Born: June 19, 1914, Willow Creek, Minnesota.

Danker was educated at Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Wheaton College (BA); the University of Chicago (MA); and the University of Heidelberg (DTheol, magna cum laude). After ordination, he pastored at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Harvard, Illinois (1937-42), and Trinity Lutheran Church, West Chicago, Illinois (1942-8). From 1948-55, he served as the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s first missionary to Japan. Upon his return to America, he became a professor at Concordia Seminary, and directed the World Mission Institute. His works in­clude:

• Two Worlds or None—Rediscovering Missions (Concordia Publishing, 1964)
• Profit for the Lord: Economic Activities in Moravian Missions and the Basel Mission Trading Company, with R. Pierce Beaver, 1971
• Economic Activities in Support of Early Protestant Missions (Missionary Research Library, 1971)
• More Than Healing: The Story of Kiyoko Matsuda (Concordia Publishing House, 1973)

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Lyrics

1. The Sending, Lord, Springs (© 1966)