09/05/2026
The Wisconsin Gospellers will be performing at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Fort Atkinson on Sunday, Sept. 13.
The public is invited to the 10 a.m. worship service to hear this choir ministry and faith community affiliated with the Wisconsin Conference UCC (WIUCC).
The choir was founded in 2007 by Fritz West in response to an invitation from the West End Gospel Singers in Eberswalde, Germany. West recruited Martin Ulrich as musical director, rallying singers from throughout Wisconsin.
The West End Gospel Singers have toured Wisconsin and northern Illinois three times, and the Wisconsin Gospellers traveled to Berlin-Brandenburg in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
In 2018, the Gospellers helped the NewYork Conference UCC kickstart its own statewide gospel choir and a year later, the Wisconsin singers toured Germany’s Hesse and Rhineland regions, singing with two German gospel choirs and being featured at the Frankenberg Open Air Concert.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, two virtual choir performances were presented thanks to a WIUCC Catalyst Grant. In 2024, the statewide singers hosted Gospel and More, their choir partners in Essen, Germany, in Oshkosh and Milwaukee.
Supporting the longstanding partnership between the UCC and Germany’s Union of Evangelical Church, the two nations’ choirs embrace the mutual hospitality and fellowship of what Germans call Kirchengemeinschaft. Translated to “full church communion,” it means joint rehearsals and concerts, homesteads shared meals and local culture.
Located at 31 W. Milwaukee Ave. in Fort Atkinson, First Congregational UCC is an inclusive congregation that welcomes persons of all races, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, family structures, faith backgrounds, abilities and economic circumstances.
For further information about the church or Gospellers visit, call (920) 563-4802 or email [email protected].