Salem Mennonite - South Church

Salem Mennonite - South Church Salem Mennonite (South) Church is a rural church located in southeastern South Dakota. Join us in person or via Zoom at 9:30 AM on Sunday mornings!

We are part of Central Plains Mennonite Conference & Mennonite Church USA. You’ll find our Zoom link & other information at SouthChurchSD.org.

What a lovely morning we had together, celebrating all the nurturing women in our congregation! 💐
05/10/2026

What a lovely morning we had together, celebrating all the nurturing women in our congregation! 💐

Happy Easter! He is risen - risen indeed!
04/06/2026

Happy Easter! He is risen - risen indeed!

We observed Maundy Thursday last night with a light supper and communion.We will meet in the sanctuary tonight at 7 pm f...
04/03/2026

We observed Maundy Thursday last night with a light supper and communion.
We will meet in the sanctuary tonight at 7 pm for our annual Good Friday tenebrae service. The community is invited to join us!

Please join us for our annual Good Friday tenebrae "service of darkness", starting in the sanctuary at 7 p.m. tomorrow e...
04/02/2026

Please join us for our annual Good Friday tenebrae "service of darkness", starting in the sanctuary at 7 p.m. tomorrow evening.

Remember our Maundy Thursday gathering tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m., including a light supper and communion. Everyone ...
04/02/2026

Remember our Maundy Thursday gathering tomorrow evening at 6:30 p.m., including a light supper and communion. Everyone is welcome to bring friends.

Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! 🌿Our Palm Sunday service this morning ushered in Holy Week, ...
03/29/2026

Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! 🌿Our Palm Sunday service this morning ushered in Holy Week, which brings many opportunities for worship and fellowship.

Tonight through Wednesday night, Community Holy Week services will be held at the Freeman Community Center, starting with cookies, coffee and fellowship at 6 p.m., and the service starting at 6:30. Suzette Shreffler, an ordained pastor and member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana, will be our speaker.
On Thursday, we will meet at church at 6:30 p.m. for a light Maundy Thursday supper and communion service.
On Friday, our annual Good Friday tenebrae service will be held at 7 p.m.
On Sunday morning, Easter breakfast will be served starting at 8:30, followed by the Easter egg hunt at 9, and worship at 9:30.
EVERYONE in the community is welcome to join us for any of these services!

Our fifth and final Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 4 pm. Freeman Regional Health ...
03/21/2026

Our fifth and final Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 4 pm. Freeman Regional Health Services' social worker, Lindsey Unruh, will offer helpful information on "Advance Directives on Care at the End of Life." All are welcome!

Due to the weather, we are cancelling in-person worship and will instead be worshiping online only. Please join via the ...
03/15/2026

Due to the weather, we are cancelling in-person worship and will instead be worshiping online only. Please join via the Zoom link or YouTube. There will be no afternoon Lenten Service as well. Stay warm and cozy, and join us for worship and fellowship!

Our fourth Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. Walters Funeral Home director, Na...
03/14/2026

Our fourth Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. Walters Funeral Home director, Nathan Walter, and Pastor Spencer, will present helpful information on funeral planning. All are welcome!

Our third Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. Long-time hospice worker, LaVonne ...
03/07/2026

Our third Lenten Study Series session will take place this Sunday afternoon at 3 pm. Long-time hospice worker, LaVonne Brockmueller, will offer perspectives on "Being Present with the Dying". All are welcome!

A midweek thought from Pastor Spencer during this season of Lent:"About 25 years ago, I attended a seminar by a theology...
03/05/2026

A midweek thought from Pastor Spencer during this season of Lent:
"About 25 years ago, I attended a seminar by a theology professor who wanted preachers to accompany the cultural shift he saw occurring from a text-based reading culture to an image-based electronic culture. He saw this as an overall positive shift, and some of his predictions about church life in this cultural change have come true. But I remained skeptical about the desirability of the church accommodating this change. The exercise of literacy has been central to the church's identity. Books replaced scrolls in the ancient world in large part due to their use in church. The printed word and spread of literacy in Europe were central elements for the rise of Anabaptist faith and Protestant churches in general. Some have argued that the exercise of reading for broad and ongoing education is essential to an egalitarian republic accountable to citizens engaged in deliberation and debate together. I was reflecting on this as I read with appreciation this recent column by Russell Moore in Christianity Today: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/the-church-needs-to-recover-the-primacy-of-gods-word/
The writer exhorts us not to let summaries and media from ChatGPT and YouTube divert us from the practice of direct, immersive study of the Bible. It's why we listen so much to the scriptures in worship, use the Bible in our praying and singing, and work at making space in our lives for regular, extended attention to and reflection on the Bible together. Moore writes, "The very idea of the book is burning down all around us. But this one book, our Book, is a story inhabited by God himself. Even as it burns, it is not consumed. And out of the fire, if you listen carefully enough, you can still hear a voice." I look forward to reading and listening with you in our study and worship!"

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28103 443rd Avenue
Freeman, SD
57029

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+16059254553

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