Evangelical Lutheran Churches
Offer “Lutheran Vespers” With
Walter Wangerin, Jr. On KMHM 

by Joy Stevens
Every Sunday morning at 9:05 a.m. you can tune in to KMHM 104.1 FM and hear master storyteller, Walter Wangerin, Jr. with “Lutheran Vespers.” Walter Wangerin captivates the imaginations of people of all ages through his stories, reflections, meditations and life experiences. 
Walter Wangerin shows you how God is in all things great and small and shows us how we must proclaim Christ in our lives. Since 1994, Pastor Walter Wangerin has been joining story and Gospel as the Lutheran Vespers speaker, receiving acclaim from thousands of listeners. 
We especially thank our Evangelical Lutheran Churches in America of Bollinger and Cape Girardeau Counties that sponsor this dynamic half-hour program. There are four churches in all that are involved in meeting the needs financially so that you can be blessed weekly by Lutheran Vespers.

Pastor Robert Klein and wife Patricia
Pastor Robert Klein, Sr., pastor of the Saint Mark Lutheran Church located at 1900 Cape LaCroix Road in Cape Girardeau, MO had spearheaded a group of pastors to jointly fund the sponsorship of Lutheran Vespers. Pastor Robert Klein, Sr. has been pastoring Saint Marks Lutheran Church for four years. Originally from Ohio, Pastor Klein came to Cape Girardeau four years ago from O’Fallon, MO where he was a Missions Developer and started a new church. Pastor Klein had also served as Chaplain to the Missouri House of Representatives in Jefferson City for over 20 years. 
ACTIVITIES AND MORE AT SAINT MARK LUTHERAN CHURCH, CAPE GIRARDEAU
COGS / Children of God, a group for children grades 2 through 6
LYO / Lutheran Youth Organization, a group for confirmed through 12th grade. Women's groups include: Ruth Circle, which meets at 1 P.M. on Mondays,Mary/Martha Circle, which meets at 7:30 P.M. on Mondays and Dorcas Circle, which meets on Tuesdays at 9:30 A.M.
April 29th marked the 35th Anniversary celebration of the date of organization/charter membership and a reception followed the Worship Service. 
You are invited to join Pastor Klein and the entire congregation for Sunday Worship Services at 10:00 A.M. Sunday School is at 8:45 A.M. 

Pastor Albert Nyland
Pastor Albert Nyland, pastor of the Sargent’s Chapel Lutheran Church and Sedgewickville Lutheran Church, both in Sedgewickville was retired from the St. Johns Lutheran Church of Pocahontas in 1994. Albert Nylan has been pastoring for 41 years and was assigned by Bishop Charles Maahs to pastor in Sedgewickville where he has been pastoring for the last four and a half years. Throughout his career, Pastor Nylan has served in three congregations in southern Illinois and one in central Indiana. He has also developed a Mission Congregation in Fern Creek Kentucky (a suburb of Louisville). While originally from Chicago, he currently resides in Jackson, Mo. 
ACTIVITIES AND MORE AT SARGENT’S CHAPEL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SEDGEWICKVILLE LUTHERAN CHURCH, SEDGEWICKVILLE
You are invited to join Pastor Albert Nylan and the entire congregation of Sedgewickville Lutheran church for Sunday Worship Service at 10:30 A.M., Sunday School is held at 9:15 A.M. 
Sedgewickville Lutheran Church is located at the cross roads of K and WW in Sedgewickville.
You are also invited to attend services at Sargent’s
Chapel Lutheran Church. Sunday Worship is at 9:00 A.M. Sargents Chapel Lutheran Church is located NE of Sedgewickville on Cty. Road 234.

Pastor John Kiehl with Ambrosia, Rhonda and Keturah
Pastor John Kiehl, has been pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas for six and one half years. Prior to God’s calling him to pastor, John Kiehl had a farm near Marshall, MO. where he is originally from. 
ACTIVITIES AND MORE AT ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, POCAHONTAS
Luther League: A youth group which meets two times a month for study and recreation.
This summer the Luther League will be going to Denver Colorado for a Global Missions event, sponsored by the ELCA. There they will participate in music, workshops and experience cultural worship.
Hope Circle: A women’s group that meets the first Wednesday of each month for Bible Study.
Faith and Love Circle: A women’s group that meets the second Monday of each month for Bible Study.
Wednesday night Bible Study at 7:00 P.M.
You are invited to join Pastor John Kiehl and the entire congregation for Sunday Worship Service at 10:00 A.M. Sunday School is at 8:45 A.M. St. John’s Lutheran Church is located one block east of Route C, Pocahontas, MO.
BIO OF WALTER WANGERIN, JR.
Pastor Wangerin is the author of mor than 20 deeply spiritual and widely acclaimed books for children and adults. They include fiction, non-fiction and devotional material. He is writer-in-residence at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, and the featured columnist in The Lutheran magazine, a monthly publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Many have also discovered that Pastor Wangerin's story telling gift transcends the printed page. He belongs in that tradition of oral storytellers who have captured the imaginations of people of all ages, through all the ages. His stories, reflections, meditations and life experiences find God in common things and proclaim Christ in our lives. Since 1994 Pastor Wangerin has been joining story and Gospel as the Lutheran Vespers speaker, receiving acclaim from thousands of listeners.
Biographical Material 
Born February 13, 1944, in Portland, OR Reared, the eldest of 7 children, in various locations: Shelton, WA Chicago, IL Grand Forks, ND Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Married, father of four children Education 
Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis, MO; M. Div. 1976 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO Miami University, Oxford, OH; M. A. in English Literature, 1968 (All course work and requirements for Ph. D. completed except the dissertation)
Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, IN; B. A. 1966 Concordia Junior College, Milwaukee, WI; A. A. 1964 Present Professional Activities 
Professor and occupant of Emil & Elfriede Jochum Chair, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 
(1991-present) Speaker, Lutheran Vespers (1994-present) Columnist (monthly), The Lutheran (circulation 800,000) (1988-present) Frequent lecturer at universities and professional conferences Book Awards 
New York Times' Best Children's Book of the Year, The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) The American Book Award, The Book of the Dun Cow (1980) Campus Life's Editor's Choice The Book of Sorrows (1985) Gold Medallion Book Award, Ragman and Other Cries of Faith (1985) Gold Medallion Book Award, Potter (1986) CSIA C. S. Lewis Award, Potter (1986) Association of Logos Bookstores Book Award for Best Fiction, The Book of Sorrows (1986) Virtue Magazine Book of the Year, As For Me and My House (1987) Gold Medallion Book Award, As For Me and My House (1988) Gold Medallion Book Award, Reliving the Passion (1993) Gold Medallion Book Award, The Book of God (1996) Association of Logos Bookstores Book Award for Best Book, The Book of God (1996) Publications
NOVELS: 
The Book of Sorrows, Harper & Row, 1985 The Book of the Dun Cow, Harper & Row, 1978 The Crying for a Vision, Simon & Schuster, 1994 The Book of God: The Bible as Novel, Zondervan, Lion UK and Zondervan, 1996 CHILDREN'S BOOKS: 
Elisabeth and the Water-Troll, Harper Collins Children's Books, 1991 In the Beginning There Was No Sky, Thomas Nelson, 1986 Potter, Augsburg-Fortress Publishers, 1994 (previously, David C. Cook, 1985) Thistle, Augsburg-Fortress Publishers, 1995 (previously Harper & Row, 1983) My First Book About Jesus, Checkerboard Press, 1983 and many more.
Six Arch Books, Concordia Publishing House, 1972-1976 Probity Jones and the Fear Not Angel, Augsburg, 1996 In The Beginning There Was No Sky, Augsburg-Fortress, 1997 The Book of God for Children, Zondervan, 1996 (previously The Bible For Children, Checkerboard Press, 1981) The Bedtime Rhyme, Augsburg Fortress, 1998 Mary's First Christmas, Zondervan, 1998 COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS: 
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?, Zondervan, 1993 The Manger is Empty, Harper & Row, 1989 Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace, Harper & Row, 1988 Ragman and Other Cries of Faith, Harper & Row, 1984 
PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: 
Mourning into Dancing, Zondervan, 1992 As For Me and My House: Crafting a Marriage to Last, Thomas Nelson, 1987 The Orphean Passages, subtitled: The Drama of Faith, Harper & Row, 1986 Whole Prayer, Zondervan, 1998 DEVOTIONAL: 
Measuring the Days, edited by Gail McGrew Eifrig, Harper San Francisco, 1993 Reliving the Passion, Zondervan, 1992 POETRY: 
A Miniature Cathedral and Other Poems, Harper & Row, 1987 With Paul Manz-- Una Sancta: A Mass in Thanksgiving for the Unity of the Body of Christ; debuted and toured with the Seminex chorus in 1986 and 1987 
PERIODICALS: 
Book Reviews for The Washington Post Book World Book Reviews for The New York Times Articles in numerous periodicals