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Holy Cross Lutheran Church – Warda, Texas
Holy Cross Warda’s Links to Concordia Texas
The school that is now Concordia University Texas has more than a few links back to the churches that can trace their roots to Serbin.…
Pr. Gottfried Buchschacher’s Divine Call to Holy Cross Warda
Wishing I was in Texas so I could attend the Warda Church Picnic today! Won’t be arriving back in Austin until far too late, though.…
Morning in Warda, Texas
Morning in Warda, Texas, y’all! In some ways, I’d rather be there than where I am (waiting for my connecting flight to Spartanburg, South Carolina…
“Rejoice with me; for I have found the [that] which I had lost.”
After Pastor Stiemke accepted the call to Trinity Lutheran Church in Houston in 1879, Holy Cross had no pastor for about two years. During this…
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
Pastor Stiemke of Holy Cross was certainly aware of the interpersonal conflicts that had resulted in the separation of Holy Cross as well as St.…
“And unto the Wends I became as a Wend, that I might gain the Wends…”
The Rev. Timotheus Stiemke was in a difficult situation. He’d been assigned to a new Lutheran congregation in the little town of New Start (a…