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   |   

Worship Schedule

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

Click here to contact the Church Council President

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.