The fast-moving “Camp Fire” in Northern California has engulfed some 90,000 acres, causing at least nine confirmed fatalities and the destruction of 6,713 structures in the approximately 27,000-resident town of Paradise.
New This Week

From the Mission Field – Togo Mercy Medical Team
The Rev. Gary Schulte, area director for LCMS West Africa, shares a story from the Togo Mercy Medical Team clinic in September.

Lutheran Prayer Companion offers prayers for ‘almost any situation’
The new book, released by Concordia Publishing House, is the first English translation of a German prayer book from the 1800s.

Boards and Business – COP, BIM, BNM hold fall meetings
Meeting in St. Louis, the groups addressed pertinent topics, heard reports and reviewed policies.

In the November ‘Witness’: State of the Synod
The November ‘Lutheran Witness’ provides a range of informative data and reports.

Registration opens for 2019 Symposia in Fort Wayne
The Jan. 15–18 Symposia Series presented by Concordia Theological Seminary will discuss “Themes in the Gospel of John” and “The Meaning of Biblical Authority.”

Lutherans For Life celebrates 40th anniversary at annual conference
The theme of the conference, held Oct. 12-13 in St. Louis, was “From Age to Age the Same,” a paraphrase of Is. 46:4.

Stohs receives first Henry F. Wind Award for work in Specialized Pastoral Ministry
The award recognizes outstanding leadership in the areas of advocating and promoting chaplaincy, pastoral counseling and/or clinical pastoral education.

CPH ‘Fall Warehouse Sale’ set for Nov. 2–5; ‘Music Presale’ begins Oct. 31
Shop online or in person for special savings on more than 2,100 books, gifts, church supplies and education and music resources from Concordia Publishing House.

Global Mission Fund gifts can be doubled in November
This matching opportunity means that as much as $352,937 — received in just one month — could go toward bringing people all over the world into contact with the life-saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Reporter in ‘Gosnell’ movie based on LCMS member Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Hemingway played a key journalistic role in bringing the Gosnell case to national attention.

Register now for ‘Joy:fully Alive — Body & Soul’
The 2019 LCMS Life Conference will be held Jan. 17–19 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Va.

International Lutheran Council welcomes 17 new church bodies into membership
20 million confessional Lutherans worldwide were represented at the conference, held Sept. 25–28 in Antwerp, Belgium.

From the mission field – Kenya and Papua New Guinea
Project 24 opens a new boarding facility in Kenya; missionaries in Papua New Guinea publish a paper against sorcery-accusation-related violence.