Welcome to Our Savior's Lutheran Church!

 

Our Savior's Lutheran Church is a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  elca.org  It has served the Village of Seneca, IL, and the surrounding area for over one hundred years, since 1906.  The present church building, located at 300 East Union Street, was dedicated in 1966.

In 2019 Our Savior's joined with Immanuel Lutheran Church in Marseilles, IL, to form the Illinois River Valley Lutheran Parish.  Rev. Kris Ann Zierke serves both congregations.  We also value our ecumenical relationships with other congregations in Seneca and Marseilles.

Our Savior's welcomes everyone into worship and fellowship.

  • We believe in the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We affirm Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe.
  • We believe Jesus Christ is the Word of God made human, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
  • We believe that God announces God's message to us as both Law and Gospel in the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word and deed.  This begins with the Word in creation, continuing in the history of Israel, and centering in all its fullness in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
  • We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God.  Inspired by God's Spirit speaking through their authors, they record and announce God's revelation centering in Jesus Christ.  Through them, God's Spirit speaks to us to create and sustain Christian faith and fellowship for service in the world.
  • We believe that the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of the Word's proclamation, faith, and life.
  • We accept the Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds as true declarations of our faith.
  • We accept the Unaltered Augsburg Confession as a true witness to the Gospel.  We accept the other confessional writings in the Book of Concord as further valid interpretations of the faith of the Church.
  • We believe the Gospel, recorded in Holy Scripture, in the ecumenical creeds, and in Lutheran confessional writings, reveals the power of God to create and sustain the Church for God's mission in the world.