# Trinity Lutheran Church

Lutheran church in Hamilton, Ontario.

Source: https://hamiltons.church/churches/trinity-lutheran/
Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Service times
- Sunday 10:00 a.m. (Sunday Worship)
- Thursday 11:30 a.m. (Mid-Week Service, September to June)

Until late 2026 Trinity is worshipping at 232 Fennell Avenue East, on the Mountain, while its church at 104 Hughson Street North, downtown, is renovated; check the church's website for the date of the move back. The Sunday service is livestreamed on Zoom (call the office or sign up for the weekly email for the link), and a recording is posted on YouTube later the same day. Sunday School for children aged 3 to 12 runs alongside the Sunday service from September to June. The Thursday service is short and includes Holy Communion, and those who come may bring a bag lunch for fellowship afterwards; it is not held in July and August.

## Address
232 Fennell Avenue East, Hamilton, ON L9A 1S7

## Contact
- Phone: 905-974-9878
- Website: https://trinity-hamilton.com
- Email: tlchamilton2020@gmail.com
- Affiliation: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (Eastern Synod)

## What they believe
Trinity is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, formed in Hamilton between 2019 and 2021 by four Lutheran congregations. It describes itself as 'a Christian community, open to all, transforming lives through worship, learning and service', living 'in the confidence that God loves this beautiful and broken world'. As an expression of its faith in Christ it seeks to nurture 'those who are hungry in body and spirit', and its national church states its mission as sharing the gospel through proclamation of the Word, celebration of the sacraments and service in Christ's name.

## What to expect
Trinity describes its worship as a blend of traditional and contemporary styles, with singing, prayer and the hearing of God's word, and invites visitors to come as they are. A choir and a more contemporary praise team lead the music. After the Sunday service everyone is invited downstairs for coffee hour.

## About this congregation
Trinity Lutheran Church belongs to the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. It was formed between 2019 and 2021 when four Hamilton congregations, Faith, Grace, St. John's and Transfiguration, came together, and its members chose the church at 104 Hughson Street North, downtown, as its home. The city's heritage inventory records that Primitive Methodists built that red-brick church in 1865 and that St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran congregation bought it in 1884 and added its steeple; services there were in German until 1920, many immigrants from Germany and the Baltic states worshipped there after the Second World War, and in 1955 it was renamed St. John's.

The Hughson Street church is being renovated and enlarged, with a new entrance and barrier-free access to the sanctuary and hall. Until late 2026 the congregation is worshipping at 232 Fennell Avenue East, at Upper Wellington Street on the Mountain, in the yellow-brick church that the inventory says was built in three stages between 1959 and 1984 for Transfiguration Lutheran, one of Trinity's founding congregations.

Sunday worship is at ten in the morning, in person and on Zoom, and a short service with Holy Communion is held on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m., except in July and August. The pastors are Daniela Mertz and Jordan Smith.

## About this listing
Part of Hamiltons.church. These listings cover a growing selection of congregations in Hamilton; they are not yet exhaustive.
Checked against: trinity-hamilton.com (retrieved 2026-10-18); easternsynod.org (retrieved 2026-10-18); elcic.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); hamilton.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18).
What Lutheran churches believe: https://hamiltons.church/denominations/lutheran/