Concordia Blog

Thanks to our amazing team and the Concordia at Cabot community – this year’s annual summer festival at Concordia at Cabot exceeded all of our expectations! (Read more for photos)

At Concordia Lutheran Ministries, our employees are the heart and hands of our mission – they care for our residents and patients with their hard work, kindness and empathy and keep our organization running with their leadership, vision and dedication.

Watching our amazing staff handle the unprecedented challenges of 2020 that continue into this year has been truly inspiring, so we chose to highlight just a few in our 2021 Concordia Calendar as a proclamation of gratitude for their many contributions. Though we wish there could be 3,000 pages in the calendar to feature all of our employees, this small sampling is representative of our extraordinary staff as a whole. Each month, we’ll introduce you to the talented, compassionate team members featured in our calendar.

This year marked our 17^th annual golf outing at the Treesdale Golf and Country Club. The day was one for the books thanks to the ideal weather - with rain holding out all day and sun beaming through the clouds – record-breaking golf games, wonderful fellowship, fabulous prizes and generous support for Concordia’s mission of caring. (Read more for photos)

From the entire Concordia Family, Happy Fourth of July! With the holiday just around the corner, we wanted to share a patriotic poem written by a Concordia resident as well as two pieces that residents have found to be inspiring over the years. Enjoy!

The Concordia Team is comprised of many talented and compassionate employees who have graciously served our mission in a variety of ways – and we are excited for you to meet these fantastic individuals. Let us introduce you to Roxanne Milnes!

The second principle of Concordia Lutheran Ministries’ Statement of Values is to strive to hire and train an excellent group of employees while valuing their needs, opinions and family responsibilities. Guided by this commitment to our staff, one of the of cornerstones of Concordia’s employee-centric benefits package is education assistance through several prepaid and reimbursement tuition programs.

At Concordia Lutheran Ministries, our employees are at the heart and hands of our mission – they care for our residents and patients with their hard work, kindness and empathy and keep our organization running with their leadership, vision and dedication.

Watching our amazing staff handle the unprecedented challenges of 2020 that continue into this year has been truly inspiring, so we chose to highlight just a few in our 2021 Concordia Calendar as a proclamation of gratitude for their many contributions. Though we wish there could be 3,000 pages in the calendar to feature all of our employees, this small sampling is representative of our extraordinary staff as a whole. Each month, we’ll introduce you to the talented, compassionate team members featured in our calendar.

From all of us at Concordia, Happy Father’s Day! Fathers, father figures and great-grandfathers (and all the greats after) make a huge impact on our lives, and this year we’re highlighting a great-grandfather who found out that some of his own history is tied to Concordia.

When Concordia Lutheran Ministries was founded 140 years ago by German Lutheran pastors, there was no running water, electricity, telephones or cars – which made the early days of this organization as a farm, orphanage and home for seniors challenging.

What the housefathers who ran Concordia’s daily operations did have, however, were their journals – handwritten records, kept in German, of day-to-day life. The journals were translated into English by Rev. H. Earl Miller, a chaplain who came to work for Concordia in 1968.The entries below cover spring and early summer at Concordia at the end of the 1800s, and they show that while everyday life might have been simpler back then, it was certainly still interesting.

Concordia Haven Apartments retirement living resident Skip Culleiton was born and raised in Tarentum, PA, an area he would one day write multiple history books about.