Other Sudanese Lutheran Congregations in MN

In Minnesota, the church serves as a “mediating institution,” a primary interface between Nuer refugees and their predominantly white neighbors.1 A number of congregations in Minnesota, such as Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, have made an effort to provide a place of worship for Nuer Christians. See the following links for other multicultural congregations in Minnesota:

  1. Louise Lamphere, ed. Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on Immigration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). ↩

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The outside of Trinity Lutheran Church in Faribault.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Faribault, MN

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Cloud, MN

  • MPR story about the relationship between the English-speaking and Nuer-speaking congregations at Bethlehem Lutheran Church

St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Austin, MN

St. John Lutheran Church, Owatonna, MN

Zion Lutheran Church, Anoka, MN

  •  Article in The Lutheran about Mawien Ariik, the first Sudanese pastor ordained in the United States at Zion Lutheran Church.

List of Sudanese Lutheran Churches in Minnesota