Pastor: Rev. Anne C. Durboraw
Worship Services: 8:30am and 11:00am
Phone: 410.635.6177
#KED #Westminster
Lutheran Church Men of Westminster Conference fall dinner meeting at St Luke's
701 Green Valley Rd, New Windsor, MD 21776
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I do not recall visiting the St. Luke's Winters Lutheran Church before. I have heard great things about the church and I was excited to take advantage of opportunity to go to the fall dinner meeting of the Lutheran church men of the Westminster Conference. Especially since my pastor at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at 21 Carroll Street in Westminster is the new Dean of the Westminster Conference...
I did a little research on the church and found that it has a nice - informative website... Hopefully I can write an article on the church in the future for the Baltimore Sun Carroll Eagle: http://www.baltimoresun.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=Dayhoff&target=adv_article
St. Luke's (Winters) Lutheran Church
701 Green Valley Road (Route 75), New Windsor, Maryland
21776
Pastor: Rev. Anne C. Durboraw
Worship Services: 8:30am and 11:00am Phone: 410.635.6177
Organization of St. Luke's (Winters) Lutheran Church
Cemetery Tombstone
Inscriptions (18th & 19th Century)
According to a church history, written by Betty Munshaur,
the church’s historian emeritus, which appears on the church website
St. Luke's (Winter's)
Lutheran Church is the fifth oldest surviving Lutheran Church in what is now
Carroll County, Maryland.
Antiquated books at
Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania state that our church
was organized as the Evangelical Lutheran (Winter's) Church in 1783. Our first
evidence of the name of St. Luke's (Winters) Lutheran Church was in the Articles
of Incorporation of March 30, 1856.
It is believed that
some of our earliest settlers in Carroll County, New Windsor (Frederick County
until 1837) worshipped in homes and groves long before St. Luke's (Winter's)
Lutheran Church was organized.
It has been recorded
that as early as 1766 George Francis Winter, who was one of the earliest
settlers near the town of New Windsor, received an application from German
colonists in Pennsylvania for land for the erection of a prospective Lutheran
church, and for land for farming purposes. It has been stated by historians
that a log church was erected in 1772.
However, the church
was not organized until 1783, eleven years later, apparently under the
direction of The Rev. Johann Daniel Schroeter. This organization was documented
in our old record book at the Gettysburg Seminary. The old register dated
1783-1884 is still intact, and is kept at the Seminary because of its
antiquity.
On March 30, 1856, our
church was incorporated under the name of St. Luke's (Winter's) Lutheran
Church. Most of the first members (communicants) of our church were German
immigrants.
The old register at
Gettysburg is in old German, as well as some of our old tombstones in the
cemetery. Both the German Reformed and Lutherans used our church at one time.
We were probably served by the same itinerant preachers as the Taneytown
charge, and we were once part of the Westminster charge.
In 1870, we were part
of the Uniontown Parish. This union lasted until 1979 (109 years). In 1979, we
decided to take on the responsibilities of our own full-time pastor.
Our present church was
built in 1875, and has been remodeled several times. The parish hall was added
in 1958.
