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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
2
The Missouri Synod recounts its 75 year history from Chicago’s 1847 founding to modern times. It notes 25 district synods, over a million adherents, 3,000 congregations, 4,000 pulpits, 14 colleges, and extensive home and foreign missions including Brazil, Argentina, China, and Africa among others.
The Missouri Synod began in 1847 with twelve churches and now operates vast mission efforts at home and abroad. It runs 650 pastors in 1,360 missions, foreign work in India and China and several countries, plus a large parochial school system, colleges, Concordia Seminary, and extensive charitable facilities worth millions. Charitable disbursements last year reached $1,548,716.
On April 26, 1847 twelve ministers in Chicago formed what became the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri Ohio and other states now marking its seventy fifth anniversary. Its growth from twelve pastors to 2900 and congregations to 3300 with 1000 preaching stations spans the United States and Canada. The church missions across the West East and abroad include schools hospitals and countless evangelistic works in many languages and regions from Maine to California and from Canada to Mexico. It operates in ten languages including German Yiddish Italian Polish Slovak and more, with active mission work in Brazil Argentina Europe Australia India and China. Twenty five years of overseas mission activity have expanded under strong conviction to spread the gospel without revivals or proselytizing, presenting a steadfast confession of Jesus Christ as savior.
A historical overview of German Lutherans who emigrated to America seeking religious liberty, founding the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other states in 1847. The piece outlines religious intolerance in Germany, the push for a free church, and the lasting impact of the Missouri Synod on American Lutheran life.
The Missouri Synod to erect a new one million dollar seminary in St Louis on a 71 acre tract opposite Forest Park to accommodate rising enrollments from 11 preparatory schools and 450 students at the St Louis seminary plus 180 at Springfield. Ontario and Porto Alegre expansions noted as part of broader church school growth.
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