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…

"Letters" March 2004

More on sem wives I simply could not believe my eyes when I read the…

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…

August Bernthal dies; former Florida-Georgia District president

Dr. August Bernthal, a former district president, Synod vice president and pioneer in refugee resettlement,…