My great-great grandparents immigrated to Perry County, Missouri in 1838-1839. They were part of a German Lutheran immigration which endeavored to establish a Lutheran community in America.
This blog is intended to share the stories of this Perry County community, both past and present. One thing the early colonists considered essential was a Christian education. With that in mind, they built a log cabin to be used as a school. This log cabin college would later become what is presently known as Concordia Seminary, a school for the training of pastors of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. That school is now located in St. Louis. The original log cabin college was built on property that I now own here in Perry County, and that is why I chose the title for this blog. The actual log cabin can be found in Altenburg, next to Trinity Lutheran Church.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

C.F.W. Walther - 200th Birthday

The LCMS community will be celebrating the 200th birthday of C.F.W. Walther on October 25.  C.F.W. was instrumental to the Lutheran settlement here in Perry County, MO and is also given credit for the establishment of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  I am sure that special events will be scheduled in many Lutheran churches, but especially here in Perry County and in St. Louis, where Walther served as pastor.
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