In November, 1851, just two months after its founding, six missionaries from St. Chrischona of Basel, Switzerland, arrived in Texas. Along with Braun, they established the First Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Texas, often called the Texas Synod. The purpose of the synod was to gather the many Lutherans in Texas that were without congregations and a churchly structure. The confession of the synod included subscription to the Lutheran Confessions, adopting the symbolical books as found in the Book of Concord of 1580, accepting the Unaltered Small Catechism, and selecting the German Hymn book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States.