Note to outreach-minded congregations:  If you’re near a college or university campus, a huge mission field is right in your own back yard. That’s the message of the Lutheran Campus Mission Association (LCMA), a newly formed LCMS mission society that has…

By Kim Plummer Krull Pvt. Michelle Witmer died in Iraq, but her love for children continues to live through a matching gift to Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. “Michelle had a special place in her heart for the disabled orphans in…

Young people from congregations with groups at this year’s LCMS youth gathering elected a new five-member executive board for Lutheran Youth Fellowship (LYF), the Synod’s youth organization, when they met as the LYF delegate assembly July 24 at the Rosen…

The 11th annual Arizona Lutherhostel sponsored by the national Association of Lutheran Older Adults (ALOA) will be held March 7-11 in Tucson, Ariz.  The event is designed to provide an “opportunity for older adults to experience intellectual, social and spiritual…

A conference designed to show Lutherans how to start a congregation with a child-care center will be held Nov. 2-4 in Las Vegas. The conference is sponsored by the Open Arms Institute, a ministry that fosters and guides “Lutheran church planting…

Registration — online or via “snail mail” — is open for the Lutheran Education Association’s eighth triennial convocation, set for April 7-9 in Indianapolis. For instructions and access to the online registration form for the convocation and housing, go to www.lea.org/convocation/reg.htm. …

To celebrate the 150th anniversary this fall of the Wendish immigration to the United States, Concordia University Press, the publishing arm of Concordia University at Austin, has published A Rock Against Alien Waves: The History of the Wends. Written by Dr.…

“Lectionary at Lunch,” a Web resource from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, that provides audio files to help pastors prepare sermons, now offers a new discussion-group feature.  At www.csl.edu/lection.htm, pastors can hear seminary faculty members translating the Old Testament and Gospel…

A brochure on the growing ministry of parish nursing is now available in Spanish from LCMS Health Ministries, a unit of LCMS World Relief and Human Care.  The resource is for anyone who speaks Spanish and is interested in learning…

Wheat Ridge Ministries is rolling out nine seal designs from the past for its 2004 Christmas seals.  Getting set to mark its 100th anniversary next year, Wheat Ridge has offered seals and received donations from those using them since 1911.…

With 25 two-member teams ready to serve, “Harvesters for Christ” would like to hear from congregations that need a team to help begin, revitalize, enhance or expand their outreach-ministry efforts. Since 1997, more than 100 congregations in 29 districts have used…

The Daniel Preus letter In considering former First Vice President Daniel Preus’ objections to Res. 7-02A (Reporter, Sept ’04), he and the Synod should keep in mind what the Commission on Constitutional Matters has already said.  In the minutes of its…

Concordia University, River Forest, Ill., is seeking two full-time visiting assistant/associate professors of educational administration and/or research to teach leadership or research courses in the MA School Leadership program and the doctoral leadership program. Professors are expected to have excellence in…

By Paula Schlueter Ross One hurricane is bad enough, but several in a row have created widespread devastation in Florida that is “just absolutely mind-boggling,” according to Lutheran Services Florida spokesman Zack Koczanski. “This is a very, very large crisis here,” Koczanski said. …

An amendment to the Synod’s Constitution adopted by this year’s Synod convention and sent to LCMS congregations for ratification is drawing some opposition.  But the chairman of the floor committee that offered the amendment says it is simply a “clarification”…