History of Saude, Jerico, & Redeemer
Saude
As more immigrants came to the area, the pioneer settlers in 1857 decided to form a congregation. It was originally called the Dale Norwegian Congregation, was later renamed the Little Turkey Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, and finally took its current name: Saude Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Jerico
In the 1880s, a controversy erupted in the Norwegian Synod on the doctrine of election. The question was whether sinful man could in any way contribute toward his own salvation. This controversy created such turmoil, that minority groups from the Saude and Crane Creek congregations left the Norwegian Synod and joined the “Anti-Missourian Brotherhood,” later called the United Lutheran Church (now the ELCA). The majority at Saude retained the church building, while the majority at Crane Creek sold the church building to the minority and built a new church in the nearby town of Jerico. This group eventually took the name: Jerico Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Controversy & Christian Education
Pastor Tjernagel was also dedicated to the Christian education of the youth. After his wife died in childbirth, he built a log cabin in her memory and determined that the new building would work well for a school. He named it the “Strandebarm” after his wife’s childhood home in Norway (more info. below). A school operated there from 1928-1936, and the building still stands. When his son Neelak succeeded him as pastor, the younger Tjernagel helped the Saude congregation open a school in 1943 which operated until 1979. Recognizing the need for its own school, the Jerico congregation operated one from 1947 to 1982.
Redeemer
The Redeemer congregation shared a pastor with Trinity Lutheran Church in Calmar from 1966-2018 before forming a three-point parish with the Saude and Jerico congregations. The three congregations remain committed to the historic Christian faith drawn from the Holy Scriptures.
The Assistant Pastor, 1926-1940
Pastor Tjernagel stated the purpose for the newsletter in the first issue:
I take great pleasure in introducing to you my Assistant. He will visit every home in the congregations once a month. He is young and inexperienced but is very anxious to serve efficiently in furthering the Kingdom of God at home and abroad. As such we beg all to receive him kindly.
He will bring you special messages from the regular pastor. He will also carry a scrap book wherein are filed clippings that have in some special way appealed to your pastor during his reading of current publications. He will remind you of various duties as church members. He will bring you a record of current events in the congregations, not so much on account of their value as news items as their value as historical data for posterity.
An annual “salary” of 50 cents was requested from those who wished to contribute.

1927
1927 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1927 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1928
1928 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1928 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1930
1930 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1930 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1936
1936 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1936 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1937
1937 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1937 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1938
1938 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1938 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1939-1940
1939 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1939 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1940 The Assistant Pastor (January)
The Assistant Pastor, 1940-1945
For over ten years [the Rev. H. M. Tjernagel] had edited the Assistant Pastor. With this issue his successor desires to resume the month by month history of the congregation which had been an important part of the service rendered by the Assistant Pastor previously.
Pastor Neelak Tjernagel served the parish until 1945. These were wartime years when a number of men from Saude and Jerico went overseas to fight.

1941
1941 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (April)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1941 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1942
1942 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (March)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (Apr. May)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1942 The Assistant Pastor (December)
1943
1943 The Assistant Pastor (February)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (Mar. Apr.)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (May)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (June)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (September)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (October)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (November)
1943 The Assistant Pastor (December)
Christian Education
Strandebarm School
It is five years since their mother left them. The cabin is a memorial to her and a play house for her little girls. It is their father’s ambition that they may follow after her in the paths of righteousness and, by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, be reunited with her at the right hand of God. A Christian day-school is, therefore, conducted for her girls and others who wish to come, in the memorial cabin.
The school operated from 1928-1936. It still stands next to the parsonage.
Strandebarm Lutheran School Teachers:
1928-29 — Olivia Tjernagel
1929-30 — Jeanette Jordahl
1930-31 — Morris O. Dale, Nora Leverson
1931-32 — Cyrus O. Kirkpatrick
1932-33 — Inez Skogen, Neelak S. Tjernagel
1933-34 — Bjarne W. Teigen
1934-35 — Torald N. Teigen
1935-36 — Wilbur F. Dorn, Reinhold Dorhmann
In 1943 the Saude congregation opened a school in another location. The Jerico congregation opened its own school in 1947.
