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Our Savior Lutheran Church (St. Petersburg, Florida)
Our Savior Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The church also operates an elementary school and a middle school. With 1272 members as of 2006, it is the seventh largest church in the LCMS' Florida-Georgia District; along with St. Petersburg's Grace Lutheran Church (1294 members) and Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Nassau Bay, Texas (3268 members), it is one of the three largest Missouri Synod congregations along the Gulf Coast.
==History==
Our Savior Lutheran Church was founded in 1954. Even though for a while the services were held in Gulfport Elementary School, good things were to come from Our Savior. Reverend Bruce Bartholomew became the first pastor of the congregation in March 1954; he led the first regular service in the morning on Easter of that year, with all 18 members of Our Savior. Later that year the services were held in a bigger place in the Community Hall in Gulfport, Florida. In June the first Sunday school was held with attendance of 6 children; that was just the beginning, because later that summer the congregation purchased of land on 58th avenue for about $12,000. Our Savior Lutheran Church is located in the middle of two cemeteries, in central St. Petersburg. At first it occupied just a little plot of land next to a graveyard; then the congregation built Parish Hall, where all the services where held. It was a small wooden building, all they needed at the time for a place to worship God. They used this building for their church services until 1966, when the sanctuary that is still used today was built. Parish Hall was later turned into a small gym and office building. Later, two members of the church, the Wegners, graciously remembered Our Savior in their will. In the 1970s there was a high school of portables on the grounds before Wegner Hall. It was vandalized and burned down. After Wegner Hall was built, there was a preschool and then an elementary school. The sanctuary was redone in 2001, building a new narthex and giving the whole church a makeover. The old gym was soon turned into a middle school building, three years after the OSLS middle school was formed. Around the beginning of 2005, Wegner Hall hosted the contemporary services at Our Savior, complete with PowerPoint and a more contemporary array of songs and services. Currently there is work being done on the roof, and other ideas are still in planning.
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