This post was shared by Rev. Matthew Heise, a missionary to Georgia and Mongolia. He has worked with the local Lutheran church in the region and led Bible studies.
Reporter Online, the website of the Synod’s national, monthly newspaper, Reporter, goes “live” with a new, more up-to-date design on Tuesday, March 19.
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., will use the grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to examine financial aid, student financial literacy and new funding methods, and will share its findings with the church at-large.
According to Rev. Alan Ludwig, “from Siberia just about every direction is south.” Rev. Ludwig teaches at the theological institute of the Siberian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Novosibirsk, Russia, and has been involved in the education there almost from its inaugural year in 1997.
Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis., will host two conferences in May for parish nurses and those interested in congregational health: “Christian Caregiving: The Concept and Practice of Parish Nursing and Congregational Health” — a professional development conference for…
This summer’s 65th Regular Convention of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod offers an opportunity for exhibitors to showcase their programs, products and services to some 3,500 attendees representing the 2.3 million members of the Synod who are expected to attend. The…
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans — the Minneapolis-based, Fortune 500 fraternal-benefits giant with more than $80 billion in assets derived primarily from Lutherans over the past 100 years — is ready to offer its services to all Christians. The idea has…
ST. LOUIS, March 4, 2013—Alumni of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Walther League, the church’s former youth organization, have gathered in Frankenmuth, Mich., for a reunion for the last 28 years.
“Church Fellowship” — a new Synod website at www.lcms.org/churchfellowship — provides extensive resources for a major three-year study of Article VI of the LCMS Constitution that was mandated by Resolution 8-30B of the 2010 LCMS convention. Article VI presents “conditions…
According to Concordia College Alabama in Selma, Ala., the Rev. Mark and Kathy Helge have committed $5 million for new academic programs, scholarships, capital projects and other strategic priorities outlined in the college’s “A Time to Build” campaign initiative. It…
With Barbara A. Below This month’s Reporter includes an official notice listing the floor committee members for this year’s 65th Regular Convention of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Much work has taken place to review and identify convention floor committee…
On Feb. 26, Concordia Plan Services (CPS) announced several modifications to its Concordia Retirement Plan (CRP), effective July 1, 2014. The Synod Board of Directors approved the changes Feb. 21. The changes were announced in letters sent to active…
By Joe Isenhower Jr. ST. LOUIS — Perhaps it was good timing that the Synod Board of Directors’ (BOD) Feb. 21-22 meeting had just gotten under way at a hotel near the airport here when the harshest winter storm to-date…
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