Worship Schedule:
8:00 a.m. Worship
9:15 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Worship
Check our calendar for our special services: Bluegrass Service and German Service
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Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church and School welcomes you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our name emphasizes that Jesus was the long-awaited Christ and that Christ's work is rescuing, buying back, or redeeming us from sin and its consequences. The name not only identifies the one whom we worship, but also guides all that we do in Church and School.
What We Believe
This congregation confesses Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the Gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe
•Jesus Christ is the Word of God incarnate, through whom everything was made and through whose life, death, and resurrection God fashions a new creation.
•The proclamation of God’s message to us as both Law and Gospel is the Word of God, revealing judgment and mercy through word and deed, beginning 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.
•The canonical 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.
This congregation accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.
This congregation confesses the Gospel, recorded in the Holy Scriptures and confessed in the ecumenical creeds and Lutheran confessional writings, as the power of God to create and sustain the Church for God’s mission in the world.
Organization
Christ Our Redeemer serves the Lord through the volunteer work of our members.
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) and the Flordia-Bahamas Synod.
Christ Our Redeemer is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and is in the Florida-Bahamas Synod.
Join Us at the Lord's Table
At Christ Our Redeemer, we invite all baptized Christians who desire to receive Christ’s body and blood for forgiveness of sins to join us at the Lord's Table. The Sacrament of Holy Communion is served weekly, nourishing us in our faith and strengthening us for service to God and others.
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Dr. Waldemar “Wally” Meyer is a third-generation Lutheran pastor who came to Christ Our Redeemer in June 1999. He was born in Ft. Worth, Tex., and raised in St. Louis and Albuquerque, N.M. He received his bachelor's degree from Concordia College in Ft. Wayne, Ind. and his Master of Divinity at Christ Seminary (Seminex) in St. Louis, then earned his doctorate from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. His doctoral thesis was titled “Church and School: Two Organizations Functioning as One to Enhance Mutual Ministry”. He was ordained in 1977 in Apopka, Fla., and has served congregations in Apopka, Deerfield Beach and Pensacola.
Pastor Meyer has served in various capacities in the Synod and the community. A baritone with a love for music, he plays the organ, piano, accordion and banjo. Together with other musicians in the congregation he has provided music for the Americana or bluegrass services at COR since 2005.
Pastor Meyer also has developed extensive partnerships with Lutheran churches in Germany. Fluent in German, he has regularly traveled to the country leading seminars on preaching for continuation education for pastors and serving short term as a pastor. He leads the monthly German language worship service at COR. More recently he has also studied Spanish and preached his first sermon in that language in fall 2006. He plans to lead a congregational mission trip to Cuba in February 2012.
Pastor Meyer is married to Geneva, a special education teacher, and has four children: Rachel married to Colin Forman, Laura married to Brad Barton, Stephen married to Karlyn, and Johanna. The Meyers have one grandson, Louis Forman, born in September 2007.
Welcome to the Christ Our Redeemer website.
“Christ Our Redeemer” is a long name. Two Lutheran churches in Temple Terrace, one named “Christ the King”, the other named “Our Redeemer”, merged in 1984. The name emphasizes that Jesus was the long-awaited Christ and that Christ’s work is rescuing, buying back, or redeeming us from sin and its consequences. The name not only identifies the one whom we worship, but also guides all that we do in Church and School.
Websites are great, indispensable in fact, for gathering information about a church. But we would love to have you stop in to really get acquainted, whether on a Sunday morning or during office hours. Or call if you would like more information - 813-988-4025.
We are affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Click on the link below for more information on the ELCA.
The Christian worship service consists of Word and Sacrament. God’s people gather to hear God speaking words of comfort, peace, joy, forgiveness, healing and strength. Then they gather around the altar to share bread and wine, the Body and Blood of Christ given and shed for us sinful people so that we may know Christ’s forgiveness and life. Those are big words and high goals for a group of people gathering on a Sunday morning, but with God present, it happens every week.
For many of us it is hard to imagine the Church without music. Many musicians, both on staff and volunteers, dedicate their talents to making the music both pleasing to our ears and to God each Sunday. Usually it is an organ, one of various choirs, bell choir, with other instruments to supplement the organ that lead our worship.
On the first Sunday of each month , musical accompaniment is provided with fiddles, guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass and piano in our Americana worship . It is unique, lively, a pleasant sound, and done to the glory of God as is all music at COR.
For those who speak German , Christ Our Redeemer also offers a German language service every second Sunday of the month at 3:00 PM. Tell your German speaking friends. They will probably say, “Danke!”
Rev. Dr. Waldemar Meyer, Pastor
Rev. Richard Hafer, Pastor
Rev. Dr. Lavern Franzen, Pastor Emeritus
Dave Bowden, Principal
Dianne Koenig, Deacon
Dian Olsen, Deacon
Betty Chester, Organist
Nancy Schild, Choir Director
Julie Doyle, Director of Christian Education
Dan Bowdish, Bookkeeper
Vickie Sufka, Parish Administrator
Glenn Bower, Property Manager
COR Education Proclaims The Love of Christ!
Vision Statement:
The Children’s Ministry at Christ Our Redeemer Lutheran Church exists for the purpose of partnering with families to surround children with the love of God, invite them into the family of God, and establish them in the Word of God. Psalm 127:3 says, “Behold, children are a gift of the Lord.” Through the Sunday school program, we seek to accomplish this mission and we invite you to join us in stewarding the gift God has given us.
Mission Statement:
COR Children's Ministry - Surrounding children with the love of God.
The Fellowship Committee makes sure there is no shortage of fun and "fellowship"! From super bowl parties, to progressive dinners, to retreats, to..............
Social Ministries is committed to guiding and promoting Christ Our Redeemer's response to people locally, nationally, and globally, and ministering to their needs for spiritual growth, sustenance, housing, health care, education and social services.
Social Ministries participates in a wide range of outreach activities.
Want to do something about hunger and the less fortunate?
We are very active with Metropolitan Ministries and the Messiah Migrant Ministries
Foreign Missions? Christ Our Redeemer supports the Village of Hope mission in Haiti. We provide financial donations, sponsorships of children, in-kind donations, and mission groups that travel to Haiti.
EAGLES: (Eager, Active, Gifted, Lutherans en Service)
Mission Statement: to enrich the lives of senior adults in the following areas: (1) in fellowship, (2) in study, (3) in creative new activities, (4) in exploring new places, and (5) in enabling new ministry for our congregation.
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