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Sixty Years of Service 1961-2021 1 The first synod meeting in Corby in 1961. Photo: George J R Cienciala SIXTY YEARS OF SERVICE - 1961-2021 THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN Design and Graphics by Joseph Nelson Completed and Published July 2021 2 FOREWORD Dear Members and Friends of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, The LCiGB celebrates, this year, sixty years of God’s Grace. The ‘Sixty Years of Service’ is dedicated to all who love, loved, and served the church. St Paul wrote in a letter to Ephesians (Ch 2 v10) ‘For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to devote ourselves to the good deeds for which God has designed ‘ The publication is a joint work between Dr Roy Long, one of the longest serving pastors; Margaret Pickford, who served for many years as the secretary of the LCiGB Council; and myself. I am indebted to both of them, to pick up my idea of this small contribution. I would like to thank all clergy for your service to the LCiGB and the support, given to me, in my bishopric. There are special thanks for my fellow bishops, who succeeded me, Bishop Jāna Jēruma- Grīnberga and especially Bp Martin Lind and Bp Tor Berger Jørgensen, our ‘borrowed’ bishops from the Church of Sweden and Norway, respectively. Your support, experience, and service to the LCiGB, especially ordinations, are particularly appreciated by all of us in the LCiGB. ‘God has designed us’ to work through the LCiGB to the glory of Jesus Christ our Lord. + Walter Jagucki P.S. If you have observations, corrections, or additions and would like to publish more, please contact the LCiGB website directly and not us. 3 CONTENTS Introduction Page 4 500 years of Lutherans in Great Britain and Ireland Page 4 60 years of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB) Page 5 The congregations of the LCiGB Page 9 Pastors and assistants in LCiGB congregations Page 15 Presiding Ministers of the LCiGB Page 19 4 Part 1 INTRODUCTION This booklet, published as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB) has been prepared by a small committee consisting of Rt. Rev’d Walter Jagucki (Bishop Emeritus of the LCiGB), Rev’d Dr. Roy Long (a retired pastor of the LCiGB), and Mrs Margaret Pickford (lay member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Nottingham/Leicester). They gratefully acknowledge the help given to them, by other pastors and lay people of the LCiGB. Following on from this Introduction, the booklet falls into four parts. Part 2 sets the context by giving an outline of Lutheran history in Great Britain and Ireland; Part 3 gives an overview of the sixty-year history of the LCiGB; Part 4 describes in more detail the history of individual congregations; and Part 5 lists the pastors who have served these congregations. Inevitably, there is an element of repetition in the text, but it is hoped that there are no contradictions! Part 2 FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF LUTHERANS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Lutherans have a long, honourable, but almost unknown history in Great Britain and Ireland. There were strong Lutheran influences in the early years of the Reformation in England and Scotland, but the church that emerged in England and Wales, commonly known as the Anglican Church, was an uneasy mixture of Catholic and Reformed, while the Church of Scotland was formally Presbyterian in its church order. The first organised Lutheran congregation in these islands dates from 1669 with the establishment of what became known as the Hamburg Lutheran Church, a predominantly German-speaking community which was expressly forbidden to hold services in English. Between then and 1710 other German-speaking congregations were established in London and Dublin, alongside a Danish and a Swedish congregation. Other German-speaking congregations were established in the 18th century, a process helped along by the fact that since 1714 the kings of England were also Electors of Hanover. More congregations were established in the 19th century, serving the growing numbers of German immigrants, particularly in the north of England and in Scotland. Alongside these, and starting in Scotland in 1864, several of the Nordic countries established chaplaincies to look after the spiritual needs of their seafaring communities, so many seaports, including London, had Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish ministries. These ministries were hit hard by the First World War, but somehow, they managed to survive into the inter-war period. Controversially, the pastor of one of the German-speaking congregations (St. George’s, in the East End of London) had tried to introduce the English language into his ministry, but a court case resulted in a judgment that this could not be permitted. A hundred years later two 5 confessional German-speaking congregations were established in London (1896 and 1903) and these became bi-lingual and eventually purely English-speaking congregations – now regarded as the founding congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE). The Second World War and its aftermath brought sizable numbers of Lutherans in Britain in the form of displaced persons from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia; German ex-prisoners-of-war and German women who married British military personnel, and a growing number of Lutheran students and immigrants from the British Commonwealth. Initially, ministries to these diverse groups were supported jointly by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod and the newly formed Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and they encouraged the setting up in 1948 of the Lutheran Council of Great Britain, which has grown, to include the majority, of Lutheran bodies in the United Kingdom and is still active today. Part 3 SIXTY YEARS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN On 16 April 1961, representatives of four independent English-speaking Lutheran congregations in England met together in the recently built Latvian Lutheran Church Hall in Corby, Northamptonshire, and organised themselves into a church body which took the name of “The United Lutheran Synod in Great Britain” (ULSGB). The “Lutheran Church in Great Britain” (LCiGB) – as it is now known - has survived many challenges, and, although it remains small, it has sixteen pastors (some of whom, in theory at least, are retired) who serve ten congregations scattered across England and Scotland. It has a Bishop, and since 1988 has been a member of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in its own right. The Assembly which convened in Corby had been called together in order to establish the ULSGB, and in a business meeting presided over by Pastor William B. Schaeffer, then the Senior representative in Britain of the LWF, representatives of Augsburg Lutheran Congregation (High Wycombe), Holy Trinity Lutheran Congregation (Hothorpe Hall), St John’s Lutheran Church (London), and St Paul’s Lutheran Church (Corby), adopted a constitution for the new body, elected its first officers, and applied for membership of the Lutheran Council of Great Britain. The name that it adopted, “The United Lutheran Synod in Great Britain”, reflected one of the primary aims of the new body, which was “to work together for the greater unity of Lutherans in the British Isles”. Each of the constituent congregations in the new synod had a different history. St John’s, which was the oldest, had developed out of an English-language ministry which had been developed in St Mary’s German-speaking Lutheran congregation in London by Pastor Hans- Herbert Kramm, and his successor, Pastor Gottfried Klapper. They recognised that there was a need for a Lutheran ministry in the English language, in order to serve the increasing numbers of Lutheran overseas students and workers who were coming to London and the surrounding areas. Under the guidance of a Canadian pastor, Herbert Hartig, this work eventually led to the establishment of a separate congregation, originally known as “St Mary’s English-speaking 6 Lutheran Church”. For many years it held its services in the chapel of the Lutheran Church House in South Kensington, but after two changes of name it is now St Anne’s Lutheran Congregation, which, until recently, worshipped in the beautiful and historic church of St Anne and St Agnes in the City of London, close to St Paul’s Cathedral. Augsburg Lutheran Congregation developed as a result of a request, from a small group of Lutherans in High Wycombe, an important manufacturing town roughly midway between London and Oxford. This group, which included people of Austrian, British, German, and Polish backgrounds, originally asked Pastor Gottfried Klapper to begin services in German, but he quickly realised that the real need was for services in English, and eventually Pastor William Schaeffer took on the responsibility for developing congregational work there. Holy Trinity Congregation at Hothorpe Hall was, in effect, a chaplaincy serving the people living at the Hall, together in the neighbourhood, including Market Harborough, Rugby, and as far away as Leicester. Hothorpe was a large country manor house some six miles from Market Harborough. Standing in twelve acres of grounds, it had been purchased in 1955 for £3500 to serve as a conference and youth centre for the churches affiliated to the Lutheran Council of Great Britain, and the first director, Pastor Lloyd Swantz, had immediately begun to hold regular weekly services in the beautiful Victorian chapel. In 1958, Pastor Swantz extended this ministry at Hothorpe Hall by beginning weekly services on Sunday afternoons in the industrial town of Corby, fifteen miles to the east, where the local Latvian community had just dedicated a newly-built church hall. A year later, Holy Trinity called Wayne Stumme, a post-graduate student in the University of St Andrew’s, to be its pastor, on the understanding that he would live in Corby and develop congregational work there.
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