AUBURN — Grace Lutheran Church will celebrate its 100th birthday with an open house Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, at 757 Sumner St.

It will begin at 1 p.m. with a video featuring interviews with members, a slideshow presentation and a music program at 2 p.m. Refreshments will follow.

Items and photographs of the church throughout the years will be on display in the fellowship room.

Bishop Hazelwood of the New England Synod will join the social event at 5 p.m.

Special guests will attend the 10:30 a.m. worship on Sunday. Following the service will be a 1 p.m. luncheon at The Green Ladle restaurant in Lewiston.

Former members and anyone interested in participating are welcome to visit.

Grace Lutheran Church was founded in 1916 by German immigrants who settled in Lewiston. They built a stone church at 336 Main St. in Lewiston next to Central Maine Medical Center. The hospital eventually purchased the church property once a new church was built in Auburn in 1973.

Ministers over the years included Bernard Jansen, Edgar Fehlau, Lowell Timm, Ron Klose, Steven Kenney, and the present pastor, Marian Marks.