A Prayer Request...

Due to my hiatus, I am late in posting this request from Rev. David Glawe (grandson of Louise Brueggeman Krausman)


Sherry-Lynn was in a Car accident on June 1, 2011.  She was rear ended.  Since that time many things have not gone right and there is a lot of pain.  We just got back from the doctor again and Sherry-Lynn has just been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.  It is small, only 4 mm,  but it is in the interior of the brain.  There are new ways to treat them now other than cutting open the skull if she is a candidate for that type of surgery. We hope to see a neurologist in January.  However, We need your prayers and will appreciate them.

Another Family Picture

David Glawe (grandson of Louise Brueggeman Krausman, son of Marie Krausman Glawe) answered my call for other family pictures to share.  How about the rest of you????

 

From left to right: My wife, Sherry-Lynn June Glawe; my son, Brandon Joshua Glawe;  myself, David Dale Glawe; and my daughter, Tabatha Celeste Schneider-Glawe, along with Tabatha's dog, Koda.

This year for the first year in a long time we will all be together on Christmas.

 

May the gift of Christ, a babe in the manger guide you in your dailey living and by his presence bless you and strengthen you in the New Year.

 

David.

Frank and Marie Glawe's Anniversary

I love when emails come with a picture and a story.  I received this from David Glawe.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 is Mom and Dad’s (Marie Dorothy Krausman and Heinz Frank Wilhelm Glawe) 65th Wedding Anniversary.  Some of their early dates consisted of Frank accompanying Marie on the bus, to and from the hospital to visit her dying Father, Otto.  He said he rarely went into the room but waited downstairs on in a waiting room.  They married less than 6 months after his death.

The picture is the earliest I can find right now.  It was taken at Grandma Louise’s house.  The part of the cabinet that is at the back on the right is a TV.    I don’t ever remember being that small. 

Hope your summer is being enjoyable.

David Glawe.

David, Marie, Frank and Karen Glawe
Christmas 1955

Sunday Special: Lutheran Confirmation

As young people are getting ready for their confirmations this spring, I wanted to share this story from David Glawe.  I told my Dad about this story and I know he's shared it with friends.  What a different time..

Otto’s story and the changing of attitudes.  For Lutheran’s Confirmation has always been a time of celebration.  It has also been a time of transition.  In one way it is seen as the time when the child takes responsibility for their own baptismal vows.  It is a time of becoming an adult.  Supposedly,  When Otto was confirmed his parents’ confirmation gift was a carton of cigarettes.  They the told him that he had to buy his own from then on. 

 

Confirmation in our part of the family was a time of transition.  It was the time when you graduated from the children's table to the adult table at family celebrations such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. It was also the time when you could have one drink before dinner and a glass of wine with dinner. 

 

Thank you David for putting a smile on many a face...

Seminex and a Brueggeman Family Member

David Glawe, grandson of Louise Brueggeman Krausman, has joined the readership of this blog.  He is the son of Marie Krausman.  David is a former Pastor and lives in Saskatchewan.  He mentioned in an email that he was involved in Seminex.  Since I was raised in the ECLA and not LCMS, I really didn't know much about this.

From the ECLA Website:
 The LCMS, firmly rooted in confessional conservatism and relatively unchanged since its organization in 1846-47 as “The German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States,” held to a belief in the inerrancy of the Bible.

“Historical criticism,” an understanding that the Bible must be understood in the cultural context of the times in which it was written, was gaining ground in both Europe and America. Trouble was brewing in the LCMS as some seminary professors began to adopt historical critical methods in their classrooms. A new seminary president with experience in inter-Lutheran and ecumenical affairs was challenged by the new conservative synodical president. A three-year investigation ensued and the 1973 convention voted to censure the faculty. In 1974 the seminary president was suspended and many seminarians and faculty left the seminary to continue their work in another setting, forming “Seminex,” a seminary-in-exile. Meanwhile, a moderate movement in LCMS called Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (ELIM) was formed.

The issue of whether or not to ordain graduates of Seminex led to the removal of four district presidents at the 1975 convention, and by 1976 the moderates had gathered forces to form the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC). Approximately 300 congregations and 110,000 people moved into the AELC from LCMS with a stated goal from the beginning of promoting unity with the ALC and LCA.

In 1977 the LCMS decision to place fellowship with ALC “in protest” along with the AELC’s “Call to Lutheran Union” nudged the three church bodies, ALC, LCA and AELC, toward merger. The 1978 ALC and LCA conventions adopted resolutions aimed at the creation of a single church body. The AELC joined them, and the ALC-LCA Committee on Church Cooperation became the Committee on Lutheran Unity (CLU) in January of 1979.

Presiding Bishop David Preus (ALC), Bishop James Crumley (LCA) and President and later Bishop William Kohn (AELC) met with the CLU over the next 16 months, and the 1980 conventions of all three church bodies adopted a two-year study process.

Documents were in the hands of congregational leaders by November of that year, and by 1982 all the pieces were in place for the three churches to have simultaneous conventions so that, on September 8, 1982, with telephone hook-ups so each could hear the others’ votes, all three church bodies voted to proceed on the path toward a new Lutheran church.