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Expenses:
A note for accummulated interest Salaries Taxes Gas and taxes Wine and Hosts Coal Fire Insurance Receipt books For Student Bold Rent for Pastor Hanser's house Service to the organ bellows Charcoal, salt, brushes, etc. Taxes to the Collector Total Expenditures Amount in Accounts Owed to the building fund Surplus Building Fund Cashier's Report:
Expenses:
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$ 409.00 2716.00 108.87 41.42 24.00 129.00 64.25 6.50 15.00 4.00 6.00 7.85 67.81 3599.70 647.52 600.00 $47.52 .
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Building Fund Expenditures:
Carryover Church and cemetery funds loaned Cellar beneath the church Church window Organ repair Sewer and plumbing work Escutcheon, house numbers, locks, offering boxes Book Materials and labor for Mr. Blanck To Mr. Matthaes for window hanging Interest Partial Payment on heating system Total Funds on hand
Fund for the Poor
Collections for Specific Purposes:
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1958.79 1005.92 1747.80 83.85 12.00 154.52 19.95 . 2.00 87.40 26.80 125.00 700.00 $5924.03 527.16
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Cemetery Fund:
Cash on hand from previous year Income Borrowed from the building fund Total Expenditures:
Surplus
The Accounts of our Mission (Emmaus)
Expenditures:
Cash on hand:
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$ 53.66 309.25 705.92 $1068.83 .
$ 366.86
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$ 641.85
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Looking back at the internal course of development of the congregation above all else we acknowledge and proclaim that God alone deserves all credit. While reflecting with the power of hindsight we have found in God's work reason to praise Him and to acknowledge our gratitude. He bestowed upon us the greatest good in the fullest measure as had been desired by those who established our congregation in Germany 50 years ago. Indeed God in his mercy has maintained His Grace, His Word and His Sacraments pure and unsullied for us and He did not punish us for our ingratitude, apathy and insatiability but rather heeded us as we begged in our church services:
Lord, give us Your Word! Under these unmistakable characteristics of the true church, whose banner and field marker is the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, He allowed the number of our members to grow and His Word did not come back to us empty, but was fulfilled (Isaiah 55: 10, 11). Through the resonance of His Word, known only to the Lord, the Holy Spirit has sanctified and sustained those of the true faith and many members of the congregation, who for a long time had not heard the voice of the Shepherd Christ with an open heart, were sought out by the Savior with all patience until He found them and brought them home. The multitude, which has long stood far away, has been brought by God's Spirit to the spiritual temple, which was not made by hand but based on the cornerstone of Christianity. Indeed there are many, who during the 50 years, have been brought back home into our midst due to a death and now live in triumph with Jesus. May we thank the Lord for His Grace and for the children, whom He has let be born as a gift in our midst; the congregation stood before the abyss with its faith and its prayer when it should have felt the Lord's wrath for its sins and we would have deserved it if he took back His highly treasured Grace, which he gave to the founders of our congregation despite out our ingratitude and our insatiability. May He be praised, worshipped and thanked. |
 | To Him alone all honor is due that he led us through battle to victory. It was our great weakness which led us to such trepidation, imposed on us from outside, and led to the battles which rose up within the congregation. So often was the congregation deprived of comfort and bereft of courage. At such times it seemed as though everything would go to ruin. The congregation knew no other way to help itself than to call out with devotion and faith along with its preacher: Lord, reside within the domain of your congregation, which You have planted here, and save those whom you have chosen! It was strict adherence to the Word and to the confession of our fathers, not withdrawal, which won for us God's Grace and Power and which gave us victory. How often has the congregation experienced the truth of His Word: Harken unto God, to Him I will give thanks, for He is my succor and my God. Without God's wonderful help nothing is possible. Both congregations fought for more than 25 years and became alienated over doctrine. The hand of peace was extended, based on the Word of God and the unity of faith, and since then it has fought the war of the Lord as one congregation. It is a war against falsehood, a war against the intrusion of the world upon the congregation. In difficult church matters, etc., as a united congregation it follows the call of the Savior and whoever does not agree must say to himself "Even the bad servant stands quietly when he sees the Field Marshall approach." Thus the congregation strengthened and grew under the Leadership of its ultimate Shepherd and the Grace of its God; the Holy Spirit worked through the blessing of this Grace and led his children on the right path. We wish to proclaim this gift and this crown and give praise and thanks to Him especially on this day of our anniversary. May His Grace and Truth remain with our descendants in this place until the time when the church triumphs at the day of reckoning. Then we will praise and worship Him forever and ever. Halleluia! Amen. |
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