By Kim Plummer Krull While the economic crisis and presidential candidates’ campaigns dominate headlines, little news is heard about Texans who still struggle to clean up their homes and try to get their lives back on track more than one…

By Roland Lovstad Executives of LCMS corporate entities express confidence that well-defined investment policies, expert advice, and advance planning will stay their course on the stormy financial seas of 2008. Interviewed during mid-October as the U.S. stock market tottered from…

Now through Dec. 31, Concordia Publishing House is offering 20 percent off the first quarter of each new subscription of Growing in Worship, a new Sunday worship folder for children and their families. The four-page children’s worship folder highlights the…

Janet B. Leet, principal of Christ Community Lutheran School (CCLS), located at Webster Gardens Lutheran Church, St. Louis, is one of 62 national and international educators recognized as 2008 National Distinguished Principals (NDP) by the National Association of Elementary School…

LCMS World Mission is seeking 20 short-term mission teams to lead weeklong “camps” with teenagers in Poland next summer. Through the camps, LCMS volunteers serving on mission teams will be expected to share their faith while helping Polish youth practice…

The Charles E. Benidt Foundation of Elm Grove, Wis., has committed a challenge grant of $4 million toward the “How Will They Hear?” campaign of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. The “advanced gifts” phase of the campaign began July 1, 2005. …

A consulting group consisting of eight men and eight women appointed by the Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) discussed a revised draft document on the scriptural relationship of man and woman at its fourth and final meeting…

Lutherans For Life (LFL) is launching a new, church-wide initiative that seeks to help pastors and congregations apply the Gospel message in dealing with and discussing complex life issues. Dr. James Lamb, LFL executive director, said that the initiative is…

“Teaching For Life” is a new resource from Lutherans For Life (LFL) designed to help Lutheran school teachers apply God’s Word to life issues in their classrooms.  The program teaches nine key pro-life concepts — one for each month of the…

New subscriptions of the devotional magazine Strength for the Day from Concordia Publishing House will receive the first issue free — in any quantity, as long as it’s delivered to one address.  For example, if your congregation orders a 60-copy subscription,…

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, announces the 17th season of “Bach at the Sem,” featuring presentations of the music of J.S. Bach by The American Kantorei, under the direction of Robert Bergt. The concerts are held at 3 p.m. on weekend…

By Paula Schlueter Ross Two years ago, Ida Mall, who served as president of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League (LWML) from 1991 to 1995, received a letter from Synod President Gerald Kieschnick asking her to consider serving as an “ambassador”…

The Lutheran Services in America Disability Network (LSA-DN) is sponsoring a Spiritual Life Conference focusing on the needs of developmentally disabled people Oct. 20-22 at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott Hotel in Bloomington, Minn. LSA-DN is a network of 17 Lutheran…

By Paula Schlueter Ross The Web site “counter” for the Synod’s worldwide Ablaze! faith-sharing movement got a big boost in September as 183,203 was added to “the number of unreached or uncommitted people with whom the Gospel has been shared…

With only nine years left until the Reformation Day 2017 deadline — and the Ablaze! counter now at 9 million — is it possible for The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and its partners worldwide to share the Gospel with 100 million…

While on vacation in Canada this summer, Kristy, of St. Louis, and her husband, Michael, decided to get pedicures.  When the manicurist found out Michael was a seminary student, she was surprised a pastor-to-be could be married.  That gave Kristy…