These sermons were done by Reverend August Hauptman during his preaching career as a Missouri Synod Lutheran Minister. The sermons were converted to pdf files (871 total) after his passing in 2020. Approximately two-thirds of the sermons were hand written. I used a Canon, CanoScan, LIDE 210 to manually scan all sermons. Most of the sermons also had the original church bulletins.

I decided for web presentation that the sermons would benefit most by being converted to html files. It took considerable time to convert them to html. On December 13, 2025 I converted the last sermon to html format. The information from the church bulletins and sermons was input into a MySQL database. Database queries were then written to provide the data in a more structured way such as by sermon title, sermon bible text, and month and day. These queries were then exported out of the database and converted to html also. I used DBeaver, a universal open source database manager to add records to the database as well as write sql queries.

I used two additional programs Geany, a open source ide editor and Bluefish also a open source ide. I found both of these programs great to work with in developing this web site.

The website was created by Marty Hauptman. I can be reached at tianhaupt@yahoo.com for questions regarding this website. Family members and friends you have my personal email. I hope you enjoy the sermons.