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1869. Concordia Publishing House,
St. Louis, Missouri, is founded on September 11 to preserve
the German Lutheran heritage and to reach out to immigrant
groups in the new land through the power of the printed word.
Concordia is Latin for concord or harmony.
1870. CPH publishes the American
Lutheran Kalender, now The Lutheran Annual. Included in the
Kalender is the first CPH catalog, a three-page listing of
items including doctrinal works, Bibles, music, gifts and
periodicals.
1880. CPH publishes a 22-volume,
51,000-page edition of Luther's Works, including the Latin
writings and the 15th-century German writings translated into
modern German.
1882. The Lutheran Witness begins
publication.
1896. Concordia launches Concordia
Magazine, its first English language publication for young
readers.
1904. CPH's exhibit at the St. Louis
World's Fair draws 14,000 visitors and is awarded the grand
prize for excellence of workmanship and materials.
1920. German language Sunday school
leaflets are discontinued.
1947. CPH publishes the Concordia
Bible with Notes, a contemporary of the Altenberter Biblewerk
. Its popularity leads to the 1986 publication of the Concordia
Self-Study Bible, providing the people of the church with
dependable Lutheran notes and comments on the biblical text.
1959. Lantern Books are introduced.
Five years later the name of this series is changed to Arch®
Books and it eventually becomes the most successful series
of Christian children's books in the United States.
1972. CPH is one of only three St.
Louis companies to use an IBM unified on-line data entry system.
1987. With a generous grant from
the International Lutheran Women's Missionary League, CPH
publishes the first course in the LifeLight® In-Depth
Bible Study Series. Since then, more than 300,000 adults have
spent an estimated 20 million hours in Bible study with LifeLight
as the means to a deeper understanding of the Scriptures.
Today, CPH continues to meet the changing
needs of God's people. The Ethnic Resources Department, for
example, develops materials in Spanish, Laotian, Russian,
Vietnamese and other languages.
Throughout its history, CPH has continually made use of technological advances. From telephones in the 1880s, to computers in the 1960s, to today's top ministry online communication tool, MemberConnect, CPH helps God's people share the Gospel around the world.
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