In a March 19 memo to the LCMS Board of Directors, Synod Vice President-Finance/Treasurer Tom Kuchta noted that the national Synod’s “unrestricted revenues have decreased every year after June 30, 2001” — the end of the fiscal year when unrestricted revenues…
A new Web site launched by the Lutheran Society for Missiology could be dubbed “everything you always wanted to know about LCMS missionaries — and more!” The Web site, which has been “live” for about two months, profiles 54 veteran…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: Over the years of teaching [for several decades at the elementary level in the LCMS system], I have noticed that my own faith life is not what it was at one time. … I just…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: Over the years of teaching [for several decades at the elementary level in the LCMS system], I have noticed that my own faith life is not what it was at one time. When I first…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: What were you doing in Cleveland, Ohio, May 19? A: I confess that I made up this question, so that I may address in this column what I was doing in Cleveland that day. Because…
New EnglandJune 4-6Springfield, Mass. Elected: Rev. James E. Keurulainen, Dedham, Mass., fifth term, by acclamation. Rev. Timothy Yeadon, New Hartford, Conn., first vice president. Rev. Larry Nichols, Smithfield, R.I., second vice president. Rev. Scott Schuett, Lebanon, Conn., third vice president.…
MissouriJune 14-16Columbia, Mo. Elected: Dr. Ray Mirly, St. Louis, second term, first ballot. Rev. Alan Wollenburg, Sikeston, Mo., first vice president. Dr. Ken Schurb, Moberly, Mo., second vice president. Dr. Ronald Rall, St. Louis, third vice president. Rev. William Marler,…
IndianaJune 25-26Fort Wayne, Ind. Elected: Dr. Daniel P. May, Fort Wayne, Ind., president, third term, first ballot. Rev. Roger Rohde, Bremen, Ind., first vice president (Northwest Region). Dr. John Fiene, Zionsville, Ind., second vice president (Central Region). Rev. David Mommens,…
MichiganJune 28-July 1Ann Arbor, Mich. Elected: Rev. David P.E. Maier, Dimondale, Mich., president, first term, first ballot. Maier, 52, is senior pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church, Lansing, where he has served since 1989. He has been the district’s first…
MontanaJune 15-18Billings, Mont. Elected: Rev. Terry Forke, Billings, Mont., president, second term, first ballot. Rev. Arlo Pullmann, Laurel, Mont., first vice president. Rev. Chris Tabbert, Eureka, Mont., second vice president. Forke and other officers were installed during the district’s 31st…
Collaboration between Concordia Theological Seminary and Lutheran Ministries Media (LMM), producer of a weekly “Worship for Shut-Ins” program, is resulting in a new television production center on the seminary campus in Fort Wayne. Construction began this summer on a 2,000-square-foot video…
By Joe Isenhower Jr. The Synod’s Board of Directors unanimously adopted a balanced national Synod operating budget of $81,185,878 for the coming year at its May 14-15 meeting and approved a number of measures to help ease what Dr. Thomas…
By Bill Karpenko This summer, we’re celebrating 50 years of director of Christian education (DCE) ministry throughout The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Although there were DCEs at work in our congregations well before 1959, the Synod convention that year — meeting…
Synod “intercessors” are being invited to gather in St. Louis Sept. 10-11 for “PRAY 2009,” an inaugural event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (St. Louis Airport) that two pastors initially planning it pray will spark a prayer movement for the…
By Paula Schlueter Ross As a placement counselor for LCMS World Mission, Jennifer Mustard knows the value of sending teams of U.S. Lutherans to teach weeklong English “camps” in other countries. So she wasn’t too surprised that sending five short-term…
By Linda C. Hoops From ages 1 through 91, they came to serve their community for one weekend in early August. Through projects ranging from raising a barn to packaging almost 50,000 meals, 435 members of Carmel Lutheran Church, Carmel,…
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