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 2

October 2009 -- February 2010

 

See Crossing Over Gallery 1

 

 

 

Rainbow Bridge between Niagara Falls, Ontario and Niagara Falls New York

Photo by

Vicki Helmling

Grace Lutheran School

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

HolbergsgadeDrawbridge over the Nyhavn Kanal in Copenhagen, Denmark

Photo by

Tom & Lois Giordano

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

 

 

 

The Kramerbrucke in Erfurt, Germany

Photo by

Linda Kennell

St. John Lutheran School

Glendale, Wisconsin

 

 

 

 

The Bridge of No Return

DMZ between North and South Koreas

Photo by

Clet Pfeiffer

Rochester, Minnesota

 

 

 

Kids on a Bridge ... new playground at Hong Kong International School

Photo by

Donna Koehneke

HKIS

Hong Kong

 

 

 

Japanese Garden at Missouri Botanical Garden: Seiwa-en: garden of pure, clear harmony and peace

Photo by

Joe Isenhower

LCMS Reporter, St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

 

180-foot vertical lift bridge in Rouen, France

Photo by

Steven Kaatz

Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

 

 

Serpentine Bridge at Chicago Botanic Garden

Photo by

Renee Grube

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

 

 

John 5:24 Bridge

to celebrate All Saints Day 2009

(Zion Lutheran Church, Bensenville, Illinois)

Photo by

Fran Dellar

Park Ridge, Illinois

 

 

 

Veterans Day Special ... with the Kimball Street bridge in Elgin, Illinois, in the background

Photo by

Dale Woock

St. John Lutheran School, Elgin, Illinois

 

 

 

 

Rolling London bridge over grand union canal system

Photo from Steven Kaatz

Bethel University

St. Paul, Minnesota

 

 

 

Normandy Bridge over the Seine River that connects La Havre to Normandy Province in France

Photo from Tom & Lois Giordano

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

 

 

 

What lots of you will be doing during Thanksgiving travel...waiting in traffic. This occasion on the bridge between Sarnia and Detroit

Photo from Kathy Slupik

LEA, River Forest, Illinois

 

 

 

Natural erosion bridge on Mackinac Island, Michigan

Photo from Renee Grube

Concord Lutheran School, Bensenville, Illinois

 

 

 

 

The kind of bridge you need for long crossings!

Photo from Kathy Slupik

LEA, River Forest, Illinois

 

 

 

 

The Golden Gate Bridge

When everything seems up in the air, remember this photo. The view from up there is magnificent!

Photo by Dick Wrye

Portland, Oregon

 

 

 

 

Kintai Bridge over Nishiki River in Kintaikyo, Iwakuni, Japan. No nails or bolts were used to build the arches--only clamps and wires

Photos from Steven Kaatz

Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota

 

 

 

 

Crossing over to safety…figurines depicting Mary, Joseph, and Jesus fleeing to Egypt ... as seen near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

Photo by Jonathan Laabs

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Multnomah Falls, east of Portland, Oregon.

Retired Lutheran high school educators Richard Wrye and Fred Nelson are waving.

Photo by Karen Wrye, Portland, Oregon

 

 

 

 

Huey P. Long bridge in New Orleans...site for the 2010 LEA National Administrators Conference

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

High--medium--low bridges of New Orleans on the Industrial Canal...New Orleans hosts the LEA National Administrators Conference in February 2010.

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Approach to the old New Orleans bridge over the Industrial Canal…How many bridges are in place for you to cross over with the love of Jesus Christ?

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Small bridge over bayou in New Orleans neighborhood

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

A bridge to hope … Camp Restore in New Orleans. Participants attending the LEA National Administrators Conference have a Saturday opportunity to be part of that bridge.

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

 

 

 

 

Bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy

Photo by Richard & Karen Wrye

Portland, Oregon

 

 

 

Old Roman Bridge in Salamanca, Spain from Concordia, Ann Arbor student studying abroad.

Photo by Brianna Sonnenberg

Concordia University

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

 

 

For Black History Month...to commemorate a historic landmark in civil rights history…the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Photo by Vicki Helmling

Grace (English) Lutheran School

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

Bay Bridge in San Francisco taken from Alcatraz

Photo by Jonathan Kamin

St. Paul Lutheran School

Cheney, Kansas

 

 

 

Natural bridge at Point Arena, California

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

River Forest, Illinois

 

 

 

 

Bridge at Castle of Coca, Spaing

Photo by Briana Sonnenberg

Concordia University

Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

 

 

Pudding River Trestle at Fort Bragg, California

Photo by Kathy Slupik

Lutheran Education Association

River Forest, Illinois

 

 

Stepps-Holmen Bridge

connecting Blaise to Ships' Island in Stockholm, Sweden

Photo by Tom & Lois Giordano

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

 

 

Bridge at the Grand Canyon

Photo by Tom Grunow

LEA Board of Directors Chair

Portland, Oregon

 

 

See Crossing Over Gallery 1