Our Vision Statement

Our Savior's was a mission church plant of the Classis of Minnesota in 1968. It provided a gathering place for those with an RCA background who moved to the Twin Cities from across the state. It was situated next to a potato field on the edge of Brooklyn Park.

Today, the neighborhood looks much different. Brooklyn Park has grown to 68,000 people with diverse backgrounds. OSC has had people from many nations worship with them. Right now, we have a growing population of Leberian members and attenders.

Through the church's 35+ year history, it has had only four pastors: Rev. Berend VandeWoude (1968-1974), Rev. Forrest Harms (1976-1989), Rev. Leon Fikse (1991-1995), and Rev. Lori Walber (1996-present).

The Reformed Church in America is a fellowship of congregations called by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the very presence of Jesus Christ in the world.

Our shared task is to equip congregations for ministry-a thousand churches in a million ways doing one thing-following Christ in mission, in a lost and broken world so loved by God.

The Reformed Church in America, which includes some of the best-known congregations in North America, was established on this continent 150 years before the Revolutionary War. The word Reformed comes from the Protestant Reformation which swept across Europe in the 1500's under the leadership of such men as Martin Lither and John Calvin. Calvin's reformation at Geneva spread to many countries, including Holland (where it became our ancestor, the Dutch Reformed Church).

The Dutch Reformed Church established its first congregation in New Amsteredam in 1628, making it the oldest denomination in America with a continuous ministry. Although Dutch in origin, the Reformed Church in America has for decades included peoples of many races and nationalities in its congregation.

The denomination currently has about 950 churches in the United States and Canada, with 190,000 confessing members.

Each of our congregations is unique, shaped by the needs of its people and its community.

Worship services range from highly formal to very informal. In almost all, however, you will find good preaching, a stong program of Christian Education, and sympathetic pastoral counseling. To belong to a Reformed church is to be a part of a warm and caring Christian Family.

We believe the Bible to be the word of God and the Savior of those who have faith in him. We believe in the Apostles' Creed. The Heidelberg Catechism, a sixteenth-century evangelical statement of faith, has played a particularly important role in our history.