6th Finglish trip December 2007 #2 Carl Arthur Kulla (1920-2013), was born to Emil and Ella in Brainerd, Minnesota. Both Emil and Ella were of Laestadian background. Emil had come in contact with Laestadians–including Ella–in Helsinki, Finland around 1895. In 1940 Carl began to serve as a preacher in the Minneapolis congregation of the Apostolic Lutheran Federation, the most tolerant branch of Laestadianism. He would continue in that office for sixty years. Carl became one of