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Ballard First Lutheran Church
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This folder contains a congregational historical record, an historian’s report, a booklet encouraging giving towards the new church building, a church directory from 1964, a congregational statistical record, a 75th anniversary booklet, letters of call, various letters, papers about Reverend John Dovinh, a parish report from 1956, a proposal for stewardship program 1960, a pamphlet from the Boys’ Work Committee, a pamphlet from the 36th annual fisherman’s festival, proposal for stewardship program 1961, and Annual Reports for 1933 and 1934.
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The Ballard section of northwest Seattle has been a center for Scandinavian culture. On April 26, 1894, the first Lutheran congregation in Ballard was organized as Zion Lutheran, a member of the Norwegian Synod. Services were held in a store building until the first unit was built in 1896. Bethlehem Lutheran organized as a member of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church on October 5, 1905, and a church was erected. In 1917, when three Norwegian Lutheran bodies merged to form the NLCA.