![]() Photo credits: Chapel, Minnesota Historical Society via Google Images. Lac qui Parle today lies in Chippewa County, Minnesota, northwest of the city of Montevideo. I am also quickly learning the rudiments of book-signing, like writing down the inscription first, before the ensuing conversation erases the name of the “To”–the relative or friend of the person presenting the book! By far the most meaningful part of the day for me was connecting with John’s spiritual descendants and hearing how John and Mary Renville are still alive in oral history. Most humbling, three of them are current pastors in the Dakota Presbytery, like Rev. I’m told there were 48 people in the audience as I spoke. So this annual afternoon talk attracts a handful of hardy people who take turns speaking and listening for the love of this place. As you might imagine from the fans in the photos, this little building has no air conditioning but its windows and 1:00PM on the second Sunday in July has a deserved reputation of being unbearably hot here –especially when seated on a backless wooden bench. ![]() ![]() There were about a dozen people in the chapel when I arrived, which struck me as about right. Lac qui Parle County Historical Society (Minn. Members of the choir from Ascension Church, where John pastored for 30 years on the Sisseton and Wahpeton Reservation in South Dakota, led us in hymns in the Dakota language, accompanied by the Ascension organist on the chapel’s pump organ.Īfter a pot-luck lunch by the lake, people began drifting back up the the chapel for the “reflective” –according to the MHS PR department –talk. Lac qui Parle and the Dakota Mission by Willand, Jon. The worship service is always lead by a Dakota Pastor from the Dakota Presbytery, which ordained John its first Dakota pastor in 1866. More than 70 people gathered for the morning worship service which kicks off a yearly reunion of descendants of Dakota Christians and the missionaries who founded a Protestant mission here in 1835 at the invitation of Joseph Renville, John B. Many and great, O God sound recording : songs and stories from the Lac qui Parle Mission, birthplace of the American Indian hymn, 'Many and great, O God' / compiled by Lois Carlson Willand. ![]() Yesterday, Sunday July 8, I was privileged to speak in the historic reconstructed chapel at Lac qui Parle. For the first fourteen years of his life, John Baptiste Renville woke up to this view every day. OL4677664W Page_number_confidence 91.27 Pages 334 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.10 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210320101447 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 761 Scandate 20210313215842 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog claremont Scribe3_search_id 10011414507 Tts_version 4.Mde Ia Udan (Lac qui Parle), July 8, 2012. Urn:lcp:lacquiparledakot0000will:epub:a85eecec-8a15-48eb-9b02-6abd6fdf94df Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lacquiparledakot0000will Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0fv8zm23 Invoice 1652 Lccn 65004014 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9847 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18624 Openlibrary_edition OVERVIEW OF THE LAC QUI PARLE PROJECT 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LAC QUI PARLE PROJECT Project Location and Historic District Boundaries The Lac qui Parle Flood Control Project is located on the upper Minnesota River in west central Minnesota between the towns of Odessa and Granite Falls. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:10:49 Associated-names Lac qui Parle County Historical Society (Minn.) Boxid IA40078913 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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