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The WELS maintains four schools of ministerial education: two college preparatory schools, Michigan Lutheran Seminary and Luther Preparatory School; a pre-seminary and teacher training college, Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minnesota; and a seminary for training pastors, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, located in Mequon, Wisconsin.
N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns; Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour. [24] Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism. [25] Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS. [26]
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon , Wisconsin . The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.
In its history, St. James has had five pastors: Pastor Arthur Voss 1921 to 1954; Pastor Waldemar Pless 1954 to 1979; Pastor John Braun 1977 to 1984; Pastor Peter Kassulke 1984 to 2017; Pastor Christian Marquardt 2017-present
Lena and Merci Henselin were also the pastor’s granddaughters, WELS states. “By God’s grace, a number of other family members survived,” WELS President Mark Schroeder said in a statement.
(The WELS severed its fellowship relations with the LCMS in 1961, and also withdrew from the Synodical Conference in 1963.) In 1993, the ELS and WELS, working with a number of other worldwide Lutheran churches, some of which had been founded through mission work by both synods, founded the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC).
Most Lutheran schools in the United States are associated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), though there are several which are associated with other Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ...
The six family members who died in a Wisconsin house fire were a former pastor, two of his daughters and three of his granddaughters, authorities and church officials said. The Juneau County ...