Thursday, October 6, 2005

Lutheran congregation at church founded in 1765 votes to dissolve

Lutheran congregation at church founded in 1765 votes to dissolve

By Diane Reynolds, Times Staff Writer Wednesday, October 05, 2005

On Sunday, Sept. 25, Bishop H. Gerard Knoche of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America had preached the church's final sermon.

A synod is a regional group of ELCA churches

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The county lost a little piece of local history with the church's closing.

In the 1700s, building churches was so expensive for small congregations that many Reformed (now United Church of Christ) and Lutheran churches in the area pooled resources to build structures that both congregations shared.

Emmanuel Baust Lutheran was part of the union church movement, sharing space with Emmanuel Baust United Church of Christ.

Because German immigrants often established both Reformed and Lutheran churches, shared language and culture helped the joint ventures succeed.

At one time, more than 200 union churches ran from Reading, Pa., into northern Maryland.
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