Is your congregation ready for prime time?

By Jeff Crilley When I was growing up as a preacher’s kid in Detroit, I just figured everyone’s father was interviewed on the news and quoted in the paper each week.  It seemed like there were always cameras in my father’s…

Registration opens for `Living Well` symposium

Registration is now open for Wheat Ridge Ministries’ National Symposium on Health and Hope, set for Oct. 13-15 in Denver. With the theme of “Living Well,” the event is being planned as a highlight of the organization’s 100th anniversary this year,…

Call for nominations: education executive

The Board for University Education (BUE) and the Board of Directors of the Concordia University System (CUS) is seeking nominations/applications for the executive director BUE/president CUS.  The executive director/president is directly responsible to the Board for University Education and is…

New Directions conference info to arrive in February

Synod congregations, mission societies, districts, seminaries, and former missionaries should be receiving in February information about “New Directions ’05 — A Networking Conference for Mission Responders,” to be held April 28-May 1 at the St. Louis Airport Marriott.  Theme of…

Seminaries offer free visits

Both Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod seminaries — Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne — are offering free campus visits to prospective students in March. The three-day visits are open to men, college age and older, and their wives…

Notice: nominations for seminary president

According to the Bylaws of Synod (3.7.1.6.2 [c]), nominations for the presidency of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, may be put forward only by the following entities:  congregations of the Synod, the Board for Pastoral Education, the Board of Regents of…

Calls for nominations: university, district positions

Concordia University, Portland, seeks nominations and applications for a level IV staff position, beginning this spring.  This position is responsible for administration and supervision of the Academic Applications Division of Information and Technology Services at Concordia.  This division provides direct…

Requests for reinstatement

MARK D. ANSCHUTZ, Topeka, Kan.; KIMBERLY J. BORTZ, Orlando, Fla.; KARA CLOSS, Fairmont, Minn.; and JANICE E. KOOPMAN, Seward, Neb., have applied for reinstatement to the Minister of Religion-Commissioned roster of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.  Correspondence regarding these applications should…

Positions

Hong Kong International School, Tai Tam, Hong Kong, was founded and is owned by The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.  We are a coeducational school for students from R1-12, providing an American-based curriculum to a diverse student population.  We offer a unique,…

Items wanted, available

Note:  Reporter cannot accept notices about items offered for sale or that people wish to purchase.  Items described as “Wanted” or “Available” are sought or may be obtained for shipping costs only. Wanted Communion ware for new LCMS church plant.  Contact…