Mr. Speaker. the strength. stability. and inspiration provided by ones church is one of the most reassuring things in our lives. The congregation of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Frankenlust Township have had the benefit of their church for the past 150 years. and will this Sunday observe their Sesquicentennial as part of their yearlong celebration. St. Paul Lutheran Church was founded by Rev. Ferdinand Sievers and fourteen Bavarian Lutheran immigrants on June 22. 1848 in the barn of Gerhard Dierker near what is now Saginaw. St. Paul was the first Lutheran congregation in present day Bay County. A log cabin church was dedicated on the present church cemetery site on Squaconning Creek in Frankenlust Township on November 21. 1849. until a frame church was dedicated on October 4. 1857.
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