This summer, the Lutheran Heritage Foundation (LHF) released its 500th publication: the Latvian edition of Eyes, Ears and All My Senses — a catechism workbook for teenagers first published by Concordia Publishing House in 2000. Based in Macomb, Mich., LHF…
Operation Barnabas sponsors training
“Operation Barnabas,” the two-year-old LCMS program that’s designed to support Lutheran chaplains and reserve soldiers who are called to wartime duty, is sponsoring one-day workshops for pastors and laypeople who want to start such ministries in their congregations. The first…
2010 pocket diary available from LWML
The Lutheran Women’s Missionary League is now offering its 2010 “Serve the Lord with Gladness” pocket diary/calendar. The pocket diary is small enough to fit in a pocket or purse and offers: a place to record daily prayer requests and…
Joy FM to acquire KFUO-FM 'CLASSIC99'
ST. LOUIS — The Board of Directors of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has approved the acquisition of KFUO-FM “CLASSIC99” by Joy FM for $18 million, plus interest scheduled over 10 years, for a total of $26 million. Under the acquisition…
Synod, Latin Americans will co-train missionaries
By Paula Schlueter Ross LCMS World Mission and its partners in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay have decided to co-train their missionaries to better prepare them for cross-cultural service and to help foster a “global Lutheran mission movement.” At…
COP adopts worship ‘theses’
Welcoming seven new presidents elected by delegates to LCMS district conventions this year, the Synod’s Council of Presidents (COP) at its Sept. 19-22 meeting in St. Louis unanimously adopted for use throughout the church a document titled “Theses on Worship”…
Karner: Be informed, engage in health reform
By Kim Plummer Krull Months ago, parish nurses began raising questions with LCMS Life and Health Ministries Director Maggie Karner about how a new national health insurance program might impact sanctity of life issues. Now that the health care reform…
LCMS leaders: Continue cooperative ministries, when possible
By John R. Brooks BALTIMORE — Leaders of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) agreed to do all they could do to continue their longtime cooperative work together in areas of “cooperation in externals,” despite…
Mercy Works magazine now available only online
This fall, the deaconess ministry-focused Mercy Works magazine will only be available online. Produced and distributed by LCMS World Relief and Human Care (LCMS WR-HC) since 2006, the purpose of the magazine, as stated in its inside cover, is “to…
Kieschnick: Not implementing ELCA assembly actions 'would be a blessing'
“It would be a blessing to our ongoing cooperative relationships” if decisions of the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly allowing non-celibate homosexuals to serve as rostered leaders in that church body “were not implemented,” Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod President Gerald B. Kieschnick…
Pressure Points (Oct. 2009)
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: “Not that my faith is dead, but … I do not feel the same passion I once felt in my faith.” A: This is one sentence of a much larger communication from a writer I…
Requests for Reinstatement (Oct. 2009)
RICHARD LATTERNER, Jordan, Minn., and KURT OVERWAY, Hudsonville, Mich., have applied for reinstatement to the Ministers of Religion-Ordained roster of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. JENNIFER STOLLENWERK, Waukesha, Wis., and CHERYL WILLIG, Indianapolis, Ind., have applied for reinstatement to the Ministers…
Positions (Oct. 2009)
Concordia International School Shanghai, Shanghai, China, seeks to fill the position of elementary school principal. Application deadline is Nov. 30. For more information about this position, including job description, qualifications, and application process, visit www.ciss.com.cn/employment, and then click on “Job…
Call for Nominations: Florida-Georgia District LCEF VP
LCMS Florida-Georgia District Lutheran Church Extension Fund seeks applications and nominations for the position of vice president. The individual selected for this position will serve on the Florida-Georgia District Executive Team and be responsible for the operation and promotion of…
Items wanted, available (Oct. 2009)
Note: Reporter cannot accept notices about items offered for sale or that people wish to purchase. Items described as “Wanted” or “Available” are sought or may be obtained for shipping costs only. Wanted Set of stoles for use at an…
Notice (Oct. 2009)
The 2007 convention of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod passed Resolution 5-01B, “To Establish Specific Ministry Pastor Program.” Res. 5-01B contained a reporting mandate: “That the Specific Ministry Pastor Committee submit a progress report to the Synod at least nine months…
