Serving the Winchester, Virginia area and surrounding communities since 1981.
Our Savior Lutheran Church (OSLC) has served the Winchester, Virginia area and surrounding communities since 1981, creating a bond founded on our beliefs and our drive to contribute to others and help serve those in need. Part of our mission has been to create a “safe-feeling” environment that provides support for all of our church members and guests. We would love to have you come visit and join our growing church family!
Our Mission: To equip God's people to share the love of Christ and serve others.
OSLC Winchester Status
We are holding service on Sundays at 10am. Please check the Message Line page for further updates.
Sermons
The December 7th, 2nd Sunday in Advent, sermon, “A Voice in the Wilderness” (Matthew 3:1-12) is now available. The December 3rd Advent mid-week service 1 sermon, “Tamar: The Scandal of Desperate Hope” (Genesis 38:1-30) is also available.
Listen to Radio Station WINC-AM 1400 Sundays at 8:30 a.m. to hear God’s Word delivered by Pastor Cumbee. (Note: Messages are from the previous week).
Check out the LCMS Stewardship Ministry’s December 2025 newsletter article.
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2800 Millwood Pike, Winchester, VA 22602 - Located on US-17 / US-50 – 4 miles east of I-81
OSLC members and friends support Winchester's Congregational Community Action Project, or CCAP. Learn More!
Location & Worship Times
2800 Millwood Pike, Winchester, VA, 22602 | Sundays 10:00 am
Verse of the Week
Matthew 3:1-12
John the Baptist Prepares the Way
3 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:
“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
make straight paths for him.’”
4John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. 6Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
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7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
9 And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire.
12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Life Quote
December 7, 2025
“Children brightly signaled hope in our sin-infested world of old—consider the births of Seth, Isaac, Moses, Samson, Samuel, John, and, finally, of course and paramount, Jesus. And we, too, must become as children.” James M. Kushiner, Fellowship of St. James – A Life Quote from Lutherans For Life • lutheransforlife.org
