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 …
Žohnowane hody (that’s “Merry Christmas” in Upper Sorbian, aka Wendish) from Lee County, Texas!* It’s been a few days since I’ve posted any history, but I’ve been saving this one up for all y’all because it’s seasonally appropriate! (Okay, truth be told I wrote this before Christmas and it’s been just waiting for me to …
I had grand plans on Saturday… to get my hair cut in Georgetown, photograph most of the Lee County Lutheran churches with their Christmas decorations and the like, swing by the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum and pick up some Christmas gifts, have lunch at City Meat Market, Giddings, Texas, head down to Fayetteville to see a art display …
I can’t believe we’re just ten days away from Christmas! It doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago that we were driving back to Hutto from spending Christmas with Margie’s family in Alabama, followed by a fun little road trip on our way back that took us through my old home in Chattanooga, …
Today we dropped by the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Serbin to pick up some things for Christmas gifts. Yep, you guessed it. I took a few pictures in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church too. Just a few. Only one hundred and sixteen between our stops there and in Warda and Fedor. After all, we had …
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 years earlier. Folks in town were briefly served by the Rev. Simon Suess, and then …
Let all mortal flesh keep silenceAnd with fear and trembling stand;Ponder nothing earthly minded,For with blessing in His handChrist our God to earth descendingComes our homage to demand. Whew… for some reason things are a little busy here at LSBR HQ! We enjoyed our time at Wendish Fest on Sunday. It was good to see …
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 Texas on October 26, 1926, its library included a complete set of Lehre und Wehre …
There’s been no small amount of discussion of baptismal sponsors in our home over the last few days, partly because, God willing, our soon-to-be-born child will be baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Thorndale in early October, but also because of my post from a few days back about Pr. Kilian baptizing the firstborn …
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 Serbin until the vacancy was filled by the Rev. Gottfried Buchschacher. Buchschacher was born in …
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