About Immanuel Lutheran Church

Our Sunday morning schedule (beginning September 11, 2011) :

• 9:00 AM: Adult Forum.

• 9:15 AM: Sunday School.
  
  
• 10:30 AM: Morning Worship Service with Eucharist (Communion)
  Liturgy, Music, and Preaching of the Word. Child care is provided
  
  
• Coffee and Fellowship Hour: In the Fellowship hall, following the later service.
  

SUMMER Sunday morning schedule (June 12, 2011 through Labor Day) :

• 9:30 AM: Summer church service with the Eucharist (Communion)
  
  
• Coffee and Fellowship Hour: In the Parish Hall, following the morning service.
  

Immanuel's Staff

• The Rev. Steven Wilco,Pastor
• Matthew Cron, Organist
• Anne Weaver, Choir Director
• Church Office, Click here to mail the church office  

Committee contacts

• Adult Learning / Formation: Coordinator: Ruth Rinard, Beth Manion
• Altar Guild: Dorothy Bachtold
• Ecumenical-Interfaith: Harry Seelig
• Fellowship: June Daehler, Ann Donnelly
• Finance: Randy Dettmers
• Property: Skip Spaulding
• Social Concerns: Julie Brigham-Grette and Roger Grette
• Stewardship: Jon Niedzielski
• Sunday School and Youth: Julie de Bruyn Kops
  
• Confirmation: Julie Brigham-Grette
  
• Worship: Mary Carlson
  
• Senior Choir: Director - Anne Weaver
  
• Musicians, Soloists, Special Music: Coordinator - Matthew Cron
  
• Web Site: Bob Weaver
  
• Worship Leaders (Readers, Ushers, Greeters, acolytes and Altar Guild): Yvonne Nicholson
  

Congregation Council:

• Jon Niedzielski, President and Liaison for Stewardship
• Ruth Rinard, Vice-President and Liaison for Education
• Nat Larson, Treasurer
  
• Marvin Daehler, Co-Secretary and Liaison for Fellowship
  
• Abby Dallmann, Co-Secretary
  
• Tony Butterfield, Financial Secretary and Liason for Capital Campaign and Property
  
• Jack Stebbins, Liaison for Worship
  
• Cathy Helgoe, Liaison for Education and Social Concerns
  
• Jim Bodmer
  
• Claire Carlson, Liaison for Social Concerns
  
• Cheryl Smith, Liaison for Outreach and Welcome
  
• Pat Tamburro, Liaison for Outreach and Welcome
  
• The Rev. Steven Wilco, Pastor
  

Others serving on committees include:

Mutual Ministry Committee

• Skip Spaulding, Chair
• Abby Dallman
• Andrew Donnelly
• Evie Simkins
• Lois Smith
• Ruth Rinard
• Randall Bausor
  

The Capital Campaign Team

• Ron Archer
• Tony Butterfield
• Julie Brigham Grette
• Liz Larson
• Bob Weaver

To reach a member of these committees, please contact office@immanuel-amherst.org.

Our past:

Founded in 1962 as a mission church to the colleges in the area, the fledgling congregation met in the Odd Fellows Hall in downtown Amherst for three years. In 1965, our main building was completed. The well-known theologian, the Rev. Dr. Martin E. Marty was preacher for the dedication service of our sanctuary. Dr. Marty has delivered the sermon here several times since then. He is the founder of the Institute for Advanced Study of Religion (now the Martin Marty Center) at the University of Chicago where he is Professor of Religious History, Emeritus.

Another well-known theologian who had close ties to our congregation and preached here on a number of occasions is the Rev. Dr. Krister Stendahl, the late father of our third pastor. Dr. Stendahl was Dean and Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and later was consecrated as the Lutheran Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1995, the Fellowship Hall section was added to the original building. This building features, in addition to a large fellowship hall, the Pastor's office, a meeting lounge, kitchen, and a number of classrooms upstairs.

Immanuel has been served by five pastors: founding pastor Richard E. Koenig, who served from 1962 until 1978; Paul F. Bosch, 1979-1982; John K. Stendahl, 1983-1995; Louis (Rudy) Beyer, 1997-2008, and our current pastor is Steven Wilco, starting in 2011. We have also had able pastoral leadership from several people during interim periods, including, Karl Donfried, Lyle Larson, and our most recent Interim Pastor, Randall K.Wilburn. Our congregation has been richly blessed by the service of all of these dedicated and faithful pastors.

• Immanuel is located at 867 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002--just north of the University of Massachusetts' School of Education.
• Church phone: 413-549-0322
• Church FAX: 413-549-1916