Living Word Christian Church began as a church plant by a church in Arcadia, Wisconsin, in 1984. Rev. Mark Clements and his wife, Paula, were among the initial group of about a dozen members hungry to receive the Word of God. Later that year, he was called to move to La Crosse and become pastor of the church.

Pastor and Mrs. Clements obeyed the call of God, leaving the family farm where he worked at the time. Initially, he worked an additional job while pastoring as our church grew large enough to support him.

In 1985, our church moved out of it's first location in a hotel ballroom in north La Crosse into a mini-mall in south La Crosse. In 1987, we purchased our first property, a former laundromat on 19th Street. After growing out of this location, we purchased a former Lutheran church building on 16th and Cass Streets in 1991.

We entered our current facility in Fall of 2003. A former steel fabrication plant and warehouse on Ward Avenue, the lengthy renovation of the property was done almost completely by the members of the church. Most recently, in 2018, over 5,000 square feet of new space was added to our facility, dedicated to children's ministry and daycare uses.

Throughout our history, we have had consistent and steady growth both in numbers and in outreach. Our mission has always been to impact our region with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Today, we have expanded to operate Children of the Lord Christian Pre-School and Day Care and Youth Alive Christian Teen Center, and transmit God's Word on the airwaves with our weekly television broadcast "The Word of the Lord."