Years of Blessing's Since 1928.

In August of 1928, the Southern Nebraska District resolved to encourage the District Mission Board to erect a building as a mission church in southeast Lincoln. Acting on this directive, the District Mission Board soon thereafter began plans for the mission church, and its cornerstone was laid on October 22. The building was patterned after St. Paul Lutheran Church of San Antonio, Texas with a seating capacity of 256, and cost approximately $14,000 to erect.

Dedication of the building was held on May 5 of the following year, but not before founding Pastor Arthur W. Klinck conducted the first service in the newly constructed building on March 3, 1929. (It was Pastor Klinck who personally carved the scrollwork and symbols on the altar.) One year later, the District Mission Board hired Walter Vahl of Seward, Nebraska to serve as a teacher in the Christian Day School succeeding Miss Gertrude Gieselman. The twenty-two students in grades one through eight comprised the school's original student body and held classes in the room that was later to become the Calvary Bookstore.