Posts from the ‘History’ Category

“A Living Legacy” Knowing our family roots is important for our self-identity. Their genes and traditions are big factors in who we are as individuals today. The same is true for a congregation — knowing the story of the people who founded the congregation can be a source for generating identity and purpose within the [...]

This is an excerpt from The Life of a Saint, the sixth chapter of  the book A Farmer All His Life by Linda M. Mainquist. The book is about her father Evert Mainquist, who became a member of Zion (then know as Carlslund) at age eight, when his family moved from Nebraska to Minnesota. Confirmation [...]

This is an excerpt from The Life of a Saint, the sixth chapter of  the book A Farmer All His Life by Linda M. Mainquist. The book is about her father Evert Mainquist, who became a member of Zion at age eight, when his family moved from Nebraska to Minnesota. That year, 1919, the family [...]

Zion was represented at Luther Seminary’s annual Singing The Faith hymn festival, on October 31, 2010, celebrating the anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation. This year the celebration honored the founding of the Scandinavian Augustana Synod 150 years ago in 1860.  Zion was one of the honored churches at this celebration as we were members of [...]

Twenty years ago today, as we celebrated the first Sunday in our current church building, the congregation prayed together: We now, the people of this church, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, grateful for our heritage, aware of the sacrifices of our mothers and fathers in the faith, and confessing that apart from us [...]

Pastor K. Alvar Persson, who was a pastor at Zion from 1950-1953, died at the age of 94 this past August in his home of Medford Wisconsin. He was born March 28, 1915 in Vesteros, Sweden. He was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1945, and served at congregations in Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, [...]

Zion Lutheran Church began as two congregations of immigrants in the farm areas near Buffalo. Carlslund was founded in 1866 to the south and Marysville was founded in 1873 to the west. By 1900, Carlslund had located in town and both churches were served by the same pastor. In 1945 a new name, Zion, was [...]

Highlights from the first Sunday at the “new” church was celebrated on Sunday, November 12, 1989. Co-Pastor, John Folkerds led the Litany of Celebration: Pastor: Dear Friends, let us rejoice in the holy use of this new house of God. To the glory of God the father, who has called us by grace; to the [...]

The first cement was poured for the foundation of Zion’s current building on February 6, 1989. During construction, the church office was in a mobile home, and worship services were held in the Junior High (now Discovery) auditorium. A member wrote for the February 27 update on the “Building to Serve” capital campaign: “The new [...]