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CHICAGO — Orland Park-based minister the Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, who was named along with 18 others in a criminal indictment that includes former President Donald Trump, is set to turn ...
The school was founded as a summer school in 1920. In 1921, it became a year-round school. In 2025, headed by Principal John Murphy, Pilgrim's enrollment averages about 160 students. The school is fully accredited by the Evangelical Lutheran Education Association and has earned recognition by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711 - 1786) - Founder of the Lutheran church in America. Peter Muhlenberg (1746 - 1807) - Clergy, Revolutionary War soldier, US House, US Senate Ishmael Noko (b. 1943)- General secretary of the Lutheran World Federation .
The church's American Baptist denomination is part of a cluster of so-called mainline denominations — Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and others that were once central in their ...
Mark S. Hanson (born December 2, 1946) is an American bishop who served as the third Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.Before being elected presiding bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod as well as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; Edina Community Lutheran Church; and University Lutheran ...
Oct. 31—In prayer and protest, hundreds of people gathered at Decatur City Hall on Sunday to demand justice in the fatal police shooting of Stephen Perkins. During the gathering billed as "The ...
The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 70,522. [4] It is the seventeenth-most populous city in Illinois. [5] Decatur has an economy based on industrial and agricultural commodity processing and production.
For 45 years, [8] J. Thomas McNamara wrote a weekly sports column in the Decatur Tribune titled "Irish Stew", covering Central Illinois high school sports. In 2015 he received the Illinois High School Association distinguished media service award. McNamara was a member of the Illinois Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame, Macon County Sports ...