Traditional Lutheran worship alternating with Chicago Folk services each week has anchored Saint Luke's Lutheran Church in La Mesa California on Wilson Street since its sanctuary was dedicated in 1957. Conceived as The American Lutheran Mission Church in 1944, the building's stained glass windows were theologically envisioned before construction and artistically executed by John Wallis & Associates — a mid-century craftsmanship legacy documented in the local artifact collections at La Mesa Depot Museum in the Village. In 2009 the congregation voted to leave the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and affiliate with the Fellowship of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, maintaining a confessional Lutheran identity grounded in law-and-gospel preaching. Community participation includes the La Mesa Flag Day Parade and Oktoberfest La Mesa, and international mission partnerships span aviation ministry, hunger relief, and homeless outreach — a multi-generational service scope that intersects with the senior enrichment programming at Folk Dance Center at San Diego Oasis. The four-generation worship community sustains a choir and music program that alternates between pipe-organ–accompanied liturgy and folk-style acoustic instrumentation on a biweekly rotation.