Last month the Synod’s Board for University Education mailed to all LCMS congregations a brochure promoting “Concordia Sunday,” suggested for April 29. The special observance, which may be held that day or any Sunday of the year, is designed to…
During a Feb. 1 ceremony at the Pentagon, the U.S. Defense Department recognized Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif., for supporting one of its students and a program she started to thank those who serve in the armed forces.…
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will host its 5th annual “Day of Homiletical Reflection” on May 2 from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in its Clara and Spencer Werner Auditorium. The event is designed for pastors, students involved in homiletical education,…
“Connecting with your Community Through Childcare” is the focus of a conference to be held April 26-28 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Glenview, Ill. The conference is sponsored by the Loveland, Colo.-based Open Arms Institute, a ministry that “fosters and…
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, is sponsoring an 11-day tour of England and Scotland this summer. Highlights of “The Best of England and Scotland” tour, July 23-Aug. 2, will be “cathedrals, castles, pageantry, history, good food, and fellowship,” according to…
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will host the “Paul Gerhardt Hymn Festival” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at its Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. The festival, commemorating the work of Lutheran hymn writer Paul Gerhardt on the 400th…
Renowned Talmudic scholar, biologist, and rabbi Dr. Carl Feit of New York will be the main presenter at a forum hosted by the Concordia Seminary Institute on Lay Vocation in St. Louis. “Called to Be Human: Jewish and Lutheran Perspectives…
Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM) is offering free daily devotions for the Lenten season. Titled Time for Renewal, they were written by Rev. Doug Nicely, chaplain at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. The devotions will be available — beginning on Ash…
Concordia Publishing House in January released Matthew 1:1-11:1, the latest volume in its Concordia Commentary: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture series. The series is designed to “enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater…
March 1 is the deadline for congregations to submit a grant request to Wheat Ridge Ministry’s Good Samaritan Grant Program. Wheat Ridge, in partnership with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, offers the grants to encourage the development of new programs…
A music CD titled Bach at the Sem has been released by The American Kantorei, under the direction of Robert Bergt, music director/conductor and artist-in-residence at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. The CD is a reproduction of the KFUO-FM Classic 99…
Dr. Florence Montz, who combined her passions for nursing and religion by offering her medical and leadership skills to numerous Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod entities, died Feb. 7 at a nursing home in Bismarck, N.D. Montz, 82, had suffered from Alzheimer’s…
Registration for the 2007 National Youth Gathering and the concurrent Adult Gathering remain open, with the registration fee of $235 per participant in effect through March 1. As previously announced by Gathering planners, participants registered after March 1 will be…
The 110th Congress of the United States, sworn in Jan. 4, includes 18 Lutherans — 11 Democrats and 7 Republicans, according to the ELCA Washington Office, the federal public policy advocacy office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Two…
with Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: I am 15 and a junior in high school. I think I want to become a pastor. My father is an elder at our church. He reads your column and gave it to me. He…
Worker debt I just read the article about the debt study in the January Reporter. I found the first sentence interesting: “While three out of four LCMS-rostered workers are comfortable with their current levels of debt, about one-third of them…
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