WORSHIP TIMES
SATURDAY EVENING - 5:00PM
SUNDAY MORNING - 9:00AM
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OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday:
8:30AM- 12:00PM, 12:30PM- 3:00PM
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office Phone: (608) 325-9172
Pastor's Email: pastortabaka@tds.net
Secretary's Email: gracelc@tds.net
THE ROOF PROJECT HAS STARTED!
Due to construction, access to the church may be more limited. The best
place to park would be in the parking lot across the street from the church.
There may be road closures or blocked areas to be aware of as well.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church confesses the Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe. We believe Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation. The proclamation of God’s message to us as both Law and Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word and deed, beginning with the Word in creation, continuing in the history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person and work of Jesus Christ. The canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God. Inspired by God’s Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God’s revelation centering in Jesus Christ. Through them God’s Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.This congregation accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life. This congregation accepts the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of the faith of this congregation. This congregation accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the Gospel, acknowledging as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches that likewise accept the teachings of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession. This congregation accepts the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord, namely, the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles and the Treatise, the Small Catechism, the Large Catechism, and the Formula of Concord, as further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church. This congregation confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church for God’s mission in the world.
HISTORY
135 Years of Grace
The history of Grace Lutheran Church reaches back to Lutheran groups that were formed in Green County by the Synod of Northern Illinois. As early as 1859, a group of Lutherans formed Richland Lutheran Church in Jefferson Township, about three miles east of Monroe. In 1874 a church with a seating capacity of 200 and a cost of $2,750 was built on two acres of land purchased for $160 near the Richland Corners. (This is the building that was eventually moved to Monroe.) The Oak Hill cemetery, sometimes called Richland or Austin cemetery is across the road. Rev J.A. Beidler served Richland, Spring Grove and Twin Grove from 1874-1876 when Rev. J.M. Rees of the Iowa Synod succeeded him.
Spring Grove Lutheran Church was organized in 1866 by Rev S. Cook of the Northern Illinois Synod. They had a church building at that time with a seating capacity of 150. The church was often referred to as the “Klaas Church” after Louis Klass who donated the land and much of the money for building the church. There was also a small cemetery, but no signs of the church or cemetery exist today.
In 1874 Twin Grove the English Lutheran Church was organized. Sixteen people were present and Rev R.A. Beidler was called to be Pastor. The Oakley Lutheran and Rock Grove parishes joined in a re-alignment of these three churches. In 1877 a church building was erected that included a tower and bell at a cost of $2,775.71. A parsonage was purchased for $250. The members were closely related to the Oakley Union Church, in which both Lutherans and Reformed congregations co-operate. The Twin Grove parish functioned until the 1930s.
Salem Lutheran Church was organized in 1868 by Rev J.K. Bloom who was a former pastor of Richland Lutheran from 1864-1866. They first built a church at Shueyville, one-half mile east of Clarno, and shared the building with the German Reformed Congregation until it died off at the turn of the century. A second church was built in West Clarno. The entire community was composed mostly of Pennsylvania Dutch. The church closed in 1938, and the building was torn down in 1939.
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"KNOW God, GROW in Grace, and GO with the Holy Spirit!"
1025 15th Ave, Monroe, WI, United States, 53566
+1 608-325-9172
gracelc@tds.net
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