Johann Kilian Bio
Johann Kilian (1811-1884) & Maria Groeschel (1823-1881) Portrait Family Tree
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The Wendish Lutheran Church of Texas
The early Wendish Lutherans in Texas have left an interesting history of Lutheranism in North America. One can discern the classic factors which may effect the outward unity of a church, though in a microcosm, even among these faithful Lutherans. Religious identity, national identity, pastoral leadership, language, personality,...
St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churches, Serbin, Texas, 1855-1905
(Part Five, continued from the July, 1943, issue) A new matter arose in 1874, not so much between the congregations as between Kilian and his fellow pastors: doctrinal differences were coming to the fore. Again the isolation during the Civil War period and before was beginning to manifest...
St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churches, Serbin, Texas, 1855-1905
(Part Four, continued from the April, 1943, issue) Now came the struggle for possession of the church and its property. An effort had been made to take the school. In fact, the minority actually wanted to keep the entire property, and for a time it seemed that there...
St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churches, Serbin, Texas, 1855-1905
(Part Three, continued from the January, 1943, issue) During this time the neighboring St. Peter’s Church of the Texas Synod was also having difficulties in obtaining a pastor. A brief story of St. Peter’s during these years is here inserted to lead up to these events. Soon after...
St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churches, Serbin, Texas, 1855-1905
(Part Two, Continued from the July, 1942, issue) Before their synodical membership was established however, they built a frame church on the outskirts of Serbin before the end of 1858. It was evident that many still had the Methodist spirit, and some Methodists attended services in the new...
St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s Lutheran Churches, Serbin, Texas, 1855-1905
When more than five hundred immigrants stepped ashore at Galveston, Texas, on December 16, 1854, it was perhaps for many a person merely another boatload of settlers arriving in the New World in search of a home and security. In reality the story of these immigrants was unique,...
The Early History of the Wendic Lutheran Colony in the State of Texas
It was shortly before the middle of the third century that the Goths, a Germanic tribe, which had occupied a large part of what was later Eastern Germany, on the Baltic Sea, between the Oder and the Elbe, began a great movement toward the southeast, down the Danube...