LEA members, you are invited to send a digital photo of bridges in your area to help celebrate the 2011 LEA Convocation theme:

 

Crossing Over

 

Sending the photo assumes permission to place it on LEA’s Web site and to credit the photographer. Send photos/captions to ed.grube@lea.org.

 

 

Crossing Over

Photo Gallery

 

Covered bridge over the Cass River in Frankenmuth, Michigan

Photo by Renee Grube

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, IL

 

Franconians settled here and established a strong Lutheran congregation and school. Great fried chicken, hospitality, and accordions too!

 

 

Rio-Antirio bridge near Patras, Greece

Photo by Jenna Newman

Concordia University Wisconsin

 

 Jenna comments, "God has certainly blessed some engineers and workmen to be able to build such a beautiful bridge. God is good!" (Watch for a daytime view of the bridge next week.)

 

 

Rio-Antirio bridge near Patras, Greece...daylight view

Photo by Jenna Newman

Concordia University Wisconsin

 

 

Midgley Bridge over Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, Arizona

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Little red bridge at Dow Gardens

in Midland, Michigan

Photo by Helen Genter

St. Paul Lutheran School, Leavenworth, KS

 

 

Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge

Photo by Connie Souza

Redeemer Lutheran School, Wayzata, MN

 

 

 

From Down Under...bridge at New Norica, Western Australia

Photo by Tim Schumacher, Head of Learning Area for Technology K-12 at Living Waters Lutheran College

Rockingham, West Australia

 

 

 

Crossing over the historic Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama. This group attended the Crossing Over conference of Educators in Black Ministry and crossed over to memorialize the original civil rights landmark.

Photo by

Vicki Helmling, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

Highway 24 canyon bridge between Avon and Tennessee Pass, Eagle county, Colorado. Elevation 8,000 feet.

Photo by

Tom & Lois Giordano

 

 

 

 

Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy

Photo by

Paul Trettin,

Immanuel Lutheran School, Elmhurst, Illinois

 

 

Great Platte River Road Archway

Museum over I-80 at Kearney, Nebraska

Photo by

Frances Dellar

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

 

Covered Bridge in Yosemite National Park, California

Photo by

Kathy Slupik's (LEA) sister Gale

 

 

 

 

This is the real City of Bridges-Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--where the Ohio River begins!

Photo submitted by

Gail Holzer

Redeemer Lutheran School

Oakmont, Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Is the bridge low or the water high?

See the next photo, and ask these people!

Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Photos by Renee Grube

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tridge Bridge in Midland, Michigan

It's a 3-way pedestrian/bicycle bridge crossing the spot where the Chippewa and Tittabawassee Rivers meet.

Photos by Helen Genter

St. Paul Lutheran School, Leavenworth, Kansas

 

 

 

Model RR Bridge at the Chicago Flower Show

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Pont d'Avignon Bridge

Avignon, France

Photo by Paul Trettin

Immanuel Lutheran School, Elmhurst, Illinois

 

 

Royal Gorge, Colorado

Photo by Frances Dellar

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

Charles Bridge, Prague

Photo by Vicki Helmling

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

London Bridge at Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Photo by Clet Pfeiffer

Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

Depoe Bay on the Oregon Coast

Photo by Kathy Slupik's sister, Gale

 

 

 

Bridge near Skagway, Alaska

Photo by Kathy Slupik's sister, Gale

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

Old concrete, arched railroad bridge over

Lake Decatur (Illinois)

Photo by Renee Grube

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

 

New bridge construction over the Colorado River

at Hoover Dam

Photo by Clet Pfeiffer

Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

 

Bridge built by the Romans

in Regensburg, Germany

Photo by Brenda Zesch

CrossRoad Church, Hernando, Mississippi

 

 

Idyllic summer scene...Three Arch Bridge

over the Prairie River in Merrill, Wisconsin

Photo by Sallie Kamps

Trinity Lutheran School, Merrill, Wisconsin

 

 

2009 MSEL (Master of Science in Educational Leadership) graduates from Concordia, Ann Arbor...crossing the bridge into new opportunities for servant leadership

Photo by Joel Iverson, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

 

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Lake Kariba Bridge over the Zambezi River. It borders the countries of Zimbabwe in the south and Zambia in the north.

Submitted by Doreen Tarirai Moyo-Zimbabwe

Concordia University Chicago

 

 

 

Notice the "natural bridge" between the two rock formations at Pictured Rocks National Shoreline, Munising, Michigan

Photo by Chuck Strohacker

Christ Lutheran School, Stevensville, Michigan

 

 

View from a canal in Venice, Italy

(Note the bride & groom walking up the stairs.)

Photo by Ron and Elaine Royuk on their 46th wedding anniversary

Seward, Nebraska

 

 

Bridge along Main-Danube Canal

Photo by Brenda Zesch

CrossRoad Church

Hernando, Mississippi

 

Canal bridge in Corinth, Greece

Photo by Paul Trettin

Immanuel Lutheran School, Elmhurst, Illinois

 

 

 

 

Drift Creek Falls Suspension Bridge (240 feet long over a plunge of 75 feet) in the Siuslaw National Forest near Lincoln City, Oregon.

Photo by Gale Schmaltz

 

 

 

 

Carved in stone--bridge at Yellowstone National Park

Photo by Gale Schmaltz

 

 

 

Chain Bridge at night, Budapest, Hungary

Photo by

Brenda Zesch, CrossRoad Church,

Hernando, Mississippi

 

 

 

Bridge to beach at Higgins Lake, site of the Michigan District Principals Conference

Photo by

Chuck Strohacker

Christ Lutheran School

Stevensville, Michigan

 

 

 

Blue Water Bridge connecting Port Huron, Michigan, with Sarnia, Ontario

Photo by

Sue von Fange

Trinity Lutheran Church

Clinton Township, Michigan

(Sue is on the 2011 Convocation Steering Committee)

 

 

 

 

Hernando/Desoto Bridge connecting Memphis, Tennessee with West Memphis, Arkansas

Photo from

Natalie Martin

Christ the King Lutheran School

Memphis, Tennessee

 

 

 

McCourtie Park, Somerset Center, Michigan--concrete bridge made to look like logs

Photo by

Helen Genter

Leavenworth, Kansas

 

 

 

Covered Bridge in Barrington, Illinois!

Photo by

Paul Piel

St. Peter Lutheran School

Arlington Heights, Illinois

 

 

 

 

Venetian Canal

Photo by

Ron Royuk

Seward, Nebraska

 

 

 

The Victoria Falls Bridge named after the royal queen Victoria faces the mighty Victoria Falls (Motsiwatunya) on the Zambezi River. One of the three bridges over the Zambezi River. 

Photo submitted by

Doreen Tarirai Moyo-Zimbabwe

Concordia University Chicago

 

 

 

Bridge to Nowhere in Juneau, Alaska

Photo by Kathy Slupik, LEA

 

 

 

Crossing over the playground bridge at the Fort Wayne Seminary

Photo by

Andrew Tomashewsky

St. John-Emmanuel Lutheran School

Monroeville, Indiana