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Kansas mission agency seeks volunteer bikers
The Children’s Christian Concern Society (CCCS), an LCMS recognized service organization based at the Kansas…

New resource helps evaluate non-LCMS worship material
The Synod’s Commission on Worship has developed a 32-page booklet to help pastors, musicians and…

Center for U.S. Missions offers free e-newsletter
The Center for U.S. Missions is distributing a new resource for anyone interested in mission…

LHM Web sites offer resources for Easter
Three Web sites developed by Lutheran Hour Ministries offer Lenten resources for adults and children:…

CPH offers leather Bibles at discount through July
Concordia Publishing House is offering its leatherbound Concordia Self-Study Bibles at a 25 percent discount…

Ries accepts Foundation presidency
Rev. Thomas K. (Tom) Ries of Burnsville, Minn., has accepted the presidency of the LCMS…

Registration opens this month for Int`l LLL convention
Registration begins in mid-March for the 87th annual International Lutheran Laymen’s League convention, July 22-25…

Kieschnick: 'Critical event' is key to increases in adult confirmations
By Joe Isenhower Jr. SAN ANTONIO — “Multiplying the critical event” is the key to…

World Mission offers new, online resources
“Light for the Darkness,” a new worship service designed to help congregations celebrate Ablaze!, is…

'Witnessing faith' goes both ways in Pakistan
By Paula Schlueter Ross About five minutes after an American walks into a home in Pakistan,…

Items wanted, available; reinstatements; positions
Note: Reporter cannot accept notices about items offered for sale or that people wish to…

Webzine offers guide to ‘Passion of the Christ’
The current edition of LCMS Youth Ministry’s Web magazine, “youthESource,” has a viewers guide for…

CTCR backs fellowship with Kenyan church
The Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) is recommending that this summer’s Synod convention…

Tietjen dies; sem president during controversy
Dr. John H. Tietjen, president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, through the early 1970s and…