St. James Lutheran Church
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St. James Lutheran Church
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Welcome to St. James Lutheran Church St. James Lutheran Church was organized on Trinity Sunday in 1847 by nine German immigrant families who chose the name, “St. Jakobi Gemeinde”, (St. James Congregation). The Second Article of the congregation’s first constitution, entitled “Sprache” (Language), reads “In unsrer Kirche soll nur allein Duetsch gepredigt werden” (In our congregation, only German alone shall be preached). For its first fifty years, the congregation held services only in German and served German-speaking immigrants and their German-speaking descendants, but by the 1890’s, the need for English services was already realized. The congregation began to offer monthly English service
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