The Sidney herald., 1957-10-03
Trinity Lutheran
Church to Host
District Meet

SoA&N I'll tliN
Montana District of the Lutheran
Church Missouri Synod will be
held at Trinity Lutheran church
here in Sidney from Monday to
Friday of next week, October
Til.
The Montana District is one of
the thirty-two districts of the
Synod in the United States and
Canada. The Lutheran Church.
Missouri Synod, second largest
Lutheran body in the United
States, has a membership of two
and a quarter million in more
than five thousand congregations.
Seventy-four pastors and lay del
egates and six parochial school
principals and teachers are x
pected from the s%ixty-eight con-
gregations in the state.
The convention will begin on
Monday evening at 900 with a
banquet at which time greetings
and welcome will be extended to
the delegates by Mayor Harold
Mercer and Harry Johnson, pres
ident of Trinity Congregation. A
service with Holy Communion
will be conducted at 800 on Mon
day evening. DR.. Arnold Grumm,
first vice-president of the Synod,
will be the speaker and the local
pastor, the Rev. John Chambers,
the liturgist.
Sessions will begin on Tues
day afternoon with Pastor Paul
Freiburger, president of the
District, presiding. The
first business to come before the
assembly will pertain to the mis-
sion work of the synod. The
progress the church has made in
the mission areas of Montana
and the goals set for the future
will be brought to the attention
If the delegates by Pastor Leo
Tormoehlen, of Forsyth, Secre-
-ary of the District Mission Ex-
.ansion and Extension.
DR.. Grumm, representing the
president of the Missouri Synod,
will present a detailed report on
the mission work the church is
carrying on in N. America, Lat
in America, South America, Eur
ope, Africa, India, Japan, Formosa,
Hong Kong, the Philippines, as
we'll as work among the blind
and deaf. All other phases of
church work such as research,
architecture, welfare education,
-adio and TV, will be touched
Upon by DR.. Grumm during the
i've day conclave.
Representatives of various in
;titutions and agencies of the
are expected to be in at
enhance. Concordia, the synod's
publishing house in st. Louis and
me of the nations largest re-
publishing houses, will be
represented by Mr.. Gary Klam-
ner. An extensive display of
books and articles offered by the
house will be on display in the
parlors during the week.
Or. Karl Keller, acting president
# Concordia College in Portland,
oregon and the Rev. Edmund w.
assistant to the president
# Valparaiso University in In
will be on hand to pre-
ent the cause of the synod's
,olleges and universities. The
rev. Walter Seidensticker, assis-
ant director of public relations
Bethesda Lutheran Home in
Vatertown, Wisconsin, will bring
he needs of the church's insti-
of mercy before the dele
'ates.
During each session of the con-
ention time will be allotted for
he presentation of an essay on
'aul's Epistle to the Colossians,
"Our Glorious Faith"
,ne of the synod's leading edu-
ators, DR.. Oscar E. Feucht, mem
er of the S%ynodical Board of
.dult Education, will be the lee
Irer.
The sessions will end on Fri
ay with the installation of the
ewly elected district officers.
he Board of Directors will hold
meeting on Friday afternoon.
All arrangements for the con-
have been handled by
Irs. Ewald Lueck, Mrs. Douglas
ohnson, Mrs. Ben Hubley, Mrs.
.enneth Chadderdon, Mrs. Avery
anford, Charles Evanson and
[rs. Harry Johnson, the conven-
on committee.