Sunday School 1930
In October 2014, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church will celebrate 100 years of service to the Park Ridge and neighboring communities.
When times are tough the members of St. Luke’s build for the future as they did in 1914, in 1928, 1973, and again in 2010. The first members came from St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. These Swedish families had begun to follow the railroad out to the suburbs north of the city.
The sixteen charter members held their first service in the German Congregational Church and the second on November 1, 1914, in Clarks Hall over the storefronts on Prospect Avenue.
The Rev Walter D. Spangler accepted the call to be the first pastor on May 15, 1915. He led the congregation when it met above the shops in Clarks Hall, and in the bungalow church, and when they broke the ground for the present church building in July of 1928. He served the St. Luke’s congregation until 1963.
Over the years the congregation grew; they made improvements and built additions to the original sanctuary in order to provide for the education of their children and to enhance their ministry in the community. Come and grow with us!
