Thank you for the wonderful and educational article about the history of the Synod. A few years back my family made the journey from the West Coast to attend Easter Service at St. Lorenz. The stained glass really was awe-inspiring and the more time you looked at it the more history you saw. It was also educational to explain to my kids how we made the trip across the country in a day, whereas the founding members' journey from Germany took many months after many more months of preparation.