Welcome to King of Grace & Trinity Lutheran Churches!

Thank you for visiting! We are a dual parish in northeastern Iowa that shares the Good News of the forgiveness, hope, and salvation that Jesus has won for us. We are a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) which is in fellowship with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). Please join us for one of our services at King of Grace in Waukon, Iowa on Sundays at 9:00 AM or Trinity Lutheran Church in Calmar, Iowa at 11:00 AM. All are welcome!

Sermons

Quinquagesima Sunday – 2026

Luke 18:31–43 And taking the twelve, [Jesus] said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. For He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. And after flogging Him, they will kill Him, and on the third day He will rise.” But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from…

Septuagesima – 2026

Matthew 20:1–16 [Jesus said:] “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. “And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So…

Transfiguration – 2026

Matthew 17:1–9 And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with Him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If You wish, I will make three tents here,…

Epiphany 1 – 2026

Luke 2:42–52 Now [Jesus’] parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing Him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for Him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when…