Mountainside Lutheran Church (Auckland)

Mountainside Lutheran Church is a Lutheran Church based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was commemorated on 27 May 2000 replacing a smaller Our Saviour Lutheran Church and also merging with another Auckland based sister Lutheran congregation, St Johns Lutheran Church (Mt Eden, Auckland) to form one single congregation for the whole of Auckland. Its origins date back as far as 1907. It currently has a congregation of approximately 150 members.Mountainside Lutheran Church is a community of people of a journey. It has gone through significant changes in the last few years, all in hope of more effectively fulfilling its mission, which is: A diverse caring community reaching out with the awesome power of God's Word and Spirit that all may know and celebrate Jesus' love and hope.The churchThe Mountainside congregation have built a new church (replacing the previously existing Our Saviour Lutheran Church ) and community facility on the corner of Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Harris Road in Mt Wellington.The Mountainside congregation is a regional community of people from all over Auckland. They are an ethnic community of people from 20 nations/ethnic groups (which include Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Republic of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tahiti, United States, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe). Some of the congregation are a local community of people who live and work in the Ellerslie/Mt Wellington community.