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The history of St. John's Lutheran Church is a history of God delivering His precious gifts to His precious people, and then giving them more after that. In November 1856, a small group of Lutherans living in the area of Swan Creek met for a worship service in the home of George Hoerl. By April the following year The Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession was organized with eight founding families. By 1870, the church organized a school, predating the town of Waltz by two years. For 160 years the Lord has used St. John's to bring up over 3000 disciples of Christ who have served in our community, for our country, and to the ends of the earth.