Pastor Olney E. Cook, conducting services. Pastor Cook later had these reminiscences of his ministry:(1)
From Moseman, Magda, and Anderson, Mark, eds., Perspectives and Patterns: Christ's Lutheran Church, 1806-1976 [Woodstock, NY: self-published monograph, 1976]. (Close)
During that time a Sunday School was organized starting with one pupil but began to grow until we had forty. A junior choir was also started and our Christmas Pageants were enjoyed by many people. Our missionary society was one of the highlights of my ministry in Woodstock, and I always found the members to be very helpful and to be interested in the church work.
Construction was finished on the new parsonage on the east side of the church lot. Mr. Bradley, the contractor, was paid $14,498 ($102,646 in 2006 dollars), leaving a balance of $526 ($3,724) in the building fund. Mrs. Crosswell and Mrs. Zimmerman had donated the iron railings. Pastor Cook formally dedicated the building in the fall.
At Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA, a woman was an influential teacher of sociology.
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