Check about midway down this page http://www.jesuswalk.com/christian-symbols/ship.htm

Though our church doesn’t have stained glass windows, here are some examples from WELS churches in the Midwest that do have it.

http://www.welsstainedglass.org/Symbols/ChurchPage.htm

If you scroll down, there are three examples of ships used in stained glass windows. You can look at the actual pictures by church if you go the WELS Stained Glass main page (http://www.welsstainedglass.org). It’s a pretty neat site and can provide some great examples of digital photography of stained glass windows in Lutheran churches.

Not in our windows, but the red pulpit parament does.

In one of the clerestory windows which all have smaller symbols, a ship is depicted as a symbol of the church (a simple sailboat — not some mighty three master…)

Paul you might want to know that Scandinavian Lutheran buildings often included ship models as a symbol of the church and mission work… I recall St. Peters at the tip of Long Island had a ship model hanging in the nave…

If I recall correctly, there may be one in the chapel at Grand View College in Des Moines. If there isn’t one in stained glass, there is a model ship that hangs from the open rafters of the chapel (which someone once explained to me as representing ‘the church’ – a similar idea at the Danish college.)

Hi,

Thanks to Jeremiah for pointing out my web site of stained glass in the WELS. There are several pictures of the church as a ship, and I probably have more. Look under the “symbols” section and look at the symbols for the church. If you need a higher res image, contact me directly.