2025 - Reporter

Available & Wanted

Items wanted, available (Dec. 2025)

Available this month are a variety of church furnishings and music.

Districts

Official notice: LCMS districts (Dec. 2025)

Updates from districts of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

Reinstatements

Official notice: Requests for reinstatement (Dec. 2025)

Official notice regarding requests for reinstatement to the ordained or commissioned roster of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

Colloquies

Official notice: Colloquies (Dec. 2025)

Official notice regarding applications for colloquy in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

Positions

Positions (Dec. 2025)

Positions are available with the Concordia University System.

News

All Nations Council gathers in St. Louis

The gathering brought together 13 representatives from 10 different ethnic mission societies and ministries around the country.

News

‘Together as Synod’ gifts support areas of greatest opportunity

Every undesignated gift to the LCMS bolsters domestic and international efforts to give a bold witness, show mercy and live life together as children of God.

Obituaries

In Memoriam (December 2025)

Obituaries for ordained and commissioned ministers.

Anniversaries

Congregational Anniversaries (December 2025)

Announcements featuring special church anniversaries.

Reading & Study

November ‘LW’: Witnessing to Christ

The November issue of The Lutheran Witness is all about mission.

People

LEA bids farewell to Laabs, welcomes Wrege

Dr. Thomas Wrege, who succeeds Dr. Jonathan C. Laabs, will begin serving Jan. 1, 2026.

News

Campus clips: Concordias break ground, announce new partnerships

Updates from LCMS schools, universities, campus ministries and seminaries.

News

BOD, COP, mission boards hold fall meetings

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Board of Directors, Council of Presidents and Boards for International Mission and National Mission met in St. Louis in August and September.