On August 8th, 2016, congregation members and employees planted a silver linden tree on behalf of the Lay School of Ministry of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin (ELCA) and Our Saviour´s Lutheran Church in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA.
On May 14th, 2016, over 100 students from the Lay School of Ministry gathered with Pastor Paul Oppedahl from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, which hosts the school, and two founders of the school, Pastor Greg Kaufmann and Pastor Dick Bruesehoff. They planted a maple tree as the partner tree of the Lay School of Ministry of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA.