The man who kept the Lutherans in Missouri: C.F.W. Walther

After the exile of Martin Stephan, the Lutheran minister who brought the Saxons to Missouri, the group was struggling to find a reason to stay. They had all followed a fraud from Germany to America and many were thinking about going back. But, in their moment of need, CFW Walther stood up and reminded the group that faith resides in a people and not in a place, convincing the Saxons to stay in Missouri. Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther was a German-American Lutheran minister in Missouri. In Germany, C.F.W. Walther became a Lutheran minister and <a href="https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/41259/Kirsch2ForConSak.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">through his divinity studies he met Martin Stephan</a>. Stephan played a pivotal role in the Saxon immigration to Missouri. <a href="https://medium.com/exploring-the-cultural-history-of-german-immigrati/the-man-who-kept-the-lutheran-germans-in-missouri-c-f-w-walther-ab6b72b2034d">Read More</a>