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Address 1 Harris Rd, Ellerslie, Auckland 1051, New Zealand Similar Somervell Presbyter Church, Presbyter Church, C3 Church, St Bernadette Catholic, Baptist Church of New Zeal | ||
Mountainside Lutheran Church is a Lutheran Church based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was commemorated on 27 May 2000 replacing a smaller Our Saviour Lutheran Church and also merging with another Auckland based sister Lutheran congregation, St Johns Lutheran Church (Mt Eden, Auckland) to form one single congregation for the whole of Auckland. Its origins date back as far as 1907. It currently has a congregation of approximately 150 members.
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Mountainside Lutheran Church is a community of people of a journey. It has gone through significant changes in the last few years, all in hope of more effectively fulfilling its mission, which is:
A diverse caring community reaching out with the awesome power of God's Word and Spirit that all may know and celebrate Jesus' love and hope.The church
The Mountainside congregation have built a new church (replacing the previously existing Our Saviour Lutheran Church <photo>) and community facility on the corner of Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Harris Road in Mt Wellington.
The Mountainside congregation is a regional community of people from all over Auckland. They are an ethnic community of people from 20 nations/ethnic groups (which include Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Republic of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tahiti, United States, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe). Some of the congregation are a local community of people who live and work in the Ellerslie/Mt Wellington community.
Worship
The congregation gather together to worship on Sunday mornings at 10.00am. The worship has diverse styles of music from 16th century hymns to songs written in this new millennium from all over the world. They are people of all ages and several languages.
Important beliefs
The Lutheran Church is a mainline Christian denomination, and shares central biblical truths with other Christian churches. Along with other mainline churches of all times we confess the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Part of LCA and LCNZ
Mountainside Lutheran Church is part of a larger group of Lutheran churches in Australia (LCA) and in New Zealand (LCNZ) known as the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA). Each of the member congregations of the LCA has agreed to band together into a church body called a ‘synod’ for the purpose of mutual support and to work together on projects that are too large for a single church to do by itself. While each of the individual churches is an autonomous body responsible for its own program, they also agree to work together. They also work together in mission ventures, in providing teaching institutions for the training of pastors and other church workers, in preparing materials for use in local congregations plus many other tasks. Clearly there are many benefits in being involved in the larger body, not the least of which is being part of a wider family, which is joined together by common beliefs. While there are different ways in which individual churches operation and practice their faith, there is an underlying unity in this diversity, which lends strength to the ministry of each local church.