Category:Zion Lutheran Church, Cologne, MN
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Brief History
Centennial 1885-1957 Anniversary Book
Notes
Zion Lutheran Church - Cologne, MN Centennial 1857-1957 Book (notes)
This is where the Harms families settled. Located in Benton Township.
1856 - Northern District of Missouri Synod met in Convention in MI and passed a resolution that a Pastor do exploratory mission work MN.
Pastor Ferdinand Sievers, Indian Missionary Rev. Meszler, and the Indian guide Mr. Greut. They were all from Saginaw Valley, MI.
They started in the Northern MN Lake Mille Lacs area and worked their way south. Indian Missionary Rev. Meszler, and the Indian guide Mr. Greut remained in Crow Wing area (where I now live). Pastor Sievers continued South to Minneapolis, MN.
He set up a church in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and continued to Maple Grove.
The very first MN missionary of the Missourie Synod, Rev. Kahmeyer, came directly to Carver County to be Zion’s first pastor.
Pastor Sievers warned about traveling men who claimed to be Lutheran pastors, but weren’t
Rev. Kaymeyer felt that Carver County and Sibley County had the best chances of establishing self supporting congregations.
Pastor came from Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN.
Charter member families: Cord Proehl, Heinrich Mattfeld, Casten Harms, Casten Sprengeler, Friedrich Eggers,Christoph Ortlip, Adam Klein, Heinrich Bergmann.
They record “Guest Baptisms” separately.
Pastor Kahmeyer traveled by foot to Hamburg, MN, where he founded and served Emanuel Lutheran church until 1860.
1867 - Zion became voting member of Missouri Synod.
Notes:
1864 - Zion contributes $12 for the Teacher's Seminary in Addison, IL.. Ernest Harms attended it in 1886.
1867 - Zion joins Synod.
1868 - “Zion Christian Aid Society” organized. This was formed to take care of each other, much like AAL was formed to take care of Lutherans.
1873 - Henry Harms a delegate to Synod at Milwaukee, WI.
1880 - C Harms a delegate to Synod at Milwaukee, WI.
1881 - Zion votes in favor of forming the MN District.
Last week my son-in-law John and I were looking at the old GErman hymnals I have. They don't have any notes. A contain a lot of hymns...but just the words.
Jacob Baur's hymnal contains 651 hymns. The other one contains 694 hymns! We wondered "How did these people sing without notes. How could they remember that many hymns?"
This page from the Zion anniversary tells how those members did it. Pastor had a tuning fork. He struck the note and an elder led the congregation in song.
They did this for about 15 years until the church purchased a pipe organ. It was pumped by hand. If you looked at the Paul HInderer confirmation pictures, you may have noticed a small cloth "booth" on the side of the organ. This was where the person who pumped the stood.
The brother of our church organist actually did hand pump the organ in those pictures.
I guess every church supplied music differently. St. Peter's in Molte township had a church band. The church purchased the instruments and twelve men learned how to play them, Uncle Tony Vorwerk included. :-)
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