Rev. Joseph Bocko with Pastor Capers at the HARAMBE on May 19, 2018.  He is the program director of African National ministries with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .

Pastor Bonnie serves Holy Communion during a Service of Farewell as she retires and leaves Salem on Sunday, April 26, 2015, 

33 new members affirm their faith on February 28, 2016. Here they receive Holy Communion. Rev. Ruben Duran from the ELCA was among the guests attending.

These girls from Rwanda/Congo help Upendo Mmari reorganize the Clothing Bank on July 18, 2015.  Donations of gently used items are welcome.

Friends and members of Salem from Zimbabwe sing in their native Shona language on Reformation Sunday, October 26, 2014.  

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The Passion Story from the gospel of Matthew is read in English by Pastor Capers and in Swahili by Joseph Njuguna Muniu on Palm/Passion Sunday, April 9, 2017.

The Sunday Church School makes valentine cards. This is their first for two children who arrived from the Central African Repulbic. February 12, 2017.

The 2018 congregation council meets on Sunday, January 14, 2018.  The Raders are present on Skype from Arizona.

Rachel is experiencing her first Christmas in this country.  She hangs a Crismon ornament on the Salem tree on December 20, 2015.

The choir sings our mission statement during Salem's 175th Anniversary worship with Bishop Bill Gafkjen on October 15, 2011. 

Goat was on the grill while a neighbor's chicken was getting this view of the Families Together picnic in Salem Park on Sunday, July 26, 2015.. 

Helping our students start the school year.  On July 31, 2016, they received free back packs from Shalom Health Care Center. .

Son and father, Kalamo and Adolphe, rake leaves during the fall workday on the Salem campus on November 18, 2015. They came to Indiana from the Congo.

Two Joe's grab a plate at the buffet of African and Mexican dishes during the annual International Harvest Festival in Salem Park on October 8, 2016.

Free adult English classes 
 
ESL (English as a Second Language) Classes will meet every Tuesday and Thursday in the Fellowship Hall building. The morning class meets 9:30 to 11:30 am and the evening class 6:30 to 8:30 pm.  Register at the classes starting August 16.

Pastor James Capers is our Interim Pastor.  Sister Barbara Collins is serving our Swahili language speakers with Shalom International Ministry, a parallel mission start of the ELCA and Indiana-Kentucky Synod.  Joseph Muniu is a translator.

Worship with Salem and Shalom Sunday mornings at 10:30.        
Patriotic Picnic on July 1 at 12:30.  Inside and outside dining in the Fellowship Hall.

Salem is a caring community of believers who offer an open invitation to join us in serving, communing, and growing in Jesus Christ.  Use the links on the yellow banner above to learn about SHALOM and our other ministries for African immigrants and refugees. 



Pastor Capers leads our Saturday Bible Study of the Letter of James.  All are welcome.  We meet Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in the conference room.