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2020 Christmas in Lindsborg ~ Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg
With presiding Sunnemo Parish Church in Värmland, Sweden, and Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas
For the on-line service of December 26th, click on the Sunnemo Parish Church below.
Take cursor to approx. 6:40 to start this.
With presiding Sunnemo Parish Church in Värmland, Sweden, and Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas
For the on-line service of December 26th, click on the Sunnemo Parish Church below.
Take cursor to approx. 6:40 to start this.
Image source: Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship! online service December 26, 2020
The Sunnemo Parish Church was the last church that Pastor Olof Olsson ministered to, before traveling to America and founding the Kansas Smoky Valley Augustana Synod church originally named the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church, today called Bethany Church, in Lindsborg in 1869. He also founded the two other neighboring Augustana Synod churches named the Freemount Church and the Falun Salemborg Church.
Pastor Olsson is also considered the founder of Swedish Lindsborg when he brought a colony of Swedes from his Sunnemo Parish Church, Värmland, Sweden, there on June 27, 1869.
For more information on Pastor Olsson's life and the very beginnings of the Augustana Synod, go to Bror Carlsson and Alf Bronson's 2001, HERE for "He Gave God Glory" -- "The Story of Olof Olsson"
For "A Story of the Founding of Lindsborg, 1869 -- June 27," highlighting Pastor Olsson's journey from Sweden to America, go HERE.
Bethany Lutheran Church
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