Welcome to join us
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church has been used mightily by God to deliver Christ Jesus and His gifts for over 170 years. Our mission statement summarizes the congregation’s ministry: We are gathered by the Holy Spirit to receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the means of the Spirit — Preaching, Baptism, Absolution, and the Lord’s Supper.
Our mission is to respond with activities that directly strengthen Christian faith, including liturgy, prayer, catechesis, witness, spiritual songs, charity, and love for one another.
Divine Service
Sundays 9:30 a.m.
Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.
and on other feast days
Catechesis & Sunday School
Sundays after the Divine Service
~10:30 a.m. — adults and youth
Belief and Practice
With the universal Christian Church, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod teaches and responds to the love of the Triune God:
- the Father, creator of all that exists;
- Jesus Christ, the Son, who became human to suffer and die for the sins of all human beings and to rise to life again in the ultimate victory over death and Satan;
- the Holy Spirit, who creates faith through God’s Word and Sacraments.
The three persons of the Trinity are co-equal and co-eternal, one God. As a confessional Lutheran congregation, we hold the Holy Scriptures as the inerrant Word of God and the Book of Concord (1580) as a faithful exposition of that Word.
Your Pastor
Rev. Christopher Gillespie
Pastor Gillespie was ordained into the Office of Holy Ministry on July 25, A+D 2010. He earned a Master of Divinity in 2009 from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has previously served congregations in Indiana and Chicago. Pastor and his wife Anne have been blessed with ten children. He also enjoys roasting coffee, recording choral and chamber music, and producing media for 1517, Doxology, CPH Music, Lutheran Public Radio, and the LCMS.