The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League has produced “Faith Talk,” an interactive, DVD-based workshop that is designed to encourage women to share their faith with others. In addition to the DVD, the “Faith Talk” outreach program includes a participant’s guide of…

Church organists of all abilities will have opportunities to improve their skills during workshops offered this summer at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind. The workshops are designed for organists who are already playing, whether they have years of experience…

Dr. Mark Larson of Aurora, Colo., and Paula (Polly) Faszholz Gregali of St. Louis have been named to new positions at St. Louis-based Lutheran Hour Ministries (LHM). Larson began serving Jan. 4 as director of LHM’s United States Ministries division,…

By Kim Plummer Krull In the 30 years that Laborers For Christ has helped LCMS congregations and organizations tackle their own construction projects and build within their budgets, Dan Baker says he has “never seen a more economical time to…

By Paula Schlueter Ross Three LCMS missionary families stationed in Jos, Nigeria, and members of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria are reported safe after attacks that killed some 200 people in the West African nation. According to Synod Missionary Dr.…

By Linda C. Hoops The man known as “the father of Lutheranism in Haiti,” Dr. Doris Jean Louis, was murdered March 12 at his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during an attempted robbery. Dr.  Louis, who received his M.Div. through colloquy…

Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF) is taking pre-orders for a reprint of Santa Biblia, its free Spanish-language Bible combined with Luther’s Small Catechism.  The volume may be used by congregations and others as they reach out with the Gospel to Hispanics…

Linda Hartke began serving Feb. 22 as president and chief executive officer of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) in Baltimore. Hartke most recently served as executive director of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland, an international network of…

Concordia Publishing House is inviting its customers to help send up to 20,000 children’s religious books to Haiti. Every $10 donation received in CPH’s “Help for Haiti” campaign — now through April 11 — will be used to provide a…

Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod President Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick has written a book about the LCMS titled Waking the Sleeping Giant: The Birth, Growth, Decline, and Rebirth of an American Church. “People in our church body have a right to know what’s…

By Roland Lovstad While the institutional church wrestles with worship forms, a new generation is just as likely to consider “church” to be coffee at Starbucks or a breakfast gathering with members of their tight-knit Christian community. Those emerging Christians seek to…

By Elizabeth Mowery Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod President Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick shared time with leaders and members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) as he visited the disaster-struck nation March 1-2. While in Haiti, Kieschnick brought words of…

Representatives of the Japan Lutheran Church (JLC) and the LCMS will meet Aug. 30-31 for their fourth round of discussions concerning the two church bodies’ relationships in light of the JLC’s proposal to ordain women.  The representatives made that decision…

LCMS Campus Ministry, in partnership with National Lutheran Student Fellowship, invites college students and campus ministry leaders and volunteers to its annual Campus Mission Confabulation gathering May 28-30 (Memorial Day weekend) in Omaha, Neb. “‘Confabulation’ essentially means ‘chat,’ and a…

Beginning with the March 2010 edition, all delegates to the 2010 Synod convention are receiving the printed and mailed Reporter, the official monthly newspaper of the LCMS.  Clergy delegates and other Synod-rostered workers, as well as some congregational officers, are already on…

The LCMS Commission on Ministerial Growth and Support (CMGS) is finishing work on resources to help congregations and other church communities observe what it is suggesting as a first-time “Ministerial Wellness Week” in the Synod for May 16-22 with an…