To commemorate the 200th anniversary of C.F.W. Walther’s birth on Oct. 25, 1811, Concordia Publishing House is offering cash prizes for the best research papers and commemorative sermons and prayers that relate to Walther, the Synod’s first president. The winning…

By Seth Hinz This Lenten season, the Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., community completed a project to walk the 6,029 miles from their campus to Calvary — the hill outside ancient Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. The venture was put…

The names of nominees for Synod president and first through fifth vice-presidents who will be on the ballots for election at this summer’s Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod convention have been announced. Synod Secretary Dr. Raymond Hartwig released the names April 7.…

Do you have questions about your faith, doctrinal issues, or theology?  For those questions, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Ind., offers “CTS Answers.” Each CTS Answers video is a conversation with one of the seminary’s faculty who shares his expertise…

The Open Arms conference that was scheduled for April 29-May 1 in St. Paul, Minn., has been tentatively rescheduled. The new date is Sept. 24-26 at the same venue.  Lodging and most sessions will be held at the Hilton Minneapolis/St.…

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, will host its eighth annual “Day of Homiletical Reflection” on May 5, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the seminary’s Clara and Spencer Werner Auditorium. The event is designed for pastors and students involved in homiletical…

By Seth Hinz This Lenten season, the Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Mich., community completed a project to walk the 6,029 miles from their campus to Calvary — the hill outside ancient Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. The venture was put…

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of C.F.W. Walther’s birth on Oct. 25, 1811, Concordia Publishing House is offering cash prizes for the best research papers and commemorative sermons and prayers that relate to Walther, the Synod’s first president. The winning…

Dr. Fred L. Kuhlmann, a longtime leader in The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the St. Louis community, died April 3 at his home in Webster Groves, Mo., a St. Louis suburb.  Dr. Kuhlmann, 93, had been suffering from multiple ailments,…

Fan into Flame, the capital campaign to raise $100 million for new Ablaze!-related ministries, has raised a total of $55,974,047 — representing some 21,500 gifts and pledges — as of March 26. Of that total: $27,844,719 was received in cash…

Free materials are available online that are designed to help congregations celebrate “Pastoral Education Month” in May.  The special observance is designed to highlight the preparation of men for the pastoral ministry. In an April 6 e-mail “blast” to congregations and…

Concordia Publishing House and Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) have teamed up to produce a new French hymnal.  It is the first Lutheran French hymnal to be published anywhere in the world since 1975, according to CPH. The new hymnal, titled Liturgies…

Registration is now open for the 2010 Black Ministry Family Convocation, to be held July 8-11 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Houston under the theme “Ablaze!, Empowered and Determined!,” from Phil. 3:13b-14. The convocation, held every other year, brings…

Rev. Jotham Johann of Centreville, Va., is serving on a contract basis as consultant to LCMS World Mission National Missions. Johann, 42, previously served LCMS World Mission the past four years as director of National Mission Affiliates, overseeing the Synod’s…

Representatives from the LCMS and its partner church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti, were among dozens of people who spoke at the funeral of the man known as “the father of Lutheranism in Haiti,” Dr. Doris Jean Louis. Dr.…