Mama Buenger: Mother of a Synod gives an account of the stories which took place in the family of Christiane Buenger, who brought her family to America as part of a mass German immigration in 1839. In this book, you will discover how influential the members of her family were to the establishment of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. This book tells many stories which actually took place in and around this family until Christiane's death in the Cholera Epidemic of 1849 in St. Louis. Her remarkable family, despite numerous disappointments, persevered and left a legacy which can be a model for families still today.