Article: Women and lay activism: aspects of acculturation in the German Lutheran Churches of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1870 - 1917.

On January 18,1914 the German Erste Evangelisch-Lutherische Zion Kirche (First Evangelical-Lutheran Zion Church) of Ann Arbor held a celebration. The women's society of the church marked twenty-five years of existence with a church service, musical presentations, and an enormous banquet for 450 guests. (2) The Zion Church's rival, the Deutsche Evangelische Bethlehem Kirche (German Evangelical Bethlehem Church) of Ann Arbor, also had a women's society. This one had been founded earlier, in 1871, but had remained small until the 1890s. Only then did the women's societies of these two churches undergo continuous expansion, thus successfully establishing women's lay activism ...

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