The year 2022 brought new opportunities for WELS congregation and the synod at large. January’s WELS Connection looks back at the work of WELS Missions, Ministerial Education, and Congregational Services in 2022 and highlights what’s coming in 2023. | WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod)

May’s WELS Connection shares highlights from the 2023 WELS National Conference on Lutheran Leadership, an event that brought together 1,300 laypeople and called workers to talk about our mission, to share best practices for gospel ministry, and to enjoy Christian fellowship. | WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod)

"HOW GREAT THOU ART" A hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Boberg (1859–1940) in Mönsterås, Sweden, in 1885. It was translated into German and then into Russian. It was translated into English from the Russian by English missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own. This hymn was the title track of Elvis Presley's second gospel LP How Great Thou Art (RCA LSP/LPM 3758), which was released in March 1967. The song won Presley a Grammy Aw