Pastors
This pastor served in the Navy before becoming a pastor.
Who is Pastor Carr?
Two current members were children when their dad was a pastor at First English.
Who are Jim Byerly and Joyce Byerly Smith?
This room has been used for Sunday School, a chapel and a place for hospitality.
What is the Wagner room?
In the past, we provided the Lutheran Campus Center in the basement of our church for college students. Currently, Pastor Chris and some members work with the students at this location.
What is the Pace Center?
What is our congregations motto?
”In the City for Good”
This pastor was our interim pastor between Pastor Schweitzer and Pastor Carr.
Who is Pastor Price?
This member made our four Advent banners.
Who was Loutisha James?
This is the year we moved into our current building.
What is the year 1911?
Janyce Olson, wife of Pastor Olson, created this ministry that fills shoeboxes with gifts for children and the elderly.
What is the Giving Heart?
This was the deaconess who served our congregation from 1919-1961.
Who was Sister Ruth Wagner?
This Pastor served our congregation for 50 years!
Who was Pastor Scherer?
Pastor Patti, who wrote many books including one about Confirmation, was the daughter of these current members.
Who are Joe and Margaret Thisted?
This was our church name when we moved in the first church that was built on the corner of Seventh and Grace Streets.
What is First English Evangelical Lutheran Church?
This current organization began as an elderly day care in our education building and now offers services in different locations.
What is the Circle Center Day Services?
We used this camp in Hanover County for many youth retreats in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
What is Luther Pines Camp?
The Stuart Circle Parish was formed while he was the Pastor.
Who was Pastor Eckert?
This member was a pastor’s daughter and wrote the book Saints Alive.
Who was Mary Grace Taylor?
We held services in Odd Fellows Hall from 1872-1875 when our church had this different name.
What was St. Mark’s Lutheran?
First English went to court to fight for this ministry.
What is the Meal Ministry?
Between 1925-1970, First English helped to support three different missionaries in Southwest Virginia, Japan and this African nation.
What is Liberia?
He was our pastor when the name changed to First English Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Who was Pastor Schaeffer?
This member grew up at First English and was the first from our congregation to enter the Lutheran Ministry.
Who was Kenneth Crumpton?
Our congregation rented this church on Mayo Street in 1869 to have our services.
What was the Universalist Church?
After two different wars, some of our members helped sponsor families from these two countries.
What are Latvia and Vietnam?
From 1873 - 1875 the Reverend R.C. Holland conducted services and raised $2,001.90 for a chapel for our church when we were without a pastor. He was from this church in Madison County which is over 300 years old.
What is Hebron Lutheran Church?