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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,…

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

August Bernthal dies; former Florida-Georgia District president
Dr. August Bernthal, a former district president, Synod vice president and pioneer in refugee resettlement,…

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

Library for Blind offers audio, too
The Library for the Blind, a ministry of Lutheran Blind Mission, St. Louis, offers free,…

LCMS e-News adds five more newsletters
Subscribers to LCMS e-News now have five more newsletters from whichto choose on the free,…

COP, Board have plenty to talk about at meeting
By David L. Mahsman The Synod’s Board of Directors and Council of Presidents (COP) had…

Board to CCM: Let's 'withdraw,' let convention address issues
By Joe Isenhower Jr. The Synod’s Board of Directors says it will withdraw two resolutions…

Want to learn more about 'behavioral interviewing'?
The Center for U.S. Missions in Irvine, Calif., sponsored its first workshop on “behavioral interviewing”…

Task force wants more teachers certified
The 20-member Next Generation Task Force has found that only one in three of the…