The altar is the most important object in the church. Before the altar stands the church's ordained servant to bring the incense of prayers to God. Upon the altar our blessed Lord prepares for His faithful ones the holy sacrament of His body and blood and therefore the altar challenges us Christians to express for its beauty and appointments a thanks offering for the many gifts that God has bestowed upon them. This is the reason the altar occupies the very center of our worship and therefore in the Lutheran church stands at the end of the sweeping center aisle.

Our altar, standing on the predella, is truly a work of art. It is rich in Christian symbolism and represents many hours of painstaking work by artists in wood carvings.

The three panels above the Altar are symbols representing the Holy Trinity. The fourteen wood symbols, seven on either side of the chancel, depict the: Cleric Cross [circle of eternity]; The Open Bible; Grapes and Vine [Lord's Supper]; Olive Branch [Peace]; Sheaf of Wheat [Bread of life or harvest of the Lord]; Lily [Annunciation]; Bursting Pomegranate [Resurrection].

The throne is the base for the cross. The retable, or gradine, is our where flowers and candelabras are placed. The candelabras have seven candlesticks which represent the seven gifts of the Spirit. The mensa, or top of the altar, is for the Eucharistic lights, sacred vessels, and the missal stand. The mensa is covered with a fair linen bearing five Greek crosses representing the five wounds of Christ. Linen is symbolic of the linen with which our Savior was wrapped in His tomb.