History of Faith Lutheran

 

An attempt to find Lutheran families in the Vermilion, AB area was made by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in the 1950s by a mission out of Fort Saskatchewan, AB under the auspices of the Rev. Carl Baron. Although three town lots were purchased they were left vacant for twenty years.

 

In 1981 Rev. Carl Baron, then retired and living in Stony Plain, was asked to again head mission work in the area. He conducted services in homes and formed a local committee to study the interest in building a church and the financial resources available. Supported by St. Paul Lutheran Church in Mannville, the congregation rented the Seventh Day Adventist Church and called Pastor Terry Richardson to serve them.

 

They elected an executive in September and named the congregation Faith Lutheran Church in October 1981. The Constitution was adopted in January 1982 and plans for the construction of a church began. The church was dedicated in the fall of 1984, a parsonage was built in 1985 and the congregation called their first resident pastor, Pastor W. Pantzer, from Saskatchewan in 1987. In 1988 the congregation joined the newly formed Lutheran Church-Canada.