"I am the way, the truth, and the life;

no one goes to the Father except by me."

John 14:6

The corporate history of Grace Lutheran Church of Green Bay, as a congregation serving the Lord Jesus Christ, began on December 18, 1908.  It was on that day that nineteen men and women signed the original constitution of this congregation bringing to fulfillment work that had begun more than a year before.

Louis F. Gast, a candidate of Theology from the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary at Columbus, Ohio, accepted the call as the congregation's first pastor.  He preached his first sermon at Grace on Easter Sunday, April 11, 1909.  He continued to serve this congregation for 43 years.

The original church building was a former Baptist Church, purchased by the congregation on March 21, 1910.  The present Grace Lutheran Church building occupies the same site.  A new House of Worship was built and dedicated on December 17, 1916.  In 1936, the congregation voted to enlarge their church structure and a new and enlarged Grace Lutheran Church was rededicated in March, 1938.

Gast Hall, the educational unit of our present church was dedicated on Sunday, September 16, 1956.

A renovation program making the facility accessible to the handicapped and adding the church lobby on the East end of the building was completed in 1984.  Later, in 1989 a major renovation of the total facility was necessitated because of an arson fire.  This was completed in June of 1990.

Today, Grace Lutheran Church is a congregation of over 2,000 members united together in ministry in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace is one of over 11,000 congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

• The ELCA was born on January 1, 1988, when 3 Lutheran Synods joined to form one church.

  • The American Lutheran Church (ALC)

  • The Lutheran Church in America (LCA)

  • The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America (AELC)

• At present, the ELCA has more than 5 million members.    

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