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Meet Pastor Singh

 

 

It is my honor and pleasure to introduce myself to you all. My name is Rojar Singh and I am happily married to Rosy. We are blessed with three children, 2 boys and a girl (Raymond, Ryan, and Rachel). I am a third generation Christian from India. I originally came to Canada in 1996 to study at Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute in Camrose, AB. During the course of my studies I became so interested in the Lutheran theology that I was confirmed at Grace Lutheran Church in Camrose. I then went on to begin studies for the LCC ministry at Concordia Lutheran Seminary in Edmonton, AB. The past 11 years I have served as a pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Melfort, SK. Now with support of my family, I am looking forward to serving the wonderful family of God at Peace Lutheran Church, Spruce Grove and Victory Lutheran Church, Devon, AB. As St. Paul's says in 1 Corinthians 13:1, "If I speak in tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am resounding gong or clanging cymbal." With the same Christian love we are excited to serve His loving people in the Spruce Grove and Devon area.

While serving as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Golden Spike, Alberta in 1974, Pastor Carl R. Baron began to hold worship services in the homes of Lutheran families in Devon. The Department of Missions of the Alberta-British Columbia District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, also at this time began to subsidize the Mission Outreach in Devon. One couple especially instrumental in encouraging these first services was Robert and Lillian Doig. It was not long before the Devon Lutherans began to hold their services in the old St George’s Anglican Church on Sunday evenings and they called themselves St. Michael’s Lutheran Church.

In 1977, Pastor Frank Morgret accepted the call of Zion and St. Michael’s to become their pastor. He served them for fifteen months at which time he accepted a call to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Beamsville, Ontario. Vicar Terry Richardson served the Devon Mission during the vacancy until Pastor Walter A. Lexvold began his ministry at Zion and St. Michael’s on March 8, 1981.

The congregation in Devon was formally organized and incorporated on January 31, 1982 with a membership of eleven families, forty baptized and twenty two communicants. They at this time selected the name “Victory Lutheran Church”. At this meeting they also voted to purchase the old Devon Alliance Church building at the cost of $80,000, utilizing a loan from the A-BC District Church Extension Fund. Soon afterwards the congregation spent close to $10,000 to renovate both the upstairs sanctuary as well as the downstairs Sunday School and fellowship facilities.

St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Leduc assisted Victory in the work with a gift of $1800.00 and a number of tables for which they were very grateful. The Louis Schoepp family of Zion, Golden Spike donated an organ for the church.

In 1988 Pastor Douglas Schroeder accepted a call and served Victory Lutheran congregation for four and a half years until January of 1993. Subsequent to this Pastor Dan Hansard accepted a call and also served the congregation from 1993 until June of 1996. From 1996 until 2013 Pastor Ken Rodeman ministered to the needs of the Victory Lutheran Church congregation. In 2014 Pastor Rojar Singh assumed the pulpit and continues to shepherd the flock.

And now together, we press on to live with the apostle Paul and to say
“BUT THANKS BE TO GOD. HE GIVES US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST”.
1 Corinthians 15:57

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