CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH OF GRAND CAYMAN, B.W.I. seeks to be a reflection of the church that Jesus Christ envisioned when He commissioned His apostles on earth.

The Christian Church was begun at Pentecost empowered by the Holy Spirit and was carried to the continents by the apostles and their followers. After three centuries, it was centered in the theological centers of Rome, Antioch, Constantinople and Alexandria and they accepted the New Testament writings. The Holy Roman Empire, comprising Europe, Africa and the Near East, became the setting for seven great ecumenical conferences during the first one thousand years after Christ. These great assemblies reflected the teachings of Christ as they established the three ecumenical creeds (Apostles, Nicene and Athanasian), taught the triune God (three persons in one monotheistic God), the human and divine natures of Christ in the one person (Chalcedon), the atonement of Christ in His redemptive death and the salvation process as God’s unmerited grace to humankind.

In 1054 the Western Christian Church at Rome separated from the Eastern Christian Church at Antioch, Constantinople and Alexandria and so it has remained until the present day. Some abuses have been observed in both branches since that time. But the sixteenth century brought a reformation of faith, thought and action; first the ministry of Martin Luther and then with many others.

A clarification of doctrines was sought by friends and detractors of the Reformation and, hence, a group of writings was established to identify the Lutheran Church with the church established by Christ and continued through the first 1,000 years of the Christian Church. These writings—eight in number—were assembled in the Book of Concord. Lutherans subscribe to all or some of the Lutheran Confessional writings of the sixteenth century.

There are some sixty three million Lutherans living in the world today making it one of the largest protestant churches, if not the largest protestant church in the world.

Christ Lutheran Church, Grand Cayman is identified with the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, which is one of the branches of the Lutheran Church worldwide. This church has 2.6 million baptized members and six thousand congregations and is affiliated with 25 sister churches worldwide. It is one of the two largest Lutheran bodies in the USA, one of the twelve largest religious organizations in the US and one of the four largest families of religious groupings in the United States. Christ Lutheran Church, Grand Cayman, has also chosen to be identified with The Lutheran Church—Canada. This Lutheran connection with Great Britain and the British West Indies is helpful. The fellowship with the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod is meaningful because this church body has taken its historical continuity to the first 1000 years of the church very seriously, its subscription to the Lutheran Confessions very literally and its primary concern to proclaim the word and sacraments very pre-eminently.

This worshipping community in Grand Cayman seeks to share the ministry of Jesus Christ, to continue the historical continuity of His church and to actively participate in His Great Commission to all peoples. If you can envision yourself as being a part of Christ’s family today, then join us for worship and be a recipient of His blessings.

MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of Christ Lutheran Church, Grand Cayman, B.W.I., is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to further His Great Commission.