Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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GREETINGS FROM THE COLLEGE C H U R H St. Peter ' s Evangelical Church of Elm- hurst, Illinois, is known throughout the synod as the College Church . For almost a half century its service and activities have been closely linked with the spiritual life of Elmhurst College, and many are the ministers and leaders in our church who think back with gratitude and affection to the hours of worship and inspiration spent in the college-church during their days of student-life. It has always seemed self-evident to the students of our college that they should feel themselves a part of the Elmhurst congre- gation, and it has always been the policy of both church and college to emphasize Karl M. Chworowsky, A.M. this feeling of joint interest and common ' ■■The College Pastor ' ' faith among Students and church members. Ever since the days of the sainted In- spector Aieusch, the local congregation occupied its own house of worshIp and organized its own program as an independent religious community; the conscious- ness of fellowship and joint purpose has grown among students and church-folk alike. This may appear to be a trite statement, for where is there a like situation where such feeling would not be considered normal and matter of fact? To foster and develop the relation between college-family and the mernbers of St. Peter ' s church has always been one of the distinctive duties of the ministers of this church, and at all times the pastors of St. Peter have understood this duty and gladly shared it. For almost fifty years college students and members of St. Peter ' s have wor- shipped and worked together for the establishment of a church and congregation in Elmhurst that might reflect glory on the church at large as well as bring credit to the Evangelical Synod. It has always been recognized that the position of a church serving the spiritual needs of its future ministers is one of special sig- nificance and prestige; the synodical feeling towards the Elmhurst church has shared this disposition and found expression in the action of the General Con- ference in 1921 which voted a $7,500.00 appropriation for the new church build- ing which the congregation had been planning for some time. The new church has now reached the stage of an actual proposition. It is no more a dream or a fiction. When this annual appears, ground will have been broken and preparations under way for the laying of the cornerstone. Another page of this annual shows the new church building. It is being built at a considerable sacrifice, as the church membership is neither a large nor a wealthy one. The sentiment of the congre- gation, however, seems quite unanimous for a building in keeping with the needs of a progressive and growing church organization, and nothing is to be spared to make the new church in every way serviceable and practically useful in a church as well as in a community sense. The college students who have not only dreamed with the folks of St. Peter ' s of the new church but have been actively alligned with them in the practical work of realizing that dream, will undoubtedly feel their affection for and inter- est in the college-church growing as they look forward to the days when they shall worship and work in the new building. The congregation takes this opportunity of again assuring the students of Elmhurst College of its cordial and abiding interest and solicitude and of thank- ing them for the loyalty and devotion they have so freely shown. 16

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Herman J. Schiek, A.M., B.D., LL.D. Congregations served: — Sandwich, 111.; Bensenville, 111.; St. Lucas, Evansville, Ind. Schools attended: — Elmhurst College; Eden Theological Seminary; McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago; University of Chicago. Offices held: — Vice-President of the Indiana District; Presi- dent of the Indiana District; Secretary of the Protestant Deaconess Society of Evansville, Ind.; Secretary of the Elmhurst College Board of Control. 18