15th Anniversary Booklet

Our Church At Work - Bethlehem Lutheran Anniversary Book - 1939

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In January Bethlehem Church will enter it's sixteenth year of service. Since the dedication of Bethlehem Church on December 14th, 1924 so many things have happened that one hardly realizes that we could have been so busy. In the fall of 1924, when the first two lots were purchased on Mt. Hope Avenue and Ray Streets, this property reached to the southern portion of the city. The Walter French Junior High School was built one block from the church that same year. Today the territory is densely populated for more than a mile south of this area.

Bethlehem Church, through the fifteen years it was served this community, has sought to keep pace with changing times and conditions. To give a picture of what has been done, what is now being done, and what is our hope may be done, is the purpose of this book. In presenting it to you we have but one idea - to give you, in as interesting form as possible, a concise informative view of the ingredients that go into the making of a congregation, and some of the philosophy that underlies its continued existence.

George C. Bubolz, Pastor

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A SMALL CHURCH with a large program and many activities. 400 individuals are often crowded into the main auditorium on special occasions. The basement is well equipped for the Church School and contains organization rooms for recreational purposes, and for family-night get-to-gethers.

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THE SPIRIT OF BETHLEHEM CHURCH

THE Good Will to understand one another, to interpret misunderstood attitudes and situations, to reconcile and be reconciled to differences of taste and temperament, heritage and aspirations, and though service and sacrifice to promote the cause of Christ.

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