 Services will be at 8 and 10:30 a.m. with a Reformation service at
3:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.The church history
began back in 1851, and the first church constitution was adopted in
the fall of 1871. The Rev. Heinrich Meyer and a congregation of 12
named the church the German Evangelical-Lutheran Zion Congregation
of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession of West Lincoln, Logan County,
Ill.
In May of 1872, Zion was received into membership with the
Illinois Synod, with 72 communicant members.
In 1872, the church purchased the buildings from the Lincoln
Congregational Church on Pulaski Street, where the congregation
still meets to this day.
In 1903 Zion entered a "building phase," and the congregation
dedicated their new church to the glory of God on May 1, 1904.
During the Rev. Arthur E. Neitzel's time as pastor, radio
broadcasts of the Sunday worship services began on Lincoln radio
station WPRC. They continue to this day on WLLM 1370 AM and 105.3
FM.
The congregation members also were the guiding hands in
building Zion Lutheran School on the city's west side.
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