Months of observances culminate with a weekend of celebration Saturday and Sunday at Zion Lutheran Church in Litchfield, as the congregation celebrates the church’s 100th anniversary.
“The big end result celebration is July 30 and 31,” reported Kristi Quitney, who has chaired the centennial preparing committee.
Historic shows and tunes, a children’s carnival, “which we are fired up about,” will start out at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Church associates and other neighborhood associates can tour the church creating and view heritage shows, such as a portrait of Zion’s ministerial staff. Visitors also will be in a position to perspective movies of tales via the several years and listen to organ songs even though making the most of a cup of coffee.
Zion Lutheran Church, an ELCA congregation, began in 1917 as an offshoot of Ness Lutheran Church in rural Litchfield Township, and it was integrated in 1922. The congregation’s very first gatherings were being in people’s homes and generally spoken in Norwegian.
Just after renting numerous worship areas in Litchfield, Zion acquired a church creating in 1931. The present constructing was created in 1963. Many additions and remodels have occurred all through the decades to accommodate the church’s congregational ministries and community partnerships. Religion development, songs ministries, Bible research, mission sewing, and food items outreach have been critical functions for the Zion congregation, the centennial committee said.
“Zion is grateful for the strategies in which it can interact and hook up with the more substantial Litchfield group,” the committee explained in a news release.
Amongst those interactions for a lot more than 30 several years has been Young ones of the Kingdom, an on-web-site childcare, that at this time serves a lot more than 100 place young children.
And just very last 12 months, church associates manufactured a different major expenditure in group ministry, renovating the previous kitchen area into a industrial kitchen that serves as a food preparation website for the Lutheran Social Service’s senior eating program. Hundreds of foods are established everyday in the kitchen area and shipped to or picked…