{"id":29,"date":"2019-07-04T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.111.130\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:41:12","slug":"st-pauls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stpaulstjohnlcms.org\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul&#8217;s Ev. Lutheran Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/stpaulstjohn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0141-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stpaulstjohnlcms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0141-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stpaulstjohnlcms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0141-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stpaulstjohnlcms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSC_0141-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Visitors are always welcome!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We are a member congregation of the <em>Lutheran Church \u2013 Missouri Synod<\/em>. Although we are located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, our congregation is part of the <em>North Wisconsin District<\/em> (geographically situated as the northernmost congregation in the district).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday worship begins at 10:30am (Eastern Time Zone). We use exclusively the <em>Lutheran Service Book<\/em> at all services, and offer the Lord&#8217;s Supper every Sunday. We observe the historic practice of closed communion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday School meets at 9:00am (Pre-school through 8th Grade) from September through May; with a 10:00am Camp Luther Coffee Social on the 4th Sunday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bible study class meets at church every Thursday at 7pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History of St. Paul&#8217;s Lutheran Church<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncongregation was first organized in 1879 with Pastor Wuebben of Hancock and\nHenry Fedderson being instrumental in its founding.&nbsp; The members celebrated the congregation\u2019s 140<sup>th<\/sup>\nanniversary in 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the beginning,\nchurch services were held in individual homes, at a school building on North\nFifth Street in Calumet and at the Jefferson School on Calumet Avenue in\nCalumet.&nbsp; Our first resident Pastor was\nRev. F. B. Arnold who was called to serve our congregation in 1880.&nbsp; From 1880 \u2013 1889, the pastors lived in\nvarious company houses in the area.&nbsp; The\nofficial first church was built and dedicated in 1881 on Scott Street in\nCalumet at a cost of $3,000.&nbsp; There was\nan addition added to serve as a school in 1887 at a cost of $760.&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1896, two lots on Tamarack and Second\nStreets in Laurium were given to our congregation.&nbsp; The parsonage was built and still serves our\nPastor today.&nbsp; The congregation was\nrequested by Calumet &amp; Hecla to vacate the lot on Scott Street.&nbsp; The lot across from the parsonage was then\npurchased.&nbsp; Work on the new church began\nimmediately with the cornerstone being laid in June 1899. The new church was\ndedicated the Sunday before Christmas in 1899, and serves as the current\nstructure. Services\nwere conducted in German for the first 25 years, and then became all English.\nThe&nbsp;building&nbsp;includes an elaborate altar, large stained glass windows\nand a beautiful pipe organ. The interior was redecorated in 1979, with no significant\nalterations.&nbsp; Our congregation dedicated a new addition to\nthe northwest corner of the nave on April 30, 2000; adding an elevator, wheelchair accessible\nbathroom, and a Pastor\u2019s study.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nparochial school was located in the church on Scott Street in an annex added to\nthe rear of the church.&nbsp; In 1900 classes\nwere held in the basement of our present church until 1905 when a new school\nwas built on First Street in Laurium (formerly the old VFW Building).&nbsp; During the Depression, enrollment at the school\ndropped considerably and became too much to maintain and was discontinued in\n1929. The building was then used as a meeting place for various church\nsocieties for ten years, and then sold to the Village of Laurium for $1,000.&nbsp; The congregation received the deed to the two\nlots adjoining our present church on the north as part of the transaction.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nchurch was originally organized for the German immigrants to the area and was\nknown as <em>St. Paul German Lutheran Church<\/em>,\nas services were held in German.&nbsp; It was\nlater renamed to <em>St. Paul English\nLutheran Church <\/em>when the services were no longer in German.&nbsp; Now it is formally <em>St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church.<\/em>&nbsp; A confirmation class display of pictures in\nthe basement dates back from 1899 to the present.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nhave had fifteen Pastors serve our congregation from 1880 to the present as\nfollows:&nbsp; <strong>F.B. Arnold<\/strong> (1880-1889); <strong>C. Engelder<\/strong> (1890-1893); <strong>J.\nHuchthausen<\/strong> (1894-1904); <strong>A. Kuring<\/strong>\n(1904-1909); <strong>B. Bartling<\/strong>\n(1909-1918); <strong>A. Sommers<\/strong> (1918-1928);\n<strong>A.S. Lucas<\/strong> (1928-1941); <strong>W.E. Maas<\/strong> (1942-1955); <strong>W.F. Biel<\/strong> (1956-1957); <strong>Frank J. Schultz<\/strong> (1958-1976); <strong>Frederick P. Buth<\/strong> (1977-1980); <strong>Walter R. Leininger<\/strong> (1981-1985); <strong>Larry A. Warsinski<\/strong> (1985-1998); <strong>James K. Fundum<\/strong> (1999-2016); and <strong>Bryan G. Lundquist<\/strong> (2016-present).\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors are always welcome! 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