Lutheranism

After Lutheran High West (and college) my connection with Lutheranism lasted for a few more years.

 

"Mom" Schroeder (circa 1970) next to the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church relief of her late husband, Rev. Theodore Schroeder, Annette Schroeder's Mom and Dad. 

Rev. Leo Symmank and wife Rose Merle (circa 2014). Our pastor in 1970-1973 at Missouri Synod Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Nassau Bay, Texas outside the gates of the Manned Spacecraft Center. Today, in partial retirement, the Symmanks have retired near Nassau Bay and go to church at the much larger Gloria Dei. 

Trudy (Jander) Laird, my first cover photo (on the left as it appeared in publication), with the original on the right. Never let your magazine editor crop your pictures.  We named out first child after Trudy because of Trudy's enthusiasm for Jesus. Below is a picture of the two Trudys when the older one came to visit us in Michigan five years later.

Turdy (Jander) Laird and Trudy Williams (Aug 1977)

The NASA "Rocket Theologians" and their wonderfully tolerant wives (circa 1982) (see the chapter on Versificaiton) (L-R) John & Susan Ritland, Stan & Pam Williams, Bill & Beth Roeh. Taken in St. Louis during a Christmas reunion of our families.  As discussed in the book, it was our Bible "study" on infant baptism that caused all of us to leave the Lutheran Church.