Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).
Patriarch of the North American Lutheran Church

Halle Pietism played a highly influential role in North American church religious history. Early connections were extended in particular during the tenure of the second director of the Francke Foundations, Gotthilf August Francke (1696-1769). From 1728 onward, many Protestants from Salzburger Land, who had to moved to Prussian Brandenburg after being expelled, left Prussian Brandenburg for the newly founded colony of Georgia. The Francke Foundations sent pastors, who remained in contact with Halle, to join them.

In 1734 the German Lutherans in Pennsylvania asked their contact in London, Frederick Michael Ziegenhagen, to find trained pastors. Ziegenhagen contacted Gotthilf August Francke, who, in 1742, sent Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg to America, where he created a nationwide church organisation. Mühlenberg is now regarded as the patriarch of the Lutheran church in North America. Two of his sons, trained in Halle, were to become key figures in the early history of the United States.

TRAVELLING EXHIBITION:
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Patriarch of the North American Lutheran Church

contact:
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
7301 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19119
Phone: 215-248-6309
Fax: 215-248-4577

December 5, 2012 – January 23, 2013
Augustus Lutheran Church
Trappe, PA

April 8 – April 15, 2013
Hill Lutheran Church
Lebanon, PA

June 28 - July 8.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Locations

July 22, 2013 – July 29, 2013
St. Timothy Lutheran Church
Camp Hill, PA

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1-21 February 2011

Allentown, Muhlenberg-College
You and your colleagues should be very proud of the outcome! The panels tell the story clearly and succinctly, the text is very legible, and the overall layout and color palette is very appealing. Very well done, indeed!
Kathryn Burke, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College

28 February -21. March
Houston: Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church

Professor Timothy Wengert, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia,
Reverent Robert G. Moore, Senior Pastor of the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Houston/Texas
Consul General of Germany Roland Herrmann

28 March- 18 April

Lutheran Seminary St. Paul, Minnesota

Memorial Lectures: Pietism: A world we have lost and need to find again.
Roger Olson, Professor of Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University, Waco, Texas

26 April - 31 May
Concordian Seminary St. Louis, Missouri

6 -29 June 2011
Emory University Atlanta, Pitt´s Library

13 July - 2 August 2011
German American Heritage Foundation, Washington D.C.

14-20 August 2011
churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Orlando/Florida

6-29 September
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

1-11 October 2011
Advent Lutheran Church, New York

October 15 2011
Gathering of the Muhlenberg-Communities at the LTS in Philadelphia

20.October 2011
Opening at Richard Kesslers Hotel "Mansion on Forsyth Park", Savannah

November 2011
Church of Ascension, Savannah