■ Grace Lutheran Church will celebrate its 125th anniversary on Sunday.

Honoring the church’s ongoing growth in its relationship with God and the community, a special service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Bishop Daniel Beaudoin of the Northwest Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will be presiding. A luncheon will follow.

The church is located at 4441 Monroe St., Toledo.

In February, 1900, an English Lutheran Sunday School was established in the Dorr West End area of Toledo. On Sept. 7, 1900, a group of 15 people established Grace Mission under the name of Grace English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Toledo, Ohio.

The first church was dedicated in June, 1902, at the corner of what are now Pinewood and Forrest avenues. By 1945, the congregation decided to relocate to an

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