Kountze Memorial’s third Sunday school mission, Pilgrim Lutheran Church, at 42nd and Bancroft, is established by Assoc. Pastor, Rev. Weertz, and for many years is served by Deaconess Harriet Franklin. […]

Kountze Memorial has a long history of service to the nation in times of war. In WWI, the congregation displays the largest known church service flag in the country with […]

Rev. C. Franklin Koch is hired as the first associate pastor at Kountze Memorial. That same year, the congregation establishes a third Sunday school mission at Druid Hall on 24th […]

After the sale of Kountze Memorial’s first building, the church bell serves Zion Lutheran Church in Yutan, Nebraska, until their building’s destruction in the tornado. In 1915, the bell is […]

During Baltzly’s (1911-1931) ministry, Kountze Memorial becomes the largest Lutheran church in America, with over 5,000 members and a 1931 Confirmation class of 364. In 1919, Midland Lutheran College moves […]

Kountze Memorial establishes a second Sunday school mission at 19th and Castelar that later becomes Gethsemane Lutheran Church. It was sold in 1948.

Following the sale of the second building for $90,000, portions of the structure are salvaged for use in the new church at 26th and Farnam. Until the basement of the […]

The congregation calls Rev. Hummon (1904-1911), a graduate of Wittenberg College and Seminary.

Rev. Trefz (1899-1903), a graduate of Midland College in Atchison, Kansas begins his ministry and later implements the use of the common book of worship. Rev. Henry Kuhns dies suddenly […]