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Overview of Immanuel Lutheran Church - Bethune, Colorado a.k.a. White Church |
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The Lutheran Church was established soon after the 1890 group of Germans immigrants arrived in the Settlement area. Church services were held in peoples homes and a traveling pastor attend the people about once each month. In the spring of 1893, the settlers built a small church out of the local lime-stone rock. The location was central to the homesteaders and provide plenty area for a cemetery and pasture for serving pastor. In 1926, a new wooden frame church was built. It was a building 32x60 with a steeple 55 feet high, erected at a cost of $7500. It was dedicated on September 26, 1926. This structure still stands today and serves a small congregation -- mostly descendants of the original founders.
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