Oromo Evangelical Church

Worshiping at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church

 

 

The Oromo Evangelical Church in Houston started as a home prayer group of refugees in 2007.  The Oromo people are an African ethnic group found in Ethiopia (and to a lesser extent in Kenya).  An Oromo group, living predominatly in southwest Houston, approached Gulf Coast Synod bishop Michael Rinehart and asked for assistance in beginning a ministry in the Oromo language in southwest Houston.  Bishop Rinehart asked Salem about providing a congregational setting for the beginning or the Oromo ministry.  The prayer group grew to become a synodically authorized worshiping community and began worshiping on April 20, 2008 at Salem.

 

In 2007 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recognized the Oromo Christian Fellowship in Houston as a "newly growing congregational mission", assigning a Mission Developer (Eyuel Bedane) in connection with this fellowship moving to Salem. 

 

The Oromo Evangelical Church in Houston is a faith community worshiping God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the Oromo language, focusing on the Oromo immigrant population that has been recently moving to Houston.  Many Oromo people have migrated here in the past several years.

 

The congregation worships at Salem in the nave at 4 p.m. on Sundays, and meets for Bible study in the parlor at 6:30 on Wednesday evenings.