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Communion – The WELS practices closed communion (1 Corinthians 10:16-17, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 11:26-32); it holds that the Eucharist is reserved for confirmed members of the WELS, any sister church in fellowship with WELS, and other individuals found upon examination to be in doctrinal agreement with the WELS. [8]
The Rev. Aaron Strong, 40, was killed in Milwaukee when a driver ran a red light and T-boned his car, church leaders and officials said.
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Gothic Revival-styled church built in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by a congregation with German roots. In 1992, the church and associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It is also designated a Milwaukee Landmark.
Most Lutheran schools in the United States are associated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), though there are several which are associated with other Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ...
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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.
Immigrant ministries breathed 'new life' into the church. Before Benediction Lutheran Church added its Hmong ministry in 2003 — and its African ministry in 2006 — membership had been declining ...
St. James began in 1916 as a mission church based in the vicinity of the current building. In 1917, the church operated out of a small chapel near the intersection of 54th and Pabst Avenue (now Lloyd Street). Some time later, the mission was relocated to the southwest corner of 60th and Lloyd, across from the Synod's Seminary.