About Lament Lutheran
Lament Lutheran began with planters Erik Osness and Jay Dyrland, who spent two years discerning a mission and vision for a church shaped by grace, rooted in Scripture, and attentive to the honest language of lament and hope. In the spring of 2025, a Core Group of fifteen people began gathering in a home to pray, read Scripture, and study Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy, a book that explores the biblical practice of lament and how God meets His people in seasons of sorrow and longing. These conversations helped form the theological, missional and pastoral DNA of what Lament Lutheran is learning to become.
As the group prayed, learned, and discerned together, a shared vision emerged for a community where worship is received as a gift and where people are free to bring their whole selves before Jesus. In the fall of 2025, a gathering space was secured, and Lament Lutheran entered a soft launch season, beginning weekly rhythms of Word and Sacrament, prayer, and community life.
As a fledgling church community, Lament Lutheran is learning to walk together in the care of Christ, holding honesty and hope side by side.
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What to Expect
Lament Lutheran gathers for worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Our services are a gentle and welcoming entry into our life together. We gather, listen, come to the table, and are sent—simple, steady rhythms that shape our worship over time. Within these movements, there is space for silence and song, prayer and blessing, lament and praise. We do not rush these practices. They form us patiently through God’s grace as we learn to walk together in faith.
Our services last about 60-75 minutes.
We are liturgical.
Our worship follows a clear and hospitable pattern shaped by the historic fourfold order: Gathering, Word, Table, and Sending. We pray together, follow the seasons of the church year, and make space for a variety of worship postures within the flow of the service. Portions of the liturgy are participatory and are always invitational. Whether liturgy is new to you or deeply familiar, we aim to make it approachable.
We are sacramental.
We celebrate Holy Communion every Sunday, trusting that Christ meets us in bread and wine with forgiveness, comfort, and strength.
We are rooted in Scripture.
Each service includes readings from the Bible, and preaching that is centred on the gospel of Jesus Christ, His presence with us in both suffering and renewal.
We value singing.
With simple instrumentation, we sing a blend of hymns, psalms, and contemporary worship songs that carry the themes of lament, trust, joy and hope. Music serves as a way for our whole community to pray together.
We value engaging our whole selves.
Worship at Lament Lutheran is gentle, reflective, and participatory. Our aim is to cultivate an emotionally healthy and spiritually grounded environment where people can come as they are.
We are prayerful.
We trust the Holy Spirit to meet us in our gratitude, our questions, and our needs.
Whether you come carrying joy, uncertainty, or quiet longing, you will find a community walking together in Christ’s steady grace.
What We Believe
Lament Lutheran is a Christian church in the Lutheran tradition, rooted in the grace-centered theology of the Protestant Reformation. We believe that the Holy Scriptures are the inspired and trustworthy Word of God, our final authority for faith, life, and practice. We also affirm the historic creeds of the early church—the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed—as faithful summaries of the core teachings held by Christians throughout the world and throughout history.
We are a member of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC), a denomination committed to the authority of Scripture, the centrality of Jesus Christ, the mission of making disciples, and the renewal of the church through Word and Sacrament. Our worship and teaching reflect these commitments, emphasizing God’s grace, the truth of the gospel, and the hope we share in Christ.
You can learn more about the beliefs and confessions of the North American Lutheran Church here.