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Worship

We offer Christ-centered, faith inspired worship on Sunday morning and Wednesday evening led by Pastor Dave Van Kley and Pastor Kent Narum. Custer Lutheran Fellowship provides a diversity of worship experiences including:

  • 3 music worship bands and a choir
  • Fellowship between worship services on Sunday morning
  • Lenten worship
  • Nursery staffed by volunteers
  • Outdoor week-night worship in the summer
  • Piano, organ, drums, public address system
  • Worship at many other meetings, classes, activities
  • Worship on Wednesday evenings
  • Worship opportunities twice each Sunday
  • Outdoor Worship every Monday night during the summer
Mission

We live under the "great commission" of Jesus: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you." Custer Lutheran Fellowship is engaged in the following ministries of Mission:

  • Bread for the World
  • Colombia Scholarship Fund
  • Custer Food Pantry
  • Custer Youth House
  • Custer Ministerial Association
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mission Support
  • Evangelism
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Lutheran Campus Ministry
  • Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota
  • Lutheran World Relief/World Hunger Appeal
  • Lutherans Outdoors in South Dakota
  • Ministry Partnerships on Pine Ridge Reservation
  • Woyatan Ministry in Rapid City
  • MSAADA - 3rd World Church Fund
  • Nicaragua and Colombia church partnerships
  • Partnership with Lutheran Church in Cameroon
  • Prison Congregations of America
  • Church on the Way prison ministry in Rapid City
  • Local ministries
  • Seminary support
  • St. Dysmas Lutheran Church at the State Penitentiary
  • Women Escaping a Violent Environment - WEAVE
  • World Hunger Appeal
  • Worship at Quest and Excel (girl's corrections camps)
Christian Education

We nurture faith and understanding in Christian people of all ages, young and old through classes and resources. Custer Lutheran Fellowship provides the following Christian Education opportunities:

  • Adult Education - Sunday morning & small groups
  • Confirmation
  • Lay Training
  • Special activities & forums
  • Sunday School
  • Vacation Bible School
  • Wednesday NightLife adult education
  • Wednesday NightLife children's hour
  • Youth Ministry
Support
Stewardship and Care of Members and Facility

As members of Custer Lutheran Fellowship and the body of Christ - we work together in ministry, supporting and caring for each other. We are committed to providing and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to accommodate our ever expanding mission of bringing others to Christ. This includes the following ministries of Support:

  • Friendship Ministry
  • Capital improvement/ Repair Fund
  • Debt retirement
  • Facility care and maintenance
  • 4X4 Fellowship
  • Men's Ministry
  • Office Staff
  • Health Ministry
  • Shut-in visitation
  • Women of the ELCA
  • XYZ - over 55 folks
  • Youth & Family Ministry
  • Eutychus/Young Adult Ministry