To Support 150th Anniversary of Synod Black Ministry and Promote Renewed Emphasis

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To Support 150th Anniversary of Synod Black 
Ministry and Promote Renewed Emphasis 
WHEREAS, Black Lutherans have played a significant role in the 
history and mission of the Synod; and 
WHEREAS, Lutheran Black Ministry within the geographic area 
now served by the Southeastern District of the Synod has had vital 
and lasting impact on the work of the Church, including, but in no 
way limited to, such influential figures as: 
• Rev. Thomas Frye, who was born on George Washington’s 
estate, and who, after having been brought to North Carolina, 
studied the Lutheran Confessions, was licensed to preach by 
the Tennessee Synod in 1868, and became perhaps the first 
African American Lutheran minister in the Carolinas; 
• Rev. Daniel Wiseman (1858 –1942), who was one of the 
most distinguished theological graduates of Howard 
University at the time and the first Lutheran African 
American pastor in Washington, D.C., serving the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, and