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Show Light of the Valley Lutheran Church to hold first service churches they may be involved in, but in finding those who are not attending at-tending a church. He particularly enjoys proclaiming proclaim-ing God's word and working with people one-on-one. Because many of those showing an interest in attending at-tending are young families, one of his first priorities will be to get a Sunday School program started "to share what Christ has given us." f Unnasch was raised on a dairy' farm in Minnesota. His older brother also went into the ministry A and his sister teaches in a Christian school. He first felt the desire to enter the ministry in high school when he had a chance to share Jesus Christ with others. He found "there's no greater thrill." Unnasch attended Northwestern College, Watertown, Wis., before going to seminary. He then spent a year as an intern in Washington, D.C. He and his wife Tracy are now expecting their first child. Hv MELINDA WILLIAMS ..AYTON Light of the Vuuey Lutheran Church already has home 750 names on its mailing listen list-en extraordinary number, considering consider-ing the church hasn't held its first worship service yet. That service will be March 29 at Lindquist's Mortuary, 1074 Fairfield Fair-field Road, at 9:30 a.m. The public is invited. Light of the Valley Church is an offshoot of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in West Valley City. "We have a sort of mother-daughter mother-daughter relationship with Prince of Peace," said the Rev. Peter Unnasch, Un-nasch, mission explorer for the new congregation. He said several members of Prince of Peace Church weie traveling 45 minutes one way ea'.' ' Sunday to attend. The small nucleus of people which formed the base for Light of the Valley Church come from as far away as Brigham City. Several others live in North Ogden, Ogden and Roy, with others scattered throughout northern Davis County. "We found Davis County growing grow-ing so rapidly, bringing a healthy mixture of cultural and religious backgrounds. A lot of them didn't have a church home, so we thought we'd target this particular area," Unnasch said. Members of the nucleus group meet weekly for a Bible study and are conducting a phone canvass of the area to determine interest. It's from that phone canvass the church received most of the names on its mailing list. Unnasch also went door-to-door last fall. He said he has found a great group of people with which to work. The response to the phone can vass and visitations has been much ereater than anticipated. Unnasch said he will be pleased no matter how many people attend the first service because the church wdl still be able to share what it's about with those on the mailing list. The church's success is in the Lord's hands, Unnasch said. "He asks us to be witnesses to his word and we leave the results up to Him." Light of the Valley is a member of the Lutheran Church, Wisconsin Synod. The Wisconsin Synod is small, with only 450,000 members, but it maintains congregations in all 50 states as well as foreign missions. mis-sions. Prince of Peace Church is the only other church affiliated wiih the synod in the state. Utahns are more familiar with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Missouri Synod. He said there are doctrinal differences among the three synods. Unnasch is a 1989 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, located outside Milwaukee. Following Follow-ing graduation he served two years as the assistant to the dean at Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minn., before he was asked to come here. He had never visited Utah before receiving his call to start the new congregation. He admits he didn't know what he was to find in Utah and expected salt flats covering the state. "I didn't realize there was this Wasatch Front. I didn't know there was skiing," he said. But even knowing so little about the state, Unnasch was excited to come to Utah and "share what the Bible is about with anyone who will listen." He said he is not interested in drawing people away from |