We’re a family.
A 200-member family in Christ. Our youngest is about one year old. Our oldest are in their nineties. We are blue collar and white collar, students and retirees. Our interests and hobbies are different. Our faith is the same. The glue that holds us together is Jesus.
We’d love for you to join our family.
Our mission
As recipients of God’s grace through the gospel of Jesus Christ, Living Hope exists to proclaim the gospel in Word and sacrament in our community and throughout the world in order to bring the lost to Christ and to nurture believers for lives of Christian service.
Our beliefs
In the Bible God reveals his work to reconcile fallen humanity to himself through the redemptive work of his Son Jesus Christ and through the regenerative work of his Holy Spirit through the gospel. God’s work restores our relationship with him and transforms our hearts to love others. God’s work for us and in us is at the center of all we believe and teach.
For a more-thorough presentation of our beliefs, please visit the education section of our site.
Our history
Living Hope was started as a mission congregation of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in 1990. For fifteen years, its dedicated pastor and members worshiped in various rented facilities in the Brandermill area. In 2005 the congregation dedicated its current facility on a five-acre parcel across from Swift Creek Middle School on Old Hundred Road.
Our pastors
Pastor Michael Seifert has served Living Hope since July 2005.
He grew up in a pastor's family in Midland, Michigan. He graduated from Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 and from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin with a Master of Divinity in 2003. He also attended the Theologish-Lutherisches Seminar of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Leipzig, Germany from 1999-2000.
Upon his graduation from the seminary, he served for two years as a dormitory supervisor and teacher of Old Testament Bible History and German at Luther Preparatory School in Watertown, Wisconsin.
Pastor married Sarah in 2006. They have three boys.
Pastor Alex Lindemann has served the people at Living Hope and the Midlothian community since July 2022.
Pastor Lindemann was born in Sheboygan, WIsconsin and grew up in rural Lewiston, Minnesota. He attended Luther Preparatory School in Watertown, Wisconsin (2014), Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota (2018), and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, Wisconsin (2022). While at the Seminary, he spent one year as a vicar (intern) at Apostles Lutheran Church in Billings, Montana (2020-21). Upon graduation from the Seminary, Pastor Lindemann received a call to be the Graduate Assistant to the North Atlantic District President.
Pastor married Rachel in 2019. They have twin children.
Our vision
We are eager to expand our ministry, daughter congregations, and do even more to support the training of pastors and Christian teachers.
To that end we are undertaking a capital campaign to finance a building expansion and a special offering to Martin Luther College.
Enjoy our campaign video. For more details visit our campaign site NotUntoUs.com.
