Dr. Robert Roegner announced his resignation as executive director of the Synod’s Board for Mission Services, effective Nov. 16, citing his desire to return to “a more hands-on ministry.” The board appointed Nov. 19 Dr. Thomas R. Zehnder of Baileys…
The fifth annual “Needs and Resources Forum” sponsored by Lutherans in Medical Missions (LIMM) will be held March 20-21 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel — Airport, St. Louis, under the theme “Reaching Communities for Christ with Health and Education.” The event…
By Paula Schlueter Ross In their presentation on “Telling the Good News,” Kristy Grannis and Ida Mall shared lots of information with the nearly 200 women attending the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League’s Assembly of Leaders. Grannis, mission project administrator with…
Nearly 800 volunteers packed 200,000 meals for children in Haiti after a three-day service project at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. The Oct. 9-11 event was organized by Concordia Professor of Human Performance Bill Duey and students in his…
Arts and crafts, games, prizes, entertainment, and food and drink were all part of this year’s “Operation FUN” (For a United Neighborhood), a free family festival sponsored by Concordia Publishing House on its parking lot. The party, now in its…
LCMS President Gerald B. Kieschnick Nov. 5 congratulated the people of California, Arizona, and Florida for their successful efforts to preserve traditional marriage for the good of civil society and for the protection of children. Voters in all three states…
Concordia Publishing House is offering at a special price a first-ever gift set that includes five of its seasonal children’s books for Thanksgiving and Christmas. A $40 value, the set is priced at $9.99, plus shipping. The gift set includes:…
A record 100-plus LCMS Servant Events will take place over the coming months, through next summer. LCMS Youth Ministry co-sponsors Servant Events — as it has for more than 1,000 such events since 1981 — along with Synod congregations and schools,…
At first glance, Faith Lutheran Church in La Pine, Ore., reminded Laborers For Christ (LFC) Vice President/Director Dan Baker of a temporary military facility – not the center of a longtime, now growing ministry. “It looks like a barracks,” Baker…
By Paula Schlueter Ross It’s official: “The longest basketball marathon is 77 hours, 7 minutes, 7 seconds, set by students of Heartland Lutheran High School in their gymnasium, Nebraska, United States, from 4 to 7 July 2008.” So reads the…
By Joe Isenhower Jr. A newly formed advisory committee of young adults wants to help Synod congregations reclaim what has been called “a missing generation” among church rolls nationwide and in the Missouri Synod — young adults in their 20s and…
The Synod’s policy of full financial disclosure provides for making available to members of the Synod (congregations, pastors, teachers, and others on the roster), on written request, the salary grid scales of all synodical and district officials, staff and faculty…
By Gilbert Meilaender Longer waiting lists for organ transplants have revived proposals that our society establish a market in organs — at least for sellers, if not also for buyers. It might work; that is, it might succeed in diminishing the…
Synod statistics Last month’s story about the 2007 Synod statistics report was more accurate and clearly stated than last year’s. The limitations were well explained by Synod Secretary Hartwig and Dr. O’Hara. My only suggestion is that the numbers in…
With Dr. Bruce Hartung Several readers have recently pointed out to me the need for our professional church workers to examine their work ethic. I have chosen a particularly poignant communication on this theme to share in this month’s column.…
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