Christ Lutheran Church of Jefferson will observe its 25th anniversary this Sunday, Oct. 25. The regular worship service will be at 10:30 am. According to Pastor Terry Mogensen, this change in worship time is for the celebration date only, and the church will resume its usual 9 am worship schedule on Nov. 1.
Pastors who have served the congregation and former members have been invited to attend the event, and the time change will facilitate greater participation for those coming from a distance. Bishop Rodger Prois, leader of the Western Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), will preside at the special service, that will be followed by a meal with time for remembrances and fellowship.
For more details about the event, see the church’s website here.
Christ Lutheran met for its first worship service as an ELCA mission congregation in 1989 and gathered in several locations early on. In 1990 the church building and its contents were moved 70 miles from rural Pocahontas County, as a gift from the Trinity Lutheran congregation of Rusk that was closing. The trip took seven days and was chronicled in area and statewide media as a miraculous journey.
Volunteers of the church and community built a foundation on which the 95 year old building would sit and completely renovated the church’s interior. Pews and other church furnishings were donated by the Strand Lutheran Church of Dunbar which closed. Christ Lutheran’s first worship service in the restored sanctuary was held the fall of 1991.The congregation remains active in Jefferson in its location at 1201 S. Elm Street.
