Hope Lutheran Church (Heppner, Or.)

This congregation was organized by the Board of American Missions (northwestern district) of the ALC in 1955. In cooperation with the Columbia Conference of the Augustana Synod, a two-point parish was set up with Valby Lutheran of Ione, a rural congregation which had existed since 1886. Rev. Merlin Zier was called to serve the two churches, and the two-point parish exists to this day. The church was financed largely by loans through the national church.

From the guide to the Hope Lutheran Church, Heppner, Oregon, Records, 1955-2012, (Pacific Lutheran University)