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This book traces the history of the Zion Lutheran Church in Gympie, with an emphasis on its congregations. The history traces the Church from its beginnings in 1858 on the Gympie goldfields, to 1911 when it was built originally as a Congregational Church, to being dedicated as a Lutheran Church when the whole property was purchased for GBP700, to its dedication as the Trinity Lutheran Church in 1942. In 1966 there was an Australia-wide amalgamation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) with the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (UELCA) to form the Lutheran Church of Australia, (LCA). This union also occurred in Gympie when the constituting meeting of the new combined Gympie Congregation was held on 6th January 1967. On 3rd February 1967, at the second meeting of the Gympie Congregation, A Zillman moved and Albert Sinn seconded that `Gympie Congregation be named Zion'. With the inspiration of pastors and congregations of the past, and assuming that, given the opportunity, could Zion possibly be inspired with the same `going and growing' attitude as God's people as those long-ago Christians obviously were? The author believes that the Gympie Christians, going right back to the Gympie goldfields' time, have proven that they were willing and able to `have a go'.

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