{"id":1156,"date":"1907-01-20T12:46:01","date_gmt":"1907-01-20T20:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:31:12","slug":"trinity-is-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Trinity is Organized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First service held January 20, Church organized, 38 charter members.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0the first decade of the twentieth century a small group of Lutherans living in Long Beach desired a church in which they might worship according to their Lutheran background. The Reverend John Ziegler, who was a mission developer for the General Lutheran Synod, was visiting the city at that time. He realized the potentialities of establishing another church in the growing seacoast town. Under his leadership a constitution was drafted and on February 24, 1907, thirty-eight charter numbers established Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First service held January 20, Church organized, 38 charter members <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinitylclb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}