Dr. Paul Maier of Kalamazoo, Mich., has given his last lecture as professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, where he has taught for 50 years. Maier, the Synod’s third vice-president, addressed classes for the last time April…

Rev. John Barton “Bart” Day will join the Synod staff July 1 as executive director of the church body’s new Life Together department that will include national mission functions of the ministries based at the Synod’s International Center in St.…

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Peace Officer Ministries Inc. (POM) are offering a workshop May 23-27 on “Christian Law Enforcement Chaplaincy — Theology and Practice.” The five-day workshop, which will be held on the seminary campus, is designed to offer…

Dr. Jane L. Fryar will lead intensive workshops in writing May 16-20 at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis., and May 23-27 at Concordia University Nebraska, Seward, Neb.  Fryar is a writer, editor, speaker and consultant. Sponsored by the Women’s Leadership…

RUDOLF J.S. KEYL, Lancaster, Pa.; ADOLPH W. MOLDENHAUER, North Tonawanda, N.Y.; DAVID RALPH ESTES, Casselberry, Fla.; MARK G. STILLMAN, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and THOMAS E. DONNELLY JR., Oxford, Mich., have applied for reinstatement to the Ministers of Religion–Ordained roster of…

The following institutions of the Concordia University System are seeking candidates for positions: Concordia University, Irvine, Calif., seeks to fill positions in psychology and health professions. Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, Wis., seeks to fill the following positions: physical therapy; special education;…

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By Kim Plummer Krull Four days after the deadly tornado devastated Cullman, Ala., congregation leaders thought maybe 35 people would take time away from sifting through debris and struggling to clean up damaged homes and neighborhoods to take part in…

Dr. David P. Mulder — a parish pastor who formerly served as an LCMS district president and with the staff of the Synod and Concordia Publishing House (CPH) — died May 1 at William Childs Hospice House in Palm Bay,…

By Kim Plummer Krull April brought more than showers in a month filled with weather-related death and destruction that affected congregations throughout the Synod, including a record number of twisters that damaged or destroyed LCMS member homes and interrupted services…

Dr. Philip Kuehnert has been appointed chief executive officer of Open Arms Institute (OAI), the Loveland, Colo.-based organization that works to plant congregations and help existing ministries expand their Gospel outreach through child care centers.  In his new post, Kuehnert…

Lutheran Church Extension Fund (LCEF) will host its third school branding webinar at 4:30 p.m. (CT) on May 5.  The webinar series is part of LCEF’s Project School Zone program that supports Lutheran school marketing and publicity. Titled “Get on…

If you could use some help in learning how to use Facebook, Twitter, websites and more, you might be interested in “Digital Gospel: Speaking the Truth in a Post-Christian World,” a conference about technology, the church and communicating the Gospel…

Church organists are used to practicing at a keyboard, but a new resource is designed to help organists from a computer keyboard instead of the organ console.  A new resource from The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod will provide several short “how…

By Kim Plummer Krull Members of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and School in Cullman, Ala., are among the masses dealing with major damages after powerful storms cut a wide swath through the South on April 27, killing more than 250…