“Luther,” the motion picture about the life and times of Martin Luther that premiered in theaters last fall, will be available for purchase Nov. 30 in DVD and VHS formats. The film is being released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer on the…

By Kim Plummer Krull  Three years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, needs continue to surface in New York City, including the needs of children who live under the constant threat of another assault. Little ones are the…

The President’s visit I was surprised by the negative tone of the letter in the August Reporter regarding the visit of President Bush to Concordia University Wisconsin’s commencement.  As one who was there (and very proud of my alma mater for…

“Lectionary at Lunch,” a Web resource from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, that provides audio files to help pastors prepare sermons, offers a new discussion-group feature.  At www.csl.edu/lection.htm, pastors can hear seminary faculty members translating the Old Testament and Gospel lessons…

Wheat Ridge Ministries is rolling out nine seal designs from the past for its 2004 Christmas seals. Getting set to mark its 100th anniversay next year, Wheat Ridge has offered seals and received donations from those using them since 1911.…

By David L. Mahsman Rev. Daniel Preus says that he believes some resolutions adopted by this year’s Synod convention “represent a serious change from our historic LCMS polity, others a disenfranchising of God’s people in the matter of their right to…

Young people from congregations with groups at this year’s LCMS youth gathering elected a new five-member executive board for Lutheran Youth Fellowship (LYF), the Synod’s youth organization, when they met as the LYF delegate assembly July 24 at the Rosen…

By Kim Plummer Krull Pvt. Michelle Witmer died in Iraq, but her love for children continues to live through a matching gift to Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. “Michelle had a special place in her heart for the disabled orphans in…

Students at the Synod’s two seminaries will benefit from a new endowment fund established by the late Ella Pelz of Wilmette, Ill., who was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Evanston, Ill. Paul Geidel of the LCMS Foundation, which is…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. As Floridians continue to work at putting their lives back together in the wake of Hurricane Charley, LCMS district officials there say that money and volunteers are needed to help those in southern and central Florida most…

By Paula Schlueter Ross LCMS World Mission has set up a new Web site to track Ablaze! activities worldwide.  The Web site — www.lcmsworldmission.org/ablaze — is set up to record the number of people with whom LCMS and partner church…

Note to outreach-minded congregations:  If you’re near a college or university campus, a huge mission field is right in your own backyard. That’s the message of the Lutheran Campus Mission Association (LCMA), a newly formed LCMS mission society that has signed…

By Kim Plummer Krull A veteran LCMS chaplain is fighting to regain access at two Northern Illinois racetracks where he has baptized babies, led worship and checked on the spiritual and physical needs of low-income track workers and their families for…

The Synod’s “What a Way” initiative officially got under way this summer by awarding 24 scholarships and continuing-education certificates to Concordia University System schools and announcing its new Web site.   “We felt that the best thing we could do…

When 11 children arrived at Carol Joy Holling Camp near Ashland, Neb., for a July 17-18 weekend just for them, they had one thing in common — they all rode out the F-4 tornadoes that hit a 52-mile swath of southeast…

The president and treasurer of the Lutheran Church of Nigeria (LCN) have been released from a local hospital and are recuperating after a robbery at the church headquarters July 18. LCN President Rev. E.E. Ekanem says he was roused from bed…