75th Anniversary Booket, inside pages

The family of Refugees from Cambodia that First Lutheran sponsored,teaching them English, and offering physical and spiritual support and guidance.

​The church sponsored a refugee family during these years, and another set of pipes were added to the organ.  The chimes were also added during Hanson’s tenure. The church offered a clothing room and served meals for those in need in the community.

75th Anniversary

​Pastor Dennis Hanson came in 1976 and served longest of any pastor, till 1995. During his tenure, we paid off the parsonage and the church grew in number enough to warrant calling an assistant pastor, Larry Cudmore.


​Pastor Cudmore served as assistant to Pastor Hanson, preaching, teaching classes, and serving the Clark Fork Church which 1st Lutheran helped support as a mission for a number of years until the mid 90’s. 

Pastor Cudmore as he looked when he returned to
Clark Fork Lutheran for their 50th anniversary in 2005
​when Rev. Robert Nale was still there.  

 Family campouts were started which made the church family even more closely knit.

New Millenium

Reverend Hanson Departs

Pastor Dennis Hanson and family today.

Interim Pastor Oines 1995-96

Rev. Oines was the Interim pastor from 1995-1996

Pastor Myers Selected, 1997

Pastor Steve Myers is remembered as a “folksy, down-to-earth” person who loved to laugh and did it a lot. He was known as a “people person” who seemed to make those around him feel at ease.