Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is starting two new competitive-grant programs — the Charitable Giving Initiative…
July Pressure Points with Dr. Bruce Hartung
Q: I appreciated your reply to the pastor who felt dry. It is something that…
Registration opens for youth-worker conference
A new Synod youth-workers conference is more than a year off, but the registration fee…
July 2004
The convention and the board President Kieschnick’s official report to the Synod (June Reporter, p. 11),…
Positions (July)
The Board for Mission Services seeks applicants for the position of regional director, to lead…
Items wanted and available (July)
Note: Reporter cannot accept notices about items offered for sale or that people wish to…
National offering tops $227,000 before convention
More than $227,000 already has been received for the “One Mission Ablaze! National Offering,” in…
Below says initiatives put church, government `on same page`
“The government is on the same page as the churches when it offers initiatives for…
Lutheran Disaster Response organizes help for Nebraska
As this Reporter went to press, Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR), based in Chicago, continued to…
Web site offers sign-language worship
Live Lutheran worship services for the deaf are offered each week on www.DeafJesus.org, a Web…
Ebola-like virus threatens Lutherans in Sudan
Prayers are being requested for the people of Yambio, a community in southern Sudan that…
Seminaries, colleges give spring honorary degrees, awards
The Reporter Web site periodically lists those who have received honorary degrees and awards from…
Nominees for president address issues (Questions 3 and 4)
Question 3. For the past triennium, the participation of an LCMS district president in the…
Nominees for president address issues (Questions 1 and 2)
Reporter asked the five nominees for LCMS president to answer in writing a series of…
New Preus book explains `Why I Am a Lutheran`
Why I Am a Lutheran: Jesus at the Center, written by Synod First Vice President…
LEA honors outstanding teachers
Kirk Bolt of Naperville, Ill., and Carl Schiefer, Boca Raton, Fla., are co-recipients of the…
