Our Story

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Our church Trinity Lutheran Church Ashmore, formerly Living Word Lutheran Church, stands proudly today on the shoulders of visionaries – pastors and members of Trinity Lutheran Church Southport who, through dedication and faithful service, followed God’s call to establish a worship centre and a school to meet the needs of families living in the expanding suburbs of Ashmore and Nerang here on the Gold Coast.

1974	Pastor Martin Prenzler (Trinity Lutheran Church Southport) led the commencement of a worship centre at Nerang Community Hall.
1986	Worship services were moved to the Trinity Primary School Hall in Cotlew Street under the guidance of Southport pastors Sam Simpfendorpfer and Roly Nuske.
1991–92	Pastors Glen Schulz and Maurie Richter formed the pastoral team to lead the church.
1995	The growing congregation moved its place of worship to the Trinity Centre – a purpose-built facility on the site of the Trinity Lutheran College (secondary school) on Ashmore Road.
1996	Trinity emerged as a self-supporting, constituted congregation with Geoff Hartwig appointed as its pastor.
2008	Pastor Dirk Willner became the congregation’s pastor serving in this role until 2019.
2020	Pastor Michael Mayer became the congregation's new pastor in 2020.

Trinity Lutheran Church Ashmore stands as the founding congregation for the Trinity Lutheran College (P–12).

We are indebted to our church’s founding members and pastors.

(Pastors Steve Mattner, Glenn Schulz, Lance Steicke, Maurie Richter and Andrew Jaensch)

(Pastor Tim Jaensch, John Stapleton, Arthur Behrendorff, Pastor Lance Steicke, Lindsay Challenor, Peter Eckermann)