2. Flames on the Plains
• November 16, 2010
• Role of Denominations is Establishing Social
Institutions
• Role of Denominations in Social Issues in
the State
• Wrap Up - Discussion
3. Services to Developmentally
Disabled
• Lutheran Church
– Bethphage Mission - 1913
• Pastor William Dahl – Axtell, Nebraska
– Martin Luther Homes - 1925
• Sterling – 1925
• Beatrice – 1956
• Lincoln – 1993
– Mosaic – 2003
• Merger of Bethphage and Martin Luther Homes
• Omaha
4. Orphanages
• Baptists
– Rev. A. W. Clark
• Boys and Girls Aid Society – 1892 – Omaha
• Child Savings Institute – 1911 - Omaha
• Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
• Lutheran Orphan’s Home Society – 1893 – Fremont
• Home Finding Society
• Lutherans from Allegheney Synod – PA
– Pastor Henry Heiner
• Tabitha Home for the Infirm and Abandoned Children 1886
5. Orphanages (Continued)
• Methodists
– Women’s Home Missionary Society
• Mothers’ Jewels’ Home – York – 1889
– Response to Orphan Trains
– Mission
» Finding Homes for Orphans
» Providing Safe Haven for Orphans not Placed
• Today known as Epworth Village
» Children with Learning Disabilities
» Children with Behavioral Disorders
» Juvenile Holdover for Minor Law Violations
7. Hospitals
• Catholics
– St. Joseph’s Hospital – Omaha – 1864
• Sisters of Mercy – 1864
• Sisters of St. Francis - 1880
– Creighton Memorial Hospital – Omaha – 1888
• Franciscan Sisterhood
• Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
• LCMS Hospital – York – 1915
• Purchased Brethren Hospital – Beatrice 1918
– Above Two Merged to Form Beatrice Community Hospital
8. Hospitals (Continued)
• Seventh Day Adventists
– Nebraska Sanitarium & Nursing School –
Lincoln
– Second Sanitarium in Hastings
• Swedish Lutheran – Augustana Synod
– Immanuel Hospital – Omaha - 1890
• Methodists
– Methodist Hospital and Deaconess’s Home –
Omaha – 1891
• Free Service to the Poor
9. Hospitals (Continued)
• Episcopal
– Children’s Hospital – Omaha – 1881
– Renamed Clarkson Hospital for Children – 1892
– Renamed Clarkson Memorial Hospital – 1921
– Became Part of University of Nebraska Medical
Center in 1990s
10. Foreign Missions
• Baptists
– Burma beginning in 1881
– By 1917
• Phillipines – China – Africa - Japan
• Disciples of Christ
– Christian Woman’s Board of Missions
• Presbyterians
• Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
• Swedish Lutheran – Augustana Synod
– American Lutheran Immigrant Missionary Society
11. Ministry to “Fallen Women”
• Catholics
– Omaha 1895
– Sisters of the Good Shepherd
12. Ministry to African-Americans
• Episcopal – Beginning in 1871
– First Black Dean Ordained in 1871
• W. H. Wilson followed by William Green 1878
– Blacks in Brownville and Nebraska City
– St. Augustine School for Blacks – Nebraska City
1872
– Trinity Mission for Colored People – Omaha
1878
– Philip’s Chapel – 1884
• Renamed Philip’s Episcopal Church 1950
13. Ministry to African-Americans
(continued)
• St. Philip’s Episcopal Church – Black and St.
John’s Episcopal – White
– Merged to Create Episcopal Church of the
Resurrection - 1986
• Established Resurrection House
14. Ministry to Japanese
• Episcopal
– Western Nebraska Bishop George Allen
Beecher
– Japanese Farmer – Hisanori Kano
• Together fought anti-Japanese sentiment in Nebraska
Legislature
– Hisanori Kano
• Ordained Deacon in 1928
• Ordained Priest in 1936
15. Ministry to Native Americans
• Episcopal – Beginning in 1860
– Samuel Hinman sent to Dakota Indians – 1863
• Interceded to support Dakota sentenced to death in
1864
• Remained with Dakota in exile
• Helped establish Santee Reservation in Nebraska
16. Institutions I Forgot
• Boy’s Town
• Wesley House
• Lutheran Family Social Services
• Catholic Charities
• Richard Young Hospital
• ARC of Nebraska
17. Social Issues
• Women’s Ordination
• Civil Rights in the 1960s
• Anti-Defamation League
• Casinos
• Abortion
• Death Penalty
