My dad, August Hauptman was a Missouri Synod Lutheran Minister. He began preaching in 1947 and retired in 1988. He continued to serve the Lord by preaching at many churches through out the Los Angeles area. The earliest sermon I have is from New Years of 1956. His last sermon I have a record of is from June 1, 2012. My dad was 89 years old when he preached this last sermon. He died just three weeks shy of age 97.

I’m not sure if my dad kept any sermons prior to 1956 but I imagine after preaching a few years it made things easier to have a collection of sermons to refer back to. My dad served the deaf his whole career. He served deaf congregations in Great Falls, Montana, Spokane, Washington, St. Paul, Minnesota, Toledo, Ohio and Los Angeles, California.

Roughly two thirds of the sermons my dad left were hand written. Initially, I scanned all of my dads sermons (almost 900) thinking I would just post them as pdf files. After looking at them it made sense to me to just convert them to html files since they take much less space and are much faster to retrieve. it took considerable time to convert hand written sermons since OCR can't convert them. December 13, 2025 I finally converted the last sermon, 871 in total now. It was quite a task just converting what was there to a digital format (pdf). I don’t think my dad had any intention of publishing his sermons but I felt that since it was his life’s work they would be valuable to other ministers and to anyone that would take the time to read and review the sermon bible verses. I not only learned a lot about my dad but it was a great bible review and has encouraged me to read daily devotions and the bible.