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This folder includes a brief historical record, list of pastors who have served, bulletin from the 60th anniversary in 1938, a bulletin from the 110th anniversary in 1988, a bulletin from the 100th anniversary, a bulletin from the 75th anniversary, a bulletin from the 90th anniversary, a bulletin from the Genesee Valley Centennial Day, church constitutions, letter involving the deeds, a history of the Genesee Valley Ladies’ Aid, a history of the Genesee Valley Lutheran Church, early history of the congregation, early history of the region, and 75th anniversary celebration of the Ladies’ Aid.
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The congregation was organized in 1878 by early Norwegian settlers in Genesee.The first church was called Our Savior’s and was part of the original NELCA. In 1884 Lebanon (Trinity) Congregation, a member of the Norwegian Augustana Synod, was formed. In 1917 these two bodies merged to form Genesee Valley Lutheran Church. For a time the congregation shared a pastor with Moscow. Following the national merger in 1960 they began to share with St. John’s Lutheran in Genesee, originally part of the Old German Lutheran Synod.