HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. Started in 1937 as a home mission of the Iowa District of the American Lutheran Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church held its first services in the home of its pastor, William Zibell. Although the congregation was officially organized in 1939 as Trinity Lutheran Church, the congregation did not grow. Sunday worship service had twenty-five members with attendance at Sunday School of twelve.

By 1941, just before the Mission Board was to close the mission, Professor John C. Mattes of Wartburg Seminary agreed to serve as the mission's pastor for no salary if the congregation was given a place to meet.

The congregation rented and began meeting in the old Miller Meat Market, now Comprehensive Physical Therapy. The name was changed to Holy Trinity in 1943, and property next to the meat market was purchased. Continued slow growth in attendance and wartime building restrictions kept the congregation from building a church until 1948. The building of a church was encouraged by the transfer of many members of SAINT JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH. Before the end of 1948 the membership of Holy Trinity had doubled.

On June 5, 1949, the congregation moved into its new church. On April 26, 1952, a new parsonage adjacent to the church was dedicated. Continued growth in church attendance led to remodeling which included a new narthex, a double story parish unit, and extension and widening of the church- all dedicated on April 21, 1963.