Dr. Perry A. Bresemann of Frankenmuth, Mich., accepted a call in May to serve as associate director of Schools/national director of technology for Lutheran Schools, a new position with LCMS District and Congregational Services — School Ministry.  He plans to begin…

By Paula Schlueter Ross LCMS World Relief/Human Care and its Baltimore-based partner, Lutheran World Relief, are providing emergency aid to victims of a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the island of Java, in central Indonesia, May 27. The quake and hundreds…

Minnesota North District President Donald J. Fondow was re-elected, by unanimous voice vote, to a second three-year term at the district’s 19th convention May 8-10 in Brainerd, Minn.  Fondow, of Park Rapids, Minn., was installed by LCMS President Gerald B.…

Delegates to the LCMS New Jersey District convention unanimously re-elected Rev. William Klettke of Wrightstown to his second three-year term as district president.  Klettke was unopposed.  The convention was May 18-20 at Swedesboro. Re-elected to his third term in office…

Rev. Thomas Prachar was re-elected to his third term as president of Lutheran Church–Canada’s (LCC) Central District at the district’s April 24-26 convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  Prachar, 51, was first elected in 2000. Delegates also elected as regional vice presidents:…

By James Heine DITTMER, Mo. — For Hope Day, her journey to faith is even more extraordinary than her journey last fall from her home and husband in Beijing to her temporary home in suburban Detroit, Mich., where she has…

The Deaf Lutheran Mission Society, based in Janesville, Wis., is sponsoring a free workshop for deaf people July 31-Aug. 3 at Christ Lutheran Church in Phoenix. The four-day workshop, which will be conducted in American Sign Language, includes an opening…

Delegates to the 34th convention of the LCMS Southeastern District re-elected President Dr. Jon Diefenthaler to his second three-year term.  Diefenthaler was installed by Synod President Gerald B. Kieschnick during the convention, which was held May 5-7 in Norfolk, Va.…

Delegates re-elected Dr. Robert Newton of San Jose, Calif., on the first ballot to a second three-year term as president of the LCMS California-Nevada-Hawaii (CNH) District at its 67th convention May 5-7 in Sacramento, Calif. On the third ballot, they…

By James Heine In addition to unanimously adopting a report on the public rebuke of public sin (see related story), the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) at its May 1-3 meeting in St. Louis also adopted a…

By James Heine The LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) adopted a statement about the public rebuke of public sin at its May 1-3 meeting in St. Louis.  (For other actions taken at the meeting, see related story.)…

Dr. Jaroslav J. Pelikan, a 1946 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and a well-known Yale historian and theologian, died May 13 of lung cancer at his home in Hamden, Conn.  He was 82. A Lutheran who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy,…

A conference on “Gospel Outreach and Early Childhood Ministry” will take place Aug. 2-4 at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon.  The conference is sponsored jointly by the Open Arms Institute, an LCMS Recognized Service Organization in Loveland, Colo., and the university’s…

Wheat Ridge Ministries, Itasca, Ill., invites LCMS congregations to submit applications beginning July 1 for its Congregation Health and Hope Grant program.  Deadline for applications is Sept. 30. All Lutheran congregations — individually or in partnership with others — are…

Dr. Arthur T. Kuehnert, a former three-term president of the LCMS Central Illinois District (CID) and assistant to LCMS President Emeritus Ralph A. Bohlmann, died of complications from prostate cancer April 7 at his Albuquerque, N.M, home. A memorial service…

The International Lutheran Laymen’s League (Int’l LLL) 89th annual convention is set for July 6-9 at the Holiday Inn Grand Mountain and Billings Hotel, Billings, Mont. Its theme is “Glorify the Lord,” based on Psalm 34:3.   Registration, open to anyone…