Our Purpose

It is the single purpose, of Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church to be a Christian church which strives to proclaim the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible, by which alone man can know the true God and the way to eternal life.

We earnestly desire to share our rich blessings, and thus extend a welcome to

• All who are in distress of mind and heart because of their guilt and condemnation in the sight of Almighty God and seek the pardon and comfort which only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can confer;
  
• All who are bewildered by the confusion of many voices offering the theories of human wisdom in the name of religion, and who desire to hear the Voice of the Good Shepherd whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses;
  
• All who, though members of Christian churches, have come to fear or to know that their churches have departed from the truth of Holy Scripture, who therefore long for the old paths and the good way ( Jeremiah 6:16);
  
• All who have strayed from the blessed pledge of their Baptism and desire to be restored to the Bishop of their souls.
  

Taken from the CLC Statement of Faith and Purpose.

About Immanuel

We invite you to join us at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, located at 421 North Second Street, in Mankato, Minnesota. Our Congregation was formed in 1867, and is a member of the Church of the Lutheran Confession.

We operate Immanuel Lutheran School a K-12 school offering a full-day Kindergarten and a traditional High School.

We hold worship services on Sunday morning and on Wednesday evening each week. We also hold services during Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter), and on Ascension, Reformation (Oct 31st), Christmas Eve and Day, and New Year's Eve and Day. Sunday services are also shown on Mankato’s community access cable channel (CCTV, channel 13). We produce a short radio broadcast: "Immanuel Meditations", which may be heard on KTOE 1420 AM. We offer numerous opportunities for Bible Study: Sunday Morning Bible Study, Youth Forum, Sunday School, Wednesday Evening, Tuesday Bereans, Men’s Friday Morning, Senior Citizens, Gus Johnson Plaza, and Alterra Sterling House Bible Studies.

During the summer we offer Vacation Bible School. Immanuel offers youth (confirmation) and adult instruction classes.

Our congregation has two ladies groups—The Women’s Study Guild and The Ladies Auxiliary. We have two youth groups—The Ambassadors and Junior Ambassadors.

Immanuel sponsors the CLC Youth Conference and CLC Women’s Retreat (in Trego, WI). Annually we hold a Christian Women's Seminar, Summer Family Group Camp and a Winter Youth Camp.

Immanuel maintains Pilgrims’ Rest Cemetery, which is on Third Avenue in Mankato.

Sunday’s Sermon

The sermon for Sunday July 20, 2008 (9th Sunday after Trinity) was given on the theme Conversion Is a Miracle of God!. Pastor Paul D. Nolting presented the sermon in three parts:

1. He gives life to us-the spiritually dead!
2. He bestows the gift of salvation upon us-by grace through faith!
3. He enables us to do good works-prepared specifically in advance!

The sermon for June 29, 2008 is available as an mp3 audio file.

Our sermon archive has sermons from 1999, sorted either by date, text, or topic.

Worship Schedule