Peace Lutheran Church
416 Wellham Ave.
Glen Burnie MD, 21061
Bringing Christ's love to all people and all people to Christ's love
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History of our Church
As we prepare to celabrate our 50th anniversary, see how it all began from the original PastorPENTECOST + PEACE SPELL P-O-W-E-R
By The Rev. William S. Corkish
PENTECOST and PEACE spell P-O-W-E-R for some 211 charter members at our new mission in North Glen Burnie, Maryland. It was on Pentecost Sunday, 1958 that the Peace Lutheran Mission held its first service and it is on Pentecost Sunday, 1959, that the Peace Lutheran Mission is dedicating its first church. The power, of course, is that of the Holy Spirit who has made the amazing progress of Peace Church in one year a reality.
It all started when, after three years of service at Grace Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I was called to direct the starting of a new mission package in the area north of Glen Burnie in the spring of 1958. I arrived on the scene right
after Easter and with the able assistance of Miss Alice Schimpf, then parish worker of the Eastern District of American Lutheran Church, laid the groundwork for this new church to be born...
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