Our Redeemer was founded here in Freeport in 1910, and is a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. The current membership is 331 baptized souls, with 284 communicant members.

Our Pastor, Stephen Precht, was born in Springfield, Illinois. He is a graduate of the Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri with a Masters of Divinity degree, and having done post- graduate work in the field of Pastoral Care at the University of Chicago. He began serving at Our Redeemer in October of 1997, after having served a parish in Chicago, Illinois since his ordination in 1980. He has a son, Timothy, who is 17.

Our Redeemer is an active partner with the Freeport Crisis Pregnancy Center and the FACC Food Pantry.

Rev. Stephen F. Precht, Pastor