St Ansgar Lutheran Church

We are so excited to pass along the stewardship of 515 to HopeGateWay! We are filled with gratitude for their spirit-filled energy!

Today HopeGateWay became owners of the building the former St Ansgar Lutheran Church built and occupied for the last 62 years. This process has been Spirit led and inspired by our shared values of inclusion and progressive Christianity.
We are overwhelmed with the possibilities to which this leads our community.
We will spend the summer putting in new bathrooms and spiffing up the place that has been well maintained throughout its life.
Our business condo on High Street is now under contract and our lease for the space we currently rent is coming to an end. All of these circumstances have led us to trust that the movement of the Spirit is at work amongst us.
We are so immensely grateful!

Thanks to the The Dunham Group for being great realtors for this process. And being our realtors for our condo.

Image description: HopeGateWay Leadership Team Chair Margaret Menger, Rev. Sara Ewing-Merrill, Lead Pastor, and Nancy Deane-Loranger, President of Saint Ansgar stand with their arms around one another beaming with joy after signing ALL the papers at Old Port Title for the closing.

It has been quite a while since we posted to our page. The community at St. Ansgar has been in deep discernment, wondering how God is working in this place and how we might be called in the next season of our life together.

After consideration, conversation, and prayer, the community made the difficult and Spirit-filled decision to recognize that God’s ministry at 515 Woodford Street has come to a conclusion, and the next most faithful step would be to close.

We are thankful and grateful for your support - faithful followers on Facebook (and those who knew us before the advent of social media). The community is hopeful that the seeds of our 62 years in this place will now take to the wind to germinate the radical, justice-centered and love-filled truth that is God’s unswerving grace.

If you have a memory or a picture of something that happened at St. Ansgar, we’d love for you to post it to the page. We’ll be sure to share these images and comments at our final public worship service on Sunday, June 4th.