HISTORY AND EARLY MEMBERS OF ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH
MISSION VALLEY, TEXAS
Taken from the Church Records given by the Rev. Harold E. Tesch, Pastor
Contributed by Sharron Torrence
ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH is located in the peaceful community of Mission Valley on Farm Road 236, North of Victoria and South of
Cuero.
In approximately 1898 services were held in homes in Mission Valley by PASTOR KUELPS of Arneckeville. This practice was continued by
PASTOR HERZIG and PASTOR G. RAPP until 1910 when PASTOR JOHN BERGNER began holding services in the Mission Valley
Schoolhouse. After a year of organizational details, on the first Sunday in August, 1915, ten families were officially released from the
Arneckeville congregation to form their own congregation but to be served by the Arneckeville pastor. By the end of that year the Mission
Valley congregation had grown to 14 families. In 1917 this congregation was received into the First Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Texas as
affiliated with the Iowa Synod.
POSSIBLE LIST OF CHARTER MEMBERS � 1915
WILLIE LASSMAN (received Arneckeville) - 1889
Mrs. DORA LASSMAN (received Arneckeville) - 1892
Mrs. LAURA DREYER (received Arneckeville) - 1899
ADAM SCHAEFER, SR. (received Arneckeville) - 1899
OSCAR SCHAEFER (received Arneckeville) - 1911
OTTO ALBRECHT (received Arneckeville) - 1911
GEORGE GISLER (received Arneckeville) - 1911
ALFRED ANGERSTEIN (received Arneckeville) - 1913
GOTTLIEB SCHAEFER
WILLIE DREYER
HENRY BILLO, transfer from Schroeder
HEINRICH RUSCHHAUPT, transfer from Meyersville
ALBERT F. REINEKE - 1915
MARCUS LASSMAN
OTHER EARLY MEMBERS, no dates given
ADOLPH ANGERSTEIN
OTTO REINEKE
MRS. A. W. ARNOLD
FRED DREYER
MRS. G. W. HELLER
ROBERT KORNFUEHRER
ERVIN LASSMANN
EMIL LASSMANN
WALTER SCHAEFER
MEMBERS RECEIVED:
1916 - ADOLPH ADICKES
WILLIE REINECKE