In 2025 First Lutheran Church will celebrate 100 years in the city of West Allis, Wisconsin! We are blessed to have been serving our neighbors here for so many years and look forward to continuing our work for God’s mission in the world.
The church has been led by many pastors in our history, Henry Hammerling, Mark Syre, Robert Suhr and Maurice Felton, to name a few. These pastors gave direction and helped the church focus on its missions. One of the calls of the church is to care for one another, and this means both inside our walls and also those in the community. Throughout our history there were leaders, pastors, and lay people who have nurtured our congregation through their gifts of preaching, music, service and leadership. With their guidance and sustained by a common faith, First Lutheran has prevailed and flourished through good times and economic depression, peace and war, and all that these past 100 years have brought. Through all this, the hope that Jesus Christ brings into the world has been our strength, and our reason for existence.
To learn more about our beautiful building read about our church at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Read Pastor Josh’s reflection on his experience at First Lutheran during the early days of the pandemic in his Ministry Memory.
First Lutheran invites you to come and worship with us. See you soon!
