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San Angelo, Texas An update to the synod on the situation in San Angelo, Texas: As with the rest of Texas, San Angelo has experienced very unusual weather and circumstances over the last week. Last Sunday we received a record snowfall and our second lowest-ever temperatures. We experienced three days of rolling power outages, though…
The Detroit Free Press ran an article about Holy Scripture Lutheran Church this morning. We continue our prayers for that congregation and for the Schneiders.
Perhaps you have seen pictures like this one of the floods in and around Midland, Michigan. The church in the middle of the pictures is Holy Scripture Lutheran Church, a sister congregation in our Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The Rev. Paul Schneider and his wife live in the parsonage next door. The waters have completely flooded…
The pandemic, or panic-demic, is casting a pall of deadly fear over the globe. People want to hear from government officials. They want to hear most of all from the medical experts and the vaccination researchers. The public wants to be assured and reassured that the ones in the know are – to their best…
As we gathered on Founders’ Day, we Proclaim the Wonders God Has Done. It is by God’s grace that the Evangelical Lutheran Synod has survived to this centennial year. We tell the history not to laud ourselves but to praise the Triune God who has sustained us. It is the Lord God who has washed…
A blessed Founders’ Day to you all! Today we observed the celebration of the centennial of the reorganization of our Synod. Congregations all over our synod participated using Bugenhagen’s order of service, readings and a sermon likely based on the first president, Pastor Bjug Harstad’s original sermon from 1918, and the showing of this documentary…
A custom within the old Norwegian Synod was to regard October 14 as Founders’ Day. Over the years, many church dedications and special events took place on that day. The ELS which was reorganized in 1918 has carried on this tradition. We will yet observe that tradition next Sunday as a public testimony that the ELS,…
The president of Bethany Lutheran College also served as the president of Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary until 1976. At that time, the first full-time president was installed for the seminary. In the following years, two separate and newly erected buildings (one in 1978; the other in 1997) have housed the seminary. The location of the…