus without knowing what the finished product would be.

Micah Vanderhoof, a student at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School, Jackson, Wis., plays piano for worship regularly at Pilgrim, Menomonee Falls, Wis.

Missionary Terry Schultz works on drawings that will be used to teach Christian doctrine among low-literacy groups.

Alex and Natalie Ritter are members of St. Paul, Stevensville, Mich., and students at Michigan Lutheran High School, St. Joseph, Mich.

Women from Trinity, Crete, Ill., told God’s story creatively for Advent by candlelight.