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Faith Lutheran Celebrates 60 Years
Church celebrates journey from temporary home and door-to-door searches for Lutherans to a thriving congregation.
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church is inviting the community to help celebrate the congregation's 60th anniversary. From meager beginnings, the congregation has grown into a close knit family within the Syosset community.
According to their announcement on Patch:
In the summer of 1951, Student-Pastor Philip V. Anderson, from Christ Lutheran Church in New Hyde Park, went from house to house in Syosset to determine if enough people were interested in starting a Lutheran Church. That September, a meeting was held to plan for the first service to be held on Christmas Day. A temporary chapel was set up in the old International Harvester Building at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Cold Spring Road.
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The congregation was formally organized and incorporated as Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church on September 28, 1952 with 61 charter members. With very little money to start, the church was named after the faith it would need to grow.
The official anniversary service will be held at the church Sunday at 10 a.m. Regular services are held Sundays at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. and are presided over by Pastor Marc Herbst.
