St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church celebrates 150 years

Karen Williams, Linda Zell, and Megan Connolly consider themselves to be sisters.“The bond is that strong,” said Connolly in this week’s Enterprise podcast.The three women are not related by blood. Rather, they are part of what they describe as a “church family.”They belong to St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.Williams, who does academic advising at the University at Albany, came to the church when her daughter was a baby — she’s a teenager now. But Williams still calls herself a “newbie.”That’s because Zell, who recently retired from Tax and Finance, and Connolly, a stay-at-home mom who works now at Bella Fleur in the village, have each spent a lifetime in the church. Both of them were baptized at St. John’s and married in the church.Zell’s father was a member of the church and so was her grandmother. Connolly, who has four children and seven grandchildren, says her children who live elsewhere have come back with their babies to have them baptized at St. John’s.Read more at https://altamontenterprise.com/08262022/st-johns-celebrates-150-years-community-caring-and-cooking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.