Christ Evangelical Lutheran
Churches in Chicago, IL
Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3523 W. Wilson Ave. At Spaulding Ave. Was organized on May 28, 1911 in the Albany Park district of Chicago, as a member of the General Synod. Using a portable chapel on the corner of Eastwood and Spaulding, the 1st service was held on January 22, 1911. In October 1912 the congregation selected a site at W. Wilson and Spaulding Avenues and started construction of a permanent building in Oct. 1913. The building was dedicated April 12, 1914. A parish house was completed in 1922 and a new sanctuary (pictured above) was founded in 1923-24 and dedicated on April 27, 1924. The original building (pictured at far right above) was used as chapel and gymnasium.
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read moreTom Terrell arrived as pastor in 1987. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Valparaiso University. He has a passion for accompanying others in their spiritual journey, and for bringing our church into the community through ministries of justice and compassion. His wife Sue is a psychotherapist, and their three grown children are living in several places around the country. He is the sixth pastor in the church's history.