A Danish American Childhood at Bethlehem Lutheran
Compiled by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019, based on emails by Asta Twedt and shared with her permission. There is a…
Kalevala Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church–A Place of Refuge in Troubled Times
Written by Laurie Kay Sommers, former project manager, Preserve Nordic Churches Project 1918. It was a time eerily like our own—overwhelmed hospitals, people wearing masks,…
Bethany Lutheran: Art Deco Jewel of the Upper Peninsula
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 It was pure serendipity. Elmer A. Forsberg—head of the Department of Drawing, Painting. and…
Augustana Sioux City’s Altar of Peace
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 The congregation of Augustana Lutheran Church in Sioux City, Iowa, was grateful. It was…
Saving Turnbridge Lutheran Church
For more than three decades now, the church on the prairie just west of Rugby, North Dakota has sat silent and vacant, its proud gray…
Jefferson Prairie Lutheran and the Churches of our Hearts
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 We all have a sacred place that warms our heart and fills our memory…
The Girl Who Designed Savo Lutheran Church
Written by Laurie K. Sommers, Preserve Nordic Heritage Churches Project Manager, 2017-2019 I was chatting by phone with the pastor of Savo Evangelical Lutheran Church…