Emmanuel was organized in January of 1898 as a part of the Montana Home Mission District, and until 1941 was supervised by the Board of Missions. Organization was under Rev. C. E. Frisk. A frame chapel was constructed on the church lot in 1901. The present building was dedicated in 1958.
United was a break-off of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod congregation in Butte and was organized in May of 1942.
Gloria Dei was organized in March of 1959 as a result of the merger of these two congregations.
From the guide to the Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Butte, Montana, Records, 1959-2012, (Pacific Lutheran University)