History
St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church began as Memorial Lutheran Church in 1883 and celebrated its Centennial in 1983. The congregation is the result of the merging of four different churches over the years, the most recent being the consolidation of St. Paul Lutheran and Reformation Lutheran in 1977. This congregation and its predecessors have served in urban ministry in the Midway area of St. Paul with a vibrant witness to the Gospel, its Good News of salvation and its call for justice in society. We believe, with the Apostle Paul in Romans 8, that no person or created thing ever stands outside the creative love and grace of God.
The congregation today is comprised of about 475 active communing members and 120 baptized children. An average of 210 people worship each Sunday. We are a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and of its Saint Paul Area Synod, South Central Conference. Members of our congregation serve the wider Christian community by working with the Saint Paul Area Synod Urban Strategy, on committees of the Minnesota Council of Churches and the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches.