WHEN CATASTROPHES OCCUR
We have all watched with amazement and disbelief as the waters of the Red River have inundated the northwestern part of our state and Grand Forks, North Dakota. Our hearts go out to those who…
TAKE A BREAK!
Have you been to the lake this summer? Did you pack up the car and visit the ocean or camp at the Grand Canyon? Did you travel to see far-flung friends or family, and spend…
Remember The Sabbath Day
How would you feel about having one day each week when you had absolutely no work to do at all? No mowing the lawn or washing the car, no repair projects or doing the laundry.…
Announcements
Appointments Upon the resignation of Rev. Walter Schaller upon the acceptance of a call, Rev. Michael Roehl has been appointed Conference Visitor for the West Central Conference. — Daniel Fleischer, President Rev. Steven Sippert has…
OUR CANADIAN CONNECTION
The peach trees were poised to blossom and lend their citrus fragrance everywhere along the hundred kilometer system of lakes known as the Okanagan in British Columbia. And in the city of Vernon on the…
Graduation at Immanuel, Mankato —
‘GO IN GOD’S PEACE’ In his remarks in connection with the graduation service on Sunday, June 8, High School Principal Kevin Hulke referred to the fact that just completed was the 131st (!) year of…
ILC Graduation, May 1997 —
A View From The Back Row I had gotten used to being in the front row at graduations at our Immanuel Lutheran College in Eau Claire. Privilege. Responsibility. That has changed, and I think I’ll…
From “A Peak Into My Nigerian Diary”
by Mrs. Celeste Reim (reviewed in our May 1997 issue) — Dec. 22, 1946 An urgent message came this afternoon from Archibong of Ibiono. He wrote, “I have fallen in my fight for the Lutheran…
SMORGASBORD
* COMMANDMENTS FOR TODAY (from a recent Sunday bulletin of Grace Lutheran Church, Sleepy Eye, Pastor P. Fleischer) In a sermon a few weeks ago your pastor made reference to how lightly the ten commandments…
Looking Back in the Lutheran Spokesman
From July 1967 — WHAT IS A THEOLOGIAN? (by sainted Prof. Edmund Reim) — It may seem presumptuous to claim space in our Spokesman or to use up the time of our readers for a…