Black and white postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an exterior view of the German Lutheran Church in Millard, Nebraska. It is a white wood-framed building. There are steps leading up to a front door with a large steeple bell tower. There is the number 56 in the lower left hand corner.
Early setters to the Millard area were from the Schlesweig-Holstein/Denmark region of Europe. A German Lutheran congregation was founded in 1886 in Millard by William Huesemann, pastor of the Missouri Synod church (First Lutheran) in Papillion, along with eleven men from the Papillion congregation, who became the core of the Millard congregation. Businessmen and residents of the village of Millard supported the new congregation wholeheartedly and it became a strong force in the community. The first church building was erected in 1887. Four years later the church was destroyed by lightning. The same day the members decided to rebuild and in 1892 the new building seen here was completed. The first English services were conducted by Pastor G. P. Krebs in 1909, however, German worship services were conducted regularly until 1952. The church is now known as St. Paul's Lutheran Church and services are conducted in a brick church built in 1923 at 13271 Millard Avenue. Source: St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Millard, Nebraska website.
