Dr. Paul Maier addresses the Michigan District LLL at its April 29th convention.
The son of the first Lutheran Hour speaker congratulated members of the International Lutheran Laymen’s League, Michigan District, on 100 years of Lutheran Hour Ministries and 75 years of the district.
Dr. Paul Maier, a former LCMS vice president and son of Dr. Walter A. Maier, who launched the Lutheran Hour in 1930, was the featured speaker at the 100th anniversary banquet on April 29.
Dr. Maier reminisced that the International Lutheran Laymen’s League started in 1917 to help get the LCMS out of financial debut, and has been working with Synod in the last 100 years in various ways to spread the Gospel to all countries and to all nations.
The banquet was conducted at Zehnders Splash Village and Water Park the evening of the convention sessions which were at St. Lorenz Lutheran School, Frankenmuth.
The presenter for the convention session was Frankenmuth native Mark Eischer, who is the announcer and senior producer of the world’s longest-running Christian radio broadcaster, the Lutheran Hour.
At the banquet, while introducing Dr. Maier, Eischer noted that Maier’s book on his father “A Man Spoke, a World Listened,” is among the most detailed looks at how The Lutheran Hour was created and became among the world’s most effective outreach ministries.
Dr. Maier, while noting how things have changed in the past 100 years, encouraged LLLers, as an auxiliary of the LCMS, to continue to spread the Good News around the world to all people. He commended LLLers for how they have adjusted to the changing world to bring Christ to the lost in their neighborhoods, across Michigan, throughout the United States and Canada and North American and across the world.
It’s estimated LLL programs connect with 51 million people each week across the world.
The convention raised about $2,000 for LHM Russian Ministry. The 2018 convention banquet was set for April 28, 2018 at Zehender’s Restaurant in Frankenmuth. Under a convention vote, first-time attendees at the 2018 LLL banquet, provided they are members of an LCMS church, will be invited to attend for free.
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