Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1958-2001 (Creation)
- 1958-2001 (Creation)
Extent
4 boxes
Name of creator
Administrative history
Mission developer Richard I. Crossland arrived on November 15, 1957 to begin work in the Bow Lake-Rancho Vista area just south of Seattle in the vicinity of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The congregation was organized on October 12, 1958 with a membership of 273 baptized and 134 confirmed. The present site was purchased and the first unit dedicated May 22, 1960. Good Shepherd has been adversely affected by the changing community and the experience of being boxed in between the airport and the freeway.
The congregation voted to move out of their building and share church buildings with Our Savior’s in Seattle November 16, 1997. The first service was held in Our Savior’s January 18, 1998. On April 22, 2001, they voted to dissolve the congregation, and their last service was August 1, 2001.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Contains the records of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Seattle, Washington, including legal documents, meeting minutes, member records, baptisms, marriages, funerals, financial records, and newsletters.