50th Anniversary

Written by Pastor Richard N. Nelson, Prince of Peace, 1980-1993 Remember In September 1980, Prince of Peace, under the leadership of Pastor Merv Thompson, called me to be Pastor of Evangelism [...]

Written by Jerry Knutson Our family moved to Burnsville in 1964. The boys were 4, 3 and 1 years old. For the following year and a half we continued to go to Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in [...]

Written by Toni Anderson The year was about 1975 or 1976… it seemed like any other Sunday, but when the service started we knew it would be different. This was Reformation Sunday celebrated in a [...]

Charter Members (.pdf) In late 1963 and early 1964, the initial work of planning a new congregation of the American Lutheran Church (now the ELCA) was begun in Burnsville, Minnesota. Construction [...]

  On a Saturday morning in the fall of 1983, several choirs from metro area churches gathered at Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka for a day of rehearsals under the direction of Jimmy Owens, in [...]

For the past 50 years, the Prince of Peace community has celebrated the Christmas season with concerts featuring our adult music ensembles. Prince of Peace has always welcomed the extended [...]

In January 1992, after serving Prince of Peace for 22 years, Pastor Merv Thompson decided it was time for a new challenge in his ministry. In large congregations across America, when a long-term [...]

“… and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” – Acts 1:8 Mission Outpost serves those in need in our community in “Jerusalem” – [...]

Acts 1:8 “…and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Accessibility to “the ends of the earth” is radically different now from [...]

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV Support groups have been an integral part of Prince of Peace’s work to help people [...]