MichiganJune 28-July 1Ann Arbor, Mich. Elected: Rev. David P.E. Maier, Dimondale, Mich., president, first term, first ballot. Maier, 52, is senior pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church, Lansing, where he has served since 1989. He has been the district’s first…

MontanaJune 15-18Billings, Mont. Elected: Rev. Terry Forke, Billings, Mont., president, second term, first ballot. Rev. Arlo Pullmann, Laurel, Mont., first vice president. Rev. Chris Tabbert, Eureka, Mont., second vice president. Forke and other officers were installed during the district’s 31st…

Collaboration between Concordia Theological Seminary and Lutheran Ministries Media (LMM), producer of a weekly “Worship for Shut-Ins” program, is resulting in a new television production center on the seminary campus in Fort Wayne. Construction began this summer on a 2,000-square-foot video…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. The Synod’s Board of Directors unanimously adopted a balanced national Synod operating budget of $81,185,878 for the coming year at its May 14-15 meeting and approved a number of measures to help ease what Dr. Thomas…

By Bill Karpenko This summer, we’re celebrating 50 years of director of Christian education (DCE) ministry throughout The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.  Although there were DCEs at work in our congregations well before 1959, the Synod convention that year — meeting…

Synod “intercessors” are being invited to gather in St. Louis Sept. 10-11 for “PRAY 2009,” an inaugural event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (St. Louis Airport) that two pastors initially planning it pray will spark a prayer movement for the…

“StudentConnect” is a new service developed by LCMS Campus Ministry to help college students connect with a campus ministry. With StudentConnect, students use an online form to provide information that a campus pastor or ministry worker uses to personally contact…

Lutherans For Life (LFL) is now offering Spanish versions of some of its brochures.  All are listed in the LFL Life Resource Catalog, available in print or as a free download from the LFL Web site. Spanish materials include: La…

By Linda C. Hoops From ages 1 through 91, they came to serve their community for one weekend in early August.  Through projects ranging from raising a barn to packaging almost 50,000 meals, 435 members of Carmel Lutheran Church, Carmel,…

By Paula Schlueter Ross As a placement counselor for LCMS World Mission, Jennifer Mustard knows the value of sending teams of U.S. Lutherans to teach weeklong English “camps” in other countries. So she wasn’t too surprised that sending five short-term…

Dr. Berhanu Ofgaa, an LCMS pastor elected to be general secretary of the largest Lutheran church in Africa, says his experience with the LCMS will strengthen the relationship between the two church bodies. Ofgaa, who is currently serving among African…

By Roland Lovstad A special committee and the chief financial officer have been authorized by the LCMS Board of Directors to continue with multiple negotiations toward the possible sale of KFUO-FM. Meeting Aug. 20-21 in St. Louis the Board also…

President, Concordia College, Selma Concordia College, Selma, Ala., has scheduled the election of a new president for Nov. 13, 2009. The following persons were nominated in conformity with the LCMS Handbook, and having accepted nomination, become candidates. Rev. Roosevelt Gray…

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ROBERT H. BELL, Gambrills, Md., and DANIEL C. MACK, Aliso Viejo, Calif., have applied for reinstatement to the Ministers of Religion-Ordained roster of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.  JULIA A. BURGESS, Gilbert, Ariz.; BONNIE FINKE, Winona, Minn.; FAITH MCKINNEY, Irvine, Calif.;…

LCMS Florida-Georgia District Lutheran Church Extension Fund seeks applications and nominations for the position of vice president.  The individual selected for this position will serve on the Florida-Georgia District Executive Team and be responsible for the operation and promotion of…