To celebrate the 150th anniversary this fall of the Wendish immigration to the United States, Concordia University Press, the publishing arm of Concordia University at Austin, has published A Rock Against Alien Waves: The History of the Wends. Written by Dr.…

Registration — online or via “snail mail” — is open for the Lutheran Education Association’s eighth triennial convocation, set for April 7-9 in Indianapolis. For instructions and access to the online registration form for the convocation and housing, go to www.lea.org/convocation/reg.htm. …

A conference designed to show Lutherans how to start a congregation with a child-care center will be held Nov. 2-4 in Las Vegas. The conference is sponsored by the Open Arms Institute, a ministry that fosters and guides “Lutheran church planting…

The 11th annual Arizona Lutherhostel sponsored by the national Association of Lutheran Older Adults (ALOA) will be held March 7-11 in Tucson, Ariz.  The event is designed to provide an “opportunity for older adults to experience intellectual, social and spiritual…

Young people from congregations with groups at this year’s LCMS youth gathering elected a new five-member executive board for Lutheran Youth Fellowship (LYF), the Synod’s youth organization, when they met as the LYF delegate assembly July 24 at the Rosen…

By Kim Plummer Krull Pvt. Michelle Witmer died in Iraq, but her love for children continues to live through a matching gift to Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. “Michelle had a special place in her heart for the disabled orphans in…

Note to outreach-minded congregations:  If you’re near a college or university campus, a huge mission field is right in your own back yard. That’s the message of the Lutheran Campus Mission Association (LCMA), a newly formed LCMS mission society that has…

By Paula Schlueter Ross Vandals broke into St. John Lutheran Church in North Branch, Minn., over Labor Day weekend and left a host of frightening messages: A doll from the church’s preschool was hung by a noose made from the pastor’s…

Two new boards established by this year’s Synod convention — the Board for Pastoral Education (BPE) and the Board for University Education (BUE) — met for the first time last month in St. Louis. They elected officers and chose as their…

LCMS World Relief and Human Care has sent an initial grant of $18,000 to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti to provide emergency supplies of food, water, medicine and other necessities to hurricane survivors in hard-hit Gonaives and the surrounding…

For the fourth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report has included all 10 LCMS colleges and universities in its “America’s Best Colleges” issue. But for 2005, eight Synod schools are in the “top-tier” lists of the magazine’s rankings…

Three schools operated by Synod congregations have been named “Blue Ribbon Schools” for 2003-04 — the highest honor for schools given by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). They are St. John’s Lutheran School, Denver, Colo.; Prince of Peace Christian School,…

By Joe Isenhower Jr. The Synod’s Board of Directors (BOD) and the Board for Communication Services (BCS) have agreed that the BOD will continue to manage Synod-owned St. Louis radio stations KFUO-AM and FM “on an interim basis.” Management of the radio…

An amendment to the Synod’s Constitution adopted by this year’s Synod convention and sent to LCMS congregations for ratification is drawing some opposition.  But the chairman of the floor committee that offered the amendment says it is simply a “clarification”…

Dr. John F. Johnson, president and professor of systematic theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, has accepted a call to serve as the 10th president of Concordia University, River Forest, Ill. Johnson plans to serve as the seminary’s president through Nov.…