Christ the King Lutheran Church

This folder contains a congregational historical record, a 20th anniversary booklet, a bulletin from 1981, a pamphlet inviting people to the church, a bulletin from the cornerstone laying service in 1961, a written history of the church, various letters, a congregational statistical record, a letter of call, a summary finances, a counselor’s final report (1962), an ALC American Mission Agreement, an invitational flyer from the church, a bulletin from 1961, an architectural blueprint of the building, a bulletin from 1985, a church relations visit summary, and church constitution.

Christ the King was founded through the initiative of the American Missions Board in cooperation with Rev. William Foege of Emmanuel Lutheran in Walla Walla. Christ the King began with a nucleus of Emmanuel members who lived in Oregon but worshipped at Emmanuel since an ALC congregation was not present in either Milton or Freewater. Milton did have a Missouri Synod congregation which was forced to disband shortly before Christ the King was organized. Richared Nieman, founding pastor of Christ the King, was a son of Emmanuel of Walla Walla until age 15. In 1982 a tracker pipe organ was installed. The physical plant was almost doubled in size in 1984 with the addition and expansion of classrooms, kitchen, offices and fellowship hall.