Church celebrates 125 years

The 125th anniversary celebration at Our Savior's Lutheran Church last Sunday was a chance for parishioners to, as Pastor Luke Lekander said, "look back" and "move forward."

"Moving forward requires us to change. But I don't want to change simply for the sake of change," Lekander wrote in his weekly message after the lunch and service Sept. 29. "The changes we make must be theologically rooted and always for the purpose of sharing and living out the gospel of Jesus Christ. ... The time has come to reform.

The whole church is always reforming. Now, we at Our Savior's must take a deliberate, int...