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Immanuel Lutheran Church
867 North Pleasant StreetAmherst,
MA 01002413-549-0322Our
Sunday morning schedule (September, 2007 until June
9, 2008) :
- 8:30 AM: Early Service with Eucharist (Communion)
- 9:15 AM: Parish Hour and Sunday School for all ages, pre-K through
adult.
- 10:30 AM: Main Service with the Eucharist (Communion)
Choir sings and child care is provided
- Coffee and Fellowship Hour:
In the Fellowship hall, following the later service.
SUMMER
Sunday morning schedule (June 16, 2008 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
Committee contacts
- Adult Learning / Formation: Coordinator
- Ruth Rinard, Beverly Sunderland
- Building Use, Dave Carlson
- Campus
Ministry, Dave Carlson
- Daytimers: Social Actiities for those
retired, Faith Sweigert.
- Ecumenical-Interfaith: Donna Griffin
- Fellowship:
Plan Social Events / Welcome Newcomers, Chair - Chris Nelson
- Finance:
Chair - Randy Dettmers
- Property: Skip Spaulding
- Social
Concerns: Chairs - Julie Brigham Grette and Roger Grette
- Stewardship:
Jon Niedzielski
- Sunday School and Youth: Chair - Kathy Niedzielski
- Sunday
Confirmation: Teachers - Ann Donnelly and Kathy Niedzielski
- Young
Theologians: Teacher - Pastor Beyer
- Worship: Chair - Mary Carlson
- Senior
Choir: Director - Anne Weaver
- Junior Choir: Director - Nancy
Simkins
- Musicians, Soloists, Special Music: Coordinator - Matthew
Cron
- Worship Leaders (Readers, Ushers, Greeters, acolytes and Altar
Guild) - Mary Carlson
- Altar Guild - Dorothy Urch, Donna Tattar,
Dorothy Bachtold
Church Council:
- Skip Spaulding,
President
- Christian Nelson, Vice President
- Ruth
Rinard, Secretary
- Dorothy Bachtold, Financial Secretary
- Randy
Dettmers, Treasurer
- Randall Bausor
- Jim Bodmer
- Phyllis
Bragg
- Jon Niedzielski
- Sandy Petersen
- Beth Starr
- Rudy
Beyer, Pastor
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, 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 has been professor of religious
history for over 35 years.
Another well-known theologian who has close ties
to our congregation and has preached here on a number of occasions is Dr. Krister
Stendahl, the 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. He is now Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard.

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, a
number of classrooms upstairs and the LAOS Interfaith Religious Bookshop (also
upstairs).

Immanuel has been served
by four pastors: founding pastor Richard E. Koenig, who served from 1962 until
1978; Paul F. Bosch, 1979-1982; John K. Stendahl, 1983-1995; and our current pastor,
Louis (Rudy) Beyer. We have also had able pastoral leadership from several people
during interim periods, including, Karl Donfried and, most recently, Lyle Larson.
Our congregation has been richly blessed by the service of all of these dedicated
and faithful pastors.
Congregation Council
The
Council has responsibility for all aspects of congregational life. Under the leadership
of President, Randall Bausor, the Council works with the Pastor and staff members
to enhance the way Immanuel Lutheran Church carries out its mission as a Christian
community serving the towns in this area, the nearby educational institutions,
the larger church, and the Kingdom of God in the world.
Finding
us
- 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
- To see statistics
and a map, click
here
The Community
Immanuel is located
in the beautiful and historic Town of Amherst, Massachusetts.
Amherst, located at the heart of the "Pioneer Valley" of Western Massachusetts,
is a center of diverse culture, agriculture, technology and education. The five
extrordinary institutions of higher learning located within a 10 mile radius (see
The Five Colleges) provide our area
with many of the advantages of a thriving city, and yet Amherst and its neighboring
communities possess a small town New England charm and feel.
Press
here to write to: Pastor
Rudy BeyerorChurch
Office867 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, Massachusetts
01002
413-549-0322 (Voice)
413-549-1916 (Fax)
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