WINDOM — The Sons of Norway Stavanger Lodge 1-538 will host its next meeting at 7 p.m. Sept. 21, at the Cottonwood County Historical Society Museum, Windom.
Guest speaker is Mary Hedstrom, giving a presentation on the first missionaries to Hawaii. Raised in the Madelia area, wife of Rev. Dale Hedstrom and mother of seven, she is the author of “God’s Grace Was Sufficient,” a book about the events and conditions experienced by the first missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands.
Hedstrom is a distant cousin of Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, members of the Boston area Protestant clergy who formed America’s first company sent to the Islands by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1820. She will detail how the missionaries’ work with the Hawaiian people led to conversion to Christian faith and the building of churches.
Hestrom will have copies of her book available for purchase.
The public is invited to attend the presentation free of charge. Guests are always welcome at any Lodge meeting. Learn of our mission, enjoy fellowship, hear a historical story about our Scandinavian ancestors. Refreshments will be served.
The mission of the Sons of Norway is to promote, preserve and cherish appreciation for the heritage and culture of Norway and Nordic cultures while growing as a fraternal benefit society. The local Stavanger Lodge was chartered in 1974 and currently has a membership of 60.
For more information, contact co-president Bonnie Frederickson at (507) 370-2850.
Source : The Globe
