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One hundred years ago, over two-hundred pastors and representatives from congregations were preparing to make their journey to Lime Creek Lutheran Church near Lake Mills, Iowa for the synod’s reorganizing convention which was to meet Friday, June 14, through Wednesday, June 19, 1918.
We are whiners, aren’t we? Nothing can be perfect, especially the weather. It’s always too rainy, or too dry, or too cloudy, or too sunny! As the heat of summer really begins to beat down, I’ve found myself whining about it more and more. One biblically bad whiner was the prophet Jonah. He whined about…
One hundred years ago, during the reorganization convention of the ELS, the Rev. Bjug Harstad, who was the first president of the newly formed church body, encouraged the small gathering. He referenced words from the book of Jeremiah: “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in…
The ELS has always had a commitment to Lutheran elementary education. It has been questioned if our present synod would ever have been organized if it had not been for the support of those who had been educated in Christian day schools. We may properly say that we owe our present existence as a Biblical-teaching synod in large…
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Bethany Lutheran College are intimately united. The college gives a visibility and identity to the synod. In turn, the synod gives moorings to the college and elects both the Board of Regents and Board of Trustees for the college. Since 1928, most conventions of the synod have been conducted on the college campus.
The Bethany Lutheran College Choir was established in 1929, two years after the synod took over the operation of the school. In early years, concerts concluded with “The Benediction” by P. Lutkin. Since the 1940s, concerts have concluded with a time-honored tradition of singing the hymn “On My Heart Imprint Thine Image” written by T.…