About Us
Anchor Church is a brand new mission church located in downtown Marquette, MI in the Masonic Center. At Anchor you’ll find something sure and certain that will ground your life - the unending, unconditional, never-changing love of Jesus. Anchor Church exists to anchor people in Christ Jesus, and to be an anchor in this community that we love.
Anchor Values | Growing, Gathering, Sharing, Serving
Anchored in Christ
Our world is full of many ideas about God. Does God even exist? If so, what does he think of me? And how can I connect with him?At Anchor Church, we invite you to take a fresh look at the God of Christianity who reveals himself in the Bible. As you do so, we pray that you will find the same peace and hope in Jesus that we have found, and agree that Christ is the truly the Anchor we all need.
Anchored in Community
God sent his Son Jesus to win precious forgiveness for you, me, and every human being on the planet. He now calls us to love one another as he has loved us. We want to be a part of the change that we want in this world, and that starts with loving our community in spiritual, physical, and tangible ways. No matter who you are or where you’ve been, we hope you’ll join us in being Anchored in this community.
What We Believe
We believe that God solved mankind’s problem of sin by sending Jesus Christ into the world to live a perfect life in our place, die on the cross to pay for our sins, and rise from the dead to guarantee eternal life in heaven to all who believe.
We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God, and thus the only objective source of truth in the world. The Bible is a book of good news, about how God designed and implemented his plan of salvation by sending Jesus to be our Savior. The Bible is the only place in the world we find this message of grace, and so the Bible is the ultimate authority for everything we believe, teach, and do.
This means we believe that the teachings of the Bible are correctly represented in the Lutheran Confessions (found here.) These documents were prepared during the Protestant Reformation, a time in church history when God led believers back to his Word and to the historic faith taught by Jesus and the apostles. While times have changed since the writing of these documents (c. 1580 A.D.), the timeless truths of Scripture have not.
Anchor is also a part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS.) Being part of a larger church body allows us to be part of ministries that extend far beyond our doorstep here in Marquette. The ministry of the WELS includes a robust worker training system, humanitarian aid efforts, and extensive mission work, both in North America and around the world. You can learn more about the work of our church body here.
Meet our Pastor
Pastor Joe Lindloff
After growing up in Saginaw, MI Joe Lindloff received thorough training on his way to becoming a pastor. After graduating from Michigan Lutheran Seminary in Saginaw, MI, Joe earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Languages (Greek and Hebrew) from Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN, and then received his Master of Divinity from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, WI. Joe’s seminary training included a 1-year internship in Colorado Springs, CO, where a mission heart was grown for planting new churches.
After graduating from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2016, Joe served as a pastor for 7 years at Hope Lutheran Church in Irmo, SC. In 2023 he accepted a call from the Northern Wisconsin District Mission Board to move to Marquette and start a brand-new mission church.
Joe loves many things about Marquette – the outdoors, the people, the culture – but most of all he loves the opportunity to reach out to a large mission field with the good news about Jesus.
On an average day you might find Pastor Joe working at The Crib, teaching a Bible study there, or working on he and Julie’s home. You might find his wife Julie at the Library, practicing the piano, or taking the kids on a playdate to the park. Their family truly has embraced Marquette, and is so thankful to be a part of it sharing Jesus and loving people.
