Outreach Institute set for July

This year’s Outreach Leadership Institute will be held July 14-16 at Concordia University, St. Paul,…

Navy chaplain dies on ship duty

Missouri Synod Navy Chaplain Ed Jack died of a heart attack Jan. 29 while serving…

Wilke announces retirement plans

Dr. LeRoy Wilke, executive director of the LCMS Board for District and Congregational Services (DCS)…

LWML convention registration opens

Registration opens March 1 for the 31st biennial convention of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League,…

Holding babies is part of this pro-life Bible study

By Paula Schlueter Ross Want to show teenagers how precious God’s gift of life really is? …

`Log Home` video includes cabins at Saxon Memorial

Log cabins of Saxon immigrants who helped form the Missouri Synod in 1847 are expected…

Peace accord may herald growth in Sudan church

By Paula Schlueter Ross The last time Rev. Andrew Elisa, president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church…

CTCR considers revising policy on response to dissents

The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) is considering revising its policy for how…

Objections remain to Moose lodge rituals

Objections remain to tenets and rituals of the Loyal Order of Moose, says a new…

St. Louis seminary plans alumni reunion

A reunion for Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, alumni and their spouses and widows will be…

Conference to focus on international students

International Student Ministry Inc. (ISM), an LCMS mission society, is sponsoring an “enabling and equipping”…

LCMS ministries act on tsunami recommendations

As soon as LCMS mission-assessment teams recommended efforts for continuing relief work in tsunami-ravaged countries,…

Focus on cleanup, rebuilding, say tsunami assessment teams

By Kim Plummer Krull Posting personnel in Sri Lanka and Indonesia as quickly as possible…

Planners pick 2007 Youth Gathering theme

“Chosen” is the choice for the theme of the 2007 National LCMS Youth Gathering, set…

U.S. Lutherans` giving reaches record amounts

Synod members and other Lutherans continue to give in record amounts for South Asia tsunami…

Amendment A falls short of `affirmation`

Amendment A to the Synod’s Constitution has failed to receive the two-thirds affirmative vote of…