Zion Lutheran Church History First Hundred Years The Lutheran Church and the Silverill School House about 1920. Click to enlarge. Preface A Broad Overview A Women’s Ministry View Point A Youth Ministry View Point from the 1960s Acknowledgment Introduction and Organization Before There Was a Silverhill, Alabama 1888 Early Lutheran Activity in Silverhill, Alabama 1895-1904 1895 1896 1897 1904 Organization of Evangelical Swedish Lutheran Zion Church in Silverhill, Alabama 1905 1906 1907 1908-1912 1913 1914 Zion Lutheran Church Constructed in Silverhill, Alabama 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 Zion Lutheran Church Parsonage Constructed in Silverhill, Alabama 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Zion Lutheran Church Recognizes Its Past 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 Zion Lutheran Church Modernizes and Does First Major Construction Since 1920 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Zion Lutheran Church Finally Gets Its Own Regular Pastor 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Zion Lutheran Church Retires Its Parsonage, Renovates Former Parsonage Garage 1981 1982 1983 1984 Stained Glass Windows Become Part of Zion Lutheran Church 1985 1986 1987 1988 Zion Lutheran Church Begins Formal Outreach Program to Northern Snowbirds 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Zion Lutheran Church Part of Realignment in Lutheranism in the USA, Affiliates with Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Zion Lutheran Church Initiates Its First New Building of the New Millennium 2001 Zion Lutheran Church Implements Website LutheransInSilverhill.com 2002 2003 2004 2005 Endnotes