Sunday Worship At Elstad Lutheran Church

The Elstad Church is located in Amherst Township, Fillmore County Minnesota.  The first Norwegians in the area settled around Newburg directly south of where the church now stands.  This included the Ellertson family, who have the distinction of being the first farmers in this area, though they later moved to Highland Prairie.

In 1854 the first services were held at Elstad and Highland Prairie making these two of the oldest congregations still in existence.  Family names such as Ask, Elstad, Nepstad, Blagsvedt, Dammen, Flattum and Gullickson are still active in the church today just as their ancestors were almost 150 years ago.