“Witness, Mercy, Life Together: Blessings — Challenges — Opportunities,” the 16-minute video prepared by the LCMS Office of the President for the 2012 district conventions, is available online at www.lcms.org/wmltvideo. The video highlights the work of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod through…
CPH offers Father's Day gift ideas
Books and other gift ideas for Father’s Day, June 17, are available from Concordia Publishing House. Among gift items available are: Peak Performance Dad’s Devotional ($2.99, item no. 370149WEB), a 32-page paperback that’s designed for giving on Father’s Day with the…
Congregations to receive Youth Gathering info
In mid-June, Synod congregations will receive by mail the 2013 National LCMS Youth Gathering poster, along with information about registration for the July 1-5 Gathering in San Antonio. The front of the full-color 17-by-22-inch poster gives the Synod’s 12th national…
Convention Corner (June 2012)
With Barbara A. Below The district convention season is in full swing, and important work is going on in those conventions that will lead to the 2013 national convention of the Synod. Districts and their conventions play several new roles…
Council of Presidents assigns first calls
By James Heine ST. LOUIS — At its meeting April 28-May 3, the LCMS Council of Presidents (COP), acting as the Synod’s Board of Assignments, assigned first calls to 139 candidates certified for the pastoral ministry. Also, the COP approved…
Boards continue policy work; 16 calls, appointments made
By Joe Isenhower Jr. and Elizabeth M. Truong ST. LOUIS — At their May 10-11 meetings in St. Louis, the Synod’s two mission boards established by the 2010 LCMS convention continued their primary work of developing policy. One of them…
Board approves $64.6 million-plus operating budget
By Joe Isenhower Jr. ST. LOUIS — The Synod Board of Directors, at its May 17-18 meeting in St. Louis, adopted a national-Synod operating budget of $64,626,022 for the 2012-13 fiscal year that starts July 1. Also approved by the…
ACNA, LCMS release joint statement
By Adriane Dorr Following two years of fraternal theological dialogue, The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) and Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) recently issued a joint statement, affirming “core teachings of the Christian faith shared by…
Parties pose 'creative solution' to save Concordia, Ann Arbor
By Paula Schlueter Ross It’s never been done on such a large scale in The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done: a thriving Lutheran university offering a helping hand to a struggling sister school in another…
Catholics connect 'religious freedom,' 'For Greater Glory' film
(RNS) — The film shows a burning crucifix, gun-toting priests and the torture of a young boy. And the Roman Catholic hierarchy is loving it. The film, “For Greater Glory,” hits theaters June 1 and tells a little-known chapter of Mexican…
Positions (June 2012)
The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Communications department announces an opening for the position of manager of Design Services. The position is accountable to the director of News and Information and is responsible for administering department projects, budgets and staff to ensure…
Official Notice: call for nominations, executive director, Office of International Mission
The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Office of International Mission calls for nominations for the position of executive director. Under the leadership and direction of the president, through the chief mission officer, the executive director is responsible for the oversight and supervision…
Faculty leave Baptist school over 'lifestyle' statement
(RNS) — More than two dozen faculty members have resigned from Shorter University, a Baptist school in Georgia, after it required them to sign a “personal lifestyle statement” that condemns homosexuality, premarital sex and public drinking. An online campaign called “Save…
Pressure Points (June 2012)
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Q: Our congregation has called a new director of Christian education who is beginning with us this summer. A good friend of mine is in another LCMS congregation that is having a couple new Lutheran schoolteachers…
Boards continue policy work; 16 calls, appointments made
By Joe Isenhower Jr. and Elizabeth M. Truong ST. LOUIS — At their May 10-11 meetings in St. Louis, the Synod’s two mission boards established by the 2010 LCMS convention continued their primary work of developing policy. One of them…
Price of hymnal to increase Jan. 1
Concordia Publishing House says it will increase the price of Lutheran Service Book from $23 to $25, beginning Jan. 1, 2013. More than 86 percent of the Synod’s 6,100-plus congregations nationwide now use the hymnal, according to CPH. “Because fewer and fewer…
