Forty of them were massacred in 373, and on the same day another group of solitaries at Raithe (supposed to be Elim) were killed by a second band of barbarians.
In the week before his death, Rev. Heese escorted a sick friend, Mr. Craig, to the Swiss Mission Hospital at Elim, North of Fort Edward, for an operation.
This is the westernmost location for the range of Black Spruce, Picea mariana.
The AELC's forerunner was Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (ELIM), a moderate caucus within the LCMS that opposed the Synod's more conservative turn in the early and mid-1970s.
The community started out as neighborhoods known as vengs, such as College Veng, Dorcas Veng, Elim Veng, Go Cin Khup Veng, Hebron Veng, Sim Veng, Zion Veng, Veng Nuam and Khomin thang, and today it is one of the most rapidly expanding parts of the city.
In 1983 Young earned his bachelor's degree from L. I. F. E. Bible College in Los Angeles and became an ordained pastor, eventually serving as senior pastor of Elim Foursquare Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, from 1986-1988.
Besides his studies at Elim Bible Institute, Paul graduated from Luther Rice University (with a B.A. biblical studies), was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, (and in Rome) was granted the Graduate Catechetical Diploma by The Most Rev. Paul Laverde, the Bishop of Arlington, Virginia.
First called Elim Bible College, it was founded in 1925 by the evangelist George Jeffreys, also co-founder and leader of Elim.