Our Redeemer
Lutheran Church

640 Seventh Street West, Columbia Falls, Montana

Our Redeemer Lutheran Church is a member congregation of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Our community is centered around Christ's Word and His Sacraments given for our eternal good, and also given to empower us to go out into the world and "do good works God prepared in advance for us to do" (Ephesians 2:10 NIV).

We are an energetic congregation serving the spiritual and practical needs of members of all ages. We also take seriously our mission to serve our neighbors and community. Check out the work of our King's Kids Preschool, weekly Bible Studies, or the ORLC chapter of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League, just to name a few. Take a look at our Monthly Activities Calendar to see if there is something for you.

If you are a visitor or traveler from out of the area and looking for a place to worship during your stay, please join us on Sunday morning or Wednesday evening. You will find us a church home away from home!

If you are from the Flathead Valley, we might have what you are looking for in a new church! Visit us any Sunday or Wednesday to see and hear for yourself our faithful proclamation of God's Word. Then, check out our Bible studies and other activities that serve our members and neighbors.

If you don't have a church and want to know more ... then come hear what God has to say to you. Come hear the truth about our sin and need of forgiveness, and the love and sacrifice of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ to save us from that sin.

So, come join us for worship! We have two Sunday morning worship services, a Sunday School for youth, and Sunday Bible study for adults. We also have a unique Wednesday evening worship service that focuses on teaching from God's Word.

Come join us!

Click on the PLAY button to hear more
about His story and your story.

His Story . . .            
        and Your Story

Thank you for visiting our Web site. Here you will find out about the many things we do to serve our congregation and our community.

But, the real story of Our Redeemer happens in church. It is in our church services that we tell the story of Jesus Christ, and hear that His story is the story of our world.

It seems that most people just don't know where to find Jesus. Our self-centered world tries to convince us that the only place to find Jesus is in our hearts, or in nature, or in our feelings ... or some other place that we choose. We try to find a place to fit the story of Christ into our lives. But, the truth is that Christ is the center of our story.

And, that is why attending church is so important. Telling the world its story is what happens in the Divine Service that we hear each week at Our Redeemer, a liturgy practiced and passed down through the generations that faithfully tells Christ's story - our story. From the creation to the fall, from the promise made to the promise fulfilled in Christ, from an empty tomb to your life lived under the cross, the Divine Service tells us His story - the world's story. And, indeed, it is your story!

I wonder if you have thought of "going to church" in quite this way? There are many places to hear or read about Jesus, but only in church does His story become your story.

The Divine Service liturgy tells the world's story, and we are reminded of our place in it. Christ is at the center of the world's story, and as one of His people you learn that your Lord is found at the center of the liturgy. In church we hear that story in God's Word of forgiveness proclaimed to you in the Holy Absolution, in God's Word read into your ears, in the application of that Holy Word in the sermon, and in our Lord's body and blood shed for the forgiveness of your sins in Holy Communion. All of the parts of the story unfold week after week in the Divine Service.

Would you like to hear a little summary of the story? Then click on the "PLAY" button above and I will tell you. It is short, to the point, and pulls no punches. It is your story, too.

May the peace of God be with you ... wherever you go.