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Welcome to Our Website!
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Come Join Our Pride!
Are you looking for a quality Christ-centered education for your children, with excellent academic, athletic and technology programs and where students, teachers and parents are a family? We invite you to look at Immanuel First Lutheran School, which has served the Christian community for over fifty years and is signing up students for the new school year.
Visit our school's website > >
Why Does God Allow Injustice?
In this Windows Media slideshow sermon with accompanying audio, Pastor Okubo teaches from the parable of the wheat and the weeds in Matthew 13:24-30 that God is waiting for unbelievers to come to salvation, just as He did for a ruthless persecutor named Saul of Tarsus, who later became the great apostle Paul.
Watch the sermon > >
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Special Features
Free IFL Quartet Download
A free mix of the church's IFL Quartet is available for download, featuring "How Great Thou Art", "Take and Eat", and "The Lord's Prayer" as sung during our July 27, 2008 worship service. The quartet consists of A.J. Casas, Steve Casas, Pastor Mason Okubo and John Coronado.
Download it now > >
A Teenage Mary and a Lutheran Airline
A humorous stand-up piece from the pulpit on how the virgin Mary, who was most likely a teenager, reacted to the angel Gabriel's visitation in Matthew 1:26-38, followed by the launch of a new airline just for Lutherans in the Midwest, are the contents of Lutheran Laughs for the month of August.
Read them in Lutheran Laughs > >
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Welcome from Our Pastor
 I wish to welcome everyone who is visiting our website. We are very proud of it and of the ministry it represents. Immanuel First Lutheran Church and School has shared God's love, comfort and hope to the people of West Covina and the surrounding community for over 50 years.
A diverse group of people call Immanuel First their home. Life can be filled with ups and downs which make us feel isolated and alone. But as the body of Christ, the things which bind us together are so much stronger. We are a people of the One! (Eph 4:4)
- One Body and One Spirit which unites us.
- One Hope which calls us.
- One Lord, Jesus Christ, one faith, one baptism.
In so many words, we are a family with God as Father over all. Like a family, we laugh, we cry, we sing, we worship together... but the key word is "together."
If you are looking for a place to belong, we invite you to join our family. Come worship with us on Sunday. Looking for a school? We are the IFL Lions! Come join our pride! (pre-K to 8th)
I look forward to meeting you.
God's blessings!
Pastor Mason Okubo
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
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Immanuel First Lutheran Church is a local fellowship of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod,
a Protestant denomination based in St. Louis, Missouri. Click on the LCMS logo to the left to visit the synod home page, or click on
the following links for information on:
- What We Believe: The doctrines, beliefs
and distinctives of our church, and our differences from other Christian denominations.
- Daily Devotionals: Daily text and audio devotionals
from our quarterly publication "Portals of Prayer".
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Technical Stuff
 visitors and counting to our website since December 2003.
This site was last updated on September 2, 2008
and is maintained by Richard Rodriguez and Tricia Stermer.
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