Immanuel Lutheran Church Daykin, Ne.
Families
of German Lutherans in northwestern Jefferson County were served by
churches in Tobias and Hoag until they organized their own
congregation at Daykin in 1891.
The
first resident pastor arrived from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
in 1893. The following year the congregation joined the Missouri
Synod of the Lutheran Church. The first church building was
constructed on seven acres of land donated by Fred Jarchow. In 1910
a new building was dedicated and the original church served the
congregation for a variety of purposes, including that of a day
school, until it was sold in 1950.
During the 1920's services began to be conducted in the English language, and the use of German was slowly abandoned in worship.
