About Us: History

taking with them the notebook with the names and the number of people in each family. Pastor Nelson was interested immediately and promised to contact the American Lutheran Mission Board. As a result, only a little more than two months after the first calls were made, members of the Mission Board met with the people of St. Joseph in the Grade School on March 3, 1964, at 7:30 p.m., with Pastor L. Myron Lindblom presiding. Shortly thereafter, a representative of the Mission Board, Rev. Reinhold G. Magel of Pontiac, Illiniois came to St. Joseph and consulted with a group of interested residents as to where ground for the church and parsonage might be purchased.

40 YEARS AGO...

On Pentecost Sunday, June 6, 1965, the first worship service was held in the original sanctuary, what we currently refer to as our west Fellowship Hall, with 197 people in attendance. Members of the first church council were elected: Dale Busboom, Lowell Cooper, William Ehmen, Ehm Franzen, Brad Henry, George Hoveln, Erwin Osterbur, Dan Seastrand, and Dick Watson. On Sunday, October 10, 1965, Pastor Robert Dirks was installed as first pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.

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