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`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”…

COP sets circuit counselor conference for next year
The Synod’s Council of Presidents (COP) has set Sept. 12-14, 2006, for a National Circuit…

LWF: World's Lutherans number 69.5 million
Membership in Lutheran churches worldwide increased by 3.57 million in 2004, according to the Lutheran…

Thrivent announces personnel changes
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has announced a number of changes in its executive-management team. “The changes…

Singles to gather at Concordia, River Forest
“Encourage One Another” is the theme for the 18th International Lutheran Single Adult conference, to…

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…