The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

Church: 211 Budd Street                     School: 201 Oxford Street
Fairmont, MN 56031                            Fairmont, MN 56031
507.238.9491                                         507.238.9492
St Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church & School
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Rev. Anthony T. Bertram

In the name of Jesus!
I have been a pastor at St. Paul Ev. Lutheran Church and School since 2006. God has blessed me with Deb, my wife, mother of our children, Grace and Sasha (Alexander). I have served God as a pastor since 1989, in St. Cloud first and then Litchfield, Minnesota, before coming to Fairmont.  I am the son of an LCMS pastor, who was a missionary to Taiwan where I was born, and a Lutheran school teacher. Wherever God has called me to serve, I am always amazed at the loving and supporting people in His Church. I give thanks for the faithful and dedicated pastor, teachers, and staff here at SPL and the privilege to serve God and these people with them.

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Hebrews 10:23-25 ESV)

Rev. Michael Holmen

​After graduating from college Michael taught for a year in South Korea. He received as a gift C. F. W. Walther’s The Proper Distinction between Law and Gospel. Reading this book convinced him of the need for preachers who preached the Law with all of its severity and the Gospel with all of its graciousness. When he arrived back in the United States he began to prepare to become a pastor.
Michael graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary-Fort Wayne in 2010. His first call was to serve the congregations of Our Redeemer and Peace in Independence and Oelwein Iowa. The twelve years he served these congregations were blessed with much joy and contentment.
Michael was born in Albert Lea, MN. He grew up on a family farm near Conger. He is happy to be “back home.” He is a reluctant vacationer. He considers the verdant farmlands of the Midwest to be the best place to be. He doesn’t understand why anyone would want to be anywhere else.
Jana, his wife, was born in South Korea. She was adopted when she was almost 8 years old by a pastor’s family. She was raised in Wisconsin. Their daughter, Edith, has been homeschooled but is eager to begin a new chapter of her education.
The whole family welcomes the new adventures, friendships and work that await them here at St. Paul, Fairmont. 

Faithful Servants of St. Paul Lutheran

1875-1883 - Rev. H. J. Mueller
1884-1889 - Rev. Theodore Maesse
1890-1891 - Rev. H. Dahlke
1891-1903 - Rev. Leonard F. Frey
1903-1945 - Rev. Otto H. Zemke
1945-1967 - Rev. Otto F. Krause
1959-1963 - Rev. Park G. Frederick
1967-1983 - Rev. Vernon H. Harley
​1974-1976 - Rev. Donavon R. Huwe
1977-1981 - Rev. Steven C. Briel
1982-1999 - Rev. Douglas K. Janetzke
1983-1988 - Rev. Samuel B. Reith
1989-1991 - Rev. Gregory J. Schultz
1992-2005 - Rev. Roger G. Abernathy
2000 - 2022 - Rev. Thomas E. Fast
2006 - Present - Rev. Anthony T. Bertram
​2023 - Present - Rev. Michael Holmen

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some,
but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
​~ Hebrews 10:24-25