St. Stephan Lutheran Church was founded in 1903 (as St. Stephanus Church) with 24 charter members, all Volga Germans. The congregation disbanded in 1912 and members joined other Lutheran Churches in the area: St. Andrew, Ebenezer, St. Paul, or Trinity. The building is believed to have been torn down in 1915.
Location:
Corner of Eire Avenue & 14th Street
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded on 26 May 1853. In 1854 a small church building was acquired which served the growing congregation until destroyed by fire on 5 October 1868. That same day the congregation resolved to relocate at the northeast corner of Ninth Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Plans for the new church edifice with two classrooms on the lower level and sanctuary above were drawn by Rev. Martin Stephan, Jr. of Chester, Illinois, who was both an architect and pastor and the only son of the leader of the Saxon immigrants who came to America from Germany in 1838.
Immanuel Lutheran Church was organized in 1903. It is a congregation of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
Lutheran missionary The Reverend Edward Doering arrived in Portland during the summer of 1881. He had been born in Saxony (Germany) on 12 June 1852. Rev. Doering founded Zion Lutheran Church on the west side of the Willamette River in downtown Portland in 1889 and Trinity Lutheran the following year. The new congregation was called "Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Albina." The following men were elected provisional officers: Ernest F. Kümpel, Alfred Kräft, George Rupprecht, elders; H. C. Schröder, treasurer; H. E. Dittrich, secretary.
Zion German Congregational Church was organized at the home of Conrad Helzer on 13 April 1914 by The Rev. John H. Hopp and a group of members from Ebenezer Congregational Church.
The Church Officers elected at this first meeting were:
John H. Krieger, Chairman
George Hinkel, Trustee
John Hohnstein, Trustee
William Lind, Trustee
Conrad Repp, Deacon
Peter Schnell, Deacon
George Weitz, Deacon
Henry Schwarz, Secretary
John Weber, Treasurer
Christina Schnell, Organist
Zion Lutheran Church was established in 1898. The first building was erected in 1900, two miles south of the Zion Lutheran Cemetery. It was enlarged and renovated in 1918. It served the congregation for 64 years. The present church building is located in the town of Hurley. It was moved there from south and west of Freeman. The congregation in Hurley and the one in Centerville are served by the same pastor.
Zion Lutheran Church in Hurley is affiliated with the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.
The Evangelical Lutheran Congregational Church in Endicott was organized in 1883.
Location:
Endicott, WA
Zion Lutheran Church was originally located northeast of Endicott. The congregation later moved into the town of Endicott.
Location:
SW Corner of Section 11
Township 17 N, Range 41 E
Whitman Co., Washington
Christ Lutheran Church was founded in 1901 to serve the German-Russian community in and around Odessa. The current church building was constructed in 1958.
Christ Lutheran Church was affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but is now affiliated with the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ.
Location:
602 East Amende Drive
PO Box 400
Odessa, WA 99159
Telephone: 509.982.2411
Emmaus Congregational Church was organized in 1904 under the leadership of The Rev. G. Graedel. It was located about 14 miles southwest of Odessa, Washington, on the Lincoln and Adams county line.
Location:
14 miles southwest of
Odessa, Washington