Faith & Fellowship

Pastor Rick Frederickson
  The Springfield United Methodist Church will be honoring their pastor, Rick Frederickson, on his retirement from the ministry.  The public is invited to attend a reception from 10:30-11:30 a.m. this Sunday, June 18 at the church. After serving the congregation for five years, Pastor Frederickson...
  The aroma of German food will be wafting through the air around St. Paul Lutheran Church this Wednesday, April 26.  The church will holding it’s annual spring German Supper serving from 4:30-6:00 p.m. or until sold out.  On the menu will be sauerkraut with pork and dumplings, German potato salad...
St. Raphael's Men's Dinner
  Are you hungry for sauerkraut and all the trimmings?  St. Raphael Men’s Dinner is this coming Sunday, April 16.  On the menu is sausage, homemade sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and gravy, bun and cookie.  The cost is $12.00 per meal. The dinner will be a drive-thru only event, serving between 9:30 a...
  For seventy-three years, the parishioners of the United Methodist Church have been preparing and hosting their annual Chow Mein Supper for all to enjoy.  What started out as a fundraiser for the church youth group back in 1949 has become a social event that many look forward to each February. The...
Bob Sturm received the CUF Community Service Award.
  Catholic United Financial, fraternal benefit society, annually recognizes an individual from St. Raphael Parish who has demonstrated and committed achievements in both their church and community.  Robert Sturm is the 2022 recipient of the award. Sturm is very involved in St. Raphael’s Parish,...
  The Parish of St. Raphael Catholic Church has been celebrating its annual Fall Festival for forty-six years.  The celebration, which started in September 1977, has taken on different agendas and menus through the years, but the festival remains the same—to celebrate and praise God for the...
St. Paul Lutheran Church
  St. Paul Lutheran Church is celebrating—celebrating community and celebrating it’s 150th anniversary!  The anniversary was actually two years ago, in 2020, and there were events planned for every month of the year under the theme “150 Years of Walking With God.”  Unfortunately, the COVID pandemic...
Board members of the Springfield Area Historical Society gathered Friday, June 17 for the annual Museum Summer open house. The museum was will with new displays for the season. Board members in attendance were Director Steve Renner, Director Bob Sturm, President Cheryl Diede, Secretary Marge Renner...
Maxine (Max) Meine was recently awarded the 2021 Catholic United Service Award at St. Raphael Church on Saturday, November 20.  Meine’s family including her grandchildren watched as Christa Schilling, a local Member Advisor with Catholic United presented the award to Meine.  “Every year St. Raphael...
Pastor Dan Larsen
Pastor Dan Larsen will preach his last sermon at Zion Lutheran Church in Springfield on Sunday, October 17.  He has served the congregation as part of a three-point parish since the summer of 2019.  He has accepted a call to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Henning, Minnesota. “I first came to Zion in...

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