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Tag: Fayette County
St. Michael and All Angels – 1887
September 29th is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. On that day back in 1887, about twenty families in Winchester, Texas founded a new Lutheran church in town. Efforts to establish a congregation there had begun some eleven Read More …
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. One that I found interesting is that when classes began at Lutheran Concordia College of Read More …
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. Check this out though… on this page you can see a scan (and the German Read More …
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 at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Can We Add More Words to Make the Official Name Longer Read More …
“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 time, the congregation was served by the Rev. Carl Ludwig Geyer of St. Peter’s in Read More …
“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. Peter’s in Serbin from Kilian’s congregation in Serbin. That’s why I find this tidbit from Read More …
“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 few miles south of Serbin), where he was installed on the fourth Sunday in Advent Read More …
Holy Cross Warda’s Link to a Past President of the LCMS Texas District
One thing that caught my attention when I was reading about the history of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda is that they were briefly served by a licensed ministerial candidate who is just listed as “F. Jesse.” From 1959-63, Read More …
St. Michael’s Lutheran Church – Winchester, Texas
St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Winchester, Texas received its name because it was organized on September 29, 1887 on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. The lovely building they now occupy was completed in 1906. I really love Read More …