All 35 LCMS districts hold their triennial conventions this year — starting with North Dakota’s, Jan. 18-21 in Minot, N.D., and ending with Central Illinois’, July 5-7 in Springfield, Ill. Reporter plans to carry a summary story on each convention,…

With the input of a small group of scientists, pastors, teachers, and church workers, the LCMS Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) expects to gain input for a future report on Christian stewardship of the environment — plus ideas…

Dr. L. Dean Hempelmann — who was instrumental in forming the What a Way initiative to support recruitment and retention of Synod-rostered professional church workers — is now that initiative’s first director, on a part-time, deployed basis.   Hempelmann retired…

Wheat Ridge Ministries of Itasca, Ill., announced that it is awarding more than $237,000 in grants to 14 congregations and to help seven new projects of other ministries.  The congregations include six in the Missouri Synod. Grants totaling $211,231 are going…

By James Neuendorf Missionaries from all over Latin America and the Caribbean gathered Dec. 2-5 for the 2008 LCMS World Mission Regional Missionary Retreat.  It was the first LCMS World Mission retreat to include partner-church missionaries.  The gathering, which took…

Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod President Gerald Kieschnick issued on Jan. 8 the following statement about the conflict in Gaza. It’s only 139 square miles in area, 25 miles long, and 4 to 7.5 miles wide –- a strip of land along…