About Us
THE STORY OF REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
Redeemer Lutheran Church is a member of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod denomination. We proudly confess the Holy Bible as the inspired Word of God, Jesus Christ as the only way to forgiveness of sins and eternal life in heaven and the Lutheran Confession contained in the Book of Concord of 1580 as faithful witnesses to the teachings of God’s Word.
Redeemer was founded in Owatonna, Minnesota in 1883 by a group of German Lutherans and was originally named First St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. The congregation's first house of worship was built in 1894 on State Avenue in Owatonna. Our current house of worship is located at the corner of Truman Avenue and Havana Road in southeast Owatonna and was dedicated to the glory of God in 1960.
In the 1980's Redeemer started a daughter congregation, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, in northeast Owatonna. In 2008 we celebrated our 125th Anniversary with the theme “Till now the Lord has helped us.” (I Samuel 7:12) The members of Redeemer continue to look for new ways to reach out to the community and the world with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.
