Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

I have sat in on discussions where the whole concept of missions has been questioned, motivations of missionaries scrutinized and the purpose of missions fragmented and twisted to where the so called “Great...

We have stated on these pages that the Missouri Synod from early on did “mission work” through a mission committee or a mission board.   From the very beginning the church as an organization felt that the whole...

Mission Societies have always been important in establishing and maintaining missions in the early days of work in many areas. They can also be a source of difficulty and confusion when the missions they were instrumental in...

Paul Krueger has been on these pages before.  His Dad served many years in Walker and other spots in Minnesota.  Anyway interesting times are ahead or so Paul surmises and so do I.  The culture has definitely shifted and not in...

    “Five pioneer Lutheran pastors went to Minnesota from the East with the immigration into the ” Suland,” that extensive domain west of the Mississippi that was opened to settlement In 1851 by the...