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Lutheran congregation (LCMS) · organized 1 January 1900 · now on Covington Road in the southwest · active, November 2026
Founding: Emmaus was organized on 1 January 1900 and worshipped first on Broadway Street, downtown's southwestern edge; the Sentinel's 1904 roster names its pastor, the Rev. Philip Wambsganss. In 1923 the congregation opened a branch school a mile and a half south of the parish building. The congregation's own history records its part in founding two of the city's Lutheran institutions, Lutheran Hospital and Lutheran Social Services.
Building line: In late 1995 Emmaus bought a site on Covington Road in southwest Fort Wayne and built its school there. Unable to sustain both campuses, the congregation voted to sell the downtown campus and move the whole ministry — church and school together — to the Covington Road ground, where it stands today inside the present city limits.
Present state: Active in the Missouri Synod, on its southwest campus.
Sources:
- Emmaus Lutheran Church, "Our History" (congregation's published history, emmausfortwayne.org).
- Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana, church list: "Emmaus Lutheran Church, Wayne Township, 1900, active."
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 15 October 1904 (Rev. Philip Wambsganss, pastor).