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Northwestern Publishing House (NPH) [93] is the official publishing house for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it produces a wide variety of materials including curriculum, periodicals, books, and worship resources. The publications are mainly for use of churches, schools, pastors, and members of the WELS.
The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.
(The WELS severed its fellowship relations with the LCMS in 1961, and also withdrew from the Synodical Conference in 1963.) In 1993, the ELS and WELS, working with a number of other worldwide Lutheran churches, some of which had been founded through mission work by both synods, founded the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC).
The Protes'tant Conference is a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers in the United States.It was organized in 1927 by former members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) who had been suspended following an intrasynodical controversy.
Confessional Lutherans, [18] including the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and the Church of the Lutheran Confession officially maintain that the Early apostolic Church had been led into the Great Apostasy by the Roman Catholic Church and that the Pope is the Antichrist ...
In 2003, the WELS began work on Christian Worship: Supplement. It was published in 2008, 15 years after Christian Worship , and contains 88 hymns numbered from 701 to 788. [ 6 ] The hymnal was intended to be used alongside Christian Worship , providing a newer and broader range of hymns, psalms, and liturgical materials.
Historic Designation Study Report: St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Complex (PDF) The Early Years of St. John's, 8th and Vliet, Milwaukee, WI (PDF) Half Century Mark Reached. St. Johannes’ Lutheran Church Will Celebrate Its Semicentennial; Pastor Bading's Jubilee; St. John's Lutheran Group to Honor Its Founders
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon, Wisconsin. The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.