15/09/2026
A declaração formal de comunhão eclesiástica entre o Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) e a Igreja Luterana de Portugal (ILP) foi oficialmente ratificada na 57ª Convenção Bienal do WELS, realizada em agosto de 2003. Era então presidente do WELS o Rev. Karl R. Gurgel. Lembramos este irmão com respeito e bendita memória, na esperança do reencontro na Eternidade.
Karl R. Gurgel, the tenth president of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, was called home to heaven on September 13, surrounded by loved ones. Gurgel, who served as WELS president from 1993-2007, was 84. His funeral service will be held at St. Matthew’s, Winona, Minn., on September 25, at noon. To read more about Gurgel’s life and ministry, visit welshistoricalinstitute.org/histories/personal/president/1993-2007-gurgel.
We ask for God’s gracious comfort to his wife, Barb, and to the entire Gurgel family.
“Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).