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Hickson Lutheran Church today |
LOCATION
Hickson Lutheran Church is conveniently located 15 minutes south of Fargo along Hwy. 81 just west of the Red River and two blocks west of Oxbow Country Club.Our address is 16 1st Avenue, Hickson, ND 58047 PASTOR: Sarah Larsen Tade
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: LeAnn Toppen
ORGANIST: Kay Skoog
OFFICE PHONE: 701.588.4354
PARISH PHONE: 701.469.2183 |
2011 CHURCH LEADERS
President: Laura Oster-Aaland
Vice President: Scott Nipstad
Secretary: Diane Ricker
Treasurer: Allen Ricker & Dawn Schaffer
Deacons: Diane Ricker, Marcus Larson, Laura Oster-Aaland
Trustees: Greg Bauman, Mark Schaffer, Scott Nipstad, Allen Ricker and Marshall Tangen
Board of Ed: Dawn Johnson, Amy Andel, Penny Jo Vikander
WELCA President: Darlene Young
LYO Advisor: Melissa Rademacher
Parish Nurse: Laurie Brakke, RN |
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History of Hickson Lutheran Church |
Lower Wild Rice and Red River Cemetery |
North Pleasant Lutheran Church marker
(The cemetery is off to the left). |
HISTORY
THE LOWER WILD RICE AND RED RIVER CHURCH
> The Lower Wild Rice and Red River Church was organized November 25, 1872 in a rural home near the Wild Rice River north of Hickson, ND with eight families.
> The members agreed at the annual meeting on December 2, 1878 that they would contribute a share of the next year's crop for a church building fund.
> The church was built in 1880 and dedicated on October 18, 1891.
> The Ladies Aid Society was organized on July 30, 1889.
> The church building was struck by lightning early morning on July 17, 1940 and burned to the ground after sixty years of service.NORTH PLEASANT CHURCH
> Pleasant Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was organized November 27, 1872 in a home three miles southwest of Christine, ND with ten families.
> Lutheran ministers, who did missionary work in this region of the Red River Valley, served the congregation and held worship services in homes.
> For practical reasons, the Pleasant Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was divided in 1880 - the southern division adopting the name "South Pleasant Lutheran Church" and the northern division taking the name "North Pleasant Lutheran Church."
> At a special congregational meeting held May 28, 1882, the North Pleasant church members agreed to contribute to a church building fund either with a promise of money or with specified acres of their wheat crop.
> The North Pleasant Church was built in 1890 and dedicated June 3, 1892.
> The Ladies Aid Society was organized July 16, 1889 at the parsonage.
> The North Pleasant and Lower Wild Rice and Red River congregations merged October 7, 1940.
> In 1940 the North Pleasant church was moved to Hickson. HICKSON LUTHERAN CHURCH
> Once the North Pleasant church building was moved to Hickson in 1940, the congregation was renamed "Hickson Lutheran Church."
> The first annual meeting of Hickson Lutheran Church was held January 14, 1941 and the church was dedicated May 30, 1942.
> In 1952 Christine Lutheran Church joined South Pleasant and Hickson congregations to form the Christine Parish. |
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