History Of Victory Lutheran Church
While serving as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Golden Spike, Alberta in 1974, Pastor Carl R. Baron began to hold worship services in the homes of Lutheran families in Devon. The Department of Missions of the Alberta-British Columbia District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, also at this time began to subsidize the Mission Outreach in Devon. One couple especially instrumental in encouraging these first services was Robert and Lillian Doig. It was not long before the Devon Lutherans began to hold their services in the old St George’s Anglican Church on Sunday evenings and they called themselves St. Michael’s Lutheran Church.
In 1977, Pastor Frank Morgret accepted the call of Zion and St. Michael’s to become their pastor. He served them for fifteen months at which time he accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Beamsville, Ontario. Vicar Terry Richardson served the Devon Mission during the vacancy until Pastor Walter A. Lexvold began his ministry at Zion and St. Michael’s on March 8, 1981.
The congregation in Devon was formally organized and incorporated on January 31, 1982 with a membership of eleven families, forty baptized and twenty two communicants. They at this time selected the name “Victory Lutheran Church”. At this meeting they also voted to purchase the old Devon Alliance Church building at the cost of $80,000, utilizing a loan from the A-BC District Church Extension Fund. Soon afterwards the congregation spent close to $10,000 to renovate both the upstairs sanctuary as well as the downstairs Sunday School and fellowship facilities.
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Leduc assisted Victory in the work with a gift of $1800.00 and a number of tables for which they were very grateful. The Louis Schoepp family of Zion, Golden Spike donated an organ for the church.
In 1988 Pastor Douglas Schroeder accepted a call and served Victory Lutheran congregation for four and a half years until January of 1993. Subsequent to this Pastor Dan Hansard accepted a call and also served the congregation from 1993 until June of 1996. Since this time Pastor Ken Rodeman has ministered to the needs of the Victory Lutheran Church congregation.
At the time of this writing, seventeen children and one adult have been brought to our Saviour Jesus in the sacrament of Holy Baptism, two adults and five children have committed their lives to Christ in the rite of confirmation, and six couples have been united in Christian marriage through the ministry of the Victory Lutheran congregation.
And now together, we press on to live with the apostle Paul and to say
“BUT THANKS BE TO GOD. HE GIVES US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST”.
1 Corinthians 15:57
In 1977, Pastor Frank Morgret accepted the call of Zion and St. Michael’s to become their pastor. He served them for fifteen months at which time he accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Beamsville, Ontario. Vicar Terry Richardson served the Devon Mission during the vacancy until Pastor Walter A. Lexvold began his ministry at Zion and St. Michael’s on March 8, 1981.
The congregation in Devon was formally organized and incorporated on January 31, 1982 with a membership of eleven families, forty baptized and twenty two communicants. They at this time selected the name “Victory Lutheran Church”. At this meeting they also voted to purchase the old Devon Alliance Church building at the cost of $80,000, utilizing a loan from the A-BC District Church Extension Fund. Soon afterwards the congregation spent close to $10,000 to renovate both the upstairs sanctuary as well as the downstairs Sunday School and fellowship facilities.
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Leduc assisted Victory in the work with a gift of $1800.00 and a number of tables for which they were very grateful. The Louis Schoepp family of Zion, Golden Spike donated an organ for the church.
In 1988 Pastor Douglas Schroeder accepted a call and served Victory Lutheran congregation for four and a half years until January of 1993. Subsequent to this Pastor Dan Hansard accepted a call and also served the congregation from 1993 until June of 1996. Since this time Pastor Ken Rodeman has ministered to the needs of the Victory Lutheran Church congregation.
At the time of this writing, seventeen children and one adult have been brought to our Saviour Jesus in the sacrament of Holy Baptism, two adults and five children have committed their lives to Christ in the rite of confirmation, and six couples have been united in Christian marriage through the ministry of the Victory Lutheran congregation.
And now together, we press on to live with the apostle Paul and to say
“BUT THANKS BE TO GOD. HE GIVES US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST”.
1 Corinthians 15:57
