Our Story

Our Story


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.

Here is a link to additional details supplied by the Mathies family: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kz9QIlD1fd0adASgf4WLI2NvB3m0uz83/view?usp=share_link

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)

Photos courtesy of Geoff Stumer.

 

Founding Pastors

  • Martin Prenzler
  • Sam Simpfendorpfer
  • Roly Nuske
  • Glen Schulz
  • Maurie Richter

Founding Members

  • The Mathies family
  • Dr David Caldwell
  • Arthur Behrendorff
  • John Lennerth
  • Steve Kemp, Graham Teece
  • Rob Mackenzie
  • Ron Copelin
  • Bronte Hagstrom
  • John Pfeiffer
  • Peter Weckert
  • Ian Louttit
  • Jeff Minge

John Lennerth

Jeff Minge


 

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