In celebration of our 250th Anniversary, we offered a History Minute each Sunday during our worship service in 2015. Click on a link below to read a transcript of each History Minute, and be sure to visit us every Sunday at New Jerusalem to experience our parish's history in person!
“THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF A BORDER-STATE LUTHERAN PASTOR” by Xenophon J. Richardson
Edited and Annotated by Edward W. Spannaus
Journal of the Lutheran Historical Conference, 2106. pp. 149-160
12/27/15 — On the Threshold: One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
12/13/15 — Viola Tobler on The New Tower Windows
11/22/15 — Dr. William Wade and Our 185th Anniversary Celebration
11/15/15 — Sunday School at New Jerusalem
11/8/15 — The Creation of The United Lutheran Church in America
11/1/15 — New Jerusalem Becomes Altar-Centered: The 1932 Rededication
10/25/15 — 1765 Elector's Bible
10/11/15 — The Formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland and Virginia
10/04/15 — Our Gold Star Soldier Found
9/27/15 — Celebrating our 200th Anniversary
9/20/15 — Ladies Aid Society
9/13/15 — John Herman Froehlich
9/6/15 — New Jerusalem's Venture Into "American Lutheranism"
8/30/15 — Mark and Kate Rodeffer
8/23/15 — The Tobler Ministry: Through The Great Depression and World War II
8/9/15 — St. Paul's-Between-the-Hills: Our First Daughter Church
7/26/15 — Reverend Daniel Hauer Rebuilds the Congregation
7/19/15 — Women's Missionary Society of NJLC
7/12/15 — Reverend David Frederick Schaeffer
7/5/15 — "Birthright Americans": Our Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots
6/28/15 — Lutherans and the AME Church: The Story of Daniel Alexander Payne
6/21/15 — Our Mother Church Gets a Constitution
6/14/15 — Gold Star Flag — Flag Day
6/7/15 — Pastor Michael W. Kretsinger
5/17/15 — A Trip to Gettysburg
5/5/15 — Dedication of the Rebuilt Stone Church
4/26/15 — John Martin Sackman and the Language Controversy
4/19/15 — The Story of Zion
4/12/15 — X. J. Richardson and the End of the Civil War
4/5/15 — The Cross on the Tower
3/29/15 — The Old Stone Church
3/22/15 — March 25, 1786: Our First Church Constitution
3/15/15 — The Story of Bethel
3/8/15 — Reverend John George Graeber
3/1/15 — H.B. Funk and the Ornamental Ceiling
2/15/15 — Reverend Charles Frederick Wildbahn
2/8/15 — Early New Jerusalem Confirmation Records Discovered
2/1/15 — Reverend John Andrew Krug
01/25/15 — The Story of Our Hymnals
01/18/15 — The River Cross
01/11/15 — Reverend Johann Samuel Schwerdtfeger
01/04/15 — New Jerusalem's Organs
12/28/14 — German Christmas Traditions
12/21/14 — Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
12/14/14 — The German Palantine Emegration
12/7/14 — The First Lutherans in North America
11/30/14 — Introduction to the History Minutes