Responses from delegates at the 2009 LCMS district conventions will be used by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synod Structure and Governance to further refine its proposals for restructure prior to completing its final report, due in the Office…

Concordia Publishing House has announced that the hardback edition of The Lutheran Study Bible is available for purchase — five weeks earlier than scheduled — with the leather editions available by the end of September.  Pre-ordering sale prices are still…

Lutheran Hour Ministries has announced that follow-up training for its “Equipping to Share” witnessing workshop is available online.  The online site includes additional materials such as Scripture references, resources for further study, training articles, tips for sharing one’s faith, and…

Dr. Howard E. Mueller, a long-time Health Ministries leader in the Synod, died of pneumonia Sept. 11 in St. Louis. A memorial service was held Sept. 22 in the chapel at Laclede Groves, a retirement facility in Webster Groves, Mo., a…

By Paula Schlueter Ross ST. LOUIS — They were male and female.  Young and old.  Black and white.  Professional church workers and laypeople. Some consider themselves lifelong prayer warriors, or “intercessors.”  Others are convinced they don’t pray enough. All came…

Katie Stam, “Miss America” for 2009, will make two appearances at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, on Oct. 15 — at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Stam, a native of Seymour, Ind., and a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church there, is on…

Barbara Huggins of Glendale, Mo., has been appointed by the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League as its new archivist-historian.  She succeeds Peggi Lawrence of Eureka, Calif., who retired after serving in the post since 1993. Huggins has served for many years…

The 29th Annual Fall Festival at the historic Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna, Mo., will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 10.  Frohna is located in Perry County, Mo., a little more than an hour’s drive south…

“No way — that’s in the Bible?” is the reaction author Rev. Jay Reed hears when he talks about the unusual accounts in the Bible that are featured in his new youth Bible study from Concordia Publishing House. That’s in the…

The “Men’s NetWork,” a ministry of Lutheran Hour Ministries, has released How We Got the Bible, a five-lesson, video-based Bible study featuring Dr. Paul L. Maier. The new study takes an in-depth look at how the Bible was written and…

By Linda C. Hoops Family ministry leaders in the Synod are convinced that intentional family ministry is not another “congregational program” that serves a specific age group. Rather, it is an all-encompassing viewpoint that provides for and encourages the shaping…

Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill., is enrolling students in a new online option for its master of arts in religion program. Like its traditional classroom counterpart, the new online program is designed for church workers who want to enhance…

At a White House meeting Aug. 20, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) continued to call for fair and humane immigration reform. “People of faith recognize the moral imperative and are looking for practical solutions,” said Leslie Vélez, LIRS director…

“Mankind’s Origin: Monkey or Messiah (Implications for Christian Witness in the 21st Century)” is the topic of Concordia Seminary’s fall Lay Bible Institute. Designed for laypeople, the institute is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. on four consecutive Wednesdays in…

By Paula Schlueter Ross In his keynote to the 26th National Conference of Lutherans For Life (LFL), July 24-25 in St. Louis, Bobby Schindler said his sister, Terri Schindler Schiavo, did not die a peaceful death, as her husband has…

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…