Scholarship Presentation to
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

On February 16, 2006, a scholarship was presented to the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in the name of Rev. R.H. Klaudt by the Klaudt Indian Memorial Foundation.

Rev. Klaudt was called into the ministry in the mid 1920’s on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota while in his early teens. He spent the first years of his ministry as an evangelist in and around the Northwest area of North Dakota, riding horse-back to his revival services.

In 1929, he married Lillian Little Soldier and their ministry began to expand as Rev. Klaudt and Lillian planted churches in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, Washington, and Nebraska. During their move south in the late 1940’s they pioneered churches in Louisiana, Illinois and Kentucky. As the Klaudt Family moved into Southern Gospel Music, Dad Klaudt relinquished his personal ministry to become the road manager for the Family.

Sharing in this event, in a fund raising concert for the Foundation at North Metro First Baptist Church in Lawrenceville Georgia, were the Florida Boys Quartet and the Jody Brown Indian Family.

For further Klaudt history, visit: http://www.sgma.org/gogr_history/klaudt_indian_family.htm