History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . s by members ofthe First Church, was organized into a mission and provided witha place of worship, to which was given the name, The ColemanAvenue Chapel. Under the fostering care of the pastor andmembers of the First Church this mission experienced a steadyand substantial growth, and in the spring of 1907, it became aseparate and independent congregation under the name of TheMoxham Evangelical Lutheran Church. With the
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . s by members ofthe First Church, was organized into a mission and provided witha place of worship, to which was given the name, The ColemanAvenue Chapel. Under the fostering care of the pastor andmembers of the First Church this mission experienced a steadyand substantial growth, and in the spring of 1907, it became aseparate and independent congregation under the name of TheMoxham Evangelical Lutheran Church. With the year 1910. Dr. Shipmans long term of service aspastor of the First Church was brought to a close by his re-tiring from the pastorate December 31. In Dr. Shipmans lastparochial report to Synod we find the congregation credited with 667 SOMERSET CONFERENCE an active communicant membership of 750, and the Sunday schoolwith a membership of 400. At a congregational meeting held Sunday, February 5, 1911,the Rev. Robert D. Clare, then pastor of the St. MatthewsLutheran Church, Vork, was elected to succeed Dr. acceptance of the call extended to him was announced one. FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH, JOHNSTOWN, PA. week later, and on Sunday, March 19, he assumed full pastoralrelations. During the following year special attention was paid to theorganization of the Sunday school- along most modern and effi-cient lines. A Home Department and a Cradle Roll were formed,the classes were graded, new literature was introduced and more668 FIRST, JOHNS TO WN than six hundred members were added to the general work was also undertaken with the boys of the schooland congregation, and a Junior Brotherhood was organized. In November, of 1911, the young people of the First Churchtook the initiative in bringing all the Lutheran congregations ofthe city together for an inspiring joint Luther Day observance, which has ever since been an annual event ofconsiderable impo
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