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For over 60 years East Side Lutheran Church has been broadcasting its Sunday Worship service over KSOO Radio (1140 AM in Sioux Falls ). The 9:30 am service is recorded and broadcast at 11:00 am .

We are pleased to offer the same broadcast to you over the internet. Simply click the below link. If you need a media player you may access that below as well – free of charge. You can also access the worship bulletin for that service.

Generous financial support makes our broadcasts possible. The cost to sponsor a weekly broadcast is $200. Smaller gifts are, of course, welcome. If you would like to make a donation you can contact Gigi Rieder, our financial secretary at Gigi@EastSideLC.org or by calling 605-336-3597. You can send your gift to

East Side Lutheran Church, 1300 East 10 th Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57103-1796 .

Broadcasts of Grace Matters– the national radio ministry of the Evengelical Lutheran Church in America – were first aired from the sanctuary of East Side in 1947. You can listen to that broadcast by clicking on this link: Listen to Grace Matters.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF EAST SIDE'S RADIO MINISTRY

The radio ministry at East Side Lutheran Church was started by the Reverend Harry Gregerson on the first Sunday in October 1944 (October 1 st ). For many years, he wished to see a Lutheran church broadcast its regular Sunday morning service. This was his chance to try.

With the approval of the East Side Church Council , Pastor Gregerson arranged for KSOO Radio to broadcast several Sunday services on a trial basis. The reaction of the community was so gratifying and overwhelming that the broadcast was continued. East Side Lutheran has been on the air every Sunday since that time. The program has always been broadcast from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon and is the longest running, continuous program on Sioux Falls radio, if not in the Upper Midwest! The worship service has been carried on KSOO radio for 60 years.

George Hanson was instrumental in setting up the mechanics of broadcasting from the church and acted as engineer and announcer for the program in its infancy. George sat in the office at the old church and turned on the various microphones — altar, pulpit, choir and announcer — as needed. In time, the equipment for producing the broadcast grew in sophistication.

The vision of Pastor Gregerson, the devotion of the early pioneers in this venture, and the continued support of East Side members have been a service to the Sioux Falls community and the surrounding area. The broadcast brings the Word of God to shut-ins and to the whole community. We have listeners in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa.

To insure continued financial support of this ministry East Side has set up the “Pastor Harry and Tillie Gregerson Media Endowment Fund.” The income from this fund will be used to pay for air-time on the radio (currently $195/week), equipment purchases and repair, and for our ever-growing presence on the internet. Indeed, this anniversary broadcast may be the first presented at our website. During the week anyone with internet access will be able to go to our website and listen to the service — and they can do that from anywhere in the world! Members in the military or in college, those who winter down south — all will have access to our weekly worship service!

East Side Lutheran Church would like to extend our thanks to all who sponsor our weekly broadcasts, to our listener support, to the staff of KSOO radio, and to Ken Eckert and all our members who run the “sound controls” and faith fully see to it that this important ministry is carried out week after week.