Come Enjoy a Warm and Welcoming Church Experience! Welcome to Trinity Lutheran Church, we wish you a wonderful and warm experience with us! We are located in the downtown district of Rochester MN, 4 blocks from the Mayo Clinic. We look forward to meeting you! We offer a wide variety of service styles and times.Sundays during the school year: - 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM (Sunday school / bible study between services) - Holy communion on the first and third Sunday of the monthSundays during the summer (Memorial Day - Labor Day): - 8:00 AM & 9:30 AM- Holy communion on the first and third Sunday of the month.Wednesdays:- 6:30 PM in the Chapel - Location Changes to Sanctuary during advent and lent- Holy communion every week Saturdays:- 5:30 PM (Celebration Service) Sundays on KOLM AM Radio 1520:- 10:30 AM- Radio broadcast of Sunday morning service
Bethel Lutheran Church, founded in 1869 and located in Rochester, Minn., is a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which is based in Chicago. It offers a range of ministries and programs for men, women, youth, children and seniors that include adult Bible study, small singers, cherub choir, jubilate choir, young adult Bible study, drama ministry, life and growth, Christian caring and TV ministry. Bethel s social missions team guides and promotes its congregation s response to people locally, nationally and globally, and ministers to their needs for spiritual growth, sustenance, housing, health care, education and social services.
We are an open and affirming congregation welcoming anyone who is looking for a safe place to worship and serve. We celebrate God with energy imagination, intelligence, and love.
We are a member of the PCA--Presbyterian Church in America.
We average 365 worshipers, including Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and 120 children in Sunday School. We have three full-time staff. Our sanctuary seats 320. We are one of the 11, 000 congregations affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, one of 184 congregations with 130, 000 baptized people in the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, and one of 15 ELCA churches within 15 miles of our location. Our synod Bishop is Harold Usgaard, with office at Assisi Heights. We have listening aid devices to assist people with hearing impairments. They are located in the narthex, so please ask an usher to assist you. We most frequently use worship services from the Lutheran Book of Worship, the With One Voice blue book, and the Haugen maroon book. Occasionally we develop our own service or have a hymn-sing or musical. Good Shepherd took grand prize in Rochester's 2008 National Night Out event in August, and Rochester was third in the nation for cities of our size. In 2007 Good Shepherd was presented a Church in Community award for our NNO event. Good Shepherd was one of sixteen ELCA congregations among the 600 outstanding Protestant and Catholic churches identified by a two-year study at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Good Shepherd was one of fifteen ELCA congregationslisted among 300 excellent Protestant congregations in this ( subjective, and now dated ) book, Paul Wilkes, Excellent Protestant Congregations: The Guide to Best Places and Practices, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.
Spanish and English worship service.
