By Paula Schlueter Ross This year’s Association of Lutheran Mission Agencies (ALMA) conference attracted a few non-members, which actually makes a lot of sense, according to Rev. B. Steve Hughey, LCMS World Mission’s adviser to the organization. ALMA is a network of…
Mission society seeks volunteers for biking fund-raiser
Registration opens in February for “Biking Across Kansas,” an annual weeklong recreational rally for cyclists. The Children’s Christian Concern Society (CCCS) is asking for volunteers to take part in the rally to raise funds for its ministry. The statewide bike…
Items wanted, available
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 Communion ware for new LCMS church plant. Contact…
Requests for reinstatement
MARK D. ANSCHUTZ, Topeka, Kan.; KIMBERLY J. BORTZ, Orlando, Fla.; KARA CLOSS, Fairmont, Minn.; and JANICE E. KOOPMAN, Seward, Neb., have applied for reinstatement to the Minister of Religion-Commissioned roster of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Correspondence regarding these applications should…
Calls for nominations: university, district positions
Concordia University, Portland, seeks nominations and applications for a level IV staff position, beginning this spring. This position is responsible for administration and supervision of the Academic Applications Division of Information and Technology Services at Concordia. This division provides direct…
Notice: nominations for seminary president
According to the Bylaws of Synod (3.7.1.6.2 [c]), nominations for the presidency of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, may be put forward only by the following entities: congregations of the Synod, the Board for Pastoral Education, the Board of Regents of…
Seminaries offer free visits
Both Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod seminaries — Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne — are offering free campus visits to prospective students in March. The three-day visits are open to men, college age and older, and their wives…
New Directions conference info to arrive in February
Synod congregations, mission societies, districts, seminaries, and former missionaries should be receiving in February information about “New Directions ’05 — A Networking Conference for Mission Responders,” to be held April 28-May 1 at the St. Louis Airport Marriott. Theme of…
Call for nominations: education executive
The Board for University Education (BUE) and the Board of Directors of the Concordia University System (CUS) is seeking nominations/applications for the executive director BUE/president CUS. The executive director/president is directly responsible to the Board for University Education and is…
Registration opens for `Living Well` symposium
Registration is now open for Wheat Ridge Ministries’ National Symposium on Health and Hope, set for Oct. 13-15 in Denver. With the theme of “Living Well,” the event is being planned as a highlight of the organization’s 100th anniversary this year,…
Is your congregation ready for prime time?
By Jeff Crilley When I was growing up as a preacher’s kid in Detroit, I just figured everyone’s father was interviewed on the news and quoted in the paper each week. It seemed like there were always cameras in my father’s…
The ELCA Task Force Report on Sexuality: An LCMS Response
On January 13, 2005 the “Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality” released its report and recommendations concerning the matter of “blessing same-sex couples who have entered into long-term monogamous covenants of love and care” and the question of “the…
New from CPH: Sermons of Nagel
New from Concordia Publishing House is Selected Sermons of Norman Nagel: From Valparaiso to St. Louis, a collection of 50 years of sermons by Lutheran educator Dr. Norman Nagel. Nagel teaches graduate systematic theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He received…
February 2005 Letters
Teach stewardship The Synod’s excellent definition of Christian stewardship is: “The free and joyous activity of the child of God and God’s family, the church, in managing all of life and life’s resources for God’s purposes.” However, periodic reports of difficult…
Lutherans join 100,000 in `March for Life`
Despite a weekend storm that dumped up to two feet of snow over much of the East Coast and Midwest, an estimated 100,000 people — including a delegation from Lutherans For Life (LFL) — took part in this year’s “March…
