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Immanuel Evangelical Church - Fort Morgan

Immanuel Evanglical Church was founded as the German Evangelical Lutheran Immanuels Church on 25 March 1916 and was incorporated on 8 May 1916.

Charter members of the congregation included:

Peter Ruppel, Sr.
Fred Kembel, Sr.
George Brandt, Sr.
David Neb, Sr.
George Ruppel, Jr.
Gottfried Sagel
Adam Fisher
George Neb
Jacob Loose
Henry Wolfe, Sr.
David Meyer
David Sagel, Sr.
Jacob Schlothauer, Sr.
Fred D. Weimer, Sr.
Henry Brandt, Sr.
Henry Kauffman

Bethlehem Lutheran Church - Fort Collins

First Location

500 block of 10th
Street Fort Collins, CO

Second Location

509 E. Olive St.
Fort Collins, CO

Current Location

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
1200 S. Taft Hill Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80521
970.482.9692

History

Bethlehem Lutheran Church was organized on 20 March 1904 but church records date back to 1902, the first year of large scale Volga Germans immigration to the Fort Collins area.