Sunday Schedule
Christian Education for youth and adult.
We meet each Sunday Morning at 9:00am in the Christian Education Room for fellowship. At 9:15am, the pastor holds an opening prayer and a Sunday School offering is collected. Then the children go to their Sunday School opening and the adults begins their study for the day.
Divine Service of Worship is in the Sanctuary at 10:30 am.
Midweek Worship
7pm Worship with Communion
During Advent and Lent, supper is served before Worship service.
About our Worship services
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer offers traditional, liturgical worship services taken from the LCMS’ Lutheran Service Book. Our weekly services include the Service of the Sacrament each week. We invite those who share our confession of faith (as proclaimed in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds) and have been taught the faith of the Lutheran Church to receive communion with us. Guests who are unsure of what we believe, teach, and confess are encouraged to come early and speak with our pastor prior to receiving the Sacrament with us.
Meet the Pastor
Pastor John C. Bumgardner was born in Parkersburg, WV where Lutherans are a bit of rarity. From an early age he desired to share his knowledge of God’s Word with as many as he could. He believed and still does, that the best way to accomplish that goal was to be a pastor.
To further this goal, Pastor Bumgardner attended Concordia University, Ann Arbor Michigan. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2006 from the Pre-Seminary Program with a double major in Religious Studies and Biblical Languages. It was during this time of study that Pastor Bumgardner met his future wife, Rebecca. Following his studies in Ann Arbor, Pastor Bumgardner attended Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated in 2011 with a Master of Divinity degree.
Pastor Bumgarder always desires to grow in knowledge and understanding of God’s Word, so he might better teach, share, and proclaim it to his congregation. Each year he has taken continuing education courses to ever grow and develop his own knowledge. For this reason, he is currently in a Doctor of Ministry program with a concentration on “The Church in Exile” so we remain faithful even as we are surround by unbelievers. It is in this way that we may ever have our eyes fixed on our Lord and Savior and not be lost to the multitude of unbelievers.
Following his studies at the seminary, Pastor Bumgardner received his first call to St. John Lutheran Church in Red Lake Falls, MN and Redeemer Lutheran Church in Plummer, MN. It was during this time that Pastor and Rebecca welcomed their daughter Lynnea into their home. During his time in MN, Pastor Bumgardner served as the zone councilor for the LWML in that region for six years. Pastor Bumgardner served these congregations from 2012 until 2020. In early 2020, Pastor Bumgardner was called to a four-point parish in central Wisconsin. There he served St. John Lutheran Church in Budin, WI; St. Paul Lutheran Church, in Newton, WI; Trinity Lutheran Church, in Macan, WI; and Zion Lutheran Church in Neshkoro, WI. He served these congregation through the Covid pandemic until he was called to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in the summer of 2023.
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