Mr. President. the Bethlehem United Church of Christ. Ann Arbor. Mich. will celebrate 150 years of service to its congregants and the community on August 20. 1983. I would like to take this opportunity to recognize that milestone. In the late 1820s and early 1830s. many German Protestant immigrants settled in the Ann Arbor area. Desiring to worship in German. they wrote Switzerlands Basel Mission to request a pastor. On August 20. 1833. Rev. Friedrich Schmid arrived to help found one of Michigans first German congregations. The church was formally organized on November 3. 1833. as the First German Evangelical Society of Scio.
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