About Us
Gethsemane Lutheran Church ELCA
715 Minnetonka Mills Road, Hopkins, MN 55343-7269
952-935-1753 | gethsemane@glconline.org
Office Hours: M-TH: 9 AM - 5 PM |
Our Mission Statement
Engaged by God in a Living Faith; at Home, at Church, and in the World
Our Welcome Statement
All are welcome at Gethsemane.
We at Gethsemane are committed to the hard work of learning to be actively welcoming to people of all backgrounds regardless of race, ability, sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. We recognize all are wonderfully and beautifully made by God.
We are committed to educating ourselves and actively identifying our biases, conscious and unconscious, systemic or personal. We do this because all things that separate us from loving each other also separate us from God.
Gethsemane Church Council
Kyle Bresin
Troy Davenport
Bob Dummer
Renee Hepperlen
Erica Koller
Rob Lind
Petra Marquart
AJ Meyer
Wade Nelson
Kendrick Paulson
Renee Schubbe
Bill Sundell
Our History
Gethsemane Lutheran Church was founded in 1890 in the town of Hopkins, located just west of Minneapolis. Our congregation was originally comprised of farmers, factory hands and small business owners sharing fellowship in a small-town, "traditional" family setting.
As Hopkins has grown to become more ethnically and economically diverse, Gethsemane has grown with the community and has adapted its ministry through the years to meet changing needs.
Today Gethsemane Lutheran Church is an 1,100-member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Our membership reflects the vitality of the many and varied west-suburban Twin Cities area neighborhoods, and visitors are welcomed from places near and far.