In the later 1800's families from Hillsland, Sweden immigrated to America settling in the Mosling area beginning in 1869, with the largest migration between 1882 and 1889. 

The Zion Swedish Lutheran Church of Mosling was built 1889 - 1890 and became surrounded by what is presently known as Mosling Cemetery and Zion Lutheran Cemetery. The church stood on west side of County Highway P about half way between the village of Mosling and Mosling School to the north at the corner of Hwys U and P. The church and cemetery are found on the 1905 town of Underhill plat map. It was a member of the Church of Sweden, Augustana Synod, a Lutheran branch of Christianity which historically, and to the present, remains an independent national church.

Besides the religious significance to the small, immigrant, local Swedish community, it was a social center and supported tradition that brought comfort in a new world. Due to political and religious pressures in Sweden at the time, immigrant families were often shunned and lost contact with those in their original homeland.

Early member families included surnames: Anderson, Barnes, Begolke, Bergner, Carson, Eklund, Hansen, Johnson, Larsen, Nelson, Peterson, Siegel, Stromer, Wallin. Members of the former congregation are still being buiried in the church cemetery.  

Zion, the Swedish Lutheran Church in Mosling, closed in 1959, because they could not get a pastor. And, as a result, Christ congregation was pleased to welcome the following families into its membership: Fred and Verona Carlson and family, Richard and Pat Reinke and family, Alfred (Swede) and Jeannette Nelson and family, and Walter and Hildegrade Nelson.