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St. Mark’s Lutheran Church of Lebanon

To Observe 50th Jubilee

Watertown Daily Times, 10 15 1956

Article includes pic of church

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church of Lebanon will observe the fiftieth anniversary of its founding on Sunday, Oct. 21.

The congregation is presently being served by the Rev. O. A. Pagels, who is pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Ixonia.

Three services have been planned to mark the occasion. A service in the German language will be held at 9:30 o’clock in the morning, the Rev. Prof. Ernst A. Wendland, who has served as vacancy pastor from time to time, will be the speaker at this service. In the afternoon beginning at 2:30 o’clock a service in the English language will be held. A former pastor, the Rev. Alfons Engel, Medford, will be the speaker. A third service at 8 p.m., also in the English language, will have another former pastor, the Rev. Eldon Toepel, Fort Atkinson, as the speaker.

Organized in 1906

St. Mark’s Congregation was formally organized in January of 1906 when members from three congregations in the vicinity of Sugar Island met at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, town of Lebanon. Present were members from St. Paul’s, St. John’s and St. Matthew’s congregations. Of those who met there, one, Ludwig Zwieg, is still a member of St. Mark’s. The three aforementioned congregations were dissolved and some members from each congregation combined to form St. Mark’s Lutheran Church town of Lebanon.

The congregation continued to use the old St. Paul’s church for some time as its home of worship. However, in 1917 the congregation using the old St. Paul’s Church decided to erect a new church, which has served the congregation until this day.

The following pastors served the congregation since its organization: A. Habermann, F. W. Raetz, E. Moebus, Michael Pankow, Carl Bachman, Julius Engel, Alfons Engel, Max Taras, Eldor Toepel, F. C. Uetzmann, Paul Horn, and the present pastor, Otto A. Pagels, who has served the congregation since October of 1952.

All former members and friends of the congregation are invited to the anniversary services next Sunday.