(1913) Church Consecrated in Kiaochow 1

In 1913 Kiaochow church [was this the first real church building?] was consecrated. This was also the year that saw the first graduates from the Kiaochow middle school [mellanskolan].

Hellen Works for Baker

At the age of fourteen a girl in Sweden by the name of Hellen went to work making knãkebrot (hard tack) for a local woman baker. It was not a very pleasant experience. At the end of the work day Hellen does not even take the time to wash the flower off her hands, but rather leaves immediately for her mother's apartment down by the harbor (probably in the Haga district of Göteborg by Jarntorget Place).2

In 1913 Hellen was baptized along with her twin brother and an older sister (which one?) and seven other young people in Linnéakyrkan (Linnéa church) in Göteborg.8 Hellen saw this event as a 'big adventure.' The adventures were just beginning. Linnéakyrkan was Göteborg's second baptist congregation. Much later the congregation moved to another location in the city and Linnéakyrkan was used by an organization doing social work. Hellen's grandson, Lennart Holmquist, visited this church, possibly in the 1970s and took photos of the pipe organ. The pipe organ had been donated, a family member claimed, by Hellen's father Johan Bernhard Colldén.

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