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If you drive in South Redford, south on Beech Daly and turn to the west on West Chicago, you will soon recognize this mile as Church Row. However, if you turn right at Leverne, you will see sitting back in this residential and wooded area, the beautiful edifice of Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church. The cornerstone for the initial building having been first set in place, February 26, 1956. The first Easter morning Sunrise Service April 1st was held at the Town Drive-In Theater at Telegraph & West Chicago.
Soon after, a sanctuary and a school with three classrooms was dedicated. To follow was the acquisition of a pipe organ and dedication, and in 1962, they accepted a used 60 passenger school bus from the South Redford School District for the nominal sum of $1.00 and proceeded with the many necessary repairs to put this in use for their day school. As the congregation grew, so did the school and the need for a newer and larger building. The present church and additional classrooms were dedicated in January of 1970.
The Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church is the result of an amalgamation of two separate Lutheran Churches on July 17, 1955.
Tabor Lutheran Church was the older of the two congregations. It was organized in 1916 at Beechwood and Milford in Detroit and in 1924 , a portable chapel was dedicated at Tireman and Burnette. Education has always been in the forefront for the Lutheran Church, so it was fitting that a four classroom school was built in 1925 and a church dedicated in 1940. These two buildings still stand today. The final building program at that location was guided by the Rev. George P. Hildner. One of his favorite stories was that the congregation quickly decided to build when the platform in front of the altar gave way six inches as he was officiating one Sunday.
Hosanna Lutheran Church was started in August of 1948 as the Rev. Roy G. Pranschke, just graduated from seminary, began a door to door survey of the area around Plymouth and Inkster Roads. The first service was conducted on October 17th, in the basement of the home of Mr. & Mrs. Norman Twork at 9946 Royal Grand, with seventeen in attendance and one girl in Sunday School. On March 20, 1949, the congregation moved into its first church on Plymouth Road and Sioux, with dedication May 15th of the same year, with thirty-seven charter members.
When the congregations merged in 1955, worship continued at the Plymouth Road location. Both pastors remained and soon they, with two teachers from Tabor, opened a Christian Day School. As the community grew, so did the church, followed by the construction of the present building...growing from the original three classrooms to the present nine, Kindergarten through eight grades.
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