Redeemer was founded in Owatonna, Minnesota in 1883 by a group of German Lutherans and was originally named First St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The congregation’s first house of worship was built in 1894 on State Avenue.
In 1960 the church campus on the corner of Truman Avenue and Havana Road in southeast Owatonna was built and dedicated to the glory of God.
In the 1980’s Redeemer started a daughter congregation, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, in northeast Owatonna. In 2024, Redeemer and Good Shepherd became one congregation again.
The members of Redeemer continue to look for new ways to reach out to the community and the world with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ, while worshiping and serving at Good Shepherd.
Redeemer Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Minnesota 