Recently, one of our founding members at Grace gave me a photo to scan on the computer. The original photo was take in 1947 and shows the congregation. Anne is working on identifying as many people as possible and says she can pick out some of her family, and the Rice and Steinke clans. The photo is presented here for all to view.

This year, 2010 is our 65th anniversary for Grace Lutheran.  President Steve Schemm has met with Berta Venter, Ann Schultz, Eunice Holt and Sandy Dusenbery to set the agenda for a formal celebration of God's grace, at Grace.  Pastor Neumann invited WELS President, Mark Schroeder, to be our guest speaker for our 65th anniversary celebration. Pastor Schroeder has accepted the invitation for our new celebration date of November 14, 2010.

Anyone who would be interested in helping this group continue to plan for invitations, the meal, advertising, etc. is asked to talk with Steve Schemm or other committee members. More news about our 65th anniversary will be posted to the website, emailed to the congregational email list and placed in the monthly newsletter.

March 2010 Financials

While I was at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, the Systematic Theology (Dogmatics/Doctrine) department was nearing completion of a complete update and revision (including translations and citations of old Latin and German “slugs”) of the Dogmatics notes put together by Prof. John P. Meyer many years before. The old notes had undergone minor revisions by various individuals over the years, but this latest revision brought the notes into the 21st Century, particularly dealing with more contemporary examples of ancient heresies, as well as expanding sections on areas of theology that have come under particular scrutiny in Christianity and Lutheranism in particular within the last 25-50 years.

At some point in the past few years, the Seminary has made available free on their website PDF versions of these updated Dogmatics notes. That’s been great, because they are accessible, but now the Seminary has taken it one step further. They have now made the notes available as digital “books” for theLibronix Digital Library System. Oh, and they’re also FREE!

So here’s the link to the page with both Libronix & PDF versions of the new Dogmatics notes. If you want to dig deeper into Lutheran theology, that’s a great place to start. While you’re over there, check out some of the other great pages and resources at the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary site, including Services of the Chapel and Essays from a host of writers throughout the synod’s history. I even came across a collection of PDF files of every issue of the Seminary’sTheologische Quartalschrift from 1904-1929. The Quartalschrift was the predecessor of the Seminary’s current magazine – Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly.Enjoy!