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www.elca.org. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2022, it has approximately 2.9 million baptized members in 8,640 congregations.
Fremont Township covers an area of 36.82 square miles (95.4 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Tripoli. According to the USGS, it contains three cemeteries: Fremont, Grace and Saint Johns Lutheran.
Worship and education were carried out in the homes of families until the first log school was built in 1856. The congregation joined the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 1852, and became a charter congregation of the Western District of that synod. In 1874 plans were made to construct a new church at an estimated cost of $5,000.
Austin Daily Herald, Minn. August 16, 2024 at 10:18 PM. Aug. 16—Grace Lutheran Church will hold its Rummage and Bake Sale in the Social Hall from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 and 9 a.m. to ...
New Sweden Chapel is a historic Lutheran Church building located east of Fairfield, Iowa, United States in rural Jefferson County. The Swedish immigrant community that settled here was organized in 1845 under the leadership of Peter Cassel, a native of Kisa, Östergötland, Sweden. This was the first Swedish settlement in Iowa, as well as the ...
Tripoli (/ t r ɪ ˈ p oʊ l ə / tri-POH-lə [2]) is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,191 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Waterloo – Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area .
St. Paul Lutheran Church is located in central, Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The church's original property, which subsequently housed other Protestant congregations, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, [ 1 ] but has since been torn down.
Wangerin was born in Portland, Oregon, where his father was a Lutheran pastor. He was the oldest of seven children. The family moved often, so Walter grew up in various locations including Shelton, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Edmonton, Alberta, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Fort Wayne, Indiana.