Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Pastor Hermann Kilian on January 21, 1920. The church that Pastor Kilian served (along with his father, Pastor Jan Kilian, and his brother, Teacher Gerhard Kilian) still stands today in Serbin. But there’s another Kilian that followed in the footsteps of Gerhard, Hermann, and Jan in …
This is the site of Bethany Lutheran Church of Green’s Creek, Texas. Bethany was located a few miles south of US 290 east of Giddings. Back in the late nineteenth century, the very energetic Rev. Gottfried Buchschacher of Warda began preaching nearby, and a congregation was established in 1895. The congregation doesn’t seem to have …
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