Salem Lutheran Church

Salem Lutheran Church Salem Lutheran Church is a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod(WELS) in Stillwater, MN

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church is a member of the Twin Cities area WELS Churches. A congregation over 835 strong supports a Lutheran Elementary School. A wonderful new building completed in 1996 is home to an enrollment of over 180 students from preschool to 8th grade.

05/26/2026

Some things are worth passing down. VBS is one of them.

Gone Fishing VBS is almost here!

Join us June 15–19 from 9am–12pm for a week of stories, songs, and big faith moments — all built around one big idea: Jesus calls us to follow Him.

Open to kids ages 3 (toilet trained) through 6th grade. Only $10 per child.
📅 Bonus: Family Fun Night on Thursday, June 18 from 5–7:30pm — free burgers, hot dogs, root beer floats, and a bounce house. Bring the whole crew.

Register now at salemlutheran.org/vbs — and don't forget to share with your neighbors!

After our Veterans Day program this year, I was sitting in my office when one of our members stopped in. I didn't know h...
05/25/2026

After our Veterans Day program this year, I was sitting in my office when one of our members stopped in. I didn't know him well. He stood there and cried. He told me about friends he'd lost many years ago and about some of the vivid memories that still live inside of him. I'll never forget what he shared with me, and his pain as he said it. It hit me in a visceral, gut level way.

I'm thinking about him today.

So many people are living right around us, having been through trauma most of us can't begin to imagine. My grandpas never talked about what they'd seen in war. That silence- the stories that they couldn't tell- spoke volumes.

To every veteran, every Gold Star family, everyone carrying grief and trauma that others can't see- this is for you:

God is not distant from your pain. He physically lived it. He took on flesh, walked this broken world, and wept at the grave of a friend. He knows what it is to watch someone you love die. He knows the weight of trauma, of loss, of a world that is irreparably broken.

That same God makes you a promise. He sits with you in your grief and pain. He sees all of it. And faithfully, steadfastly, quietly gives you hope. He promises healing and a true home where there is no more war, no more grief, no more wounds that won't heal.

His mercies are new today and every day.

If you're carrying something heavy, Salem has a place for you. Our Heroes Coffee Club is a small group — veterans, friends, and family — who meet together, share stories, and just exist in a safe space. Join us for the next meeting June 2 around 9:30 for coffee and donuts. No agenda. No pressure. Just community.

05/21/2026

Happy Last Day of Preschool and Happy Penultimate Day of School to everyone else!

Today we celebrate the year we've had: all that we've learned and accomplished, the friendships which have been made and strengthened and the lessons we've endured and grown from...and we praise God for all of it!

Our Graduation Service will be held this evening (Thursday, May 21st) at 5:30pm in the sanctuary. We extend a huge congrats to all of our graduates who will be moving on to high school in the fall! Please remember, students in K-8th grade will be singing at the service.

Afterwards, we'll have dinner for everyone and awards night to celebrate!

05/19/2026

Still not sure you fit? Look closer.

Pentecost is this weekend. In worship we'll focus on the gift of the Holy Spirit, given to believers in a dramatic and miraculous way. But just for a second, I want to focus on what comes directly afterwards: the birth of the Church.

After 3,000 people were baptized on Pentecost, "Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people." Pentecost was huge, loud, dramatic and it left in its wake a community of disparate people who were really only connected by one thing. The rest of Acts shows us they weren't perfect by any means. They were messy. They fought. They had cliques. They didn't have any of it figured out. But this glimpse shows us what they had that we still have today: they were together.

This weekend we celebrate the gift of fiery faith that burns in our hearts but we also recognize the gift that is our community at Salem. The joy that exists when we dare to share our lives with people we don't always have a lot in common with. The meals, the conversations, the songs, and everything else that knits us together with one common thread: Jesus.

05/17/2026

Meet our summer intern- Thad!

Fresh off freshman year at MLC on the pastor track, Thad's spending his summer in Stillwater, learning about ministry and why Minnesota summers are just the best.

He'll be shadowing our pastors, helping with all kinds of ministry, and basically figuring out what the back end of church life really looks like.

He's from Alabama, loves basketball, thinks Dune is peak cinema, and apparently has a thing for yellow.

Welcome to the team, Thad.

05/16/2026

Free Financial Planning Help – Right Here at Salem

Pastor Steve Schmeling is coming to Salem on Pentecost, May 24th to meet with families one-on-one and to celebrate Pentecost with us.

He's a WELS Christian Giving Counselor who provides free advice about tax-smart giving, special gifts, and a variety of end-life financial matters. Pastor and Jessie Wolfe have worked with Pastor Schmeling themselves and found it really helpful.

If you'd like to talk with him, he'd love to meet with you. Just email:

📧 [email protected]

Click here to learn more about this program! https://wels.net/giving/ministry-of-christian-giving/christiangivingcounselordirectory/

05/13/2026

We may have stacked the deck. Either way, come to VBS. 🎣

Gone Fishing VBS: where kids fish for faith, forgiveness, and new best friends. (Plus we promise they'll sleep well.)

Ages PreK–6th | salemlutheran.org/vbs

Tag someone who needs to come!

The Bible’s vision of motherhood is far bigger than the carefully curated pictures that we so often see.Strong. Wise. Co...
05/09/2026

The Bible’s vision of motherhood is far bigger than the carefully curated pictures that we so often see.

Strong. Wise. Courageous. Loud. Productive. Fierce Leaders.

They build homes, shape generations, speak truth to power, protect the vulnerable, and create places of refuge in a chaotic world. Women are described in scripture as “ezer” (Hebrew word translated to English as "helper"), a word most often used to describe God himself: a source of rescue, strength, protection, and refuge. Over and over again, we see God refer to motherhood as a place of peace and safety.

And here's the kicker. The Bible doesn't treat motherhood as a simple genetic connection. Motherhood is much less about your children and much more about your vocation. Motherhood is also about the other connections women have that nurture, mentor, teach, and pass on faith to the next generation.

This weekend, join us to thank God for all of the women in our lives who have carried our burdens, spoken hope, prayed fiercely, loved deeply, and passed on a legacy of faith that goes beyond blood.

Whether motherhood has been joyful, painful, complicated, or deeply missed in your life, Christ redeems all of it.

05/05/2026

Faith doesn't start at confirmation. Sometimes it starts for children long before they can name it.

When the Bible talks about faith, it praises the simple, clear faith of children, but it's clear that your walk with God is meant to grow and mature. Deuteronomy 6 tells us that this is an all-day, every day activity- to talk about faith when we sit at home, when we walk along the road, when we lie down, and when we get up.

Faith in a child grows in a thousand small moments. It's built by the teacher who said your name as if it mattered. The Sunday school volunteer who showed up every week. The pastor who took their question seriously. The grown-ups who noticed when something was wrong. The congregation member who prayed for them by name.

It's built at home, on the road, at bedtime, at breakfast, at school, and at church.

This week, we have a whole new class of confirmands. But they didn't get here alone. They got here because this congregation took God's direction seriously — and lived it out in ordinary, everyday moments. This one's for everyone who had a hand in that.

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14940 62nd Street N
Stillwater, MN
55082

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 4:30pm - 6pm
Sunday 7:30am - 11:30am

Telephone

(651) 439-7831

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