Concordia Publishing House is offering free shipping on its new vacation Bible school program Friendship Trek when ordered before March 15.  English, Spanish, and bilingual programs also are available for summer 2008, plus a new VBS fundraising pack. Now available…

The Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) at Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, is sponsoring its second national conference for women April 4-6 at the Best Western Milwaukee Airport Hotel and Conference Center. Under the theme, “Sharing the Love of Jesus: How-to’s of…

Representatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) and The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod met Jan. 17-20 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to discuss work of and between the two church bodies, which have been in altar and pulpit fellowship since 2001. This…

Representatives of the American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC) and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod met Jan. 31-Feb. 1 in Burnsville, Minn., to continue developing formal operating agreements between the two church bodies that declared altar and pulpit fellowship with each…

Are there aspiring young Rembrandts, Monets, or Renoirs in your congregation?  Find out by having your congregation’s budding artists create artwork for display at the National Children’s Ministry Conference July 11-13 in Schaumburg, Ill. All LCMS congregations are invited to…

The Synod’s Board of Directors approved resolutions and discussed matters supporting an array of ministries at its Feb. 14-16 meeting in St. Louis. Actions on behalf of schools included approval of a $1.8 million grant to help Concordia College, Selma,…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. ST. LOUIS — The Synod’s Council of Presidents, meeting here Feb. 16-20, heard from members of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Synod  Structure and Governance (BRTFSSG) that it will be the first group to review…

Dr. Neil Sandfort of St. Charles, Mo., is the 2008 recipient of the Lutheran Education Association’s (LEA) Christus Magister (Christ the Master Teacher) Award, the most prestigious of eight recognition awards LEA announced Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Sandfort is the…

The Open Arms Institute is offering a training conference on “Connecting with Families in Your Community” April 17-19 at Immanuel Lutheran Church and Open Arms Childcare Center in Glenview, Ill. The three-day conference is open to anyone with an interest…

“Women in Times of War” is the theme of a conference to be held March 27 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Sponsored by the seminary’s Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life, the conference is the first in a two-part…

Free horse-drawn wagon rides and demonstrations of pioneer skills such as blacksmithing, butter-churning, and broom- and rope-making were part of the March 1 opening-day festivities at the Saxon Lutheran Memorial in Frohna, Mo. The memorial, owned and operated by the…

By Paula Schlueter Ross LCMS Pastor Marty Marks was comforting students within minutes of the Valentine’s Day shootings at Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, that left six people, including the gunman, dead and 18 wounded.  None of the victims are…

Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis has slashed prices by as much as 60 percent on more than two dozen Christ-centered books for children, youth, and adults. Among sale items are: the Happy Easter board book (item no. 56-2390WEB) by…

Registration is open for the 2008 National LCMS Children’s Ministry Conference — for anyone who works with kids ranging in age from early childhood through fifth-grade-age in the Synod. Each LCMS congregation should have received by mail from LCMS District and…

Wheat Ridge Ministries is holding a second “Living Well” symposium Oct. 2-4 in Milwaukee, on the heels of a 2005 symposium which organizers termed a success.  Registration for the upcoming symposium, with the sub-theme “The Body Language of Faith,” is…

Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod pastors, congregations, and related agencies are reaching out to comfort their neighbors after a gunman killed five people, wounded two, and was himself shot dead by police Feb. 7 at Kirkwood City Hall.  The Synod’s International Center…